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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression: A Case Cohort Analysis From ELSA‐Brasil

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To investigate the association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and coronary artery calcium (CAC) prevalence, incidence, and progression over four years in adults without prior cardiovascular disease. Methods A case‐cohort study within the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA‐Brasil) included 585 participants (86 patients with ...
Patrícia Fonseca Estrada   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latvian Pension Funds: Multi-Criteria Analysis and Consumer Assessment

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This article describes the task of multi-criteria analysis of pension funds of Latvian republic, determines the main features of this task and gives grounds for the feasibility of using Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).
Voronova, Irina
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Method Selection And Application To Three Contrasting Agricultural Case Studies [PDF]

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Agribusiness, farm business and agricultural-environmental decisions which varied in their characteristics were used to evaluate multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) in an agricultural context.
Sheath, Gavin W.   +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods

open access: yesEngineering, Technology & Applied Science Research
Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques have found widespread application across diverse fields. The rapid evolution of MCDM algorithms has led to the development of hundreds of methods, each employing a distinct approach. Due to the inherent algorithmic differences, various MCDM methods often produce divergent results when applied to the same
Hien, Nguyen Thi Thu   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Anorectal Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis: Clinical Phenotypes and Functional Patterns

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to characterize specific physiologic defects in anorectal dysfunction in systemic sclerosis (SSc) using anorectal manometry (ARM), evaluate associations with gastrointestinal (GI) and extraintestinal clinical phenotypes, and explore potential serologic markers for risk stratification.
Timothy Kaniecki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) [PDF]

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The main argument developed here is the proposal of the concept of “Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation” (SMCE) as a possible useful framework for the application of social choice to the difficult policy problems of our Millennium, where, as stated by ...
Giuseppe Munda
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Factors Associated With Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Among People Meeting Criteria: Results From UK Biobank

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) is challenging due to the absence of definitive biomarkers, numerous overlapping comorbidities, and its reliance on patient‐reported symptoms. Discrepancies between diagnostic criteria and clinical practice imply the possibility of diagnostic biases, complicating timely and accurate identification.
Sung‐A Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The benefits of global scaling in multi-criteria decision analysis [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2009
When there are multiple competing objectives in a decision-making process, Multi-Attribute Choice scoring models are excellent tools, permitting the incorporation of both subjective and objective attributes.
Jamie P. Monat
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Unsupervised Machine Learning Identifies Shared Biomechanical and Clinical Variation in Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis and High BMI: A Secondary Analysis of the IDEA Trial

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective High body mass index (BMI≥27 kg/m2) and aberrant gait biomechanics are primary risk factors for knee osteoarthritis (KOA), yet the specific loading patterns linked to clinical disease features remain unclear. Unsupervised machine learning (ML) was used to identify vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) waveform modes of variation and ...
Ashley N. Buck   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-criteria model for determining the urgency of consolidation works (on the example of the moniecki county)

open access: yesEconomics and Environment, 2019
The article proposes the use of one of the methods of multi-criteria decision analysis (AHP method) to determine the urgency of consolidation works in the area of the Moniecki county.
Andrzej Kobryń, Tomasz Tekień
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