Opioids by the numbers

Prioritizing the Factors Affecting the Abuse of Pharmaceutical Opioids by Applying Topsis

Human societies have witnessed the phenomenon of ever-increasing use of pharmaceutical opioids for a long time. Moreover, cultural, social, and economic aspects in any community have undergone the negative effects of the growing tendency toward opioids addiction. Since abusing pharmaceutical opioids is a serious problem, it is important to recognize and prioritize the factors influencing this a...

THE IDENTIFICATION OF EFFICIENCY BY USING FUZZY NUMBERS

In original Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models for measuring the relative efficiencies of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) using various inputs to produce various outputs are limited to crisp data. To deal with imprecise data, the notion of fuzziness has been introduced. this paper develops a procedure to measure the efficiencies of DMUs with fuzzy observations. The basic idea is to tr...

Extend a ranking method of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to all fuzzy numbers by a weighting functions

Recently Abbasbandy and Hajjari (Computers and Mathematics with Applications57 (2009) 413-419) have introduced a ranking method for the trapezoidalfuzzy numbers. This paper extends theirs method to all fuzzy numbers,which uses from a defuzzication of fuzzy numbers and a general weightingfunction. Extended method is interesting for ranking all fuzzy numbers, and itcan be applied for solving and ...

Parents by the Numbers

Membranes by the Numbers

The Quantitative Membrane Landscape The pace at which biology is advancing is staggering. Just as there was a short 50 year gap between the invention of manned flight by the Wright Brothers and the beginning of the space age, in the little more than a half century since the discovery of the structure of DNA and its interpretation through the genetic code, the life sciences have entered their ow...