Selection of cotton fibers in terms their quality value has created a domain emerging interest among the researchers. In this study, newly developed Best-Worst Method (BWM) was integrated with Revised Analytic Hierarchy Process (RAHP) to rank fiber lots on basis six apposite properties namely bundle tenacity, elongation, micronaire, upper half mean length, uniformity index, and short index. Ran...

Cloud computing technology has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, and there are now many cloud service providers (CSPs). This makes CSP selection a challenging process for users. Further complications arise when users modify the priorities of their requirements. Moreover, concerns such as complex computation, inconsistencies, rank reversal have been raised current approaches, resultin...

two hundred and forty patients, who had undergone vasectomy from 1977 to 1985 and subsequent vasovasostomy ,were studied for the presence of sperm-specific antibodies by using the kibrick's gelatin agglutination test. the number of successful pregnancies and the presence of agglutination were also considered in this survey. sixty-nine pregnancies occurred in total and agglutination was present ...

fresh frozen plasma (ffp) and prothrombin complex concentrate (pcc) reverse oral anticoagulants such as warfarin. we compared the standard dosage ffp and pcc in terms of efficacy and safety for patients with mechanical heart valves undergoing interventional procedures while receiving warfarin. fifty patients were randomized (25 for each group) with mechanical heart valves [international normali...

performing treatment, as demonstrated in clinical trials, or based on variation of health-related costs (both acute and follow-up for one year). These rankings were used to compute centroid weights. An additive model was used to combine treatment performance with centroid weights to estimate the overall value of each OAC. Probabilistic and structural sensitivity analyses were conducted. Results...

We present a new theory of decision under uncertainty: third-generation prospect theory (PT). This retains the predictive power of previous versions of prospect theory, but extends that theory by allowing reference points to be uncertain while decision weights are specified in a rank-dependent way. We show that PT preferences respect a state-conditional form of stochastic dominance. The theory ...

In this paper, we propose three new tensor decompositions for even-order tensors corresponding respectively to the rank-one decompositions of some unfolded matrices. Consequently such new decompositions lead to three new notions of (even-order) tensor ranks, to be called the M-rank, the symmetric M-rank, and the strongly symmetric M-rank in this paper. We discuss the bounds between these new te...

Gender is presumed to be one of the factors causing interindividual variability in the brain's electrophysiological parameters. Our aim was to characterize the role of gender in visual evoked potentials (VEPs), event-related potentials (ERPs), visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) and the spectral characteristics of the EEG. We examined 42 healthy volunteers (21 women and 21 men, aged 20-29 years)....