Multicriteria decision aid consists in helping decision makers to compare (rank, choose, sort, etc.) different alternatives which are evaluated on conflicting criteria. One well-known family of multicriteria decision aid methods is Promethee. It is b...
On Wikipedia, articles about various topics can be created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, the quality of information about the same topic depends on the language. Any interested user can improve an article and that impr...
Along with the rapid development of industries and the acceleration of urbanisation, the problem of air pollution is becoming more serious. Exploring the relevant factors affecting air quality and accurately predicting the air quality index are signi...
Assessing the quality of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) images remains a critical challenge, as conventional Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods often fail to capture the semantic consistency between generated images and their te...
The social stress due to regrouping and hierarchy establishment in cattle in the transition from rangeland to feedlots may cause considerable losses in beef production due to aggressive interactions. This study determined the effect of the premortem...
Cognitive radio is an intelligent wireless solution that aims to enhance the access to the radio spectrum. In this technology, secondary users sense the radio spectrum, select the best channel among a pool of free channels, and determine the optimal...
In hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction tasks, due to the lack of ground truth in real imaging processes, models are usually trained and validated on simulation datasets and then tested on real measurements captured by real HSI imaging systems. H...
In the age of information overload, customers are overwhelmed with the number of products available for sale. Search engines try to overcome this issue by filtering relevant items to the users’ queries. Traditional search engines rely on the exact ma...
Online English teaching remains prevalent post-pandemic, yet there is a significant research gap in assessing service quality during this period. Thus, this study employs a hybrid FANP and GRA method to evaluate critical factors sustaining high servi...
Project-oriented manufacturing companies aim to produce high-quality products according to customer requirements and a minimum rate of complaints. In order to achieve this, performance indicators, especially those related to product quality, must be...
Some mining sites generate acid mine drainage (AMD)—a highly acidic, metal-rich waste stream that affects bodies of water. Passive treatment systems are widely being adapted, particularly for abandoned or closed mines, due to their cost-effecti...
Using an adaptive Mamdani fuzzy inference system model (MFSIM), the purpose of this paper is mainly to assess and rank the assessment and ranking of water quality for irrigation occurring in the Hammamet-Nabeul (Tunisia) shallow aquifer. This aquifer...
The academic excellence of universities around the globe has always been a matter of extended study and so has the quality of an institution’s presence in the World Wide Web. The purpose of this research is to study the extent to which a univer...
The blended educational method has become a common way of teaching and learning in the post-COVID-19 era. However, the related research on the selection model for the blended design teaching service quality solution is still an important research gap...
Universities worldwide strive to achieve excellence in research, learning, teaching, and community services, which are the pillars of their strategic plans. However, satisfying international ranking criteria might not directly result in achieving the...
Air pollution has impacted people’s lives in urban China, and the analysis of the distribution and driving factors behind air quality has become a current research focus. In this study, the temporal heterogeneity of air quality (AQ) and the dominant...
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A series of problems that are related to population, resources, environment, and ecology have emerged in recent years with the advancement of industrialization and urbanization in China. Especially, air pollution has become a severe trouble that dire...
Online education has been still a common way for teaching and learning in the post epidemic era. However, the related research on service quality for the online Yue kiln celadon art education industry is still a vital research gap during this period....
The digital economy, driven by innovative technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming economic systems and increasing the demand for accurate assessments of digital competitiveness. This study addresses the inconsistencies in count...
With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), building IoT systems with high quality of service (QoS) has become an urgent requirement in both academia and industry. During the procedures of building IoT systems, QoS-aware service selec...
Aiming at the difficulty in effectively identifying critical quality features in the complex machining process, this paper proposes a critical quality feature recognition method based on a machining process network. Firstly, the machining process net...
Icons have been widely utilized to describe and promote COVID-19 prevention measures. The purpose of this study was to analyze the preference and subjective design features of 133 existing icons associated with COVID-19 prevention measures published...
With the evolution of data mining systems, the acquisition of timely insights from unstructured text is an organizational demand which is gradually increasing. The existing opinion mining systems have a variety of properties, such as the ranking of p...
We empirically examine the influence of rising political costs from the air quality uncertainty caused by regional air quality fluctuations on firms′ earnings management. The results indicate that when air quality uncertainty increases, firms t...
Limited groundwater resources in arid regions have been found polluted for drinking purpose due to the presence of natural minerals and radioactive substances, in the sub-soils, higher than the drinking water quality standards. Municipalities in thes...
