zagros forests are a treasure of various valuable species of oak in iran and the world. long-term misuse in the past has caused severe degradation in the zagros forests. recently these forests have become national but misuses by local people to make living because of poverty and unemployment are continued. in order to reduce degradation and improve sustainability, ecological capability for exte...

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is major method for decision making, and inner dependence AHP is used for cases in which criteria or/and alternatives are not independent enough. Using the original AHP or inner dependence AHP may cause results that cannot have enough reliability because of the inconsistency of the comparison matrix. In such cases, fuzzy representation for weighting criteria or/...

Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is being used in the Sediment and Society project as a tool for communicating impacts, as a tool for documenting differences in interests of stakeholder groups, and as a tool for ranking complex sediment remediation alternatives. Ranking of alternatives in MCA requires impacts to be (i) standardised, and then (ii) weighted against one another. This Technical Brief ...

Membrane technologies for the separation of mixtures have gained an extensive worldwide attraction in the modern industrialized world. They have many industrial and medical applications such as water desalination, wastewater reclamation, gas separation, food and medical applications. However, even though all these applications have their own efficiency and market, the selection of priority appl...

One of the key challenges in software testing today is prioritizing and evaluating test cases. The decision of which test cases to design, select and execute first is of great importance, in particular considering that this needs to be done within tight resource constraints on time and budget. In practice, prioritized selection of test cases requires the evaluation of different test case criter...