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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Long-term planning"”.
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
… rise, and extreme weather events. Effective long-term planning and resilience-building measures are crucial to mitigate these risks and ensure sustainable development, economic stability, and societal well-being. In response to these challenges, this thesis advances infrastructure resilience …
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Economics of Parking: Short, Medium, and Long-Term Planning
… the impact of emerging short, medium, and long-term parking policies. Hourly parking pricing is a short-term policy whereby vehicles pay based on their dwell time. We show that hourly parking pricing can actually increase congestion if imposed imprudently, but if devised optimally, it can …
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Simulating the Adoption of Soil Conservation Management Systems Under the Conditions of Uncertainty (Erosion, Control)
… of soil erosion. Since conservation involves a planning horizon of more than one year, risk and uncertainty enter into the plans. Over time it is difficult to predict farm income due to variability in prices, costs, interest rates, weather, crop yields, and other unpredictable factors. Any …
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Evaluating modeling techniques for quantifying production risk in contact lens manufacturing
… a challenge for machine production capacity and long-term planning. As medical devices, contact lenses must first be qualified and validated to run on lines. Additionally, capital equipment has a multi-year lead time from design and order to onsite implementation. Taken together, these …
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The Promise of School Choice: Local School Control Efforts to Close the Achievement Gap in the Federal Context of Accountability
… and development of school choice must include: long-term planning, training, and professional development opportunities for teachers and building administrators, a greater attempt to build trust with African American families through community outreach, and continuous evaluation of the choice …
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A Long Horizon Planning Framework for Manipulating Rigid Pointcloud Objects
We present a framework for solving long-horizon planning problems involving manipulation of rigid objects that operates directly from a point-cloud observation, i.e. without prior object models. Our method plans in the space of object subgoals and frees the planner from reasoning about robot-object …
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An overview of potential financial bubbles in the US financial markets
… a challenge for the financial markets for a long time and caused steep losses for many investors. This thesis has two main goals relating to financial bubbles. The first is to try to determine if it is possible to find out if a financial bubble is forming. To accomplish that, the economic …
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Recoverable reserve estimation in multiple seam mines
… of minable coal reserves is essential for long-term planning and for conservation of energy resources. In the majority of the world's coalfields, seams are found on multiple horizons, and coal recovery may be significantly reduced depending upon the magnitude of seam interaction. In order …
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Assessing sales floor capacity and replenishment strategy
… Two pain points of this design are: 1. The long tail, in the product assortment distribution, of low-velocity items carried in all stores. 2. Inβexibility to use dynamic unit of measure (deαned as the type of packaging an item is transported in - can be an each, case pack, pallet), because …
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The impact of distributed energy resources (DERs) in integrated gas-electricity energy systems
… as a whole. The focus of this thesis is on the long-term planning of integrated electricity and natural gas infrastructures at the distribution (low voltage) level. This research explores the question on how pricing relates to the coupling of a gas-electricity system given an expected greater …
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Racetrack Engineered Surface Project Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration
… an environmentally sensitive area, subject to a long history of political contention, in the midst of other long-term planning efforts such as the San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration Project, and an Updated Master Plan and Master Plan Environmental Impact Report for the fairgrounds property.</p> …
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Analysis of demand variability and robustness in strategic transportation planning
Creation of a long-term strategic transportation plan is critical for companies in order to make informed decisions about fleet capacity, number of drivers needed, fleet allocation to domiciles, etc. However, the inherent demand variability present on a transportation network, in terms of weekly …
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Interorganizational Collaboration: An Examination of Factors That Influence the Motivation for Participation in a Collaborative Partnership of Homeless Service Providers
… the collaboration dimensions of Homeward's planning process and the factors that motivate organizations to participate. The study examined the collaborative strategy used by an organization called Homeward located in Richmond, Virginia. Homeward is a broker organization (Chaskin, Brown, …
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The Missing Megawatts Problem: Improving Modelling Practices to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
Long-term energy system planning is one of the most pressing challenges for the power sector, which must maintain reliability while decarbonizing. Currently, no unified regulatory, modelling, or market framework exists in the United States to facilitate planning in pursuit of a clean and reliable …
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The Resilient City: A Platform for Informed Decision-Making Process
… is considered a significant component for the long-term planning and sustainable development of cities. “Resilient City” is a new paradigm that challenges the idealistic principle of stability and resistance to change implicitly in sustainable development and long-term success. However, …
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The effect of cash constraints on smallholder farmer revenue
… that smallholder farmers face, namely a lack of long term planning and cash constraints. Through this, we analyze the effectiveness of two common forms of government intervention, storage and loan provision. We fully characterize market equilibrium conditions under the base scenario of no …
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Land use planning with multiobjective programming: a model for forest development in the hills of Nepal
A land use planning model was developed for long term planning of renewable natural resources development in the Hills of Nepal. Considerable emphasis was placed upon identifying land use planning problems for the prevalent limited market economy and subsistence farming system. A multiobjective …
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Instructional Leadership for a School-Based Innovation
… the implementation, and she strategized a short-term plan for teacher training and support. Outside complexities, such as the simultaneous implementation of the Responsive Classroom® program and looping, influenced the implementation of the innovation as well as the principal's leadership of the …
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Tree-ring analysis and stem biomass estimation of limba (Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels) in the framework of sustainable forest management
… not available in tropical forests. The lack of long-term data on tree growth, wood production and carbon stocks hampers the implementation of sustainable forest management and possible financing by Kyoto Protocol related tools like REDD+ and Clean Development Mechanisms. Africa is the continent …
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A Tale of Three Cities: An Evaluation of Urban World Heritage Management in Mexico
… occurs after the designation, in relation to long-term planning, investment, and how do local, state, and federal government infrastructure cope with the pressures and obligations of preservation. Drawing on newspapers, official government reports, and interviews with officials, civil …
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