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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"assessment models"”.
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Worker profile: two functional assessment models
The traditional functional assessment techniques developed by medical, psychological and social care providers lack the quantitative precision of industrial engineering work descriptors. This study develops two models of disabled worker behavior for use in the vocational assessment and job design …
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Risk assessment models for resource failure in grid computing
… solving scheduling problems in real-time. Risk assessment benefits the resource provider by providing methods to either support accepting or rejecting an SLA. Moreover, it will enable the resource provider to understand the capacity of the infrastructure and to thereby plan future investment. …
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Using Integrated Assessment Models to Achieve the Paris Climate Target
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) have become central tools in global assessments of how to achieve the Paris climate target. But how reliable are the insights that can be drawn from IAMs? This thesis identifies and begins to assess three challenges associated with the use of IAM ensembles and …
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Humpback whales, rock lobsters and mathematics : exploration of assessment models incorporating stock-structure
This thesis presents four marine resource assessments; three concern the Southern Hemisphere (SH) humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and one the South African east coast rock lobster Palinurus delagoae. It also sets out the statistical background to the methodology employed in the assessments, …
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Development of advanced reliability assessment models with applications in integrity management of onshore energy pipelines
… inspections, criteria for excavation and direct assessment of energy pipelines. Towards this, advanced algorithmic model-based approaches are developed and proposed, based on fundamental principles of structural reliability analyses, stochastic degradation processes, machine learning through …
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A Comparison of Risk Assessment Models for Pipe Replacement and Rehabilitation in a Water Distribution System
… it benefits municipalities to utilize a risk assessment model to identify the most critical components of the system and develop an effective rehabilitation or replacement schedule.</p> <p>This study compared two risk assessment models, a statistically complex model and a simplified model. …
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Identification and incorporation of quantitative indicators of ecosystem function into single-species fishery stock assessment models and the associated biological reference points
… summer and fall Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) bottomfish trawl surveys were used to identify spatial and temporal indicators in the northwestern Gulf. Cluster analysis and nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis identified four distinct demersal fish communities …
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Shop like a designer: How the mass media perpetuates non-sustainable design
… non-environmentally responsible design (non-ERD) assessment models, based on traditional ideological considerations, as opposed to models based on environmentally responsible design (ERD) philosophies. Using the Delphi technique, thirty keywords were selected, based on educators’ and …
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MODELLING, ASSESSMENT, AND REDUCTION OF FLOOD RISK IN NEPAL
… is a lack of modelling methods for flood risk assessment models that are applied for data-scarce flood-prone areas and where flood risk is quantified as economic damage. In addition, there is a lack of flood risk assessment models towards flood risk reduction in data-scarce flood-prone areas in …
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Mortality Assessment of Redwood and Mixed Conifer Forest Types in Santa Cruz County Following Wildfire
… criteria were used to design three Mortality Assessment models (MA), divided into three diameter at breast height classes (1-8.9, 9-16.9, >17 inches), for all tree species. These models were compared against pre-fire data from 82, one-fifth acre fixed plots from SPR’s Continuous Forest …
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An integrated assessment of air pollutant abatement opportunities in a computable general equilibrium framework
… react to regulatory constraints. Integrated assessment models have often been used as tools to inform policy design by representing the interactions between technology, economics, policy, and the environment within a self-contained framework. Many contemporary integrated assessment models …
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Fishing patterns around the Cape Peninsula National Park : implications for a fisheries monitoring program
… and to provide data that are relevant to stock assessment models. Personnel and cost implications of the monitoring program will be estimated.
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Asset integrity case development for normally unattended offshore installations
… Accordingly, there is a need for dynamic risk assessment and improved asset integrity monitoring. The immediate objective of this research is to investigate how a dynamic risk model can be developed for an offshore system. Subsequently, two dynamic risk assessment models were developed for an …
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Innovative Design for Active Disassembly and Sustainable Product Recovery
… the need for comprehensive sustainability assessment that justifies incorporating active disassembly in product design; and second, to provide a methodology that enables systematic design and innovation of active joints that provide active disassembly. These two objectives are accomplished …
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Connecting the continents. Power system modelling and capacity building for detailed assessments of global power sector decarbonization pathways
… a number of key foundation blocks for robust assessments of global power system decarbonization pathways by means of open methods and datasets that can be used with a broad range of modelling tools. The author constructs and uses a detailed global power system model with high technical, …
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The Effect of Risk Assessment on Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System
… population. Prior research argues that risk assessments conducted by child welfare agencies may be racially biased, and thus contribute to disproportionality. This study seeks to explore the effect of different risk assessment models on racial disproportionality. This is done by examining the …
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Ordered Category Attribute Coding Framework for Cognitive Assessments
Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment models define skills as binary. Examinees are described as either 'skill masters' or 'non-masters' and items as either requiring the skill or not. I propose an Ordered Category Attribute Coding (OCAC) framework, designed to enhance the diagnostic information provided …
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Technology Performance Curves to Inform Government and Private Investment
… employed in industrial, economic, and integrated assessment models to inform decision-making processes. Technology performance curves have evolved from their origins in the 1920s modeling of airframe manufacturing labor cost to consider mechanisms of technological progress, including …
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Procuring the urban house in paradise
… throughout its lifecycle, then to create an assessment tool that extends the scope of existing environmental evaluation models. The benchmarks for each of the criteria define the quantitative and qualitative performance values of firstly, a dwelling built to current regulation standards, …
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