nowadays multicriteria decision making (mcdm) methods are a useful tool for investigating natural resources and toaddress problems related to hydro systems. the goal of this research was to assess the daliri standardization method(dsm) to prioritize and make selections for application to mcdm. and to compare the dsm method with the utilityadditive (uta) method. the (dsm) method, unlike the (uta...

This article considers a new function to propose a new lifetime model. The new model is introduced by utilizing the linear scheme of the two logarithms of cumulative hazard functions. The new model is named as new extended Weibull distribution, and is able to model data with unimodal or modified unimodal shaped failure rates. A brief explanation of the mathematical properties of the proposed mo...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects often lead to disappointing outcomes, even downright failures, which is not in keeping with the vast investments they require. It is argued in this paper that a lack of managerial focus on the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for ERP implementation at the outset of their project (however well captured they have been in the literature to date) is the ro...

The aims of accounting standard setting is substantially different to those of bank regulation. Financial reporting follows as a general purpose to provide information to those outside the firm to support decision usefulness. In contrast to this prudential bank regulation seeks to decrease the frequency and cost of bank failures and to protect the financial system as a whole by limiting the fre...

Emerging patterns (EPs) are associations of features whose frequencies increase significantly from one class to another. They have been proven useful to build powerful classifiers and to help establishing diagnosis. Because of the huge search space, mining and representing EPs is a hard and complex task for large datasets. Thanks to the use of recent results on condensed representations of freq...

In this paper, we present a new class of distributions called New Generalized Lindley Distribution(NGLD). This class of distributions contains several distributions such as gamma, exponential and Lindley as special cases. The hazard function, reverse hazard function, moments and moment generating function and inequality measures are are obtained. Moreover, we discuss the maximum likelihood esti...

PURPOSE This pilot study sought to determine the rate and degree to which gram-negative Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus occurred on the inside of utility gloves used at University of Maine at Augusta, Dental Health Programs' dental hygiene clinic. METHODS Five steam autoclave utility gloves were randomly selected to se...

since the rate of return on different opportunities for investment is random, the optimal distribution of ones capital is put foreward as a stochastic control problem. in this paper, using modem techniques in the theory of random functions and the stochsatic calculus, the problem is discussed for the case when the information possessed by the different investors, as well as their probability be...

One possible conclusion from recent experimental research on decision making under risk is that observed behaviour can be reasonable accommodated by expected utility plus an error term. This conclusion implies that the violation rate of expected utility should decrease if errors are excluded. The present paper presents an experiment which investigates this implication. Indeed, the results show ...