As is seen further below, these narrow corridors or 'bottlenecks' made the herders particularly sensitive to development of any infrastructure placement crossing or targeting such elevated terrain in the otherwise flat wet tundra.
The results of sensitivity analysis demonstrated that biomass-ethanol conversion rate was the most influential factor to ethanol production costs while the optimal biomass supply chain infrastructure was sensitive to changes in biomass yield, raw biomass transportation cost, and logistics loss rate.
As the performance of these large infrastructure systems is sensitive to uncertain climatic parameters, it becomes difficult to "lock-in" a particular capital intensive and rigid infrastructure system as the best solution to tackle climate change.
As a result, MCC transport infrastructure projects are sensitive to cost variability.
Organic rich soils are frequently encountered beneath infrastructure components that are sensitive to dynamic loading, such as bridges in earthquake prone regions.
It is demonstrated that, while currently available infrastructure composites are particularly sensitive to the effects of elevated temperatures, appropriately designed FRP-wrapped reinforced concrete columns are capable of achieving satisfactory fire endurances.
When abroad they may have mixed motives, and some sectors defence and strategic infrastructure, for instance—are too sensitive to allow them in.
This indicator is particularly useful for the purpose of our study, since it is sensitive to changes in both land-use and transport infrastructure.
Developing countries are more sensitive to climate change, as they have poor public health infrastructure and more vulnerable populations [ 3].
As the main ingredient in steel, iron ore is sensitive to any slowdown in larger economies and in particular to cutbacks in infrastructure projects.
They depend on gains in productivity resulting from relatively intensive infrastructure and management inputs, and their net returns are sensitive to cost increases.
