The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...

Due to immense amounts of data being generated from financial markets in many different formats, professionals and academics face interoperability problems when analysing such data. This paper proposes a data model that gives a coherent view of the information available from financial market...

Due to immense amounts of data being generated from financial markets in many different formats, professionals and academics face interoperability problems when analysing such data. This paper proposes a data model that gives a coherent view of the information available from financial market...

We demonstrate for the case of single-layer neural networks how an extension of the TAP mean-field approach of disorder physics can be applied to the computation of approximate averages in probabilistic models for real data.

The paper summarizes the results of a research project concerning Italian consumers’ preferences as regards extra virgin olive oil and, in particular, it discusses an innovative statistical approach for modelling this type of data. The survey was carried out at the beginning of 2012 and...