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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"impact metrics"”.
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Climate impact metrics for energy technology evaluation
… methods for comparing technologies, which assess impacts over an arbitrary, fixed time horizon, do not acknowledge the critical link between technology choices and climate dynamics. In this thesis, I ask how we can use information about the temporal characteristics of greenhouse gases to design …
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Impact measurement in social enterprises: rationales & current practices in an Australian context
… implementation of social and/or environmental impact metrics are reflective of how organisational actors interpret sustainability, which in turn shape the organisation. The broad aim of this thesis is to explore the challenges of impact measurement as situated within hybrid organisations, such …
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Analysis of a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Impact Attenuator for a Formula SAE Vehicle Using Finite Element Analysis
… that fiber buckling was not occurring at the impactor-tube interface. Results and speculation as to why the failure initiation is incorrect are discussed. Lessons learned from the tube crush are applied successfully to the quasi-static Formula SAE nosecone crush test. The model is validated by …
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Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
High-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of …
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Long-Term Ambient Ozone Exposure: Magnitude, Trends, and Impacts
… ozone (O3) is associated with a variety of impacts, including adverse health effects in humans (U.S. EPA 2013) and reduced yields in commercial crops (Chameides et al., 1994; Mauzerall and Wang, 2001). Due to such impacts, efforts have been undertaken in recent decades to reduce ground-level …
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Understanding the Impacts of Data Integrity Attacks in the Context of Transactive Control Systems
… systems operator and end-users is investigated. Impact on grid operations is evaluated using different categories like operational, financial, user comfort and reliability parameters. It is shown that attack impact depends on a number of factors like attack duration, time of attack, penetration …
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A production simulation tool for systems with integrated photovoltaic energy sources.
… of reliability, economic-cost and environmental-impact metrics. To test the capability of the tool, we have applied the methodology on a variety of test system cases covering a wide span of load, system and resource characteristics. The application of the tool is useful in many areas of power …
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Evaluating Energywood Harvesting Operations in The Lower Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States
… two other independent studies, comparing site impact metrics from energywood and conventional harvests across the Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain regions of Virginia. In the first study, cut and haul costs averaged $32.07/tonne and ranged from $26.19 to $38.28/tonne. Hauling consistently …