Purpose In this research, extracting the innovation drivers of successful crowdfunding from literature review, screening them for entrepreneurial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), analysing cause-and-effect relationship amongst presenting a basic causal conceptual model eventually determining importance/weight each relevant driver were primary purposes research. As result, authors hav...

OBJECTIVES This study mainly integrates the mature Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and recently developed Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit model to identify factors that affect the hospital decision in adopting Hospital Information System (HIS). METHODS Accordingly, a hybrid Multi-Criteria-Decision-Making (MCDM) model is used to address the dependence relationships ...

OBJECTIVE In heart failure atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) release in response to volume expansion is impaired while the renin-angiotensin system is activated. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that ANP release in heart failure is dependent on an activated angiotensin system. METHODS We studied the ANP and renin-angiotensin systems in a rat model of shunt-induced high-output hea...

The invention and use of mobile commerce (m-commerce) technology have progressed tremendously in recent years. In small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the decision of business-to-business (b2b) mcommerce is a multi-criterion decision analysis problem which involves both qualitative and quantitative factors, and its evaluation may be based on imprecise information or uncertain data. Further...

The task of site selection for electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) is hugely important from the perspective of harmonious and sustainable development. However, flaws and inadequacies in the currently used multi-criteria decision making methods could result in inaccurate and irrational decision results. First of all, the uncertainty of the information cannot be described integrally in the ...