This study presents a method based on active preference learning to overcome the challenges of designing reward functions for autonomous navigation. Results obtained from training with artificially designed reward functions may not accurately reflect...
Acetylcholine, which is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, is widely known to have conformers. The preference of each conformer to undergo neutral hydrolysis is yet to be considered. In this study, we employed density-functional calculations...
Retail companies operating in Lithuania are very important for the national economy. Domestic consumption has remained one of the most important drivers of Lithuania’s economic development. The objective of this article is to investigate the customer...
Looking at decisiveness as crucial, we discuss the existence of an order-preserving function for the nontotal crisp preference relation naturally associated to a nontotal fuzzy preference relation. We further present conditions for the existence of a...
Opuntia ficus-indica is a source of minerals and vitamins and has recently been used as ingredient to make a new functional variety of pasta. Italy was the first country in the world to produce pasta and is also the second largest producer of Opuntia...
This study aims to offer a new estimate of the hedonic price function of residential areas in Japanese metropolitan areas, focusing on the reasons for residential preferences. More specifically, it introduces two new explanatory variables—‘regional v...
This paper investigated Vietnamese consumers’ preferences for functional milk powder products to determine if there were differences in market segments. A Qualtrics survey and a 1000minds choice-based conjoint survey were completed by 272 parti...
As the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) rapidly increases, the expansion of charging infrastructure has become a critical issue. Unlike internal combustion engine vehicles, EV charging is sensitive to factors such as the time and location for char...
The duodenal-jejunal bypass liner (Endobarrier) is an endoscopic treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). It creates exclusion of the proximal small intestine similar to that after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery. The object...
The use of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems allows for the improvement of an organization’s operations. Companies use many Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that also include SCM functionalities. As a result, the selection of the...
Currently, there are no published studies that have used the concurrent operant preference assessment procedure to identify functions of challenging behaviors displayed by individuals with comorbid diagnoses. Four participants (aged 11–16 years) with...
Goal programming (GP) is a powerful method to solve multi-objective programming problems. In GP the preferential weights are incorporated in different ways into the achievement function. The problem becomes more complicated if the preferences are imp...
Alcohol addiction is regarded as a series of dynamic changes to neural circuitries. A comparison of the global network during different stages of alcohol addiction could provide an efficient way to understand the neurobiological basis of addiction. T...
Precision orchard management is an important avenue of investigation in agricultural technology and is an urgently needed part of information development in the fruit industry. Precision management based on a precision agricultural technology system...
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the function of the home, shifting it from a private residence to a multifunctional hub for work, education, and daily life. In Saudi Arabia, where homes are traditionally rooted in communal hospitality, this global eve...
3 April 2018
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set provides an effective tool to represent uncertain decision information. However, the semantics corresponding to the linguistic terms in it cannot accurately reflect the decision-makers’ subjective cognition. In gene...
Dung beetles use excrement for feeding and reproductive purposes. Although they use a range of dung types, there have been several reports of dung beetles showing a preference for certain feces. However, exactly what determines dung preference in dun...
Fuzzy goal programming (FGP) is applied to solve fuzzy multi-objective optimization problems. In FGP, the weights are associated with fuzzy goals for the preference among them. However, the hierarchy within the fuzzy goals depends on several uncertai...
The preference ranking organization method for enrichment of evaluations (PROMETHEE) method considers a significant outranking class of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), as it is easy to deal with its simple computations. In the PROMETHEE, dif...
Improving energy efficiency in buildings is a major priority and challenge worldwide. The employed measures vary in nature, and the decision analyst, who is typically the architect, the engineer, or the building expert that has undertaken the task to...
21 September 2020
The present study aims to evaluate the relationship in women between a history of physical/sexual abuse and the preferences regarding the choice of a partner for a short/long-term relationship in terms of male facial dimorphism, and to assess their s...
The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is arguably the most popular and factual approach for computing the weights of attributes in the multi-attribute decision-making environment. The Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment of Evaluati...
Architectural planning often involves balancing multiple and potentially conflicting objectives, such as safety, economy, functionality, and aesthetics. However, conventional benchmarking approaches typically focus on single performance dimensions an...
The potential contribution of nutritionally fortified foods to the improvement of public health has been recognized internationally; however, the extent of people’s preferences for functional foods and the influence of information intervention...
The process of evaluating and ranking alternatives, including the aggregation of various qualitative and quantitative criteria and weights of criteria, can be recognized as a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In fuzzy MCDM probl...
This paper reflects the results of research analyzing models of multi-attribute decision-making based on fuzzy preference relations. Questions of constructing the corresponding multi-attribute models to deal with quantitative information concomitantl...
