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  • Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales 
    Bullock, James M.; Fuentes-Montemayor, Elisa; McCarthy, Ben; Park, Kirsty; Hails, Rosie S.; Woodcock, Ben A.; Watts, Kevin; Corstanje, Ron; Harris, Jim A. (Wiley, 2021-12-07)
    Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re-establishing ‘indigenous reference' communities. One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create systems which function at a high level ...
  • Future scenarios for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods in a circular economy 
    Kuzmina, Ksenija; Prendeville, Sharon; Walker, Dale; Charnley, Fiona (Elsevier, 2018-12-14)
    The aim of the study is to envision, through an inductive scenario planning methodology, future scenarios of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry in the context of a circular economy (CE). The study uses an ...
  • Futuristic Martian aerobot design 
    Youhanna, Vishal; Ignatyev, Dmitry; Felicetti, Leonard (2022-08-26)
    NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter has proved that flight is possible on Mars with its ingenious yet elementary design, but it lacks long-range endurance and the capacity to carry any dedicated scientific instruments. In this ...
  • A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process model to evaluate logistics service expectations and delivery methods in last-mile delivery in Brazil 
    Alves de Araújo, Fernanda; Mendes dos Reis, João Gilberto; Terra da Silva, Marcia; Aktas, Emel (MDPI, 2022-05-10)
    Nowadays, postal services and third-party logistics services (3PL) have been pressured by the increasing demand for delivery services. Therefore, they need to improve their last-mile delivery strategies to meet customers’ ...
  • Fuzzy controller structures investigation for future gas turbine aero-engines 
    Mohammadi Doulabi Fard, Seyed Jalal; Jafari, Soheil (MDPI, 2021-02-22)
    The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) Flight Path 2050 focuses on ambitious and severe targets for the next generation of air travel systems (e.g., 75% reduction in CO2 emissions per passenger ...
  • Fuzzy finite element model updating of the DLR AIRMOD test structure 
    Haddad Khodaparast, H; Govers, Y; Dayyani, Iman; Adhikari, S; Link, M; Friswell, M; Mottershead, J; Sienz, J (Elsevier, 2017-08-12)
    This article presents the application of finite-element fuzzy model updating to the DLR AIRMOD structure. The proposed approach is initially demonstrated on a simulated mass-spring system with three degrees of freedom. ...
  • Fuzzy logic based equivalent consumption optimization of a hybrid electric propulsion system for unmanned aerial vehicles 
    Xie, Ye; Savvaris, Al; Tsourdos, Antonios (Elsevier, 2018-12-07)
    This paper presents an energy management strategy for a hybrid electric propulsion system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles. The proposed method combines the Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) and fuzzy ...
  • Fuzzy logic control for energy saving in autonomous electric vehicles 
    Al-Jazaeri, Ahmed O.; Samaranayake, Lilantha; Longo, Stefano; Auger, Daniel J. (IEEE, 2015-03-06)
    Limited battery capacity and excessive battery dimensions have been two major limiting factors in the rapid advancement of electric vehicles. An alternative to increasing battery capacities is to use better: intelligent ...
  • Fuzzy nonlinear dynamic evaporator model in supercritical organic Rankine cycle waste heat recovery systems 
    Chowdhury, Jahedul Islam; Nguyen, Bao Kha; Thornhill, David; Hu, Yukun; Soulatiantork, Payam; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Varga, Liz (MDPI, 2018-04-11)
    The organic Rankine cycle (ORC)-based waste heat recovery (WHR) system operating under a supercritical condition has a higher potential of thermal efficiency and work output than a traditional subcritical cycle. However, ...
  • Fuzzy physical programming for Space Manoeuvre Vehicles trajectory optimization based on hp-adaptive pseudospectral method 
    Chai, Runqi; Savvaris, Al; Tsourdos, Antonios (Elsevier, 2016-03-02)
    In this paper, a fuzzy physical programming (FPP) method has been introduced for solving multi-objective Space Manoeuvre Vehicles (SMV) skip trajectory optimization problem based on hp-adaptive pseudospectral methods. The ...
