PURPOSE To test the efficacy of meaning-centered group psychotherapy (MCGP) to reduce psychological distress and improve spiritual well-being in patients with advanced or terminal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with advanced cancer (N = 253) were randomly assigned to manualized eight-session interventions of either MCGP or supportive group psychotherapy (SGP). Patients were assessed be...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.06.041 ⇑ Tel.: +886 920884730. E-mail address: [email protected] Goal programming (GP) has been, and still is, the most widely used technique for solving multiple-criteria decision problems and multiple-objective decision problems by finding a set of satisfying solutions. However, the major limitation of goal progr...

OBJECTIVES An increasingly important concern for clinicians who care for patients at the end of life is their spiritual well-being and sense of meaning and purpose in life. In response to the need for short-term interventions to address spiritual well-being, we developed Meaning Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) to help patients with advanced cancer sustain or enhance a sense of meaning, peac...

BACKGROUND Meaning-focused coping may be at the core of adequate adjustment to life after cancer. Cancer survivors who experience their life as meaningful are better adjusted, have better quality of life and psychological functioning. Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Cancer Survivors (MCGP-CS) was designed to help patients to sustain or enhance a sense of meaning and purpose in their li...

Internet of things (IoT) will create new opportunities to build applications that better integrate real-time state of the industry. With Web services accomplishing similar function proliferated, industrial enterprises have to choose appropriate Web services according Quality of Service (QoS) properties. It introduces the problem of QoS-oriented service composition (QSC). This study formulates t...

Supplier selection decision is an important issue of purchasing management in supply chain management involving multiple objectives; however, it is difficult to solve because objectives are often conflicting in nature. This study integrates multi-choice goal programming (MCGP) and fuzzy approaches as decision aids to help decision makers to choose better suppliers by considering multiple aspira...

Abstract Objective To describe the feasibility of a meaning-centered group psychotherapy (MCGP) adaptation in sample Portuguese cancer patients. Method The study was carried out according to four steps: 1st — Transcultural and validation ( focus groups); 2nd Preliminary with MCGP original version (to test its feasibility); 3rd Adaptation 4-session (and internal pilot study); 4th Pilot explorato...

The Airport ground handling services (AGHS) equipment supplier provider selection requires a safety guarantee in terms of the daily operations AGHS provider. providers seek to avoid aircraft damage and airline delays ensure provision reliable high-quality services. primary objective this paper was develop purchasing decision model analytic hierarchy process (AHP), AHP-fuzzy linear programming (...

Abstract. Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs) characterized by a membership function and a non-membership function with values that are intervals, have strong ability to handle imprecise and ambiguous information in real-world applications. This paper proposes an integrated maximizing consistency and multi-choice goal programming (MCGP) approach to handle hybrid multi-criteria...

The master equality polyhedron (MEP) is a canonical set that generalizes the Master Cyclic Group Polyhedron (MCGP) of Gomory. We recently characterized a nontrivial polar for the MEP, i.e., a polyhedron T such that an inequality defines a nontrivial facet of the MEP if and only if its coefficient vector forms a vertex of T . In this paper we study the MEP when it is defined by m > 1 rows. We de...