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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tourism is a significant sector on the Svalbard archipelago. The increase in visitors and tourism activities has reshaped the local community of Longyearbyen, brought new economic opportunities, and put greater pressure on the local environment.
Julien Lebel +3 more
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Axiomatic Design Aspect of a Braking System Redesign
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 A rollator is a commercial product on the market for aiding people with difficulty in walking by themselves. Users are typically strong enough to walk without aid, but will easily feel exhausted within short distances.
Iino Kenji, Arruti Aitor, Nakao Masayuki
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Use of axiomatic design principles to develop vehicle suspension controls for variable stiffness and ride height [PDF]
, 2005 Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 23).Axiomatic Design principles are used to design a vehicle suspension system.
Luu, Way
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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Low-cost Antenna Positioning System Designed with Axiomatic Design
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 The Engineering Optimization and Modeling Center at Reykjavik University has been carrying out research on antenna CAD, including the simulation-driven design of novel antenna topologies.
Timothy Foley Joseph +3 more
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A QFD framework for quality, innovation and high-tech product development dynamics [PDF]
, 2010 The customer mostly chooses a product on the base of its quality, which therefore arises as the main cause of its commercial success. In a nearly axiomatic drawing, it follows that the effect of innovation is the improvement of quality, which itself ...
Demartini, Claudio Giovanni +2 more
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Rethinking the Discount Factor in Reinforcement Learning: A Decision Theoretic Approach
, 2019 Reinforcement learning (RL) agents have traditionally been tasked with maximizing the value function of a Markov decision process (MDP), either in continuous settings, with fixed discount factor $\gamma < 1$, or in episodic settings, with $\gamma = 1 ...
Pitis, Silviu
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Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of sustainable practices in key sectors of human societies is a global concern, posing threats for the whole planet. This paper provides the first review of ontologies for sustainability efforts, outlining their roles in assessing and advancing such efforts. Section 2 outlines three major challenges associated with sustainability: (1)
Giorgio A. Ubbiali +2 more
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