Assessment and selection of suppliers are two most important tasks in the purchasing part in supply chain management. Supplier selection can be considered to be a single or multi-objective problem. From another point of view, it can be a single or multi-sourcing problem. In this paper, an integrated AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem. This model makes...

EEGs of extensively screened dyslexics and normal rcadcrs were recorded while they read easy and difficult texts silently and orally, and during two other verbal tasks which also differed in overt spcaking but had m~ reading component: narrative speaking and listening to a story. Mid-temporal, central and parietal leads were referenced to linkcd ears and to ('z. Largc differences bctwecn tasks ...

PURPOSE We evaluated the impact of glaucoma-related vision loss on reading ability and reading engagement in 10 reading activities. METHODS A total of 63 glaucoma patients and 59 glaucoma suspect controls self-rated their level of reading difficulty for 10 reading items, and responses were analyzed using Rasch analysis to determine reading ability. Reading engagement was assessed by asking su...

The eye movements of 14 French dyslexic children having a VA span reduction and 14 normal readers were compared in two tasks of visual search and text reading. The dyslexic participants made a higher number of rightward fixations in reading only. They simultaneously processed the same low number of letters in both tasks whereas normal readers processed far more letters in reading. Importantly, ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the legitimacy of using the criterion of low reading achievement in the study of learning and memory skills in learning disabled children. The subjects were 60 students (35 non-disabled, 15 low reading, and 10 learning disabled) enrolled in grades 10-12 of a northern Colorado high school. A series of 13 tests of learning and memory was administered...

Ten different phonological awareness tasks were administered to a group of kindergarten children whose reading ability was assessed 1 year later. The extraneous cognitive requirements inherent in the tasks varied widely. The children’s performance on three tasks that involved a rhyming response was at ceiling, and these tasks did not correlate with subsequent reading progress. The other seven m...

Although naming speed (NS) has been shown to predict reading into adulthood and differentiate between adult dyslexics and controls, the question remains why NS is related to reading. To address this question, eye movement methodology was combined with three letter NS tasks (the original letter NS task by Denckla & Rudel, Cortex 10:186-202, 1974, and two more developed by Compton, The Journal of...

We compared the reading-related skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders who have hyperlexia (ASD + HPL) with age-matched children with ASD without HPL (ASD - HPL) and with single-word reading-matched typically developing children (TYP). Children with ASD + HPL performed (1) better than did children with ASD - HPL on tasks of single-word reading and pseudoword decoding and (2) equivale...