/km<Superscript>2 </Superscript> year) and the severity of the sinkholes, which mainly refers to the subsidence mechanisms (progressive …/km<Superscript>2</Superscript> year (6.4% in annual probability). The information on the severity indicates that collapse sinkholes 10 …

Drought severity and duration are usually modelled independently. However, these two characteristics are known to be … related. To model this relationship, a joint distribution of drought severity and duration using a bivariate copula model is … distributions. The three-parameter log-normal distribution is identified as the best fitting distribution for drought severity while …

designated level of severity. These findings suggest that arbitrarily categorizing a child’s maltreatment experience into a rigid …, pre-determined hierarchy of maltreatment types without considering the severity of different forms of maltreatment can … abuse, investigators and researchers should take into account the different levels of severity within each type of …

framework. Patients differ in severity within a DRG. Providers are to some extent altruistic. For low altruism, a downward … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price … adjustment depends on relation between patients’ severity and benefit. In a steady state, DRG prices are unlikely to give optimal …