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Contents
Dependent Indicators for Environmental Evaluations
of Desalination Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ghanima Al-Sharrah and Haitham M. S. Lababidi
Introduction into Sampling Theory, Applying Partial Order Concepts . . . 135
Bardia Panahbehagh and Rainer Bruggemann
Looking for Alternatives? Split-Shots as an Exemplary Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Lars Carlsen
Comparison of Selected Procedures for Generating Activated
Carbon with Special Focus on Miscanthus Straw as a Sustainable
Raw Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Lars Carlsen and Kamilya Abit
Uranium Trappers, a Partial Order Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Nancy Y. Quintero
Part III Indicators in Social Sciences
There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch! Who Is Paying for Our
Happiness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Lars Carlsen
Posetic Tools in the Social Sciences: A Tutorial Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Marco Fattore and Alberto Arcagni
Assessing Subjective Well-being in Wide Populations. A Posetic
Approach to Micro-data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo and Paola Conigliaro
Part IV Software Aspects
Deep Ranking Analysis by Power Eigenvectors (DRAPE): A Study
on the Human, Environmental and Economic Wellbeing
of 154 Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Cecile Valsecchi and Roberto Todeschini
PyHasse, a Software Package for Applicational Studies of Partial
Orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Rainer Bruggemann, Adalbert Kerber, Peter Koppatz, and Valentin Pratz
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Contents
Dependent Indicators for Environmental Evaluations
of Desalination Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ghanima Al-Sharrah and Haitham M. S. Lababidi
Introduction into Sampling Theory, Applying Partial Order Concepts . . . 135
Bardia Panahbehagh and Rainer Bruggemann
Looking for Alternatives? Split-Shots as an Exemplary Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Lars Carlsen
Comparison of Selected Procedures for Generating Activated
Carbon with Special Focus on Miscanthus Straw as a Sustainable
Raw Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Lars Carlsen and Kamilya Abit
Uranium Trappers, a Partial Order Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Nancy Y. Quintero
Part III Indicators in Social Sciences
There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch! Who Is Paying for Our
Happiness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Lars Carlsen
Posetic Tools in the Social Sciences: A Tutorial Exposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Marco Fattore and Alberto Arcagni
Assessing Subjective Well-being in Wide Populations. A Posetic
Approach to Micro-data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo and Paola Conigliaro
Part IV Software Aspects
Deep Ranking Analysis by Power Eigenvectors (DRAPE): A Study
on the Human, Environmental and Economic Wellbeing
of 154 Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Cecile Valsecchi and Roberto Todeschini
PyHasse, a Software Package for Applicational Studies of Partial
Orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Rainer Bruggemann, Adalbert Kerber, Peter Koppatz, and Valentin Pratz
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309