A Decision-Making Approach for Ranking Tertiary Institutions’ Service Quality Using Fuzzy MCDM and Extended HiEdQUAL Model by Olufunke Oladipupo, Taiwo Amoo, Olawande Daramola

“…The importance weight of each performance criterion is found with Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) algorithm. This study has been able to practically establish Ext-HiEdQUAL as a new service quality model for higher education with six concepts and 33 criteria. …”
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A mobile application-based decision support system for routing and decision making problems by Oğuz Bedel, Fehmi Özsoydan, Kutay Çetinkurt, Metehan Bolat

“…The mentioned application adopts a Simulated Annealing Algorithm to find promising routes for the users, while multi-criteria decision-making module uses both Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) based on the choice of the users. …”
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Socio-Economic Requirements as a Fundament of Innovation in Food Packaging by Agnieszka Cholewa-Wójcik, Agnieszka Kawecka, Carlo Ingrao, Valentina Siracusa

“…The main aim of the study was exploring the validity of food packaging requirements concerning the satisfaction of consumer needs. The resulting hierarchy of important needs and requirements represents the foundation for solutions and strategies to improve the quality of a consumer’s life. …”
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Exploring the inequalities experienced by health and care workforce and their bases - A scoping review protocol. by Roomi Aziz, Anuj Kapilashrami, Reza Majdzadeh

“…Scant evidence around the overall role of socioeconomic and cultural factors like gender, race, marital status, citizenship (migrant) status, workplace hierarchy etc. in determining workforce composition, deployment, distribution, retention, un- and underemployment, sub-optimal work environments and other factors in the 'HRH crisis' warrants further exploration. …”
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'Жряху им, наричюще богы' ('They feel themselves the gods'): Sources of the content of ancient Russian pagan sanctuaries and their priests by M.N. Kozlov

“…The main peculiarities of pagan cult in cities have been discovered. The hierarchy of priests has been identified. Special attention has been paid to regular financing of a city sanctuary in the city of Kiev, when Vladimir, the Prince of Kiev, issued the corresponding order in 980.…”
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The relevance of the transition to a circular economy for Ukraine by S. Voitko, A. Vyshnevska

“…The basic principles of the circular economy and the hierarchy of waste management that has been formed in the EU are presented. …”
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The Assessment of the Green Development of the Tobacco Industry Using a Multicriteria Method by Giedrė Lapinskiene, Martynas Blazaitis, Dainora Gedvilaite, Neringa Slavinskaite

“…This article uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods to create a hierarchical structure of the criteria and subcriteria necessary for green business development, establishing the relative weights of these subcriteria to find the areas in which attention and resources are most urgently required. …”
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Medical students’ motivational profile. Sancti Spíritus Medical Sciences University by Eduardo Veloso Pérez, Arturo Puga García, Ariadna Veloso Rodríguez, Liyipsi Abreu Martín, Rosa María Ramos Palmero, Gloria María Puga Madiedo

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out from January to December 2023, at the Sancti Spíritus Medical Sciences University. The Motivational Hierarchy test (Ten Wishes Technique) was used, which was applied between weeks three and four of the 2023 academic year to 99 students selected through clusters and probabilistic sampling.…”
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Examining information needs of public data service users: a study based on the ‘Message Board for Leaders of People’s Daily in China’ by Xiaoyue Zhang, Jinya Liu, Xinyue Wang, Wanteng Ma, Pu Yan

“…This paper further identified the hierarchy of information needs based on public data processing levels. …”
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The Nordic-walking mechanism and its explanation of deconfined pseudocriticality from Wess-Zumino-Witten theory by Bilal Hawashin, Astrid Eichhorn, Lukas Janssen, Michael M. Scherer, Shouryya Ray

“…The Nordic-walking mechanism can thus explain weak first-order transitions, but may also play a role in high-energy physics, where it could solve hierarchy problems. We analyse the Wess-Zumino-Witten field theory pertinent to deconfined quantum critical points with a topological term in 2+1 dimensions. …”
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Organizational culture and turnover intention among primary care providers: a multilevel study in four large cities in China by Mengyao Li, Wenhua Wang, Jinnan Zhang, Ruixue Zhao, Katya Loban, Huiyun Yang, Rebecca Mitchell

