peri-urban area development process decreases agricultural land use because of significant trend of city sprawl. in the agricultural sector, goals for sustainability generally include maintenance or enhancement of the natural environment, meeting of human needs for food, economic viability, and social welfare. as agriculture has enormous environmental impacts on peri-urban regions, it is necess...

The Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (ANP) is generally used for solving multicriteria decision making (MCDM) problems by considering the pairwise comparison between criteria/sub-criteria, and inner/outer dependencies among criteria. Linguistic expressions are used for experts’ judgements, and these judgements are imprecise and vague. Hence, incorporating fuzziness with multi-criteria decision ma...

Color Calibration Device is a key component for the performance of Medical Display Monitor (MDM). MDMs have been extensively used in hospitals in the past decades. The technological requirements of MDMs are higher than those of general purpose display monitors, but the gross profit margins of MDMS are larger as well. The purpose of this research is to build a hybrid multiple criteria decision m...

Environmental problems and the principles of sustainable development in projects and planning processes have become increasingly important over the last years. In this sense, the feasibility studies should involve not only the technical elements and the social-economic aspects but also the factors related to the interferences of the operation with the environmental components. This means that s...

INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury (AKI) following cardiovascular surgery is a common disease process and is associated with both morbidity and mortality. The aim of our study was to evaluate the cardiovascular and renal effects of an atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP, carperitide) and a B-type (or brain) natriuretic peptide (BNP, nesiritide) for preventing and treating AKI in cardiovascular surger...

When the cost of raw materials or component parts dominates the product cost, supplier selection becomes a crucial process for the company to maintain the cost while holding the quality of the products. At the same time, it is likely that the supplier offers bundling products, strategy to get more orders from the company. In this situation, purchasing manager requires decision-making tool which...

Global energy shortages continue in the post-epidemic era. As clean primary energy, LNG plays an important role structure adjustment. However, with widespread use of LNG, storage tank leaks occur frequently. In order to highlight risk status critical areas leakage, “Five-high” system for industry, high-risk locations, equipment, processes, personnel, and substances as first-level elements, was ...

The social relationships between development agencies, non-governmental organizations, private companies, and other groups working on development projects play an important role in the overall success of projects. However, traditional project selection and prioritization processes ignore the organizational relationships. This paper proposes to integrate social network analysis into multi-criter...