Supplier selection in food supply chains (FSCs) is not much explored due to the inherent difficulties, complexities and nature of industry. Food security quality are top row topics today’s world health scenario. During sudden crisis, it needs extra attention where producers, suppliers, stakeholders play most vital roles. This paper puts forward a two-phase sustainable multi-tier supplier model ...

Blockchain technologies, which form the basis of Industry 4.0, paved way for cryptocurrencies to emerge as technological innovation in technology age. Recently, investors worldwide have been interested with increasing acceleration due high earning expectations though they no backing and intrinsic value. As such, this paper seeks identify most proper from an investment standpoint our era. Fiftee...

Deciding on an appropriate development strategy is one of the most crucial aspects mining industry’s green transition. This research introduces a novel integrated decision support model that can be applied to analyze various environmental factors and determine strategies. In this study, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis employed from multiple perspectives, including ...

introduction: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection cause by toxoplasma gondii. this parasite is associated with congenital infection and can cause abortion, encephalitis or systemic infection in immune- compromised patients. case presentation in this study, two cases of central nervous system toxoplasmosis in leukemia patients are reported. the first case was a 15-year-old girl with acute lym...

One can use the Leiden Rankings for grouping research universities by considering universities which are not significantly different as a homogeneous set. Such groupings reduce the complexity of the rankings without losing information. We pursue this classification using both statistical significance and effect sizes of differences among 902 universities in 54 countries; we focus on the UK, Ger...

The exchangeability assumption as defined in this paper on ranking functions seems intuitively natural, and indeed, specific ranking functions previously proposed in the literature are all exchangeable. While pointwise ranking functions are vacuously exchangeable, we now discuss two specifically listwise ranking functions previously proposed by [22] and [26] in light of our representation theor...

This paper is a continuation of the study of surprise as a base for constructing qualitative calculi for representing and reasoning about uncertain knowledge. Here, we further elaborate on κ, a qualitative ranking function which we developed in (Ibrahim, Tawfik, and Ngom 2009b) and which constructs qualitative ranks for events by obtaining the order of magnitude abstraction of the degree of sur...

In this paper, we provide an overview of the NTCIR IMine task, which is a core task of NTCIR-11 and also a succeeding work of INTENT@NTCIR-9 and INTENT2@NTCIR-10 tasks. IMine is composed of a subtopic mining (SM) task, a document ranking (DR) task and a TaskMine (TM) pilot task. 21 groups from Canada, China, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Spain, UK and United States registered to the task, whic...