Multiple criteria supplier selection: A fuzzy approach
A company must purchase a lot of diverse components and raw materials from different upstream suppliers to manufacture or assemble its products. However, it is not only a very complicated and...
View ArticleApplication of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and artificial neural...
Determining optimum level of inventory is very important for any organisation which depends on various factors. In this research, six main factors have been considered as input parameters and the...
View ArticleA comparative analysis of power demand forecasting with artificial...
Power demand forecasting is a significant factor in the planning and economic and secure operation of modern power system. This research work has compared different forecasting techniques and opted to...
View ArticleThe statistical recommendations of the American Psychological Association...
Estimation based on effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis usually provides a more informative analysis of empirical results than does statistical significance testing, which has long...
View ArticleDevelopment of a CNC interpolation scheme for CNC controller based on...
The parametric interpolators of modern CNC machines use Taylor's series approximation to generate successive parameter values for the calculation of x, y, z coordinates of tool positions. In order to...
View ArticleEliciting expert knowledge in conservation science
Expert knowledge is used widely in the science and practice of conservation because of the complexity of problems, relative lack of data, and the imminent nature of many conservation decisions. Expert...
View ArticleEvaluating the accuracy and calibration of expert predictions under...
Aim Expert knowledge routinely informs ecological research and decision-making. Its reliability is often questioned, but is rarely subject to empirical testing and validation. We investigate the...
View ArticleFive Years of Declining Annual Consumption of Grid-Supplied Electricity in...
For decades, consumption of grid-supplied electricity increased in line with a growing economy. In the five years since 2009, however, annual consumption in eastern Australia declined by 7 percent,...
View ArticleChanges in the prevalence and nature of violent crime by youth in Victoria,...
Contemporary Australian crime statistics reveal an overall increasing trend in juvenile assault and other violent offence categories; these statistics have coincided with concerns within the Australian...
View ArticleDisability at the periphery: Legal theory, disability and criminal law
This special issue of the Griffith Law Review is dedicated to an examination of the relationships and intersections between disability, criminal law and legal theory. Despite the centrality of...
View ArticleClarifying the characteristics of youth who have engaged in appetitive violence
Appetitive violence is a form of proactive violence; its purpose is to generate or maintain a positive emotional state and, possibly, to strengthen social bonds. Portrayals of an increasing frequency...
View ArticleClathrate directed assembly of tetrapyridyl-tetraphenylethylene metal-organic...
This work focuses on three 2-D MOFs based on the ligand tetrapyridyltetraphenylethylene (tppe) with the metal ions manganese(II), nickel(II) and copper(II). These networks are all highly microporous...
View ArticleNote on the physical basis of the Kutta condition in unsteady two-dimensional...
Force generation in avian and aquatic species is of considerable interest for possible engineering applications. The aim of this work is to highlight the theoretical and physical foundations of a new...
View ArticleDeterminants of gang affiliation in Singaporean youth offenders: Social and...
Purpose - Gang affiliation in youth is associated with increased criminal recidivism and an exaggeration of various criminogenic needs; affiliation also meets a variety of youth's personal and social...
View ArticleA standardised tool for assessing needs in forensic psychiatric population:...
Abstract BACKGROUND: The Camberwell Assessment of Need - Forensic Version (CANFOR) is a standardised assessment tool specifically designed to assess needs for care in forensic psychiatric populations....
View ArticleModeling reflection loss from an evacuated tube inside a compound parabolic...
Linear compound parabolic concentrators with cylindrical receivers are often combined with evacuated tubes along their focal length to suppress convective heat loss for use as thermal collectors. When...
View ArticleEfficient, decentralized detection of qualitative spatial events in a dynamic...
This paper describes an efficient, decentralized algorithm to monitor qualitative spatial events in a dynamic scalar field. The events of interest involve changes to the critical points (i.e., peak,...
View ArticleColored noise induced bistable switch in the genetic toggle switch systems
Noise can induce various dynamical behaviors in nonlinear systems. White noise perturbed systems have been extensively investigated during the last decades. In gene networks, experimentally observed...
View ArticleEfficacy of acupuncture in the management of atopic dermatitis: A systematic...
Summary Atopic dermatitis (AD) has a high negative impact on quality of life. Acupuncture has antipruritic actions and may assist in treatment of AD; however, the current state of evidence for this...
View ArticleEnterovirus D68 disease and molecular epidemiology in Australia
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Background: Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has received considerable recent attention as a cause of widespread respiratory illness. Neurological syndromes such as acute flaccid paralysis...
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