A transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is widely assumed to be an important step along the road to environmental sustainability. However, large scale adoption of EVs may put electricity grids under critical strain, since peaks in electricity demand are likely to increase radically. Efforts to...

We consider the problem of enforcing compliance with information security policies in organizations in order to mitigate insider threat. We show that compliance with security policies may be enforced even for myopic, self-interested, agents by providing them proper economic incentives for...

The demographic history of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was investigated. We attempted to evaluate main demographic characteristics and role of mortality decrease among the members and corresponding members of the Academy. The number of academicians and their mean age remained...