BACKGROUND Women considering breast reconstruction must make challenging trade-offs amongst issues that often conflict. It may be useful to quantify possible outcomes using a single summary measure to aid a breast cancer patient in choosing a form of breast reconstruction. METHODS In this study, we used multiattribute utility theory to combine multiple objectives to yield a summary value usin...

In this paper, we define the concept of incomplete hesitant fuzzy preference relations to deal with the cases where the decision makers express their judgments by using hesitant fuzzy preference relations with incomplete information, and investigate the consistency of the incomplete hesitant fuzzypreference relations and obtain the reliable priority weights. We first establish a goal programmin...

In this article, we introduce the induced ordered weighted geometric (IOWG) operator and its properties. This is a more general type of OWG operator, which is based on the induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operator. We provide some IOWG operators to aggregate multiplicative preference relations in group decision-making (GDM) problems. In particular, we present the importance IOWG (I-IOW...

Abstract: This paper studies the multiple attribute group decision making problems, in which the decision makers (DMs) have multiplicative preference information on alternatives. We first make the decision information uniform by using a transformation formula and introduce some linear deviation elements, and then establish a constrained optimization model. Based the model, an approach is develo...

We perform a case study on the evolution of current sheet in different regions around dipolarization front (DF), including magnetic-dip preceding DF, at and magnetic pileup region (MPR) behind DF based magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) observation July 31, 2017. In this event, MMS1 stays inside during whole bursty bulk flow (BBF) interval. Our analysis reveals that cross-tail is rolled up, signif...

Recycling of 46,000 Mr mannose 6-phosphate receptor (MPR 46) was investigated by microinjection of Fab fragments against small epitopes within the cytoplasmic domain of the receptor. Fab fragments against the peptide 43-47 (Ala-Tyr-Arg-Gly-Val) efticiently blocked return of MPR 46 to the TGN. Antibody-induced redistribution resulted in accumulation of MPR 46 within an endosomal compartment, fro...

We present a new method, called UTA, for multiple criteria ranking of alternatives from set A using a set of additive value functions which result from an ordinal regression. The preference information provided by the decision maker is a set of pairwise comparisons on a subset of alternatives A A, called reference alternatives. The preference model built via ordinal regression is the set of all...