Emerging negative trends in snow depth and cover days highlight the challenges posed by changing snow patterns around the world. They suggest that snow-dependent regions in southern Europe could be affected by these changes ...

The design of coastal structures requires accurate simulations of the wave conditions. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) captures most complexities of the wave physics with few assumptions and therefore is considered to ...

Adaptive envelopes have the potential to significantly reduce energy use in buildings while ensuring high performance. These envelopes interact with multiple interconnected domains, such as daylight, indoor air quality, ...

The estimation of commodity spot price models often involves the estimation of risk premiums. We show in a simulation study that the market prices of risk cannot be accurately estimated using two popular estimation techniques; ...

We propose a novel method for modeling crowd video dynamics by adopting a two-stream convolutional architecture which incorporates spatial and temporal networks. Our proposed method cope with the key challenge of capturing ...

Infrastructure-planning models are challenging because of their combination of different time scales: while planning and building the infrastructure involves strategic decisions with time horizons of many years, one needs ...

Magmatism between 1.3 and 0.9 Ga at the southwestern margin of Fennoscandia, comprising mainly granitic batholiths and subordinate bimodal volcanic rocks, provides a nearly continuous magmatic record of the Fennoscandian ...

We report a two-stage diode-pumped Er-doped fiber amplifier operating at the wavelength of 1550 nm at the repetition rate of 10-100 kHz with an average output power of up to 10 W. The first stage comprising Er-doped fiber ...

A major challenge of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to translate phenotypic associations into biological insights. Here, we integrate a large GWAS on blood lipids involving 1.6 million individuals from five ...

In this paper, we present a new metric to estimate the perceived difference in contrast between an original image and a reproduction. This metric, named weighted-level framework Δ E E (WLF-DEE), implements a multilevel ...