The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...

This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can compute a measure...

Five National Fire Danger Rating System indices (including the Ignition Component, Energy Release Component, Burning Index, Spread Component, and the Keetch-Byram Drought Index) and the Fosberg Fire Weather Index are used to characterise US fire danger. These fire danger indices and input...

This brief describes exploratory work to develop a simulation model to predict the potential implications of changes that may be coming in policies and practices related to school meals and school food environments.

В статье предложены и протестированы имитационные модели формирования условий диффузии нанотехнологий как основы модернизации существующих производств....

he perception of the territory trasnlates into landscape a complex combination of culture and sensorial stimuli. The importance of landscape has been highlighted in the european contest by the European Landscape Convention which has been imported in the structure of the EMAS regulation by a...

Macroeconomic forecasting started around the Second World War as a way to test economic theories, but it also has a number of very concrete uses, playing an increasing role as an input in decision-making. The first macroeconomic models were produced by two famous economists, Tinbergen in 1939...