Technical Objectives

LCA is a snapshot in time of inputs and outputs. It can be used as an objective technical tool to identify environmental impacts associated with a specific product,... 

The next step of the process is to examine the alternative pathways to achieve the project objective. Technically, there may be two or three ways to achieve the improved quality. We must now compare the alternatives. In examining the different alternatives, many factors may be considered. However, these factors generally boil down to a few basic areas technical performance, cost requirements, schedule requirements, and relative risk. 

Bogusch, R., Marquardt, W. The chemical engineering data model VeDa. Part 4 Behavioral modeling objects. Technical Report LPT-1998-04, RWTH Aachen University, Process Systems Engineering (1998)... 

While it is indubitable that the choice of materials for design is facilitated by the use of a single indicator, the ideal is to have a set of environmental indicators that are as representative and complete as possible (including LCA indicators, but also other types of indicators, be they semi-quantitative or even quahtarive) so that we can, on a case-by-case basis, employ those indicators which are most relevant for the particular objective (technical specifications) and the FU under consideration. 

Hypothesis 1.1 adaptive strategies are positively related to performance. Regression analyses summarized in Table 4.2 yield non-significant prediction of subjective overall performance by the degree of adaptation. In contrast, the choice of adaptive task strategies does predict objective technical performance measured by flight parameters. Thus hypothesis 1.1 is confirmed only on the specific level of measurements for adaptation and performance. 

To determine inventive step, the European Patent Office (EPO) employs the problem-and-solution approach. In this approach, the EPO takes the view that every invention is the solution to a technical problem. The general analysis of the problem-and-solution approach (1) determines the closest prior art (2) then starting from the closest prior art, establishes the objective technical problem to be solved and (3) assesses whether, in light of the prior art, it would have been obvious to solve the objective technical problem in the way claimed in the patent application. ... 

When the detergent formulator has to exclude the zeolite from the new zero-phosphate builder systems, the intrinsic difficulty of replacing phosphate in an automatic dishwashing product becomes evident. These objective technical difficulties have stopped the market from moving to low- and zero-phosphate detergents for at least a decade. The initial attempts were directed at zero-phosphate formulations, where some polymers, hav-... 

Parameter sLj characterizes object technical condition and depends on diagnostic signals (D ) and signals coming from driver s and environment influence as well as initial conditions a g. 

General nuclear safety objective Radiation protection objective Technical safety objective ... 

A possible approach to overcome this problem could be to split the estimation of the probability of occurrence extracting criminal energy and political influences on the probability of lEMI attacks as well as availability and cost of lEMI weapons as separate factors. The remaining part of the failure probability is then associated with objective technical conditions comprising local accessibility and electro-technical properties. Based on available EMC research results, the electro-technical vulnerability could be modelled. With this model and a standardized questionnaire, filled in by the Cl providers, comparable risk priority numbers should be obtained. 

A.G. Dallas, On the convergence and numerical stability of the second Waterman scheme for approximation of the acoustic field scattered by a hard object. Technical Report, Dept, of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, No. 

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