“…Organizational culture was measured using the Competing Value Framework model, which is divided into four culture types: group, development, hierarchy, and rational culture. Turnover intention was measured using one item assessing participants’ intention to leave their current position in the following year. …”
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A Campus Landscape Visual Evaluation Method Integrating PixScape and UAV Remote Sensing Images by Lili Song, Moyu Wu

“…Six evaluation factors, including Naturalness (N), Normalized Shannon Diversity Index (S), Contagion (CONTAG), Shannon depth (SD), Depth Line (DL), and Skyline (SL), are selected to evaluate the landscape vision of four viewpoints in the campus based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. The results indicate that the tangent method considers the visual impact of the vertical amplitude and the distance between landscape and viewpoints, which is more in line with the real visual perception of the human eyes. …”
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Assessment of agricultural sustainability performance in Dali Prefecture, China using the DPSIR Model by Yishan Chen, Harison Kiplagat Kipkulei, Zhiqiang Xie, Stefan Sieber

“…It employed a composite weight method combining the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Entropy Weight methods. The assessment showed that all counties except Dali City scored a performance index below 0.5. …”
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Knowledge management in the field of risk management in a corporate environment, Iran’s oil industry by S. M. Daniali, K. F. Mohammadbeigi

“…The results of this study we reahed, using a paired questionnaire that examines all the various factors in the achievements, which are evaluated to determine the effect of training in this process by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and Expert Choice software. …”
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Two-stage rolling optimization operation strategy for microgrid considering BESU state by Gang Zhang, Yichen Li, Tuo Xie, Kaoshe Zhang

“…Finally, in order to solve the optimal compromise decision-making problem, a multi-dimensional evaluation system for the microgrid operation results was constructed, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was used to weight the evaluation system, and simulation experiments were carried out using the actual parameters of the microgrid in a specific area. …”
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A State-of-the-Art Review on Empirical Data Collection for External Governed Pedestrians Complex Movement by Xiaomeng Shi, Zhirui Ye, Nirajan Shiwakoti, Offer Grembek

“…Further, considering the hierarchy of movement complexity, we decomposed the externally governed movements of pedestrian traffic into several unique movement patterns including straight line, turning, egress and ingress, opposing, weaving, merging, diverging, and random flows. …”
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Identification of mathematical model of diesel fuel hydrotreatment process for creation system optimization of group of technological units of oil refinery plant by R. A. Khakimov

“…As an integration system, it is proposed to use the system of optimization of a group of technological installations in accordance with the hierarchy of refinery management systems, discussed in this article. …”
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Optimizing Multimodal Transportation: A Novel Decision-Making Approach With Fuzzy Risk Assessment by R. Muthunandhini, K. Palanivel

“…The SIR method is utilized to rank the alternatives based on their superiority and inferiority, providing a clear hierarchy of options. Finally, TOPSIS is used as an aggregate operator in the SIR method to synthesize the results, offering a comprehensive ranking that accounts for the proximity of each alternative to an ideal solution. …”
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Sources of Legal Regulation of Mergers, Acquisitions, Consolidations, Joint Stock Companies in Russia and Corporations in the United States by S. E. Kuzmin

“…The US case law implies existence of a hierarchy of precedents according to which decisions adopted by the higher courts are binding for cases adjudicated in lower courts. …”
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THE SOCIAL PROTEST «WITH CHINESE PARTICULARITY»: THE SHIFTING VECTOR by V. A. Korsun

“…Contemporary partocracy regime of PRC inherited all the negative characteristics of soviet «nomenclature» such as hierarchy career based on loyalty, bureaucracy privileges, special rations and advantages, nepotism, corruption and so on, but has created specific Chinese system of «soft» succession of power from generation to generation. …”
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