Dominance Criteria Research Articles

Assessment of Influencing Factors on Consumer Behavior Using the AHP Model

The influence of numerous factors determines and changes the daily behavior of consumers. This paper aims to estimate and rank the weight of cultural, social, personal, and psychological factors that change the buying habits of individuals. The research was conducted on a sample of 559 respondents in the Republic of Croatia. Data from the survey were used to create a hierarchical model structure. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP), as a decision-making method, was used in the analysis to estimate and rank the factors that influence consumer habits. An analysis of results showed that personal and psychological factors have the principal influence on consumer habits. Personal budget, as the dominant criterion in a group of set criteria, contributed to the fact that personal factors have the dominant influence on consumer habits.

High efficiency luminescent polystrene beads with a novel europium phenanthrene diketonate

Fluorescent or luminescent polymer particles (beads) have become an important tool in bioanalytical and other applications, the size regime of interest ranging from some ten to a few hundred nanometers. Bead-imbedded rare earth complexes are of particular interest, which is owed to their narrow line emissions, large separation between excitation and emissions (apparent Stokes shifts) and extrordinarily longs decay times of the emission. The latter is advantageous for the discrimination against undesired background (e.g. autofluorescence) via time gated analysis; high quantum yields and high absorptions of the incident radiation at the same time are dominant optical criteria. We here describe and characterize a new Eu3+ diketonate comprising tris(3-phenanthryl-3,3,3-trifluoroacetone)Eu(III)-di(tri-n-octyl phosphine oxide), Eu(pta)3(TOPO)2, in polystyrene with high quantum efficiencies (up to 90%) and long decay times (up to 680 μs).

A Sexism Analysis in English Textbook Used in Indonesian Schools' 7th Grade Entitled: “When English Rings a Bell” Published By the Ministry of Education and Culture

Sexism is a foundation where there is unequal treatment between men and women in society. This unequal treatment emphasizes the dominance of men over women. This research analyzed sexism in English textbook 7th grade entitled “When English Rings a Bell” Published by the Ministry of Education and Culture at Indonesia. This research used descriptive qualitative method and used six criteria of sexism based on NCTE guidelines for gender-fair use of language and also Porreca’s study to analyze the data, that are includes: generic he, generic man, titles, labels and names, occupational roles, omission, firstness. The technique of data analysis of this research adopted from Miles and Huberman theory. The aims of this research is to know the dominant criteria of sexism found in English textbook 7th grade entitled “When English Rings a Bell” Published by Ministry of Education and Culture at Indonesia. The results of this research shows that there are 5 criteria of sexism found in the English textbook 7th grade entitled “When English Rings a Bell” Published by Ministry of Education and Culture at Indonesia, that are includes: generic man, titles, labels and names, the occupational, omission, firstness. The dominant criteria’s of sexism found is omission criteria. Key words: EFL textbook, sexism, society

LEVEL OF PATIENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH THEIR COMPLETE REMOVEBLE PROSTHESES

Taking into consideration the fact that new removable dentures are prepared for edentulous patients of varying ages to improve life-important functions, the dominant criterion for evaluating patient’s satisfaction is the patient's subjective feelings about the dentures. This study is aimed at assessing the level of satisfaction with new removable dentures, manufactures less than a year ago.
 The study included 40 patients with new removable prostheses manufactures within the time period of 3 months to a year before the enrolment. In order to determine patients' satisfaction with their complete dentures, we developed a questionnaire based on a five-level Likert scale, where each respondent could rate their satisfaction with a particular criterion for using complete dentures, from "completely dissatisfied" to "fully satisfied". The statistical analysis of the findings obtained was carried out using the standard IBM SPSS statistics (v.21) software package, employing various methods of descriptive statistics.
 The investigation has demonstrated that among the 40 removable denture wearers, men prevail. 45.0% of patients rated the restoration of the aesthetic configuration of their appearance after the placement of a removable prosthesis as the highest. The profile appearance of the prosthesis and the aesthetics of the false teeth completely satisfied 25.0% (10/40) and 20.0% (8/40) of patients, respectively. The functional effectiveness of removable dentures according to by the Lykert scale was 1.2 times lower for the total assessment of the aesthetic parameters of the constructs (p < 0.05). A quarter of the respondents appreciated the improvement of their chewing function and the quality of fixation of prostheses in the oral cavity.

Strive for equitable use of space minerals resources

The global world has been paying great attention to the issue of space resources. To measure global equity, according to the dominant criteria, this paper selects resources, economic, opportunity, and policy indicators by using the entropy weight method to calculate the information entropy and weight of each indicator, to measure the degree of equity. In the future exploitation of space resources, in terms of financing and returns, this paper uses the global equity model, and to calculate the maximum mining returns, this paper uses linear programming. The results show that the maximum benefit is $20.01 million per ton.

