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An exposition of system reliability analysis with an ecological perspective
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The paper treats the problem of survival reliability which is the probability of successful migration of a specific species from a critical habitat patch to destination habitat patches via heterogeneous imperfect corridors and contributes methods for computing a new measure of reliability that arises when paths to destination habitats patches share common corridors.About:
This article is published in Ecological Indicators.The article was published on 2016-04-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reliability theory & Critical habitat.read more
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Switching-Algebraic Analysis of System Reliability
TL;DR: This chapter deals with the paradigm of handling system reliabilityAnalysis in the Boolean domain as a supplement to (rather than a replacement to) analysis in the probability domain, and explains some important properties of the concept of Boolean quotient.
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Weighted Voting Systems: A Threshold- Boolean Perspective
TL;DR: The paper demonstrates that the prime implicants of the system threshold function are its Minimal Winning Coalitions (MWC), and stresses the utility of threshold Boolean functions in the understanding, study, analysis, and design of weighted voting systems irrespective of size.
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Reliability Analysis of a Commodity-Supply Multi-State System Using the Map Method
TL;DR: The analysis of a commodity-supply system that serves as a standard gold example of a non-repairable multi-state k-out-of-n: G system with independent non-identical components yields a Multi-Valued Karnaugh Map (MVKM), which serves as an explicit function of the multi-valued inputs of the system.
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Exposition and Comparison of Two Kinds of a Posteriori Analysis of Fault Trees@@@استعراض ومقارنة نوعين من التحليل اللاحق لأشجار الأخطاء
TL;DR: It is demonstrated here that in many cases this analysis is still possible via elementary faulttree manipulations that use the concept of a Boolean quotient to effectively implement Bayes’ Theorem in the Boolean domain.
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Conventional and Improved Inclusion-Exclusion Derivations of Symbolic Expressions for the Reliability of a Multi-State Network
TL;DR: A simple method for handling the classical problem of computing the probability of the union of n events, or equivalently the expectation of the disjunction (ORing) of n indicator variables for these events, and a novel method for combining the MS-PRE and MS-IE concepts together are discussed.
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Linking biodiversity indicators, ecosystem functioning, provision of services and human well-being in estuarine systems: Application of a conceptual framework
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework to assess the links between ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (ES) is proposed and applied to the Mondego estuary (Portugal).
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An improved algorithm for symbolic reliability analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient Boolean algebraic algorithm to compute the probability of a union of nondisjoint sets as applied to symbolic reliability analysis is described. But it is not shown how to apply this algorithm to the problem of network and fault tree analysis.
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How to choose a biodiversity indicator – Redundancy and complementarity of biodiversity metrics in a freshwater ecosystem
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the robustness of six biodiversity metrics to assess environmental change and determine their utility as relevant indicators of ecosystem biodiversity and functionality, and concluded that functional diversity indicated not only number and dominance of species, but also each species functional role in the community.
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Utilization of symmetric switching functions in the computation of k-out-of-n system reliability
TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability or unreliability of a k-out-of-n system involving non-identical components is evaluated using a symmetric switching function and roundoff errors introduced in the computations are analyzed.
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Reliability evaluation A comparative study of different techniques
TL;DR: In this paper, many different techniques for reliability evaluation of general systems have been presented and merits and demerits of every method are discussed.