Through quantitative evaluation of the data and information compiled in the literature review and survey, an explicitly defined list of alternatives and decision criteria to evaluate rehabilitation alternatives was developed for culverts 122 centimeter (48 inch) in diameter or smaller. Relative weights of each criterion were assigned in comparison to the defined alternatives, thereby allowing a...

Significant increase in the proportion of elderly and its expected further days to come draw attention policymakers, practitioners, researchers enhance a community’s age-friendliness. Enhancement age-friendliness requires appropriate policy implications recommended by various stakeholders based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) followed Friedman’s rank test. Results showed that ‘safety...

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...

Nonlinear principal components analysis is shown to generate some of the most common criteria for solving the linear independent components analysis problem. These include minimum kurtosis, maximum likelihood and the contrast score functions. In this paper, a topology that can separate the independent sources from a linear mixture by specifically utilizing a Gaussianizing nonlinearity is demons...

The paper is concerned with time-delay linear fractional systems with multiple delays in the state. A formula for the solution of the discussed systems is presented and derived using the Laplace transform. Definitions of relative controllability with and without constraints for linear fractional systems with delays in the state are formulated. Relative controllability, both with and without con...

Today in order to stay in businesses and prosper, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are seeking higher electiveness and competitiveness across the entire cycle of marketing, product design, manufacture, test and sales. SMEs play an increasingly important role in all aspects of competitiveness: both products and production techniques, but also management methods, the organization of the firm a...

due to the importance of “service quality and customerssatisfaction” subject, this study seeks to investigate and prioritize thefactors which are effective on service quality and customers satisfactionusing grey relational analysis (gra) method. in the case of statisticalpopulations with large sizes, none of the other methods can competewith gra from the viewpoint of calculation accuracy. the s...

the purpose of resent research is to analysis and compares performance evaluation models of selected investment companies in tehran stock exchange market in the field of their portfolio management. the duration of research was between years 2009-2014. statistical society the research is consisting of all active investment companies in in tehran stock exchange market which were 30 companies. vol...