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A Framework for Aggregation of Heterogeneous Experts' Opinions in Construction Risk Assessment
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Construction companies constantly seek to improve risk analysis techniques to determine projects' risk contingency. The construction risk assessment practice relies on heterogeneous experts' opinions in a group decision making (GDM) process to determine the risk probabilities and impacts on a...
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A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly phylogeny (Lepidoptera:Papilionidae)
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Caterino, M.S., Sperling, F.A., Kuo, M.M., Reed, R.D.
Although it is widely agreed that data from multiple sources are necessary to confidently resolve phylogenetic relationships, procedures for accommodating and incorporating heterogeneity in such data remain underdeveloped.We explored the use of partitioned, model-based analyses of heterogeneous...
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An overview of soil heterogeneity: quantification and implications on geotechnical field problems
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Elkateb, T., Chalaturnyk, R., Robertson, P. K.
Abstract: Engineering judgment and reliance on factors of safety have been the conventional tools for dealing with soil heterogeneity in geotechnical practice. This paper presents a review of recent advances in treating soil variability. It presents the implications of geostatistical techniques...
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Spring 2017
Outdoor recreation is an important and yet often undervalued land use. Measurement of the economic value of outdoor recreation, assessment of the impacts of land uses on these values, and incorporation of this information into land use decisions can be useful in assessing land use tradeoffs. This...
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Fall 2021
The warm vaporized solvent injection process has been proposed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to steam-based technologies for bitumen recovery. The process typically involves injecting heated solvent vapor into a horizontal injector; the solvent condenses and dissolves into...
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Economic Analysis of Choice Behavior: Incorporating Choice Set Formation, Non-compensatory Preferences and Perceptions into the Random Utility Framework
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The Random Utility Model has become the dominant empirical model used in environmental valuation and other areas of consumer demand analysis involving the choice of discrete items. This thesis investigates in detail three assumptions of the Random Utility Model. It consists of three studies that...
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Economic Effects of Environmental Quality Change on Recreational Hunting in Northern Saskatchewan
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Boxall, Peter C., Morton, Karen, Adamowicz, Wiktor
This study was undertaken to provide some of the social values for the non-timber component of the Millar Western-NorSask Forest Management License Agreement. This study estimates the changes in the value of a recreational hunting experience as one, or a combination of several, of the following...
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Heterogeneity in Attitudes Underlying Preferences for Genomic Technology Producing Hybrid Poplars on Public Land
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This study investigates the public preference heterogeneity of planting genetically improved poplar tree on public land for biofuel production in Western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to vote in a series of...
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2022-11-04
Amir Zakerimanesh, Tony Z. Qiu, Mahdi Tavakoli
Platooning which is defined as controlling a group of autonomous vehicles (multiple followers and one leader) to have a desired distance between them while following a desired trajectory has caught on recently in the control engineering discipline. Platooning brings along promising advantages,...
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Identifying seasonal Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) movement patterns and habitat selection in the South Saskatchewan River Basin
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Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque 1817) have experienced population declines throughout their range. In Alberta, low density age-class distributions, irregular recruitment, critically low spawning potential ratios and other factors led to a 2007 designation of “Threatened” for this...