Five approaches in conflict resolution are distinguished, based on cooperativeness and aggressiveness in resolving conflict. Compromise based on cooperativeness is emphasized here as a solution in conflict resolution. Cooperative game theory oriented towards aiding the conflict resolution is considered and the compromise value for TU(transferable utility)-game is presented. The method VIKOR cou...

The modern manufacturing environment is highly turbulent so as to satisfy the dynamic needs of customers’. To enable the achievement of competitiveness in this complex business environment, newer manufacturing strategies have been introduced for enabling waste elimination and enhancing flexibility and responsiveness of systems. Fit manufacturing is a competitive manufacturing paradigm which inc...

OBJECTIVE Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation is commonly used for upper lumber burst fractures. The direct decompression remains challenging with this minimally invasive surgery. The objective was to evaluate a novel paraspinal erector approach for effective and direct decompression in patients with canal compromise and neurologic deficit. METHOD Patients (n = 21) with neurological deficienc...

This paper reports on a method for protecting statistical databases against inference, developed over the past four years. The method, called randomizing, is conceptually elegant, easy to implement at very small additional cost, and requires no on-going maintenance. It can be equally applied to small and medium-size as well as large databases, because it does not depend on sampling techniques i...

During the image acquisition and communication the image is corrupted by noise. This is a classical problem in the field of signal or image processing. A new compromise threshold method that improves performance is presented, based on the standard compromise threshold method, yet more flexible and easier to treat mathematically. The improved adaptive wavelet compromise method avoids the discont...

We present a method for assimilating total column CH4 : CO2 ratio measurements from satellites for inverse modeling of CH4 and CO2 fluxes using the variational approach. Unlike conventional approaches, in which retrieved CH4 : CO2 are multiplied by model-derived total column CO2 and only the resulting CH4 is assimilated, our method assimilates the ratio of CH4 and CO2 directly and is therefore ...