Measuring diversity and level of aggregation

Evaluating the Effect of Diversity of Lactobacillus plantarum Strains Isolated from Different on Their Antagonistic, Antioxidant and Aggregation Activities

Background and Objectives: Lactic acid bacteria are usually involved in the preparation of fermented foods and can produce different metabolites according to their strain type. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial, antioxidant and aggregation activities of 10 different strains of Lactobacillus plantarum isolated from native fermented foods including Koozeh cheese, fermented o...

Analyzing patterns of species diversity as departures from random expectations

Insight into the factors that influence patterns of species diversity can be obtained by comparing real patterns to their counterparts derived under a model of randomness or a null model. For example, intraspecific aggregation is very common among a wide variety of protozoan, plant, and animal taxa. Despite this, ecologists do not yet fully appreciate the potential effect of intraspecific aggre...

An input-oriented radial measure for returns to scale aggregation.

In production theory, it is necessary to be capable of predicting the production func- tion’s long-run behaviors. Hereof, returns to scale is a helpful concept. Returns to scale describes the reaction of a production function to the proportionally scaling all its input variables. In this regard, Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a com- prehensive framework for returns to scale evaluation...

Selecting parental materials for hybridization by measuring genetic diversity

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation methodology for decision making with a prioritization of criteria

Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs), a generalization of fuzzy sets, is characterized by an interval-valued membership function, an interval-valued non-membership function.The objective of this paper is to deal with criteria aggregation problems using IVIFSs where there exists a prioritization relationship over the criteria.Based on the ${L}$ukasiewicz triangular norm, we first p...