Abstract Background: Misdiagnosis of the acute appendicitis may increase the rate of negative appendectomies, which involve a huge waste of resources and are sometimes associated with severe complications. Furthermore, false negative result of ultrasonography (US) could lead to perforation of appendix. Since ultrasonography is still the most common imaging technique used in Iranian appendiciti...

Ranking is the major problem in variety of applications like information retrieval (IR), Data mining (DM) and natural language processing (NLP). To rank the objects according to their importance multiplicity has also been identified as a important criterion. Manifold Ranking with Sink Points (MRSP) is one of the novel approaches to conquer this problem. This approach uses a manifold ranking pro...

the recent years have witnessed an increasing attention to the methods of multiple attribute decision making in solving the problems of the real world due to their shorter time of calculation and easy application. one of these methods is the ‘permutation method’ which has a strong logic in connection with ranking issues, but when the number of alternatives increases, solving problems through th...

This research investigated whether a university ranking system called Eduroute could provide useful information regarding the usability of universities’ websites. A comparison was conducted between the results obtained by Eduroute regarding the ranking of the top three universities in Jordan, and the results obtained by the heuristic evaluation method regarding the usability of the top three un...

With university rankings gaining both in popularity and influence, university administrators develop strategies to improve their rankings. To better understand this competition for ranking, we present an adjacent category logit model to address the localized nature of ranking competition and include lagged rank as an independent variable to account for stickiness of ranking. Calibrating our mod...

The paper contains a review of the literature in terms of the critical analysis of methodologies of university ranking systems. Furthermore, the initiatives supported by the European Commission (U-Map, U-Multirank) and CHE Ranking are described. Special attention is paid to the tendencies in the development of ranking systems. According to the author, the ranking organizations should abandon th...

University mission determination is involved in higher education outcomes. Although educational goals are a backbone construct for any institution, they seldom addressed, underestimated, and hardly considered calibration university ratings. The purpose of this exploratory study was to scrutinize universities’ strategic missions trace coincidences between them the university’s academic success m...