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Risk Times in Mission‐Oriented Systems

open access: yesQuality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses risk times in mission‐oriented systems with high safety standards. We examine critical times under two safety policies. The first requires that the system's reliability function, known the first failure of the components, must exceed a reliability level throughout the mission.
Antonio Arriaza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Transboundary Reach of the Columbia River: Cottonwood Colonization Followed Flow Moderation From the Columbia River Treaty Dams

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Columbia river provides the largest Pacific outflow in the Western Hemisphere and the greatest hydropower production of any North American river system. For hydropower generation and flood risk management, four massive water storage reservoirs followed the Columbia River Treaty between Canada and the United States, with three Canadian dams,
Colleen A. Phelan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding Sustainable Development in Fashion: Abductive Insights From Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable fashion consumer behavior (SFCB) has garnered increasing scholarly attention due to the global awareness of the negative impact of unsustainable practices. Nonetheless, there exists limited consolidation of findings across studies. To fill this void, this study adopted a meta‐analytic approach to synthesize 68 primary SFCB studies (
Hye Seung Jeong, Yoo‐Kyoung Seock
wiley   +1 more source

Visualizing Causal Interactions Across the 2030 Agenda Pillars: Mapping Priorities for Integrated Policy Action

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the interconnections between the five pillars of the 2030 Agenda, which we constructed using partial synthetic indices of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). We use time series of the 169 targets corresponding to the 17 SDGs from Eurostat, covering the period from 2000 to 2021 for 28 countries.
Najat Bazah   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction of Bivariate Distributions and Statistical Dependence Operations

open access: yes, 2005
Al Capítol 1 de Preliminars es revisen conceptes de dependència generals (classes de Fréchet, còpules, i famílies paramètriques de distribucions). Al Capítol 2, generalitzem les operacions unió i intersecció de dues matrius de distàncies a matrius simètriques semidefinides positives qualssevol.
openaire   +1 more source

Cultural Differences and Interdependencies in Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and Their Psychological Antecedents Across 63 Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change research, like much of social science, is biased toward WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, limiting its global relevance. Even cross‐national studies often suffer from methodological inconsistencies due to cultural and geographic interdependencies.
Danila Valko, Kristin Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Exclusion and Exposure: How Social Inequality and Marginalization Shape Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Rural Communities

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change affects all individuals, regardless of wealth, social class, or religious background, though its impacts and adaptation strategies vary. While existing literature examines climate change adaptation based on farming categories, geographic regions, and cropping systems, limited research explores how social class shapes adaptation ...
Nasir Abbas Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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