Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) to solve complicated decisions often includes uncertainty, which could be tackled by utilizing the fuzzy sets theory. Type-2 fuzzy sets consider more uncertainty than type-1 fuzzy sets. These fuzzy sets provide more degrees of freedom to illustrate the uncertainty and fuzziness in real-world production projects. In this paper, a new multi-criteria ana...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of educational program based on the basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model on eye care among patients with insulin independent diabetes mellitus in shiraz city, fars province, iran. methods: we enrolled 100 patients with non-insulin independent diabetes mellitus (type ii) fulfilling the inclusion ...

For all the three methods studied in this paper, UniFrac, weighted UniFrac (W-UniFrac) and variance adjusted weighted UniFrac (VAW-UniFrac), a phylogenetic tree of the sequences from the communities is needed. Many different tree construction methods are available including maximum parsimony, distance based methods such as neighbor-joining, and maximum likelihood trees. A natural question is ho...

risk response planning is one of the main phases in the project risk management and has major impacts on the success of a large-scale project. since projects are unique, and risks are dynamic through the life of the projects, it is necessary to formulate responses of the important risks. the conventional approaches tend to be less effective in dealing with the impreciseness of risk response pl...

forest types mapping, is one of the most necessary elements in the forest management and silviculture treatments. traditional methods such as field surveys are almost time-consuming and cost-intensive. improvements in remote sensing data sources and classification –estimation methods are preparing new opportunities for obtaining more accurate forest biophysical attributes maps. this research co...