Wildfire susceptibility maps are a well-known tool for optimizing available means to plan prevention, early detection, and wildfire suppression in Portugal, especially regarding the critical fire season (1 July ? 30 September). These typically disregard seasonal weather conditions on each given year, being based predisposing variables that remain constant long-term, such as elevation. We employ...

In this paper, we present a methodology to explore and evaluate the crosstalk noise and the profile of its variations, and the delay of interconnects through investigation of two groups of interconnect structures in nano scale VLSI circuits. The interconnect structures in the first group are considered to be partially coupled identical lines. In this case, by choosing proper values for differen...

Seasonal rainfall forecasts provide information several months ahead to support decision making. These may use dynamic, statistical, or hybrid approaches, but their comparative value is not well understood over Central America. This study conducts a regional evaluation of seasonal focusing on two the leading dynamic climate ensembles: Copernicus Climate Change Service forecasting system (C3S) a...

We consider a seller who wishes to sell multiple goods by a deadline, such as the end of a season. Potential buyers enter over time, are long-lived and form rational expectations, so can strategically time their purchases. At any point in time, profit is maximized by awarding the good to the buyer with the highest valuation exceeding a cutoff. These cutoffs are deterministic, depending only on ...

What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to evergreater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the ‘singularity’. The basic argument here was set out by the statistician I.J. Good in his 1965 article ‘Spe...