The Great O.R. Tambo International Airport Flood: Dealing with the Harsh Realities of Climate-induced Extreme Weather Events

Climate-related extreme flooding at airports is commonly associated with sea level rise.However, more and more airport floods occur on these tourism assets, even inland.On November 9 2016, the Oliver Reginald (OR) Tambo International Airport experienced one of its worst floods, and the impact of this event deserves comprehensive documentation.A sys

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Fashion portfolio

Social networks and, in particular, Instagram represent in these years practical tools Sodas to define and communicate the identity of a fashion designer; the instantaneous reaction of the public, who observe and judge the published contents, transforms the individual into a collective author, endowed with plural and polyphonic identity, developing

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Improving loan repayment in Ghana: Does financial literacy matter?

Loan defaults continue to be a major challenge that confronts financial institutions in developing countries and this impedes their potential role in sustainable development.Given the enormity of loan defaults, policymakers have devoted much attention to the phenomenon by implementing strategies and policies aimed at improving loan repayment to ave

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Distributionally Robust Policy and Lyapunov-Certificate Learning

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty.A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for uncertain systems is the accurate determination of and adaptation to shifts in model parametric uncertainty du

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