This issue of Philosophical Transactions examines the relationship between scientific uncertainty about climate change and knowledge. Uncertainty is an inherent feature of the climate system. Considerable effort has therefore been devoted to understanding how to effectively respond to a changing, yet uncertain climate. Politicians and the public often appeal to uncertainty as an argument to del...

This issue of Philosophical Transactions examines the relationship between scientific uncertainty about climate change and knowledge. Uncertainty is an inherent feature of the climate system. Considerable effort has therefore been devoted to understanding how to effectively respond to a changing, yet uncertain climate. Politicians and the public often appeal to uncertainty as an argument to del...

the scientific community agrees that climate change is one of the greatest challenges that oursociety will have to face this century. indeed, the fourth report from the intergovernmental panel on climatechange (ippc) confirms the certitude of this phenomenon and its impacts, which can range from droughts tofloods, health problems and food shortages. the principal objective of this paper is to a...

In this paper, to cope with the stochastic dynamic (or multi-period) problem, two new quadratic assignment-based mathematical models corresponding to the dynamic and static approaches are developed. The product demands are presumed to be dependent uncertain variables with normal distribution having known expectation, variance, and covariance that change from one period to the next one, randomly...

A chance-constraint multi-objective model under uncertainty in the availability of subassemblies is proposed for scheduling in ATO systems. The on-time delivery of customer orders as well as reducing the company's cost is crucial; therefore, a three-objective model is proposed including the minimization of1) overtime, idletime, change-over, and setup costs, 2) total dispersion of items’ deliver...

Change readiness is an important precondition for human activity and a component of the overall professional readiness. At same time, police officer’s personality his/her creativity, which allows him/her to make decisions successfully effectively in changing uncertain conditions law enforcement services. The research aimed at establishing correlation between resilience officers perform duties u...

The article advances a type of relational sociology that is sensitive to the continually ongoing formation beings and relations over course time. While dynamic fluid character has been stressed by other scholars as well, suggests drawing from work Simmel anthropologist Tim Ingold attend coming-into-being change relations, we need alter very grammar considering relations: instead fathoming them ...

Seaports are crucial linkages in supply chains and account for over 80% of global trade by volume 70% value. They also vulnerable to extreme weather events sea level rise driven climate change. Choosing the timing scale adaptation measures is challenging due uncertainty about rate change, frequency disasters, irreversibility investment physical infrastructure. In addition ports must invest thro...

Global warming and then climate change are important topics studied by researchers throughout the world in the recent decades. In these studies, climatic parameters changes are investigated. Considering large-scaled output of AOGCMs and low precision in computational cells, uncertainty analysis is one of the principles in doing hydrological studies. For this reason, it is tried that investigati...