One of the most important resources we need today is electricity to carry out comfortably our day-to-day activities. While many nations in the world are abundantly enjoying this resource, more than 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity. Most of these people are from developing nations typically from Africa and India. They happen to be poor and living in remote villages and mounta...

Recent localized declines in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations in the southeastern United States have been linked to increasing predation pressure from coyotes (Canis latrans), a novel predator to the region. Studies have documented coyotes as the leading cause of mortality for neonates, and 1 study documented coyotes as a mortality factor for adult females. However, no stu...

Periodically, professionals in a given field must reflect and assess where the field has been, where it is heading, and what if anything, should be done to change that field’s course. This article discusses statistical trends within the data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature. The number of articles published per year in refereed journals over the entire lifespan of the field, authorship and...

On average it takes 12 years and a billion euros to develop a new medicinal product from first discovery to availability for patients. Especially in the later stages of development, when promising phase 2 data are available it is difficult to accept for patients there is no general access. In order to make medicines available at an earlier stage and to optimise their development, new ways of ta...

Agile enterprises with different organizational structures manifest different organizational behaviors when responding to environmental changes. In this paper, we use a computational model to examine organizational adaptation on four dimensions: Agility, Robustness, Resilience, and Survivability. We analyze the dynamics of organizational adaptation by a simulation study on the interaction betwe...

One of the most important resources we need today is electricity to carry out comfortably our day-to-day activities. While many nations in the world are abundantly enjoying this resource, more than 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity. Most of these people are from developing nations typically from Africa and India. They happen to be poor and living in remote villages and mounta...

Reputed intractable, the question of the origin of viruses has long been neglected. In the modern literature 'Virus evolution' has come to refer to study more akin to population genetics, such as the world-wide scrutiny on new polymorphisms appearing daily in the H5N1 avian flu virus [1], than to the fundamental interrogation: where do viruses come from? This situation is now rapidly changing, ...

Politicians planners and social scientists have an increas ing need for tools clarifying the spatial distribution of relevant features Special interest is in what if analyses what would happen if we change some features in a speci c way To predict future developments requires a statistical model with inherent modelling uncertainty In this paper we investigate Bayesian models which on the one ha...

117. An assessment of value for money for the 1993 to 1996 decommissioning scheme can be measured against a number of criteria. These include a further examination of what capacity would have been reduced in the absence of decommissioning (additionality both in actual and net cost terms), contributions to decommissioning expenditure from the Government, the European Commission and from fisherme...

Simulation provides a flexible approach to analyzing business processes. Through simulation experiments various “what if” questions can be answered and redesign alternatives can be compared with respect to key performance indicators. This chapter introduces simulation as an analysis tool for business process management. After describing the characteristics of business simulation models, the pha...