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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Mitigating Risks"”.
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Mitigating Risks for Youth in At-Risk Living Conditions Through School-Based Protective Factors
… experiences or trauma, increasing their risks for poor outcomes. Protective factors in schools can have a significant and meaningful impact on reducing the rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and failing grades. Schools that provide environments in which caring relationships between …
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Devising a Legal Framework for Environmental Liability and Regulation for Mitigating Risks of Shale Gas Extraction
… compliance to set regulatory standards for mitigating risks from energy extraction activity. This thesis argue for a complementary regulatory instrument mix (self-regulation and command & control regulatory strategies) to improve effective compliance for mitigating risks associated with …
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Understanding and managing uncertainty in lean aerospace product development
… to the reduction or elimination of project risks and uncertainties in areas such as customer requirements, product performance, and issues that may arise later in the product's life cycle. A commercial aircraft system project is explored as a case study. The system is comprised a numerous …
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A suction-based reversible attachment and locomotion mechanism for an underway vessel hull cleaning and inspection robot
… bio growth. Marine bio growth brings significant risks and costs associated with it, the most notable being a hull frictional drag increase, which significantly increases the annual fuel and maintenance costs of these vessels. To mitigate these risks and costs, merchant vessels such as cargo …
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The private sector's capacity to manage climate risks and finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure
… the private sector's capacity to manage climate risks and finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure. The dissertation examines (a) potential risks posed by climate change to private sector investment in critical infrastructure, (b) the potential effectiveness of standard private contractual …
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A model-based risk and reliability assessment of a second-life EV battery energy storage system
… systems operate safely is essential to prevent risks to people and the environment. To ensure operational integrity, diverse risk assessment frameworks can be employed to identify vulnerabilities and evaluate system reliability. Therefore, identifying the components that are most vulnerable to …
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Evaluating flexibility in railroad construction projects
… opportunities. ROA appraises the value of mitigating risks by allowing managers to defer investing decisions until a situation that affects a project's success seriously becomes obvious. As a case study, the additional station construction projects in Incheon International Airport Railroad …
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Identifying and Mitigating Security Risks in Multi-Level Systems-of-Systems Environments
… more taxing. Solutions that attempt to identify risks, vulnerabilities, and model the topologies of SoS have failed to evolve at the same pace as SoS adoption. This has resulted in attacks against these infrastructures gaining prevalence, as unidentified vulnerabilities and exploits provide …
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Coercive Statecraft in Disguise: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness
… a country takes in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks and uncertainty associated with its economic relations with another country. Using a first-of-its-kind comprehensive examination of Chinese academic discussions about sanctions from 2001 to 2022, this dissertation provides new …
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An operational feasibility assessment for extravehicular activity in human spaceflight under communication delay using an underwater research analogue
… One such challenge will be the mitigation of risks associated with communication delay between Earth and remote exploration crews. This paper provides an introduction to the problem of EVA operations under Mars-like communication delay, and evaluates the feasibility of a relay-based …
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Weaving time into system architecture : new perspectives on flexibility, spacecraft design lifetime, and on-orbit servicing
… is such that there is a need to mitigate market risks, in the case of a commercial venture, and reduce a design's exposure to uncertainty in its environment, 2) the system's technology base evolves on a time scale considerably shorter than the system's design lifetime, thus requiring a solution …
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Outcomes of Trans-border Spatial Development Cooperation: Insights from Musina and Beitbridge Twinning Agreement
… ensuring that targets are achieved as well as mitigating risks.
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Comparative research on code vulnerability detection: Open-source vs. proprietary large language models and LSTM neural network
… these models’ capabilities in detecting security risks and compares them to Word2Vec+LSTM neural networks. The findings reveal that CodeGen2 emerges as the most reliable model for vulnerability detection, achieving near-perfect precision and balanced recall, leading to superior F1 and AUC scores. …
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Advancing Efficiency and Safety in Autonomous Sequential Decision Making
… uncertainty and knowledge transfer, and on mitigating risks associated with agent actions through aleatory uncertainty. Initially, the thesis investigates strategies to enhance RL algorithms' adaptability and knowledge transfer across varying scenarios, alongside quantifying model …
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Climate change adaptation planning under uncertainty in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a case study on institutional vulnerability, adaptive capacity and climate change governance
… While there is a growing literature on the risks and vulnerabilities related to climate change, as yet there is limited research on the development of institutional responses, the dissemination of relevant knowledge and evaluation of tools for practical planning responses by decision makers …
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Optimal Portfolio Construction for Oil-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds
… wealth fund in diversifying revenue streams and mitigating risks associated with an excessive dependence on oil. To achieve this, the study proposes an adaptation of the subset-optimization algorithm within the mean-variance model, aiming to enhance portfolio construction in sovereign wealth …
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Understanding Developer and Lending Risk Associated with Offsite Construction
… in completing similar projects is crucial for mitigating risks. To facilitate offsite construction financing, industry leaders should explore innovative contractual, legal, and financial instruments. Implementing recourse provisions and enabling working capital financing for offsite …
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AORTIC STIFFNESS MODIFICATIONS AFTER ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR
… for optimizing patient management strategies and mitigating risks associated with increased aortic stiffness.
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Advanced Quantitative Risk Assessment of Offshore Gas Pipeline Systems
… decision makers to obtain comprehensive view of risks in the OGSS. In order to quantitatively evaluate the framework of aggregative risk, this thesis uses a fuzzy aggregative risk assessment method to determine the risk levels associated with components, subsystems, and the overall OGSS. The …
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Renewable Ocean Energy Site Selection Using a GIS: Gulf Coast Potential
… efficient decisions using existing data, while mitigating risks in the rapidly expanding industry of offshore renewable wind. Using certain suggested turbine spacing and full capacity, the Central Planning Area of the Gulf of Mexico could host over 5,000 wind turbines of variable sizes. Looking …
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