Due to substantial differences between studies, the understanding of avian taste perception remains incomplete. Also, studies on chicken taste preferences have mainly focused on measuring consumption differences, neglecting consumption behaviour patt...
A significant majority of the literature on natural environments and urban green spaces justifies the preferences that people have for natural environments using four predictors defined by Kaplan’s preference matrix theory, namely coherence, le...
The present study investigates the preference index of natural fibers such as sisal, coir, and rice straw fibers in stone matrix asphalt mixtures (SMA), using waste marble as filler. Waste marble was used as the filler in asphalt mixtures and was cru...
This article provides an overview of research efforts with an emphasis on the fabrication of metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) reinforced by graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs). Particular attention is devoted to finding the challenges in the production...
Under the background of the “dual carbon” targets and continuously promoted power system reform, the application of a high proportion of renewable energy is becoming increasingly widespread. All sectors of society have greater demands for...
Network science is a powerful tool for understanding the complex interactions between individuals and is widely used to study the spread of infectious diseases. Men who have sex with men (MSM) have a high risk of HIV transmission, and sex-role prefer...
The graded management of structured sensitive data has become a key challenge in data security governance, particularly amid digital transformation in sectors such as government, finance, and healthcare. The existing methods suffer from limited gener...
The technological development in the devices and services provided via the Internet and the availability of modern devices and their advanced applications, for most people, have led to an increase in the expansion and a trend towards electronic comme...
The fog radio access network (F-RAN) equipped with enhanced remote radio heads (eRRHs), which can pre-store some requested files in the edge cache and support mobile edge computing (MEC). To guarantee the quality-of-service (QoS) and energy efficienc...
The paper is focused on searching for novel methods aimed at improving the performance and usability of a common decision-making process where a panel of experts are assisted by specialized software systems. An equivalent exchange method (EEM) is con...
An increasing number of countries have started to decriminalize or legalize the consumption of cannabis for recreational and medical purposes. The active ingredients in cannabis, termed cannabinoids, affect multiple functions in the human body, inclu...
This perspective paper explores the future potential of “conversational intelligence” by examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be combined with GRAPHYP’s network system to better understand human conversations and prefere...
In this paper, bound choices are made after summarizing a finite number of alternatives. This means that each choice is always the barycenter of masses distributed over a finite set of alternatives. More than two marginal goods at a time are not hand...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for adaptive public health strategies and effective decision-making tools to optimize clinical responses and policy measures based on regional contexts. This study aims to identify key...
We consider the problem of evaluating preferences for criteria used by university students when selecting a hotel for accommodation during a professional development program in a foreign country. Input data for analysis come from a survey of 202 resp...
A novel utility model of the daily electricity consumption patterns of any residential unit is proposed. The model is semi-parametric—its internal parameters are tractable to straightforward interpretations from the standpoints of microeconomic...
Aggregation functions are extensively used in decision making processes to combine available information. Arithmetic mean and weighted mean are some of the most used ones. In order to use a weighted mean, we need to define its weights. The Analytical...
In order to predict and recommend what users want, users’ information is required, and more information is required to improve the performance of the recommender system. As IoT devices and smartphones have made it possible to know the user&rsqu...
We investigate the magnetic fabrics and microstructures of diamagnetic rocksalt samples from the Sedom salt wall (diapir), Dead Sea Basin, as possible strain markers. A comprehensive study of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), combined with...
There are multiple types of services in the Internet of Things, and existing access control methods do not consider situations wherein the same types of services have multiple access options. In order to ensure the QoS quality of user access and real...
The adoption of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) to measure the green development, social responsibility, and public interest of companies is a commonly accepted theme and approach in the industry and academia at present. As ESG assessment...
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Food environments (the interfaces between consumers and the broader food system) shape dietary change and associated health outcomes. Characteristics of food environments (e.g., availability, accessibility, affordability, convenience, desirability) c...
Wallboard outsourcing is a critical task in cloud-based manufacturing, where demand enterprises seek suitable suppliers for machining services through online platforms. However, the recommendation process faces significant challenges, including spars...
(1) Background: The restoration of posterior proximal carious lesions remains a clinical challenge, particularly in achieving a correct reconstruction of the interdental contact point. The choice of matrix system significantly influences the clinical...
Hydrophilic matrix tablets are a type of sustained release dosage form characterized by distributing a drug in a matrix that is usually polymeric. Tolcapone is a drug that inhibits the enzyme catechol-O-methyl transferase. In recent years, it has bee...
Consumers’ perception of volatiles determines their preferences and choices of food. Furthermore, various factors, such as varieties, origin, gender, and edible parts, may influence volatiles. The perception of edible parts of E. sinensis in tw...
