per capita ecological footprint (ef) or ecological footprint analysis (efa), is a means of comparing the consumption and lifestyles while checking this based on the nature's ability to account for this consumption. the tool can inform the policymakers by examining to what extent a nation uses more or less than what is available within its territory, or to what extent the nation's lifestyle woul...

In this study a pseudo comprehensive carbon footprint model for fossil fuel power plants is presented. Parameters which their effects are considered in this study include: plant type, fuel type, fuel transmission type, internal consumption of the plant, degradation, site ambient condition, transmission and distribution losses. Investigating internal consumption, degradation and site ambient con...

Uncertainty is an inherent part in controllers used for real-world applications. The use of new methods for handling incomplete information is of fundamental importance in engineering applications. We simulated the effects of uncertainty produced by the instrumentation elements in type-1 and type-2 fuzzy logic controllers to perform a comparative analysis of the systems’ response, in the presen...

Probabilistic back-chaining planners, which use probabilities to represent and reason about uncertainty in the planning domain, typically have a larger search space than their classical counterparts. Therefore heuristics that can reduce their search effectively are even more important. The “footprint” principle leads to a family of heuristics for probabilistic planners produced by attempting to...

The manufacturing footprint strategy of European automotive companies has been determined in the preceding decades by a reduction of labour and operational costs and the development of new markets. Today, the automotive sector is characterised by growing number of logistic-related requirements like customisation, just-in-sequence supply and assembly of vendor parts (FAST 2025, 2013). This leads...

Chapter 2 focused entirely on aleatory uncertainty. This is the uncertainty that arises out of the randomness of the hazard itself, and also, possibly, out of the responses to the hazard outcome. That chapter chased this uncertainty through the footprint function and a loss operator to arrive at an Exceedance Probability (EP) curve. Such a structured approach (e.g. as opposed to a purely statis...

Water Footprint Assessment is a fast-growing field of research, but as yet little attention has been paid to the uncertainties involved. This study investigates the sensitivity of and uncertainty in crop water footprint (in m3 t−1) estimates related to uncertainties in important input variables. The study focuses on the green (from rainfall) and blue (from irrigation) water footprint of produci...

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