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Governments are challenged to balance multiple policy goals and make difficult choices when selecting infrastructure projects for public investment, particularly since available funds are often insufficient to implement the full suite of proposals. This paper presents the application of the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework, a systematic, multi-criteria approach to infrastructure project prioritization, to inform the selection of water supply investments in Sri Lanka. A set of 28 proposed water supply projects was prioritized at the request of the National Planning Department of Sri Lanka, based on consideration of multiple goals, including improved water quality and service, network extension, service provision to poor communities, job creation, and sound financial performance. This paper reviews the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework methodology; presents the results of the prioritization exercise, including an expanded sensitivity analysis; and discusses the way forward to apply the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework to inform infrastructure investment decisions.

Composite Indices --- Infrastructure Economics and Finance --- Infrastructure Planning --- Infrastructure Prioritization --- Multi-Criteria Analysis --- Principal Component Analysis --- Public Investment --- Water --- Water Resources --- Water Supply --- Water Supply and Sanitation

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The aim of this master thesis is to investigate based on multi-criteria analysis different layout options for Abeking and Rasmussen (A&R) shipyard harbour in terms of having constant water level and better manoeuvrability possibilities for conducting more safely and time efficiently launching operations of big vessels by barge (or floating dock) or syncrolift. After having the best layouts as a result of the analysis a more detailed design with necessary calculations was performed. At the end, cost estimation and comparison of the final layouts was carried out.

Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R), river Weser, sedimentation, navigation, harbour, shared harbour, multi-criteria analysis, layout, harbour entrance, sheet pile cofferdam, floating door, caisson, cost estimation --- Ingénierie, informatique & technologie > Ingénierie civile

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In the modern world, the competitiveness of bioenergy- and/or bioresources-related activities heavily depends on the effectiveness of supply chain management. A large number of multidisciplinary topics are involved in the bioresources and bioenergy production fields. Although the technical issues that are related with the topic are well-discussed and do not represent major barriers, supply chain management issues, such as design of the network, collection, storage or transportation of bioresources, are still considered as fundamental questions that need to be answered to enable the optimal exploitation of bioenergy and bioresources. Moreover, modeling of material and energy flows; identification of the dynamic character of the supply chains; available reverse logistics (waste management) alternatives; economic, social and environmental sustainability of bioresource supply chains; novelty in the applied business models; and decision support frameworks towards efficient supply chain management for bioenergy and bioresources present critical operational sustainability issues and business-making potential. This Special Issue, entitled “Supply Chain Management for Bioenergy and Bioresources”, seeks to contribute to the bioenergy and bioresources agenda through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary knowledge that may boost the performance efficiency of supply chain management and support the decision-making process of stakeholders. To that end, the Special Issue includes one extensive review on yellow and woody biomass supply-chain management, together with six original papers which span a number of innovative, multifaceted, technical developments that are related to all different echelons of supply chain management for bioenergy and bioresources.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- supply-chain design --- strategic planning --- operational planning --- energy crop production --- crop residue --- dry above ground biomass --- soybean --- empirical models --- bilinear regression analysis --- agricultural operations --- energy use --- assessment tool --- workability --- machinery --- agricultural machinery --- fleet management --- auto-steering system --- collaborative operating system --- flow-shop --- simulation --- field experiment --- Fuzzy Cognitive Maps --- photovoltaic solar energy --- scenario analysis --- decision-support --- energy management --- bioenergy --- efficiency of bio-resources --- decision support system --- multi-criteria analysis --- sustainability --- neuro-fuzzy --- ANFIS --- neural networks --- soft computing --- fuzzy cognitive maps --- energy forecasting --- natural gas --- prediction

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Coal mining continues to make advances, especially in the areas of safety and environmental protection as a result of mining. This book contains nine peer-reviewed articles on green coal mining that address most of the important issues associated with improving coal mining. These issues include the protection of water above coal mines, both surface and ground water, and the subsidence that occurs during and after mining with methods to limit it and methods of rehabilitation. Additional issues include mine entry and production area support and methods to control gas emissions.

decision making --- management --- mines --- multi-criteria analysis --- project --- risk --- restoration --- coal gangue --- geopolymer --- mechanical activation --- thermal activation --- mechanical property --- microstructure --- water protection --- water-conservation coal mining (WCCM) --- influencing factors --- “five maps --- three zones --- and two zoning plans” --- water conductive fractured zone (WCFZ) --- acoustic emission (AE) --- coal --- deep mining --- mining layouts --- lignite --- reclamation --- rehabilitation --- land use --- decision-making --- optimisation --- sustainability --- longwall coal mining --- ground control --- subsidence --- uplift --- surface movement --- radar-interferometry --- long-term behavior --- sustainable mining --- Belgium --- foamed concrete --- orthogonal experiment --- optimum mix --- coal mine goaf --- gas isolation --- longwall mining --- weak geological condition --- gate-entry stability --- remaining coal thickness --- wooden cribs --- gangue --- load-displacement characteristics --- pressure-compressibility characteristics

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In the modern world, the competitiveness of bioenergy- and/or bioresources-related activities heavily depends on the effectiveness of supply chain management. A large number of multidisciplinary topics are involved in the bioresources and bioenergy production fields. Although the technical issues that are related with the topic are well-discussed and do not represent major barriers, supply chain management issues, such as design of the network, collection, storage or transportation of bioresources, are still considered as fundamental questions that need to be answered to enable the optimal exploitation of bioenergy and bioresources. Moreover, modeling of material and energy flows; identification of the dynamic character of the supply chains; available reverse logistics (waste management) alternatives; economic, social and environmental sustainability of bioresource supply chains; novelty in the applied business models; and decision support frameworks towards efficient supply chain management for bioenergy and bioresources present critical operational sustainability issues and business-making potential. This Special Issue, entitled “Supply Chain Management for Bioenergy and Bioresources”, seeks to contribute to the bioenergy and bioresources agenda through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary knowledge that may boost the performance efficiency of supply chain management and support the decision-making process of stakeholders. To that end, the Special Issue includes one extensive review on yellow and woody biomass supply-chain management, together with six original papers which span a number of innovative, multifaceted, technical developments that are related to all different echelons of supply chain management for bioenergy and bioresources.

supply-chain design --- strategic planning --- operational planning --- energy crop production --- crop residue --- dry above ground biomass --- soybean --- empirical models --- bilinear regression analysis --- agricultural operations --- energy use --- assessment tool --- workability --- machinery --- agricultural machinery --- fleet management --- auto-steering system --- collaborative operating system --- flow-shop --- simulation --- field experiment --- Fuzzy Cognitive Maps --- photovoltaic solar energy --- scenario analysis --- decision-support --- energy management --- bioenergy --- efficiency of bio-resources --- decision support system --- multi-criteria analysis --- sustainability --- neuro-fuzzy --- ANFIS --- neural networks --- soft computing --- fuzzy cognitive maps --- energy forecasting --- natural gas --- prediction