the purpose of this study was to compare various direct techniques of measuring attitudes toward risk. the equally likely certainty equivalent with a purely hypothetical risky prospect (elce-ph), the equally likely certainty equivalent with a hypothetical but realistic risky prospect (elce-r) and probability of winning demanded (pwd) models were used to elicit the risk attitude of a sample ...

The comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. Also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy Delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. To determine the importance of each aspect of BSC, the proce...

Most of video recording posses the redundant information which does not require to be recorded, actual information to be record is very less as compared to information present in normal video. A differential time-lapse technique allows us to remove the unnecessary data from the normal video, in order to save the time to visualization and storage space. Differential Time Lapse Video is non-perio...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Comprehensive diagnostic criteria encompassing the varied clinical and radiographic manifestations of spontaneous intracranial hypotension are not available. Therefore, we propose a new set of diagnostic criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS The diagnostic criteria are based on results of brain and spine imaging, clinical manifestations, results of lumbar puncture, and respon...

Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concerns.In this paper, we address the carbon footprint basedon problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. These returned products can either be disposed or be remanufactured to be sold as new ones again. Here, we formulate a comprehensive closed-loo...