On the Issue of Mobilization of Buddhist Theological School Students and Monastics for Military Rear Work during the First World War (1916–1917) (based on Materials from the State... by Bazar D. Tsybenov, Bair Ts. Gomboev

“…Conclusions: despite the petitions of the Buryat Buddhist hierarchy to exempt students of Buddhist theological schools from military rear work, they, together with monastics, numbering 1,600 people, were sent to the regions of Arkhangelsk and Belarus. …”
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Measuring and Ranking the Physical Resilience of Urban Areas Against Earthquakes: A Case Study of the Metropolis of Tabriz by yaser nazaryan, amane haghzad, laila ebrahimi, Kia bozorgmehr

“…To achieve this goal, multi-criteria decision-making methods (MADM) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) have been employed. Additionally, three models—Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), VIKOR, and Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS)—have been utilized to rank the regions in terms of physical resilience. …”
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The Natural Science Underlying Big History by Eric J. Chaisson

“…In particular, energy rate density—contrasting with information content or entropy production—is an objective metric suitable to gauge relative degrees of complexity among a hierarchy of widely assorted systems observed throughout the material Universe. …”
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Spatially Explicit Assessment of Ecosystem Resilience: An Approach to Adapt to Climate Changes by Haiming Yan, Jinyan Zhan, Bing Liu, Wei Huang, Zhihui Li

“…Furthermore, indicator weights were determined with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the coefficient of variation method. …”
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Towards Smart and Resilient City Networks: Assessing the Network Structure and Resilience in Chengdu–Chongqing Smart Urban Agglomeration by Rui Li, Yuhang Wang, Zhiyue Zhang, Yi Lu

“…The main conclusions are as follows: (1) subnetworks exhibit a ‘core/periphery’ structure with a significant evolution trend, particularly the metropolitan area integration degree of capital cities has significantly improved; (2) the technology network is the most resilient but was the most affected by COVID-19, while the population and information networks are the least resilient, resulting from poor hierarchy, disassortativity, and agglomeration; (3) network resilience can be improved through system optimization and node enhancement. …”
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Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making Model for Time-Cost-Risk Trade-Off Optimization in Construction Projects by M. Ammar Alzarrad, Gary P. Moynihan, Muhammad T. Hatamleh, Siyuan Song

“…In this model, an optimization algorithm based on fuzzy logic and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been used to analyze the time-cost-risk trade-off alternatives and select the best one based on selected criteria. …”
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THE GENDER REGIMES AS REFLECTION OF POWER RELATIONS by Eleonora K. Skyba

“…The mechanism of continuous reproduction of gender inequality through the work of gender regimes which legitimate the hierarchy of gender identities is described. Conclusions. …”
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ETHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF THE MAINTENANCE OF COAT COLOR POLYMORPHISM IN THE POPULATION OF THE NORTHERN RED-BACKED VOLE (MYODES RUTILUS) ROUND NOVOSIBIRSK by O. F. Potapova, M. A. Potapov, V. V. Panov, V. I. Evsikov

“…Experimental studies have shown that mature males with the aberrant coloration outperform standard males in such adaptive characteristics as body mass and exploratory activity, rank higher in social hierarchy, have an optimal balance between amicability and aggressiveness, and are more attractive for receptive females. …”
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Hierarchical Structures from Inorganic Nanocrystal Self-Assembly for Photoenergy Utilization by Yun-Pei Zhu, Tie-Zhen Ren, Tian-Yi Ma, Zhong-Yong Yuan

“…Incorporation of structural hierarchy into nanostructures is of great importance as a result of enhancing mass transportation, reducing resistance to diffusion, and high surface areas for adsorption and reaction, and thus much effort has been devoted to the exploration of various novel organizing schemes through which inorganic porous structure with architectural design can be created. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Residential Perceptions and Satisfaction: A Demographic Analysis in Wuhan, China by Mengyao Hong, Hongrui Li, Wei Wei, Jialing Chao, Junnan Xia

