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MCDA Index Tool: an interactive software to develop indices and rankings

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2020
A web-based software, called MCDA Index Tool ( https://www.mcdaindex.net/ ), is presented in this paper. It allows developing indices and ranking alternatives, based on multiple combinations of normalization methods and aggregation functions.

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Proposal of an innovative MCDA evaluation methodology: knowledge discovery through rank reversal, standard deviation, and relationship with stock return

Financial Innovation
Financial performance analysis is of vital importance those involved in a business (e.g., shareholders, creditors, partners, and company managers). An accurate and appropriate performance measurement is critical for decision-makers to achieve efficient ...
Mahmut Baydaş, Orhan Emre Elma, Željko Stević   +2 more
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Stakeholder driven development of a multi-criteria decision analysis tool for purchasing off-patent pharmaceuticals in Kuwait

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2019
Background In Kuwait, the government is planning to improve the specifications for purchase of medicine and to improve the tendering system intending to slow the growth of the expenditure for medicine and to improve the sustainability of the healthcare ...
Ali Hadi Abdullah, Anke-Peggy Holtorf, Maryam Al-Hussaini, Jacinthe Lemay, Maryam Alowayesh, Zoltán Kaló   +5 more
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Efficiency evaluation of 28 health systems by MCDA and DEA

Health Economics Review
Background Policymakers, who are constantly discussing growing health expenditures, should know whether the health system is efficient. We can provide them with such information through international health system efficiency evaluations.
M. Dlouhý, Pavel Havlík
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Multiple Cross Displacement Amplification Coupled with Lateral Flow Biosensor (MCDA-LFB) for rapid detection of Legionella pneumophila

BMC Microbiology, 2022
Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic waterborne pathogen of significant public health problems, which can cause serious human respiratory diseases (Legionnaires’ disease).
Luxi Jiang, Rumeng Gu, Xiaomeng Li, Meijun Song, Xiaojun Huang, D. Mu   +5 more
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Rapid, highly specific and sensitive detection of human adenovirus using multiple cross displacement amplification coupled with CRISPR-Cas12a-based detection

Talanta Open
Human adenoviruses (HAdV), particularly serotypes 3 and 7, are significant pathogens that cause respiratory tract infection. Here, we developed a novel HAdV diagnostic assay, termed HAdV-MCDA-CRISPR, by combining multiple cross displacement amplification
Linglong Wan, Juan Zhou, Lei Yu, Xiaolan Huang, Jin Fu, Fei Xiao, Nan Jia, Yu Zhang, Min Chen, Xu Chen, Zhaomin Feng, Yi Wang, Lihui Meng   +12 more
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Insights of Bioeconomy: Biopolymer Evaluation Based on Sustainability Criteria

Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2023
Sustainable development in the agriculture sector can be boosted by integrating a sustainable bioeconomy and transforming renewable resources into added-value products.
Patel Nidhiben, Blumberga Dagnija
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More Than 10 Years on: Does a State‐of‐the‐Art Review and Synthesis Offer New Frameworks to Guide Future Design for Remanufacturing Research?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is strong evidence that design for remanufacturing (DfRem) can reduce initial‐design carbon emissions by up to 30%, and that product design can critically affect remanufacturing feasibility, yet academic adoption of DfRem remains limited.
Okechukwu Okorie, Yogendra Singh, Jennifer Russell, Chris Turner, Kingsley Oturu   +4 more
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Towards Objectification of Multi-Criteria Assessments: a Comparative Study on MCDA Methods

Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 2021
Objective evaluation in problems considering many, often conflicting criteria is challenging for the decision-maker. This paper presents an approach based on MCDA methods to objectify evaluations in the camera selection problem.
Aleksandra Bączkiewicz, J. Wątróbski, Bartłomiej Kizielewicz, Wojciech Sałabun   +3 more
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Appraising Policies Through Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation: Lessons From a Systematic Review of Applications

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to renewed interest in analytical tools that address complex policy problems and move beyond linear‐rational approaches in policy appraisal, Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) integrates participatory approaches with multi‐criteria analysis (MCA), thereby incorporating specialised knowledge and diverse social values and ...
Egle Basyte Ferrari
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