316
Index
T
Technical and Performance Criteria (TPCr),
157, 159
Temperatures, 166
t-norms, 85, 92, 100, 293
Tripartite graphs, 110, 171–172, 175, 176
Typology
municipalities, 32–33
spatial units, 31
U
Uncertainty, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 59
Uranium uptake capacity, 199
Uranium (U) trappers
acidic waters, 181
attributes, 182
average ranks, 194–196
biological interpretation, 197–198
biosorbents, 182
biotechnological studies, 182
conventional physicochemical methods,
182
data, 184
data matrix, 183
decision-makers, 183
ecological and public health hazards, 181
ecosystems, 181
Hasse diagram, 192–194
mathematical interpretation, 194, 197
MCDA, 182–183
orientation of attributes, 192
partial order methods, 183
radionuclides, 181
ranking methods, 183, 191–192
soil and water, 182
treatment technologies, 182
Urban-rural axis, 41, 42
Urban water management, 106, 115
Utility functions (UTI), 282
V
Valuation model, 11–14
Value benefit analysis, 109, 111, 116
Virtual machines (VM), 294
Virtual Stratified Sampling Using Ranked Set
Sampling (VSR), 139
W
Wastewater treatment, 182
Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), 110–114
Weak order, 67–68, 191, 303
Wealth gap, 257
Weighted sum approach, 46, 48, 60
advantage, 46
crucial weights, 46, 50, 52–56, 59–60
decision making, 53–54
decision support systems, 48
fictitious systems, crucial weights, 54–56
fine-structure, analysis, 52–53
incomparabilities, 49–52, 58
partial order, 46–48
well-being, children and young people,
56–58
World happiness index, vii, xv, 205, 206,
208–211, 216
Dys indicator, 210
Dystopia indicator, 216
financial aspect
Denmark, 214, 215
Luxembourg, 214, 215
Norway vs. Luxembourg, 215, 216
relative indicator importance, 214
generosity, 210
gross domestic product, 209, 216
Hi indexes, 210, 211
HPI, 211–213
indicators, 205, 209, 210
methodology
basis partial ordering, 206–207
data, 209
Hasse diagram, 207
indicators, 208–209
more elaborate analyses, 207–208
software, 208
PyHasse software package, 209
simple arithmetic aggregation, 206, 209