Determining the degree of preferred growth of low-dimensional materials is of practical importance for the improvement of the synthesis methods and applications of low-dimensional materials. In this work, three different methods are used to analyze t...
Larvae of Episyrphus balteatus De Geer (Diptera: Syrphidae) are important natural enemies of common agricultural pests such as aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae). This well-known aphidophagous flower fly is used as a biological control agent. The predator...
Traditional rice varieties (TRVs), shaped by generations of adaptation to local soils and climates, are often seen as less competitive than modern rice varieties (MRVs) due to lower yields. As a result, the spread of MRVs has contributed to a global...
Autonomous ground vehicle navigation in dynamic real-world environments demands path planning systems that simultaneously accommodate real-time environmental hazards and diverse user-defined objectives requirements that classical algorithms, with the...
Azapeptides have gained much attention due to their ability to enhance the stability and bioavailability of peptide drugs. Their structural preferences, essential to understanding their function and potential application in the peptide drug design, r...
Eupeodes corollae Fabricius, one of the most common predatory natural enemies of agricultural ecosystems, plays an important role in aphid control, but its ability to prey on and control leguminous plant aphids has not been systematically studied. Ou...
At present, personalized diets, which take into account consumer genetic characteristics, are growing popular. Nutrigenetics studies the effect of gene variations on metabolism and nutrigenomics, which branches off further and investigates how nutrie...
Differential reinforcement of compliance (DRC) and functional communication training (FCT) are two effective treatments for escape-maintained behavior. They each, however, have unique limitations. This study aimed to replicate and extend past work by...
At present, it is unclear how ergonomic factors of underwear affect men’s work, lifestyle, physiology and psychology, and whether the demand factors of some special groups will affect the development of underwear. This study analyzed the underw...
Research on a growing number of vertebrate species has shown that the left and right sides of the brain process information in different ways and that lateralized brain function is expressed in both specific and broad aspects of behaviour. This paper...
Within traditional design processes, decisions are often made based on individualistic values and late-stage assessments conducted on a predefined set of design alternatives potentially leading to suboptimal design decisions and conflicts. The issues...
8 November 2021
Background: The gastrointestinal symptom score (GIS) is used in a standardized form to ascertain dyspeptic symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia in clinical practice. As a criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment, the change...
This feasibility study investigates the relationship between functional food consumption and mental well-being, focusing on natural foods traditionally linked to mental health benefits. This research also examines consumer preferences to identify key...
Megalurothrips usitatus (Bagnall) is one of the most important pests harming alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) in Ningxia. In the field, Orius strigicollis (Poppius) is abundant. It has a high search efficiency and consumption rate of prey on a wide range...
Greek yogurt, a traditional food with roots in Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and Central Asia, has become a dietary staple worldwide due to its creamy texture, distinct flavor, and rich nutritional profile. The contemporary emphasis on health and well...
Gait speed declines with age and slower walking speeds are associated with poor health outcomes. Understanding why we do not walk faster as we age, despite being able to, has implications for rehabilitation. Changes in regional oxygenated haemoglobin...
(1) Background: This research aims to determine the main factors that influence: (i) purchase decisions for flour and bakery products, (ii) consumer preferences, attitudes, and consumption frequency of those products, and (iii) the degree of knowledg...
Greedy search (GS) or exhaustive search plays a crucial role in decision trees and their various extensions. We introduce an alternative splitting method called smooth sigmoid surrogate (SSS) in which the indicator threshold function used in GS is ap...
The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is a globally invasive pest causing severe economic losses in tomato production. We evaluated the predatory stink bug Arma custos (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) using fu...
The fragmentation of continuous habitats has significant consequences for species and for the functional diversity of plant and animal communities. Fragmentation effects can be indirect, can occur at different spatial scales and may vary over years....
Functional food consumption is shown to have a positive effect on anthropometric parameters and human health promotion. In addition, consumers seem to be more interested in food choices, that may have a positive effect on their health. The current st...
Understanding predator–prey and predator–predator interactions is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of biocontrol agents and developing efficient pest management strategies. This study investigates the effects of prey species, pr...
Background: This paper aims to characterize the absence of arbitrage in the context of the Arbitrage Theory proposed by Kreps (1981) and Clark (2000) which involves a certain number of well-known financial markets. More specifically, the framework of...
Exploitation of hydropower potential in alpine areas undermines the ecological integrity of rivers. Damming and water abstraction substantially alter the physical habitat template of rivers, with strong repercussions on aquatic communities and their...
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