Emergency rescue facility is an indispensable component of urban system and important for public safety. Due to the special characteristics and complexity of urban environmental accidents, locations of emergency rescue facilities should be optimized, and the decision criteria should be...

The Probability of Information (PIN)-based trading introduced by Easley <italic>et al</italic>. (1996, 2002) has been adopted to address a variety of issues in empirical finance. To obtain PIN using numerical Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) from transaction data, one may suffer from the numerical overflow or...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: B, page: 1720.

Liquefaction can result in the damage or collapse of structures during an earthquake and can therefore be a great threat to life and property. Many site investigations of liquefaction disasters are needed to study the large-scale deformation and flow mechanisms of liquefied soils that can be...

The consequence of short-time energy shortage under extreme conditions, such as earthquake, tsunami, and hurricane, may cause local areas to suffer from delayed rescues, widespread power outages, tremendous economic losses, and even public safety threats. In such urgent events of local energy...