Logistic providers have learned to efficiently serve their existing customer bases with optimized routes and transportation resource allocation. The problem arises when there is potential for logistics growth in an emerging market with no previous data. The purpose of this work …
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This study analyzes the conception of gharar , which is generally translated as either risk or uncertainty, in post-formative Islamic commercial law. According to Muslim jurists, gharar arises from uncertainty in commercial transactions. However, unlike other areas of the Islami…
This dissertation offers computational and theoretical advances for optimization under uncertainty problems that utilize a probabilistic framework for addressing such uncertainties, and adopt a probabilistic performance as objective function. Emphasis is placed on applications t…
The rising temperature of the earth due to climate change has shown to alter the variations of hydro-climate variables, including their intensities, frequencies and durations. Extreme events such as floods are, in particular, susceptible to any disturbances in climate cycles. As…
Many developing countries such as Palestine are simultaneously fiscally limited and acutely water constrained. It is vital that investments in water related infrastructure provide maximum social welfare per dollar spent. Furthermore, infrastructure must be designed to perform we…
In this dissertation, I use economic tools to address pressing issues associated with designing and managing conservation programs and evaluating the effectiveness of those programs. In the first essay, I derive the levels of policy instruments such as lump sum payments and annu…
Like most river deltas, Bangladesh represents a geographically small region with numerous criss-crossing rivers. The total number of rivers in Bangladesh exceeds 300 of which, 57 rivers are transboundary. Given the widespread unavailability of flow data across the entire river b…
This dissertation is the first application of Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) to design of water rates in a developing country. A deterministic net revenue model and its stochastic counterpart were developed and calibrated using data from a financial study and a contingent valuatio…
It is often argued that monetary instability reduces the informational content of market signals and thereby hinders the efficient allocation of investment. Essay I, uses a signal extraction framework to give empirical content to this idea. In particular, we show why this framew…
Medical time-series signal classification and analysis is an interesting problem for both medical and computer science applications. Detection and evaluation of gait locomotion and mild neurological dysfunction in humans and animals by subjective visual assessment is a difficult…
This dissertation examines the effect of model-selection uncertainty in autoregressive models. The first chapter of the dissertation identifies the effects of model-selection uncertainty in autoregressive models—namely, the bias of the coefficient estimates, the bias of their st…
This study aimed at examining media performance at a time when U.S. policymakers are uncertain as to what position to take in a foreign conflict situation that affects the national interest. The study departed from the argument by some mass communication scholars that Herman and…
I study the effects of demand and supply uncertainty on irreversible investment. My objective is two fold. First, I investigate whether demand and supply uncertainty have similar effects on investment. Second, I study the effects of sunk costs on investment. I make three contrib…
Operators of highly automated driving systems may exhibit behaviour characteristic of overtrust issues due to an insufficient awareness of automation fallibility. Consequently, situation awareness in critical situations is reduced and safe driving performance following emergency…
Background: Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) has been shown to be effective in reducing mortality and morbidity in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). There is a limited amount of research that evaluates the impact of menu-based CR, in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome with Low Troponi…
Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological condition in the UK; however, there is little research detailing children's experiences of living with epilepsy. More generally, only a small amount of research has explored siblings' experiences of having a brother or sister with…
Poor cost performance of construction projects has been a major concern for both contractors and clients. The effective management of risk is thus critical to the success of any construction project and the importance of risk management has grown as projects have become more com…
This thesis investigates the process of decision-making in relation to complex tasks and considers the important role which dynamic information and real-time feedback play in shaping response behaviour and adaptation within such environments. Through empirical studies, the thesi…
Transition towards low-carbon energy systems requires an increase in the volume of renewable Distributed Generation (DG), particularly wind and photovoltaic, connected to distribution networks. To facilitate the connection of renewable DG without the need for expensive and time-…