When the government decides to use public-private partnership (PPP) in projects, such as infrastructure construction, selecting a private-sector partner that meets project's needs is one of key factors for successful implementation, but this ignored existing research. On basis, paper proposes GRA-VIKOR method based on combined weight improved CRITIC-entropy (EWM). The traditional CRITIC by comb...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the multiple attribute decision making problems with intuitionistic fuzzy information, in which the information about attribute weights is incompletely known, and the attribute values take the form of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In order to get the weight vector of the attribute, we establish an optimization model based on the basic ideal of traditional...

We have previously evaluated the beneficial effect of the group reminiscence approach (GRA) in patients with vascular dementia (VaD) in respect of cognitive and observed behavioral parameters [1] . Sixty patients who had been diagnosed with VaD were randomly assigned to three arms: a GRA arm, a social contact (SC) arm, and a control arm. A 1-hour session of GRA and SC was held once a week for 3...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) in the hypertensive population has increased in recent years. Glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism (GRA) is a rare monogenic form of PHA. Here we report a German family with GRA. Since the phenotype of GRA varies widely, we asked whether recommended algorithms for PHA diagnosis distinguish GRA from other forms of PHA. METHODS Pl...

Abstract Accurate identification of fault source causing voltage sag is great significance to the governance and further research sag. In this paper, a method based on improved grey correlation analysis (GRA) proposed. view deficiency that traditional GRA only considers similarity, proposed geometric area slope sequence into calculation coefficient, so has attributes both similarity data closen...

18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid (GRA), a major component of Glycyrrhiza glabra, is widely used therapeutically in clinic. In this study, the effect of GRA on Helicobacter pylori- (H. pylori-) infected gastritis was investigated in Mongolian gerbils in vivo. The gerbils were randomly divided into groups: uninfected; H. pylori-infected; H. pylori + antibiotics (clarithromycin, amoxicillin, and esomeprazo...

The genes for polyketide synthases (PKSs), enzymes that assemble the carbon backbones of many secondary metabolites, often cluster with other secondary pathway genes. We describe here the first lichen PKS cluster likely to be implicated in the biosynthesis of a depside and a depsidone, compounds in a class almost exclusively produced by lichen fungi (mycobionts). With degenerate PCR with primer...