This paper presents general definitions of compensation and noncompensation in M C D M within the framework of Multiattribute Preference Structures. The interest of using a more or less compensatory aggregation procedure is discussed. General aggregation procedures, that allow to mix compensatory and noncompensatory features in a consistent way, are introduced. They receive a complete axiomatic...

This paper presents general definitions of compensation and noncompensation in M C D M within the framework of Multiattribute Preference Structures. The interest of using a more or less compensatory aggregation procedure is discussed. General aggregation procedures, that allow to mix compensatory and noncompensatory features in a consistent way, are introduced. They receive a complete axiomatic...

This article discusses the legal structure of the municipal Health Councils in a Health County in the state of Sao Paulo comprising six municipalities. This descriptive and exploratory study was based on documental research according to federal laws for the creation, organization, structure and routine work of the health councils. Results were presented and discussed in categories. The health c...

BACKGROUND Medicine price information mechanisms provide an essential tool to countries that seek a better understanding of product availability, market prices and price compositions of individual medicines. To be effective and contribute to cost savings, these mechanisms need to consider prices in their particular contexts when comparing between countries. This article discusses in what ways m...

Semiconductor alloy nanowires with spatially graded compositions (and bandgaps) provide a new material platform for many new multifunctional optoelectronic devices, such as broadly tunable lasers, multispectral photodetectors, broad-band light emitting diodes (LEDs) and high-efficiency solar cells. In this review, we will summarize the recent progress on composition graded semiconductor alloy n...