Clinical Engineering Department in hospitals need to take decision for Health Care Technology assessment which includes purchase, maintenance, use, and replacement. In this paper we proposed a analytical hierarchy processes -group decision making (AHP-GDM) model to prioritize the medical equipment for replacement. The model structure includes 11 quantitative and qualitative factors descending a...

Bottlenecks are critical components of freeway systems and are of increasing importance as congestion worsens in major urban areas. In the U.S., the Federal Highway Administration has launched a new initiative aimed at identifying key bottlenecks in each state. In Oregon, a freeway data archive has been established that stores vehicular count, occupancy, and speed data from over 600 locations a...

Recently, Northeast Asia has become one of the three largest trade areas, covering approximately 30% of the total trade volume of the world. However, the distribution facilities are saturated due to the increase in the transportation volume within the area and with the European countries. In order to accommodate the increase of the transportation volume, the transportation networking with the m...

We apply a novel gene expression network analysis to a cohort of 182 recently reported candidate Epileptic Encephalopathy genes to identify those most likely to be true Epileptic Encephalopathy genes. These candidate genes were identified as having single variants of likely pathogenic significance discovered in a large-scale massively parallel sequencing study. Candidate Epileptic Encephalopath...

Given the large amount of information that we encounter, we often must prioritize what information we attempt to remember. Although critical for everyday functioning, relatively little research has focused on how people prioritize the encoding of information. Recent research has shown that people can and do selectively remember information assigned with higher, relative to lower, importance. Ho...

Software Engineering (SE) is one of the most resourceful building areas rising and creating inside recent decades or somewhere in the vicinity. Still, an exploration work has gone into forming it the way we see it working today. The point of SE is to make programming items, administrations or their ancient rarities with a specific end goal to meet the requirements postured by stakeholders while...

One of the main applications of citation is to find articles that are relevant to a particular article. However, not all citations are equally relevant to the target article. This paper presents an approach to identify the most relevant citation(s). To this end, the Normalized Similarity Index (NSI) is proposed to quantify the similarity between the source and target of a citation base on the c...

Market-driven organizations need to structure, store and prioritize their requirements since they often implement the product in successive releases. Through interviews we have seen that the storage can be implemented as a database or a simple Excel sheet open for new requirements to be entered [1]. However, the prioritization is still difficult to manage in practice. In particular, immature or...

This paper challenges the prevailing view that strict informational lobbying (in the absence of political contributions and evidence distortion) leads to better policy outcomes. Key to our analysis is the fact that policymakers are constrained on the number of issues they can address, which forces them to prioritize issues. We show how interest groups advocating reform on less-important issues ...