Measuring consistency of preferences is very important in decision-making. This paper addresses this key issue for interval-valued reciprocal preference relations. Existing studies implement one of two different measures: the “classical” consistency measure, and the “boundary” consistency measure. The classical consistency degree of an interval-valued reciprocal preference relation is determine...

OBJECTIVES To assess the role of multidetector computed tomography (CT) and CT virtual sinoscopy in the evaluation of chronic sphenoid sinusitis and to compare the imaging findings with functional endoscopic sinus surgery. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS Thirty patients with chronic sphenoid sinusitis referred for preoperative CT. INTERVENTION...

Maternal protein restriction (MPR) during pregnancy is associated with increased cardiovascular risk in the offspring in adulthood. In this study we evaluated the cardiac function of young male rats born from mothers subjected to MPR during pregnancy, focusing on the myocardial mechanics and calcium-handling proteins. After weaning, rats received normal diet until 3 mo old, when the following p...

To reflect the initiative design and initiative of human security management and safety warning, ecological safety assessment is of great value. In the comprehensive evaluation of regional ecological security with the participation of experts, the expert's individual judgment level, ability and the consistency of the expert's overall opinion will have a very important influence on the evaluatio...

The aim of this work is to study an essential property in the framework of fuzzy preference structures, which is the transitivity. In particular, we discuss the relationship between the transitivity of a fuzzy large preference relation R and the transitivity of the fuzzy strict preference relation P obtained from R when every pair of elements can be compared. We consider some of the most import...

Mannose 6-phosphate receptor proteins mediate transport of lysosomal enzymes to lysosomes in eukaryotes. Two receptors designated as MPR 300 and MPR 46 based on their apparent molecular mass have been well studied from human and bovine liver. In humans, it has been shown that the receptors are present in different concentrations in different tissues. In the present study, MPR 300 and MPR 46 wer...

For actual decision making problems, decision makers sometimes may have difficulty to provide all the preference information over alternatives through pairwise comparisons. In this paper, we focus on estimating missing elements for an incomplete uncertain 2-tuple linguistic preference relation. First, the additive consistency of an uncertain 2-tuple linguistic preference relation is defined. Ba...

Multiple immunolabeling of cryosections was performed to compare the subcellular distributions of the two mannose 6-phosphate receptors (MPRs) involved in the intracellular targeting of lysosomal enzymes: the cation-dependent (CD) and cation-independent (CI) MPR. In two cell types, the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 and BHK cells double transfected with cDNA's encoding for the human CD-MPR and ...

OLSR is a recent routing protocol for multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks standardized by the IETF. It uses the concept of Multi-Point Relays (MPR) to minimize the overhead of routing messages and limit the harmful effects of broadcast in such networks. In this report, we are interested in the performance evaluation of Multi-Point Relays selection. We analyze the mean number of selected MPR in t...