today, on the one hand, the challenge of politicians shows their own distinctive face in order to outpace rivals; and on the other hand, for making an effort to attract maximum participation of people in the election, it has made the political marketing significantly more than ever. in this paper, the research method consists of descriptive-correlative performed by survey, which is intended to ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many consumers have resorted to contactless payment via e-wallet. This study aims look into acceptance of e-wallet applications among Malaysian university students. It investigates relationship between lifestyle compatibility, perceived usefulness, ease use and trust security in terms their intention an as a form payment. Data was collected from 217 respondents Mal...

In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem based on the arithmetic and geometric aggregation operators with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. Then, motivated by the idea of traditional arithmetic operation, we have developed some aggregation operators for aggregating hesitant fuzzy linguistic information: hesitant fuzzy linguistic weighted average (...

In the mid-1950s, concern was increasing about the possible effects from the radioactive fallout resulting from nuclear weapon testing. Various scientists from non-nuclear countries such as Sweden and Canada made their politicians aware of the potential hazards of fallout. This concern went up to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which took the unique step of appointing a scientific c...

at a time when most of medieval Eu rope was burning witches at the stake, one country stood out as a ha ven for free thought and religious toleration. in 1492, as the mass ex pulsion of the Jews from Spain began, the ottoman Sultan Bayazid ii opened the gates of turkey to the refugees fleeing the inquisition. the same tradition moved the secular rulers of postimperial turkey to welcome those es...

Since it was firstly introduced by Torra and Narukawa (The 18th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Jeju Island, Korea, 2009, pp. 1378–1382), the hesitant fuzzy set has attracted more and more attention due to its powerfulness and efficiency in representing uncertainty and vagueness. This paper extends the classical VIKOR (vlsekriterijumska optimizacija i kompromisno resenje in serb...

In many instances, both voters and politicians are imperfectly informed about which policies are optimal. We analyze politicians’ policy choice in such situations. A distinctive element of our analysis is that we investigate how the strategic sophistication of voters’ beliefs about politicians’ behavior affects policy choice. This provides a novel approach in political economy that leads to a n...

For the corporate world, virtual worlds (VWs) are still an unexplored land of opportunities. The fact that some big companies such as IBM and Sun Microsystems have devoted considerable funds and talent to taming the new territory has convinced others to step in. However and by the same token, the spectacular falls of some of these VWs ‘projects’ made other corporations hesitant or at least luke...