A Combination of Extended Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy GRA for Government E-Tendering in Hybrid Fuzzy Environment by Yan Wang, Chengyu Xi, Shuai Zhang, Dejian Yu, Wenyu Zhang, Yong Li

“…This paper firstly investigates the potentiality of employing fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) along with fuzzy gray relational analysis (GRA) for optimal selection of candidate tenderers in GeT process with consideration of a hybrid fuzzy environment with incomplete weight information. …”
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Research of Simulation in Character Animation Based on Physics Engine by Yang Yu, Jucheng Yang, Xiaofei Zan, Jiangang Huang, Xiangbo Zhang

“…At the same time, it analyzed ODE, PhysX, Bullet, and other variety of mainstream physics engines and studied OBB hierarchy bounding box tree, AABB hierarchical tree, and other collision detection algorithms. …”
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Assessment of land suitability and crop water requirements for irrigated sugarcane in the Kuraz Irrigation Scheme, Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia by Mesfin Mamo Haile, Ayansa Teshome Gelalcha

“…A combination of geographic information system (GIS) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) tools was used to classify land suitability and support decision-making by considering factors such as soil pH, texture, temperature, rainfall, land use-land cover, and slope. …”
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Embracing natural hair by Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani

“…This study’s focus is how social hierarchies of appearance are contested online and overflow to offline spaces to affirm physical features of a race long-marginalised in social understandings of beauty. …”
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Construction on training course and training quality evaluation index system of chronic disease medication therapy management service (MTMs) in China: A Delphi study. by Wenting Cai, Yao Yao, Wenpu Lei, Huixin Li, Simin Yan, Qiuhui Wu, Jian Wang, Weihong Ge, Jinping Zhang

“…Indicator weights were determined by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).<h4>Results</h4>Both rounds of expert inquiry achieved a positive degree of 100% (18/18 experts). …”
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Conflicts-law constitutionalism in the EMU: how much unity can European diversity sustain? by Anna Peychev

“…This worldview institutes a strict legal hierarchy that establishes monetary supremacy over the economic realm. …”
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Prebiotic Geochemical Automata at the Intersection of Radiolytic Chemistry, Physical Complexity, and Systems Biology by Zachary R. Adam, Albert C. Fahrenbach, Betul Kacar, Masashi Aono

“…The lowermost object level of this hierarchy is the cell, but it is unclear whether the organizational attributes of living systems extended backward through prebiotic stages of chemical evolution. …”
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“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” by Édouard Marsoin

“…A true epistemology of touch in Melville is therefore to be found in the reconfiguration of seeing as touching—what I call a process of becoming-synesthetic, which is revelatory of what literature can feel like—rather than in a mere reversal of the hierarchy between the two senses. Ultimately, this essay highlights the importance of synesthesia in the singular dynamics of literary discourse and its impact on our ways of reading.…”
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Cortical direction selectivity increases from the input to the output layers of visual cortex. by Weifeng Dai, Tian Wang, Yang Li, Yi Yang, Yange Zhang, Yujie Wu, Tingting Zhou, Hongbo Yu, Liang Li, Yizheng Wang, Gang Wang, Dajun Xing

“…Recent studies have suggested that direction selectivity is re-established at multiple stages throughout the visual hierarchy, which contradicts the traditional assumption that direction selectivity in later stages largely derives from that in earlier stages. …”
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Identification of a Multicriteria Decision-Making Model Using the Characteristic Objects Method by Andrzej Piegat, Wojciech Sałabun

“…Rank-reversal is a paradoxical feature in the decision-making methods, which is caused by determining the absolute evaluations of considered alternatives on the basis of the alternatives themselves. In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and similar methods, when a new alternative is added to the original alternative set, the evaluation base and the resulting evaluations of all objects change. …”
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Groundnut Production and Marketing Constraint as Perceived by the Farmers of Wanaparthy District Telangana by Gottemukkula Bhavani, D. T. Koghare

