BACKGROUND Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are described in the literature and which radiological criteria are used to establish inclusion criteria in clinical studies evaluating different treatments in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. METHODS A lite...

Aim. To analyze the existing methods for solving multi-criteria optimization problems with quantitative factors and consider expediency of their application in pharmaceutical technological research. Materials methods. The theoretical empirical methods, as well scientific data on were used Results discussion. It has been found that when conducting research statistical processing results experime...

the survival of rural communities depends on appropriate investments and creation of viable and sustainable job opportunities. rural entrepreneurship is a driving engine of job creation and economic growth in rural communities. when we speak of rural business success or longevity, it seems important to determine how rural entrepreneurs define success. for the past decades, profit, growth and in...

Environmental protection criteria in the decision making process on the choice of a drainage system at a construction site in the city of Basel are presented here. A comparative quantitative evaluation between two drainage systems was possible focusing on the definition of equivalence criteria for aquifer protection and on the design of measures which guarantee the same safety level with respec...

selecting an appropriate manufacturing machine is a very important and complex problem for firms, which usually have to deal with both qualitative and quantitative criteria. taking into account the differences among machines in terms of cost, speed, quality and after sale services, type and number of machines are important parameters to consider. therefore, the goal of this paper is to propose ...