As wildfires increase in frequency, severity, and areal extent in western Canada’s boreal region, wildfire managers are challenged with maintaining current levels of effectiveness. Review of recent wildfire events have identified a need&...

In recent actuarial literature, the bivariate Poisson regression model has been found to be useful for modeling paired count data. However, the basic assumption of marginal equi-dispersion may be quite restrictive in practice. ...

Switched reluctance machines (SRMs) are well known for their simple and robust structure, facilitating their increasing application in many sectors, for example vacuum cleaners, where domestic machines operate at high-speed, 50,000 RPM b...

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are becoming an integral part of healthcare decision making. Clinical trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines incorporate them to learn about the effect of medical interventions i...