In evidence-based medicine, meta-analysis is an important statistical technique for combining the findings from independent clinical trials which have attempted to answer similar questions about treatment’s clinical effectiveness [1]. Normally, such meta-analyses are pair-wise treatment comparisons, which only include the comparisons between two treatments, e.g. treatment A and placebo. When ad...

In this study, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to select the best method for the preparation of Nateglinide (NTG)loaded nanoparticles. There are various techniques available for the development of nanoparticles like Nanoprecipitation or Solvent displacement, Ionic gelation, Solvent evaporation method etc. and choosing the best method is a crucial one. AHP is one of the widely us...

Bipartite ranking is a fundamental ranking problem that learns to order relevant instances ahead of irrelevant ones. One major approach for bipartite ranking, called the pair-wise approach, tackles an equivalent binary classification problem of whether one instance out of a pair of instances should be ranked higher than the other. Nevertheless, the number of instance pairs constructed from the ...

The usual procedure to compare metaheuristics or evolutionary algorithms using cross validation is repeating the training stage several times for each train/test pair. In general, the results of the different repetitions are not independent and this practice is questionable. In this work, it is suggested to represent the results of each train/test set pair by an interval or by a fuzzy set and u...

There is a lack of certified reference materials with an organic matrix for which metal isotope ratios have been certified. Here, we determined the iron, copper and zinc stable isotopic compositions six biological origin diverse matrices, i.e. BCR-380R (whole milk), BCR-383 (beans), ERM-CE464 (tuna fish), SRM-1577c (bovine liver), DORM-4 (fish protein) TORT-3 (lobster hepatopancreas) in three d...

we de ne approximate xed point in fuzzy norm spaces and prove the existence theorems, we also consider approximate pair constructive map- ping and show its relation with approximate fuzzy xed point.

understanding genetic structure and status of genetic variation of fasciola hepatica isolates from different hosts, has important implications on epidemiology and effective control of fasciolosis. random amplified polymorphic dna (rapd-pcr) was used to study the genetic variation of f. hepatica in sheep and cattle. dna was extracted from adult helminthes removed from livers of each infected ani...

In this paper, we consider the problem of bus selection for public transportation using a hybrid multicriteria decision making approach. The problem includes several conflicting factors which are economic, social, and technological factors. The integrated approach brings the flexibility of fuzzy AHP and simplicity of fuzzy VIKOR methodology together. To demonstrate the applicability of the meth...

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a useful method in multi-criteria decision making problems. Crisp comparison matrices produce crisp weight estimates. It is logical for an interval or fuzzy comparison matrix to give an interval or fuzzy weight estimate. In this paper, a new method is proposed to generate interval weight estimate from an interval comparison matrix, which can be either consist...