Many ranking methods have been proposed so far. However, there is yet no method that can always give a satisfactory solution to every situation; some are counterintuitive, not discriminating; some use only the local information of fuzzy values; some produce different ranking for the same situation. For overcoming the above problems, we propose a new method for ranking fuzzy quantities based on ...

Recent developments in urbanization and e-commerce have pushed businesses to deploy efficient systems decrease their supply chain cost. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is one of the most widely used strategies effectively manage chains with multiple parties. VMI implementation asks for solving Routing Problem (IRP). This study considers a multi-product multi-period inventory routing problem, inc...

Yersinia enterocolitica mutant strains, including mutants deficient in the chaperone SycH resulting in a functional deficiency in tyrosine phosphatase (YopH), Mn-cofactored superoxide dismutase (SodA), iron-repressive protein 1 (IRP-1), and Yersinia adhesin A (YadA), were demonstrated to be highly attenuated in wild-type C57BL/6 mice. TNFRp55(-/-), IL-12p40(-/-), and IL-18(-/-) mutant mice, in ...

Ribbon-containing neurons represent a subset of neural cells that undergo graded membrane depolarizations rather than Na(+)-channel evoked action potentials. Bipolar cells of the retina are one type of ribbon-containing neuron and extensive research has demonstrated kinetically distinct pools of vesicles that are released and replenished in a calcium-dependent manner. In this study, we look at ...

In addition to rods and cones, the human retina contains light-sensitive ganglion cells that express melanopsin, a photopigment with signal transduction mechanisms similar to that of invertebrate rhabdomeric photopigments (IRP). Like fly rhodopsins, melanopsin acts as a dual-state photosensitive flip-flop in which light drives both phototransduction responses and chromophore photoregeneration t...

First, they categorized 37 patients with hypotensive (weak) peristalsis with high integrated relaxation pressure (IRP) as having variant achalasia. However, in the recent Chicago Classification system, high IRP with some instances of intact or weak peristalsis such that the criteria of achalasia are not fulfiled are defined as esophagogastric junction (EGJ) outflow obstruction (2). Thus, in thi...

A simile is a figure of speech comparing two fundamentally different things. Sometimes, a simile will explain the basis of a comparison by explicitly mentioning a shared property. For example, “my room is as cold as Antarctica” gives “cold” as the property shared by the room and Antarctica. But most similes do not give an explicit property (e.g., “my room feels like Antarctica”) leaving the rea...

supplier evaluation and selection is complex which caused by the dynamic and fuzzy environment. current mcdm methods do not consider the nature of the environment that can affect the process of evaluation and ranking. the aim of this study is to propose a dynamic fuzzy hybrid mcdm method for evaluation, ranking and selection. the proposed method employs fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) f...