Bankruptcy in the same amount of time and history is very rampant and therefore the vision of the future can be prevented. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and malmquist index can precise evaluating of the performances of many different kinds of decision making units (DMU) such as hospitals, universities, business firms, etc. In this paper, we will modify directional distance formulation o...

Correlation in space between seasonality of malaria and seasonality of rainfall was studied in Sri Lanka. A simple seasonality index was developed by making use of the bimodal seasonality of both malaria and rainfall. The malaria seasonality index was regressed against the rainfall seasonality index taking spatial autocorrelation into account. Despite the presence of spatial autocorrelation, th...

This article describes the development, application, and validation of a scoring index for assessment of clinical signs in cats with flea allergy dermatitis (FAD). The Scoring Index for Clinical Signs of FAD was based on the evaluation and scoring of five signs over five anatomic areas, which is similar to the psoriasis area and severity index (PASI), a commonly used scoring method in human der...

delay in implementation and delivery of projects of general contractors working in oil, gas and petrochemical projects, together with their law profits, are the main reasons for writing this paper. it has been tried in t6he article to present an actual and applied method of decision making to determine strategic goals, strategic planning and its relation with the standards of project management...

conclusions: marital age, and socioeconomic status had a direct association, and hopefulness and marital satisfaction had an indirect one with iranian women’s decision for timing motherhood. therefore, this is the responsibility of policy-makers and healthcare providers to advise women by providing appropriate interventions and facilities. results: the results revealed that among direct pathway...

We analyze the use of the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator in the selection of human resources in sport management. We use different business decision-making techniques for doing so. We consider the use of the Hamming distance, the adequacy coefficient and the index of maximum and minimum level. That is, we use the OWA distance (OWAD), the OWA adequacy coefficient (OWAAC) and the OWA i...

The technological cooperation activities among enterprises, universities and research institutes are considered be necessary for accessing complementary technological resources and improving the technology innovation capability. One of the important approaches to cooperation is constructing cooperation innovation alliance. But cooperation innovation alliances are risky. How to choose the right ...

For the performance evaluation of coal enterprises energy conservation and reduction of pollutant emission, a new attitude index group decision-making method is proposed based on trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Under the condition in which the information of attributes weights and decision maker weights is entirely, the attitude index is introduced firstly. By solving the fuzzy object programming fo...

A Supply Chain Synergy Measurement Model is put forward on the foundation of relational capital and interactive learning after going through present literatures related to Synergy Measurement. The order degree of subsystems is calculated, synergetic degree of the whole system obtained thereby. The index system for operability is established based on the aforesaid model, considering the characte...

For the common problems existed in regional development and planning, we try to design a decision support system for assisting regional agricultural development and alignment as a decision-making tool for local government and decision maker. The analysis methods of forecast, comparative advantage, liner programming and statistical analysis are adopted. According to comparative advantage theory,...