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The research presented in this dissertation is intended to address open issues encountered in a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-sponsored project aimed to re-evaluate pressurized thermal shock (PTS) risk in pressurized water reactors. The objectives of the research were…

Soil moisture dynamic in the unsaturated zone is considered an important process that may affect the travel time of a wetting front in an extensive way. Modeling such movement is a critical task because medium heterogeneity must be taken into consideration. The stochastic method…

Sustainable production and consumption have become more important internationally, which has led to the transformation of market structures and competitive situations into the direction of servitisation. This means that manufacturing companies are forced to compete through the s…

Ecological models allow resource managers to evaluate human impacts on fish and their habitat. However, quantitative methods that incorporate and assess uncertainty in these models are rare. These models require fish life history information, which is often uncertain, and can th…