“…This study, guided by Maslow’s hierarchy and Homo-urbanicus, categorizes residents’ perceptions into four dimensions: safety, convenience, comfort, and aesthetics. …”
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Mapping Groundwater Vulnerability in Arid Regions: A Comparative Risk Assessment Using Modified DRASTIC Models, Land Use, and Climate Change Factors by Simone A. Williams, Sharon B. Megdal, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, David M. Quanrud, Gary Christopherson

“…Modifications to the traditional DRASTIC model, including the integration of land use and climate factors and the application of AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) to refine variable weighting, significantly enhanced predictive accuracy. …”
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Explaining the geopolitical role of the city by Hasan Kamran Dastjerdi, Marjan Badiee Azandehie, Yashar Zaki, Abbas ahmadi, Narjessadat hossainy nasrabady

“…No urban point in the world can rely on maintaining its traditional role in the urban hierarchy, as other urban areas compete in a network structure with other cities in order to enhance their position on the network and overcome other competitors. …”
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Factors Determining Suitable Landfill Sites for Energy Generation from Municipal Solid Waste: A Case Study of Jabodetabek Area, Indonesia by Muhammad Achirul Nanda, Arif Kurnia Wijayanto, Harry Imantho, Leopold Oscar Nelwan, I Wayan Budiastra, Kudang Boro Seminar

“…The results showed that 3 factors and 14 subfactors were formulated and structured in the MCDA hierarchy, with their information obtained to create pairwise comparisons by 10 involved experts. …”
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Spatial Dynamics and Risk Mapping of Forest Fires in Madhesh Province, Nepal: A Multi-Criteria Decision Approach by Gunjan Adhikari, Khagendra Prasad Joshi, Dristee Chad, Ashish Ghimire, Sandeep Mahara

“…Following the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach, this research investigates topographic, climatic, biophysical, and anthropogenic variables to create a fire risk map. …”
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Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: A Network-Text by Michael Hinds

“…Drawing on Paul Mason’s opposition between hierarchy and network, this essay demonstrates that the poetry book, a traditionally hierarchical object, is reinventing itself as a network in the digital age.…”
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Decision Support Model for Design of High-Performance Concrete Mixtures Using Two-Phase AHP-TOPSIS Approach by Mohd. Ahmed, M. N. Qureshi, Javed Mallick, Mohd. Abul Hasan, Mahmoud Hussain

“…Three methods of concrete mix design, namely, American Concrete Institute (ACI) mix design method, Department of Energy (DOE) method, and Fineness Modulus (FM) method, are considered for ranking mix design methods and the resulting mix factors. Three hierarchy levels, having three criteria and seven subcriteria, and three alternatives are considered. …”
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Evaluation of Emergency Assembly Areas with the AHP Method from the Perspective of Occupational Safety Experts by Onur Doğan

“…In the study, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, one of the Multi-Criteria DecisionMaking Methods (MCDM), was used. …”
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Culture under Complex Perspective: A Classification for Traditional Chinese Cultural Elements Based on NLP and Complex Networks by Lin Qi, Yuwei Wang, Jindong Chen, Mengjie Liao, Jian Zhang

“…The network shows a structure of community and hierarchy features. The top 12 communities have taken up to 91.77% of the scale of the networks. …”
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Layout of the First-Mining Working Face in the Protected Seam for Pressure Relief by Peak Stress Shift by Xiao-Xu Gao, Guo-Jin Chai, Guang-An Zhu

“…Based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) evaluation method, the weights of three groups of contradictory criteria and the weighted values of the peak stress under different values of L were calculated. …”
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Genre et discours métaphoriques sur la traduction by Lori Chamberlain

“…With the agenda of freeing translation studies, the female translator and all creative acts from the yoke of limiting prejudices such as the binarity and hierarchy of the sexes (men/women) of works (original text/derived text) and of creation (calque/belles infidèles), Lori Chamberlain also questions an ultimately primitive, vision of anthropological relationships that are supposed to be based, as colonization was, on lust, greed, lust and violence, and that have long been conveyed in the metaphors of translation built around "the exchange of words, women and goods" (Lévi-Strauss). …”
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