The scientific community is now developing a new set of scenarios, referred to as Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) to replace the SRES scenarios. To be used to investigate adaptation and mitigation, SSPs need to be contrasted along two axes: challenges to mitigation, and challenges to...

An airport is the gateway which facilitates access to air transport. As a reaction to very diverse attacks on the air transport system during the last decades a broad range of security measures has been introduced to mitigate possible threats. The challenge to provide a trouble free experience...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of process capability indices (PCIs) which are based on robust and agile statistics such that they may be applicable irrespective of the process status. Design/methodology/approach – The four popular PCIs – Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpmk –...