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forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore …, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2) general training in forecasting. Both reduced subjects' own air pollution …. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast …
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When the beach patrol raises the alarm that a shark has been sighted we know what to do, but how should we respond to an alarm that is based on predictions of what will happen 100 years from now and the person raising the alarm tells us we must make great sacrifices now to avoid the predicted...
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Yearly weather variability has an impact on agricultural supply and farmer welfare. More accurate weather predictions may increase the net returns for farmers but the indirect environmental impact of forecasts has not been examined. A stochastic bioeconomic model, which includes weather...
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Nowadays, many countries adopt an active agenda to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions by moving towards less polluting energy generation technologies. The environmental costs, directly or indirectly generated to achieve such a challenging objective, remain however largely...
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In this paper, an opportunistic predictive maintenance is developed for a system composed one continuous operation component (COC) and one intermittent operation component (IOC). The COC continuously operates in consistent with the system. In contrast, the IOC alternatively works in operation...
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