The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem has a solution whose quality can be affected by the experts’ inclinations. Under essential conditions, the fuzzy MCDM method can provide more acceptable and efficient outcomes to select the best alter...
Recommendation systems based on knowledge graphs often obtain user preferences through the user’s click matrix. However, the click matrix represents static data and cannot represent the dynamic preferences of users over time. Therefore, we prop...
With the development of the Web, users spend more time accessing information that they seek. As a result, recommendation systems have emerged to provide users with preferred contents by filtering abundant information, along with providing means of ex...
Personalized recommender systems are used not only in e-commerce companies but also in various web applications. These systems conventionally use collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering approaches. CF operates using memory-based or m...
The hollow twin-web disk is designed to improve the thrust-to-weight ratio of the aero engine, where the welding joint microstructures determine the disk’s mechanical properties. This study aimed to elucidate the effect of abnormal grains forme...
A factor for estimating the flexibility of proteins is described that uses a cleavage method of “in-source decay (ISD)” coupled with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI MS). The MALDI-ISD spectra of bovine serum album...
The aim of this study was to determine the optimum production parameters in the production of magnesium matrix carbide-reinforced composites by using the powder metallurgy method. The parameter levels maximizing density (%), hardness (HB10), and bend...
Group preferences are crucial for Inspirational Solutions of Automotive Design (ISAD). However, sparse individual purchase behavior hinders the identification of group preferences. Therefore, a novel inspiration recommendation (IR) system based on mu...
(1) Background: Autoimmune diseases are characterized by autoantibodies directed to a large number of antigenic targets and are measured using serum as sample matrix. Although serum is a very common specimen type, it comes with certain drawbacks. Mos...
Background: Supplier evaluation and selection are pivotal processes in supply chain management, profoundly influencing organisational efficiency and sustainability. This study addresses the limitations of traditional multi-criteria decision-making ap...
It is well known that the position of the Jacobian matrix spectrum in the left-half complex plane provides the local asymptotic stability of a nonlinear dynamical system, but it is also well known that for large matrices, computing its eigenvalues ju...
A context-aware recommender system can make recommendations to users by considering contextual information such as time and place, not only the scores assigned to items by users. However, as a user preferences matrix is expanded in a multidimensional...
Compared with traditional point-of-interest (POI) recommendation, next POI recommendation is more difficult and requires comprehensive consideration of users’ behavior patterns, spatial–temporal context, and other information. In addition...
A horizontal well with hydraulic fractures is key to forming a fracture network in oil shale for the generated hydrocarbon flows. By considering the influence of anisotropic strength, a prediction model is proposed for fracture initiation by studying...
This study describes a consistency-based approach for multiperson decision-making (MPDM) in which decision-makers’ suggestions are expressed as incomplete interval-valued fuzzy preference relations. The presented approach utilizes Lukasiewicz&r...
The Flow matrix is a novel method to describe and extrapolate transitions among categories. The Flow matrix extrapolates a constant transition size per unit of time on a time continuum with a maximum of one incident per observation during the extrapo...
This study proposes a modification of the Weighted Sum Model (WSM) that formalizes the evaluation generation for alternatives. By integrating objective data with decision-makers’ (DMs’) subjective preferences, the modification addresses a...
We extend the opinion formation approach to probe the world influence of economical organizations. Our opinion formation model mimics a battle between currencies within the international trade network. Based on the United Nations Comtrade database, w...
Agricultural expert forums serve as important platforms for knowledge exchange, containing large volumes of text that embody professional expertise and practical experience. However, because experts often focus on different agricultural subfields and...
Aluminium-matrix composite is one of the most preferred engineering materials and is known for its potential benefits, such as lightweight nature, high specific stiffness, superior strength, machinability, etc. The metal–matrix composites are v...
Sustainability information and decision support can be two important driving forces for making sustainable transitions in society. However, not enough knowledge is available on the effectiveness of these two factors. Here, we conducted an experimenta...
Data symmetry and asymmetry might cause difficulties in various areas including criteria weighting approaches. Preference elicitation is an integral part of the multicriteria decision-making process. Weighting approaches differ in terms of accuracy,...
The relationship between depositing temperature and crystallinity of grain for HgI2 polycrystalline film with 170 cm2 in area deposited by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) was investigated, considering the matches with readout matrix pixelation for fe...
Tailoring the partitioning behavior of solid solution strengtheners is a crucial design strategy for advanced Ni-based superalloys. The goal of this study was to maximize the enrichment of Mo, Re, Ru and W in the γ-matrix phase. To determine the comp...
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