Bioretention basins, constructed wetlands and roadside swales are among the most common Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) or stormwater quality treatment systems. Although these systems can reduce stormwater quantity and improve quality, their hydr...
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as E. coli and Enterococci, are used to indicate the potential of fecal contamination in waterways. One known source of FIB in urbanized areas is the occurrence of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). To explore the i...
Machining quality prediction is the critical link of quality control in parts machining. With the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, intelligent manufacturing and data-driven technologies bring new ideas for quality control in complex machining processe...
(1) Background: Educational systems across the world experienced significant changes during 2020–2022, with potential implications for progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4: Quality Education), which aims to ensure inclusive and...
So far, few studies have considered the impacts of seed sources transfer on jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) wood quality, although wood quality attributes (WQA) in general and the differences between juvenile and mature wood in particular will dete...
India is the largest consumer of groundwater in the world, and it suffers from a groundwater crisis due to the overexploitation of groundwater and the deterioration of its quality at an alarming rate. Rapid urbanization, a growing population, and mis...
Automated program repair is an effective way to ensure software quality and improve software development efficiency. At present, there are many methods and tools of automated program reapir in real world, but most of them have low repair accuracy, re...
The comprehensive index method has difficulties in evaluating the influence of air pollutant concentration changes on ambient air quality. Thus, a comprehensive evaluation method based on pollutant entropy weights and trend-regulating factors is prop...
In recent years, test-based automatic program repair has attracted widespread attention. However, the test suites in practice are not perfect ways to guarantee the correctness of patches generated by repair tools, and weak test suites lead to a large...
Within the German-Vietnamese joint research project “Integrated Water Resources Management Vietnam”, Planning and Decision Support Tools on a regional scale are being developed. A Water Balance Tool is utilized to calculate and assess water demands a...
Monitoring customer satisfaction in the airline service industry is critical for improving service quality and meeting consumer expectations. Modern and comprehensive quality of service measurement tools offer firms critical information about how con...
Most existing studies of tourist attraction recommendations have specifically emphasized analyses of popular sites. However, recommending such spots encourages crowds to flock there in large numbers, making tourists feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, s...
Hotel website service quality evaluation has gained extensive attention. However, previous studies have given little concern about human hesitance and uncertainty in judgments. Moreover, they do not consider hotel managers and customers’ psycho...
Differential methylation (DM) is actively recruited in different types of fundamental and translational studies. Currently, microarray- and NGS-based approaches for methylation analysis are the most widely used with multiple statistical models design...
The application of the Quality by Design (QbD) concept to extracts obtained from Crocus sativus perianth with potential anticancer activity will ensure the safety, efficiency, and quality control of the entire technological process, as well as determ...
Urban sprawl is the most prominent characteristic of urbanization, and increasingly affects local and regional sustainable development. The observation and analysis of urban sprawl dynamics and their relationship with urbanization quality are essenti...
Today’s patients are more informed and quality-conscious than ever before, which is crucial for healthcare practitioners as they interact with people’s lives daily. One of the most important challenges facing the healthcare sector worldwi...
The timely monitoring of urban water bodies using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted remote sensing technology is crucial for urban water resource protection and management. Addressing the limitations of the use of satellite data in inferring the...
Supplier evaluation is a relevant task of supply chain management where multicriteria methods make great contributions to manufacturing industries. This is not the case in food distribution companies, which have a key role in providing safe and affor...
This paper assesses the perception of intercity rail passengers on station facilities at Joydebpur Railway Station in Bangladesh. The ordinal logistic regression (OLR) tool was applied to analyze 1000 responses of rail passengers on 24 selected servi...
The Gaussian-based dispersion model American Meteorological Society/Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model (AERMOD) is being used to predict concentration for air quality management in several countries. A study was conducted for an industr...
In this study, we provide, to our knowledge, one of the first multidimensional, data-driven evaluations of green education performance in Turkish higher education, combining the THE Education Score, THE Impact Score, and the UI GreenMetric Education...
Diets could play an important role in testicular function, but studies on how adherence to the dietary patterns influences human testicular function in Asian countries are scarce. Herein, we examined the association between testosterone-related dieta...
Dietary oils play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy diet. However, with the increasing number of oils available, it became a challenging task for food producers and consumers to select the best oil for their needs. In this work, an easy-to-unde...
The goal of this research is to optimize the input parameters utilized in dry CNC drilling of forging steel to attain sustainable machining. Particular emphasis will be placed on achieving high productivity while minimizing the impact on surface qual...
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