uncertain environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuncertainandenvironment
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uncertain
adjective
uk/ʌnˈsɜː.tən/us/ʌnˈsɝː.tən/
not knowing what to do or believe, or not able to decide ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofuncertainandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Because of theuncertainenvironment, firms may go bankrupt.
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Can we develop more nuanced hypotheses, on particular sets of conditions that motivate party responsiveness in anuncertainenvironment?
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We analyse farmers who operate in anuncertainenvironmentand study how risk preferences influence optimal soil-conservation decisions in the absence of effective insurance markets.
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This is done by using a theoretical model in order to derive qualitative properties of optimal choices of soil conservation in anuncertainenvironment.
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In this paper, we propose a practical scheme for realtime motion planning and control of non-holonomic mobile robot moving in anuncertainenvironment.
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The literature on real options demonstrates that in anuncertainenvironmentit often pays to delay investments that cannot easily be reversed.
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Since sustaining felicity cannot be guaranteed in anuncertainenvironment, the planner must update the control parameter (target) as events unfold, using the information available at the time.
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It is mostly a dry plain or hilly area, with long, hot and dry summers and irregular rainfall, creating a ratheruncertainenvironmentfor its main traditional agricultural activities.
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What will happen to the future provision of skilled doctors if medical schools are struggling to provide adequate training in anuncertainenvironment?
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It will be much more difficult to sustain substantial increases in public spending in that difficult anduncertainenvironment.
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Despite rising relative profitability of food processing, downstream agricultural industries have also been struggling, increasing the uncertainty in theuncertainenvironmentin which agriculture operates.
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In both cases they seemed to me professional, versatile and thoroughly strongly motivated in their work—a stabilising influence in anuncertainenvironment.
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The subject is concerned with the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in anuncertainenvironment.
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Uncertain environments require robust plans that, while not always provably optimal, assure that the system will not fail in the face of environmental change.
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This is because maximizing offspring quantity maximizes the probability of leaving any descendants at all in risky and uncertain environments.
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We argue that the responses adopted by the herders are livelihood strategies, which help them to cope with uncertain environments and increasing land pressure.
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These characteristics allow the smart structures to be employed to control the static and elastodynamic response of distributed parameter systems operation under variable service conditions in uncertain environments.
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