Soft cluster-rectangle method for eliciting criteria weights in multi-criteria decision-making by Shervin Zakeri, Dimitri Konstantas, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

“…This method distinguishes itself by avoiding pairwise comparisons and adopting a fuzzy approach to address uncertainty. …”
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Brain atrophy in heart failure patients following left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation by D.Alan Herbst, MD, Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, MD, Michael V. Genuardi, MD, Amit Iyengar, MD, Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, PhD, H. Branch Coslett, MD, Pavan Atluri, MD, Christopher G. Favilla, MD

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The packing and covering of the complete graph I: the forests of order five by Y. Roditty

“…The maximum number of pairwise edge disjoint forests of order five in the complete graph Kn, and the minimum number of forests of order five whose union is Kn, are determined.…”
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Higher-order topology for collective motions by Zijie Sun, Tianjiang Hu

“…However, these models usually follow pairwise topology and seldom maintain better responsiveness and persistence simultaneously, particularly in the face of sudden predator-like invasion. …”
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Effects of Comprehensive Noise Reduction Management Combined with Reality Therapy on Anxiety and Depression in Hospitalised Patients with Breast Cancer by Jie Dong, Juan Guo

“…We also noted a difference in the pairwise comparison of SF-36 scores amongst the three groups, in which group C had the highest SF-36 score and group A had the lowest SF-36 score (P < 0.001). …”
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Assessing and visualizing fragility of clinical results with binary outcomes in R using the fragility package. by Lifeng Lin, Haitao Chu

“…In addition to assessing the fragility of individual studies, the fragility index was recently extended to both conventional pairwise meta-analyses and network meta-analyses of multiple treatment comparisons. …”
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THE STABILITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF CULTURE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO ENLIGHTENMENT by L. Filindash

“…Changes in the social relations of pairwise links within a structure are considered in a historical perspective from Antiquity through the Renaissance to the seventeenth century and the Enlightenment.…”
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Vitamin D Intoxication and Nephrocalcinosis in a Young Breastfed Infant by Abdullah Al-Kandari, Hussain Sadeq, Rita Alfattal, Maryam AlRashid, Mayra Alsaeid

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6-Bromo-9,9-diethyl-N,N-diphenylfluoren-2-amine by Themmila Khamrang, A. Kannan, C. Ponraj, Madhukar Hemamalini, G. Jerald Maria Antony, Dhandayutham Saravanan

“…In the crystal, weak pairwise C—H...π interactions link the molecules into inversion dimers.…”
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A Complication of an Endoscopic Pigtail Stent Migration into the Cavity during Deployment as a Treatment for Gastric Leak by Abrar A. AlAtwan, Ali AlJewaied, Talal AlKhadher, Mohannad AlHaddad, Iqbal Siddique

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Analysis of GH1, GHR and PRL gene polymorphisms for estimation of the genetic diversity of Buryat and Altai cattle breeds by I. V. Lazebnaya, A. V. Perchun, B. B. Lhasaranov, O. E. Lazebny, Yu. A. Stolpovskiy

“…The Russian sample of Buryat breed was differentiated from the Mongolian sample based on pairwise G-test and FST values for the PRL-RsaI polymorphism and from the Chinese sample – based on pairwise G-test values for the GH1-AluI polymorphism. …”
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Knowledge hiding and social exchange theory: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zijun Zhang, Yoshi Takahashi, Roksana Binte Rezwan

“…The research results generally support most pairwise relationships between knowledge hiding and its correlates, which were theoretically developed based on SET. …”
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Solutions des exercices s'appuiant sur les propriétés des fonctions by Juozas Šinkūnas, Algimantas Pranas Urbonas

“… Dans cet article on étudie la posibilité de simplifier des solutions des exercices on sâppuiant suries propriétés des fonctions (domaine de définition, pairité, convexité, variation etc.). …”
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SAR Experiments Using a Conformal Antenna Array Radar Demonstrator by Peter Knott, Thomas Bertuch, Helmut Wilden, Olaf Peters, Andreas R. Brenner, Ingo Walterscheid

“…For practical trials the antenna has been adapted for operation with the Phased Array Multifunctional Imaging Radar (PAMIR) system developed at the institute. The antenna in combination with the PAMIR front-end needed to undergo a special calibration procedure for beam forming and imaging post-processing. …”
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How do gridded meteorological datasets perform in a typical data-scarce cryospheric basin? by Ya-Ping Chang, Dong-Hui Shangguan, Yong-Jian Ding, Shi-Qiang Zhang, Qiu-Dong Zhao, Jie Wang

“…., the China meteorological forcing dataset (CMFD), CN05.1, and the meteorological forcing dataset for the third-pole region (TPMFD), were systematically evaluated in the Nachitai Basin based on comparisons with limited gauge observations, pairwise intercomparisons, and hydrological simulations. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials Comparing Robotic, Laparoscopic, and Open Pancreatoduodenectomy by Nejo Joseph, MBChB, Chris Varghese, MBChB, James Lucocq, MBChB, Matthew J. McGuinness, MBChB, Samuel Tingle, MBChB, Giovanni Marchegiani, PhD, Kjetil Soreide, PhD, Mohammed Abu-Hilal, Jas Samra, Marc Besselink, PhD, Steve White, Sanjay Pandanaboyana, FRCS

“…TSA confirmed the robustness of the positive and negative findings on pairwise meta-analysis. In comparison, there were no significant differences between RPD and OPD in pairwise meta-analysis, which could not be confirmed by TSA. …”
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Similarity Measure Learning in Closed-Form Solution for Image Classification by Jing Chen, Yuan Yan Tang, C. L. Philip Chen, Bin Fang, Zhaowei Shang, Yuewei Lin

“…In fact, the distance is the natural measure for dissimilarity. Generally, a pairwise relationship between two objects in learning tasks includes two aspects: similarity and dissimilarity. …”
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