The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation organizations have proposed nine templates of global priorities over the past decade. Here, we review the concepts, methods, results, impacts, and challenges of these prioritizations of conservation practice within th...

Prioritizing Health Problems: The allocation of limited resources for health care should be based on the relative importance (or “burden”) of different conditions to the health of the nation. However, the traditional methods of prioritizing health problems by the numbers of deaths caused by a disorder or by the prevalence of a disorder have important limitations. The numbers of deaths do not ta...

The proliferation of Android devices brings the fragmentation problem. Selecting and prioritizing major device models are critical for mobile app developers to select testbeds and optimize various issues such as quality-assurance, release planning, revenues, and so on. PRADA, an approach proposed in our previous work, was designed to help prioritizing Android devices for apps. In this paper, we...

IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard does not specify algorithm for selecting operating channel from backup channel list and prioritizing the backup and candidate channels. Because all the channels in the backup and candidate channels list are not with the same properties, selecting channels randomly from the list may decrease the networks performance. We propose an approach of ranking channel according t...

this paper studies the role of the conceptual models of the policy makers in the quality of prioritizing problems in the agenda setting stage of public policy cycle.  several factors contribute to perceiving problems, presenting clear definitions of them, prioritizing them and then problem setting in the format of agenda for policy makers. however, expecting to examine the theories of enactment...