Over the last 10 years, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has become an essential subfield of research in GIScience (Malczewski 2006a), and might be considered to improve some domains in real world (e.g. business strategies and national planning). Some theories, such as OWA (Malczewski 2006b), AHP (Saaty 2008) or fuzzy quantifier (Malczewski 2006b), were introduced and applied in order to ...

BACKGROUND Systematic and transparent approaches to priority setting are needed, particularly in low-resource settings, to produce decisions that are sound and acceptable to stakeholders. The EVIDEM framework brings together Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) by proposing a comprehensive set of decision criteria together with standardized processes to...

Shigella spp., the etiological agent of shigellosis or "bacillary dysentery," are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of a million deaths globally per year. Although PCR-based techniques (such as PCR-based dipstick biosensors) have been used for the molecular diagnosis of infectious disease, these assays were restricted due to the need for a sophisticated thermal cycl...

BACKGROUND There is increasing appreciation of the proportion of the health burden that is attributed to modifiable population exposure to environmental health hazards. To manage this avoidable burden in the United Kingdom (UK), government policies and interventions are implemented. In practice, this procedure is interdisciplinary in action and multi-dimensional in context. Here, we demonstrate...

When it comes to decision making in the field of environmental policy, there is still a lack of useful decision aid methods. This paper intends to show how multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) as an useful decision aid method could help to reduce inefficiencies in macro-related environmentaleconomic-social decision making. MCDA methods differ from conventional methods as they are taking into...

GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) provides a rich collection of techniques and procedures for landslide susceptibility mapping. In this study landslide susceptibility was evaluated by applying different analytical GIS techniques based on Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) criteria. The OWA-MCDA is complemented by a Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and a Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST)...

One is not required to be a mechanical engineer to drive a car and, considering the advanced state of mechanical engineering, most people limit their interest in what lies “under the hood” to finding a competent mechanic. Users of evaluation, risk, and decision analysis tools that are based on classical decision theory should be aware that, as is demonstrated below, classical MCDA (multi-criter...

Introduction: Monochorionic twin pregnancies come with substantially higher complications compared to their dichorionic counterparts, which include intrauterine fetal death, fetal loss prior to 24 weeks, selective intrauterine growth restriction and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Objectives: This work aims to examine the inter-twin discrepancy in nuchal translucency thickness (NT), c...