Nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: Metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. These nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. With attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

introduction: the scholarship domains based on boyer’s definition includes discovery, teaching and learning, application, integration and engagement, but it is a main question that which criteria must a scholarship activities have? in this research, the characteristics of scholarship activities have been studied using a qualitative approach based on higher education experts’ viewpoints from fou...

We discuss how to aggregate multiple criteria evaluations belonging to qualitative, linearly ordered scales. Qualitative aggregation operations such as min or max can be refined by discrimin and leximin orderings, in agreement with the Pareto ordering of vector evaluations. Further refinements of discrimin orderings, as well as the generalization of discrimin and lexirnin to functions other tha...

The paper proposed a linguistic PROMETHEE approach for making investment portfolio decision. First, we both consider quantitative and qualitative information of each stock and use 2-tuple linguistic value for experts to express their opinions to obtain qualitative information with respect to all evaluation criteria. Then, the transformation method of 2-tuple linguistic variable is applied to ag...

The interest and accomplishments in qualitative research have been increasing in health. As a consequence, there is a greater demand for both institutional research programs and scientific journal publications. This article has the following purposes: (a) to present some definitions in qualitative methods used in Humanities and Health; (b) to compare them to the usual quantitative methods of he...

Any capacity (i.e., an increasing set function) has been proved to be a lower possibility measure and an upper necessity measure. Similarly, it is shown that any anti-capacity (i.e., a decreasing set function) can be viewed both as an upper guaranteed possibility measure and as a lower weak necessity measure. These results are the basis for establishing that qualitative integrals (including Sug...

This paper describes the use of syntactical data fusion to computing possibilistic qualitative decisions. More precisely qualitative possibilistic decisions can be viewed as a data fusion problem of two particular possibility distributions (or possibilistic knowledge bases): the first one representing the beliefs of an agent and the second one representing the qualitative utility. The proposed ...

this study investigated criteria and themes required for constructing an objective and communicative psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the theory of translation proposed by pacte. qualitative para- digm was employed in relation to the translation tasks and the number of participants (no.11). feedback through semi-structured interview was obtained to find the descriptors in designing the psy...

DEX is a qualitative multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method, aimed at supporting decision makers in evaluating and choosing decision alternatives. We present results of a preliminary study in which we experimentally assessed the performance of two wellknown MCDA methods UTA and ACUTA to approximate qualitative DEX utility functions with piecewise-linear marginal utility functions. This ...