“…To rank the various constraints, the study utilized Garrett’s ranking technique, a statistical tool designed to provide a clear hierarchy of constraints based on their perceived severity. …”
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Consumer Practices at the Junction of the Digital Era and COVID 19 in Ali Mendjeli New Town, Constantine, Algeria by Boudechiche Yasmine, Bouchareb Abdelouahab

“…In this study, we projected the consumption practices and behaviours of inhabitants of Ali Mendjeli new town during the crisis of COVID-19 on Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs. The results constitute evidence that this theory has been proven in reality. …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…It describes the structure of the urban network and the hierarchy of urban settlements in the 17th century, captures the original traces of war damage, and suggests the possibility of following the trends of early modern urbanisation in the territory of the former Bechyňsko region in a long wave from the end of the Thirty Years’ War to the beginning of industrialisation and the new “industrial” urbanisation in the 19th century. …”
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Development of a Territorial Planning Model of Wind and Photovoltaic Energy Plants for Self-Consumption as a Low Carbon Strategy by Francisco Santana-Sarmiento, Sergio Velázquez-Medina

“…The methodology employed was based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and geographical information systems (GIS), and the general area considered was the island of Gran Canaria (Spain). …”
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The optimization model for allocating reward to employees using GAHP and cluster analysis by Mehdi Ajalli

“…The main goal of the current research is to design a suitable model for allocating rewards to employees by using the combined approach of the Group Analytical Hierarchy Process (GAHP) and CA. The research method is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of data collection. …”
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Formative evaluation of the regional development planning policies: A study on the consistency of the regional development planning in Kebumen regency by Alizar Isna, Soesilo Zauhar, Bambang Supriyono, Hermawan Hermawan

“…The results of the study show: (1) Regional development planning policies, which regulate the process and stages of the preparation of regional long-term development plans/RPJPD, regional medium-term development plans/RPJMD, and regional development work plans/RKPD were developed in the process of preparing the three regional development planning documents of Kebumen Regency to meet local needs; (2) The process of preparing the 2005–2025 RPJPD, 2006–2010 RPJM, 2010–2015 RPJMD, and 2006 to 2014 RKPD uses a technocratic approach that emphasizes the importance of multi-sector data (3) Factors that affect the process of preparing and documenting regional development planning documents are compliance in the hierarchy of multi-sector existing data administration, the development of regulations for the implementation of regional development planning policies, the existence of existing multi-sector planning data documents national, provincial, and regional development documents related to development planning, as well as the use of technocratic approaches; (4) The 2010–2015 RPJMD is inconsistent with the 2010–2015 RPJPD. …”
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Uncertainty Analysis of Method-Based Operating Event Groups Ranking by Zdenko Šimić, Benoit Zerger, Reni Banov

“…The OE ranking method is developed to select the most important events based on the basic event parameters and the analytical hierarchy process applied at the level of event groups. …”
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Presentation and analysis of the Geotechnical Coastal Vulnerability Index and validation of its application to coastal erosion problems by Vasileios Boumpoulis, Nikolaos Depountis, Athanassios Dimas, George Papatheodorou

“…Furthermore, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were applied in the methodology to assign weight factors to each variable. …”
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Functionality of a Technical University Teacher: Targets by D. P. Danilaev, N. N. Malivanov

“…The paper reveals the strategic tasks hierarchy of higher technical education – for technical universities, departments and their teachers; the academic community attitude review to strategic objectives is carried out (including: how the strategic objectives are understood by teachers, how priorities and emphasis are placed in these tasks); the priorities of technical universities teachers are evaluated in terms of their tasks solving; restrictions are indicated in solving these problems, and these restrictions connection with the working conditions of the technical universities teaching staff. …”
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The Dilemmas of Solidarity of Civic Activists: Supporting Displaced Ukrainians in a Non‐Solidarian Regime by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt

“…Solidarians have strived to find spaces of action in an authoritarian regime that normalizes policy rationales of deservingness and social hierarchy in contrast to equality and inclusion‐based diversity. …”
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