Determining the failure propagation paths is always an important content of safety analysis. The traditional safety analysis methods are hard to deal with large complex systems. Therefore, model-based ...

This paper describes ultra-high capacity long haul optical transmission technologies based on multicore fibers (MCFs) with space-division multiplexing. First, we discuss the factors limiting the total ...

The myth that dead bodies cause a major risk of disease, which is reiterated in all large natural disasters from the earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua (1972) to hurricane Mitch, the Turkish earthquake, ...