Spatial predictions of soil moisture content in arid lands are necessary for soil survey, land evaluation, hydrological modeling, land use planning and sustainable land use. Multiple-linear regression models with land use and terrain indices were developed to spatially predict soil moisture using six methods. The performance of six models was evaluated using 13 indices based on biweekly-measure...

Multivariate Process Capability Indices (MPCI) show how well a manufacturing process can meet specifica-tion limits when quality characteristics enclose a relative correlation. Process capability is an important and commonly used metric for assessing and improving the quality of a production process. When quality charac-teristics of a product are correlated then an attractive comes close to MPC...

This article presents a new fuzzy multiple criteria decision making model for the evaluation of airline competitiveness over a period. The evaluation problem is formulated as a fuzzy multiple criteria decision making problem and solved by our strength-weakness based approach. For finding out the strength and weakness of an airline over another airline, we present a preference function based on ...

objective: to determine the effects of triage education based on emergency severity index (esi) on promoting the knowledge and performance of nurses and qualitative indices of emergency department. methods: this study was a quasi-interventional study being performed in vali asr hospital of fasa university of medical sciences during 2012. for this purpose, 50 members of staff including nurses an...