Making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. The continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

to study molecular evolutionary characteristics and genetics of beet necrotic yellow vein virus (bnyvv) isolates population from iran, nucleotide sequences of p25 and coat protein (cp) were determined and the amino acids sequences thus deduced were analyzed using phylogenetic and population genetics methods. a survey of bnyvv in iran indicated the infection of 288 collected samples out of 392 s...

Nowadays, the plant location selection has a critical impact on the performance of numerous companies. In this paper, a methodology is presented to solve this problem. The three decision making methods, namely Delphi, AHP and improved VIKOR, are hybridized in order to make the best use of information available based on the decision makers or experts. In this respect, the aim of using Delphi is ...

The decision on the location of a straw-based power generation plant has a great influence on the plant’s operation and performance. This study explores traditional theories for site selection. Using integer programming, the study optimizes the economic and carbon emission outcomes of straw-based power generation as two objectives, with the supply and demand of straw as constraints. It provides...

A supervised feature selection algorithm was applied to determine the most important features contributing to wheat grain yield. Four hundreds seventy two fields (as records) from different parts of Iran which were different in 21 characteristics (features) were selected for feature selection analysis. Selection of the wide range of features, including location, genotype, irrigation regime, fer...

A suitable location plays an important role in the competitiveness of a plant inthe market and should be selected such that it allows access to strategic advantagescompared with other competitors. The aim of the current study was identificationoptimized location of fluting paper plant from agricultural residues in Mazandaranprovince using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). After performing...

purpose: the traditional view regards limb selection in reaching a hemispheric specialization and an permanent biological phenomenon. however, recent studies have questioned this idea. instead, they suggest that the task conditions is also an effective factor. the present study includes two experiments in right and left handed children examining the effect of object location as a task condition...

As an alternative for sustainable transportation and economic development, biofuels are being promoted as renewable climate-friendly resources of energy which can help to reduce the consumption fossil fuels, some pollutant emissions mitigate climate change impact from transport. With successful development biofuel industry, location selection production plant is one major concerns governments p...