N-Bipolar Soft Sets and Their Application in Decision Making

The concept of soft set was extended to $N$-soft set by Fatimah et al. and used as grading system. Bipolar soft sets gave the concept of a binary model of grading. Kamacı and Petchimuchu defined bipolar $N$-soft set but our approach is different from their approach. We defined N-bipolar soft set which extends the concept of bipolar soft set. We explained the notions through some important examples. We discussed some vital definitions and were motivated towards their use and need. We also described some basic algebraic definitions and with their help, we developed the algebraic structure of our proposed model. We give decision making algorithms and applied them to real life examples to motivate towards its application. Conflict analysis has been a vast topic for research. It was first given by Pawlak. The first extension to this model was given by Pawlak itself. Then many researchers extended his idea. We also discussed here the application of $N$-bipolar soft set to conflict analysis. The combination of $N$-bipolar soft set and conflict analysis can give user the best way to decide suitable and feasible action.

Finding feasible action towards urban transformations

While innovative approaches to urban transformations are increasingly proposed, scholars often overlook challenges faced by endogenous actors (e.g. urban planners) tasked with taking action within non-ideal, real-world settings. Here we argue that an ‘inside’ view of transformations (focused on judgment in practice) is needed to complement existing ‘outside’ views (focused on assessment), where the feasibility of action becomes a central concern. This recasts urban transformations in a discretised perspective. It suggests a view of transformation pathways as both directed and stochastic, and emergent from an unfolding series of ‘fuzzy action moments’. Principles for bridging urban science and planning are derived.

Improving Production Performance Through Multi-Plant Cross Learning

The advancement in Web-/Internet-based technologies and applications in manufacturing sector have increased utilization of cyber workspace to enable more efficient and effective ways of doing manufacturing from distributed locations. This work introduces a novel continuous improvement framework to improve the performance of production lines through multi-plant comparison and learning among identical or similar production lines in different locations by leveraging the information stored on factory cloud. In this work, production data from multiple identical production lines are collected and analyzed to learn the “best” feasible action on critical machines, which offers a new way to optimize the management of product lines. Machine learning and system model are used to find the relationships between the performance index and the available data. A real case study based on multiple similar automotive plants is provided to demonstrate the method and the increase of throughput is predicted.

The Application of the Structured Democratic Dialogue to Generate Action Plans for a Successful Integration Process in Swedish-Speaking Ostrobothnia

In a previous study on integrating minority groups in Ostrobothnia in 2019, one of the most influential challenges was that Finland was not including native Finns in the integration process. This finding was made using the structured democratic dialogue (SDD). For the present study, the same participatory methodology was applied, wherein 12 participants from diverse socio-economical, cultural, and educational background who reside in Ostrobothnia were brought together to explore feasible action plans to facilitate the inclusion of Finns in the integration process in the city of Vaasa in this region of Finland. The participants generated 66 action plans categorized under eight clusters. Based on the influence map generated by participants, Action #62 stated that the most influential one was “All projects are inclusive”. Action #55 stated, “Balanced representation of all the people (Finns, minorities and foreigners) in the political parties” and Action #49 stated, “Social-emotional education curriculum” were perceived as having great influence on other actions. Thus, drawing from the results of this SDD Co-Lab, these action plans should be considered priorities in order to successfully include Finns in the integration process. The low number of participants and the narrow representation of some minority groups are limitations of this study.

Making Time for Critique: Canadian ‘Right to Shelter’ Debates in a Chrono-Political Frame

This article engages with Canadian ‘right to shelter’ discourse, with a focus on shared assumptions that do crucial work but are sometimes unstated. It offers a ‘chrono-political’ framework to organize various claims made in the courtroom, in legal academic commentary, and by homeless people themselves. People sleeping outdoors have had noteworthy success in court, preventing immediate bodily peril. However, the ‘emergency’ temporality in those cases ultimately offers a limited politics. The author evaluates proposals from legal academics who therefore prescribe court orders that aim to transcend emergency protection: the state ought proactively to provide some minimal level of shelter to everyone, thereby conjoining the emergency temporality with a longer term ‘progressive’ temporality. However, it is argued that these proposals insufficiently formulate how judges understand their institutional role and the extent to which courtroom doctrine can redirect wider neoliberal trends. Regulative assumptions about ‘gradual improvement’ in the law must themselves be interrogated. As an antipode for the courtroom emergency temporality, a ‘dissensual’ temporality is explored, not as a ‘solution,’ but as an already operant politics, one not previously explored in legal academic commentary on the ‘right to shelter.’ Never to be romanticized, the tent city is nonetheless seen to enact what Jacques Rancière terms ‘dissensus,’ in which participants stage their equality in a way that calls into question the existing arrangement of political intelligibility. Amidst present constraints, dissensus discloses an expansive nonlinear temporality that channels egalitarian predecessors, taking feasible action in the present and attempting to prefigure a more equal future dwelling arrangement.

Following the Leaders? How to Restore Progress in Global Climate Governance

The Paris Agreement is in trouble. Here we assess the potential for climate leaders to bring the global climate regime back on track by developing a strategic understanding of followership. In other words, leaders need to know how to encourage other actors to follow them. We develop a typology of follower types—Enthusiasts, Pliables, Reluctants, and Hard Nuts—distinguished based on motivation and capacity. We identify the scope for a participation cascade based on the distribution of follower types. We argue that achieving a participation cascade may be more likely if leaders appreciate three insights from theories of collective action. First, break down the climate mitigation problem into smaller, more manageable challenges, such as sectoral approaches. Second, prioritize major emitters and areas with high mitigation potential and politically feasible action. Finally, emphasize benefits to potential followers. Together, the strategies can help reduce the number of Hard Nut cases by making the cost/benefit calculus more attractive to prospective followers.

Treatment of Leachate from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills using Low Cost Adsorbent

Treatment of wastewater for their metal contents is gaining importance in these days. Amongst the various methods reported in the literature, metal adsorption potential by low cost adsorbents is found to be techno-economically feasible action. Studies carried out to evaluate adsorption potential of low cost adsorbents Rice husk (RH), Saw dust(SD) and Ground nut shell(GS) under varied experimental conditions viz. adsorbent bed depth, particle size of adsorbent are presented in this paper. The sequential order of removal potential was found to be SD>RH>GS. Inverse relationship with removal efficiency and particle size of adsorbents and linear relationship between removal efficiency and bed of the adsorbent has been recorded.