  • A Fuzzy-FMEA risk assessment approach for offshore wind turbines 
    Dinmohammadi, Fateme; Shafiee, Mahmood (Prognostics and Health Management Society, 2013-07-23)
    Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used by wind turbine assembly manufacturers for risk and reliability analysis. However, several limitations are associated with its implementation in offshore ...
  • A Fuzzy-Logic advisory system for lean manufacturing within SMEs 
    Achanga, Pius Coxwell; Shehab, Essam; Roy, Rajkumar; Nelder, Geoff (Taylor & Francis, 2012-09-30)
    This research paper presents the development of a fuzzy-logic advisory system to assist small-medium size companies (SMEs) as a decision support tool for implementing lean manufacturing. The system is developed using fuzzy ...
  • G-CLASS: geosynchronous radar for water cycle science - orbit selection and system design 
    Hobbs, Stephen E.; Guarnieri, Andrea Monti; Broquetas, Antoni; Calvet, Jean-Christophe; Casagli, Nicola; Chini, Marco; Ferretti, Rossella; Nagler, Thomas; Pierdicca, Nazzareno; Prudhomme, Christel; Wadge, Geoff (IET, 2019-11-28)
    The mission geosynchronous – continental land atmosphere sensing system (G-CLASS) is designed to study the diurnal water cycle, using geosynchronous radar. Although the water cycle is vital to human society, processes on ...
  • Gain scheduling for a passenger aircraft control system to satisfy handling qualities 
    Guo, Wei (Cranfield University, 2010-12)
    This thesis considers the problem of designing gain scheduled flight control system (FCS) for large transport aircraft that satisfy handling qualities criteria. The goal is to design a set of local Linear Time Invariant ...
  • Gain-scheduled H-infinity control for tensor product type polytopic plants 
    Chumalee, Sunan; Whidborne, James F. (Wiley, 2014-07-23)
    A tensor product (TP) model transformation is a recently proposed technique for transforming a given linear parameter-varying (LPV) model into polytopic model form, for which there are many methods that can be used for ...
  • Gain-scheduled H∞ control via parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions 
    Chumalee, Sunan; Whidborne, James F. (Taylor & Francis, 2013-03-08)
    Synthesising a gain-scheduled output feedback H∞ controller via parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions for linear parameter-varying (LPV) plant models involves solving an infinite number of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). ...
  • Galvanising shareholder activism: a prerequisite for effective corporate governance and accountability in Nigeria 
    Amao, Olufemi; Amaeshi, Kenneth (2009-03-30)
    Shareholder activism has been largely neglected in the few available studies on corporate governance in sub Saharan Africa. Following the recent challenges posed by the Cadbury Nigeria Plc, this paper examines shareholder ...
  • A game for all seasons: lessons and learnings from the JRC’s scenario exploration system 
    Bontoux, Laurent; Sweeney, John A.; Rosa, Aaron B.; Bauer, Alice; Bengtsson, Daniel; Bock, Anne-Katrin; Caspar, Ben; Charter, Martin; Christophilopoulos, Epaminondas; Kupper, Frank; Macharis, Cathy; Matti, Cristian; Matrisciano, Marco; Schuijer, Jantien; Szczepanikova, Alice; Criekinge, Tine van; Watson, Rosina (SAGE, 2020-02-18)
    The European Commission Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) Scenario Exploration System (SES) is a foresight gaming system developed to facilitate the application of futures thinking to policy-making. It was originally geared ...
  • A game of hide and seek 
    Vagias, Ioannis (Trident Publications Limited, 2016-03-01)
    Anti-ship missiles have evolved more rapidly than most navies’ electronic warfare and ship protection systems, which gives vessels very little time to respond in the event of an attack. Remaining undetected against a more ...
  • Game playing and operations management education 
    Lewis, Michael A.; Maylor, Harvey (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2007-01-01)
    There is a well established tradition of teaching operations management (OM) via various kinds of production game: real players making real decisions in a practical, albeit simulated, situation. Surprisingly, there has ...