Quality Strategies in Network Markets

This paper studies network market problems in which firm(s)/platform(s) sets quality in addition to price. A well-established result in the network economics literature is that a profit-maximizing firm concerns only how quality is valued by the marginal consumer but not by inframarginal consumers, aka the Spence effect/distortion. For markets with strong network effects under which multiple market-tipping equilibria exist, I show that the validity of the previous result depends on the choice of the equilibrium selection criterion. Precisely, I show that all criteria commonly used in this literature give rise to the Spence effect, whereas the well-justified risk dominance criterion in game theory and its generalizations do not. Novel quality strategies are derived based on the latter criteria. This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.

Application of Multi-Criteria Assessment in Banking Risk Management

Abstract Banks face a number of business risks on a daily basis. Today, operational risk is dominant. The aim of this paper is to develop a decision-making system when choosing a method of operational risk management by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (the AHP method) and the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (the FAHP method). Analytical hierarchical process is a simple efficient process in solving decision-making problems. The final decision depends on the assessment of a set of alternatives and the decision criteria. The main purpose of the process is to find appropriate solutions for defined user factors in the current competitive environment. The results obtained by the classical AHP method, as well as the FAHP method, show that external factors are the dominant criterion, especially during the financial crisis or the Covid19 pandemic, and that solutions should be sought in international standards, using control tools created by the banks themselves.

Struktur Komunitas Padang Lamun Di Pulau Gurabosa Kecamatan Jailolo Selatan Kabupaten Halmahera Barat

Seagrass beds are one of the ecosystems that play an important role in marine life. This study aims to determine the type and community structure of seagrass beds based on the species diversity index, dominance index, and seagrass evenness index in the waters of Gurabosa Island, West Halmahera Regency. The research method uses the quadrant transect method with a size of 0.5 x 0.5 m. The results showed that the composition of the seagrass found consisted of 5 species of seagrass namely Enhalus acoroides, Halophyla ovalis, Thalassia hempricii, Cymodocea rotundata, Syringodim isoetifolium. The species diversity index (H') is included in the low species diversity criteria because the value of H' ˂ 1. The dominance index is also included in the low dominance criteria or no seagrass species dominate between stations. The evenness index of seagrass in the waters of Gurabosa Island is included in the low criteria. The low value of the evenness index of seagrass at the three stations is caused by the low index of seagrass diversity.Keywords: seagrass, community structure, diversity index, Gurabosa island.

Respiration-controlled radiotherapy in lung cancer: Systematic evaluation of the optimal application practice

Background and purposeDefinitive radiochemotherapy (RCT) for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in UICC/TNM I–IVA (singular, oligometastatic) is one of the treatment methods with a potentially curative concept. However, tumour respiratory motion during RT requires exact pre-planning. There are various techniques of motion management like creating internal target volume (ITV), gating, inspiration breath–hold and tracking. The primary goal is to cover the PTV with the prescribed dose while at the same time maximizing dose reduction of surrounding normal tissues (organs at risk, OAR). In this study, two standardized online breath–controlled application techniques used alternately in our department are compared with respect to lung and heart dose. Materials and methodsTwenty-four patients who were indicated for thoracic RT received planning CTs in voluntary deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) and in free shallow breathing, prospectively gated in expiration (FB-EH). A respiratory gating system by Varian (Real-time Position Management, RPM) was used for monitoring. OAR, GTV, CTV and PTV were contoured on both planning CTs. The PTV margin to the CTV was 5 mm in the axial and 6–8 mm in the cranio-caudal direction. The consistency of the contours was checked by elastic deformation (Varian Eclipse Version 15.5). RT plans were generated and compared in both breathing positions using the same technique, IMRT over fixed irradiation directions or VMAT. The patients were treated in a prospective registry study with the approval of the local ethics committee. ResultsThe PTV in expiration (FB-EH) was on average significantly smaller than the PTV in inspiration (DIBH): for tumours in the lower lobe (LL) 431.5 vs. 477.6 ml (Wilcoxon test for connected samples; p = 0.004), in the upper lobe (UL) 659.5 vs. 686.8 ml (p = 0.005). The intra-patient comparison of plans in DIBH and FB-EH showed superiority of DIBH for UL-tumours and equality of DIBH and FB-EH for LL-tumours. The dose for OAR in UL-tumours was lower in DIBH than in FB-EH (mean lung dose p = 0.011; lungV20, p = 0.002; mean heart dose p = 0.016). The plans for LL-tumours in FB-EH showed no difference in OAR compared to DIBH (mean lung dose p = 0.683; V20Gy p = 0.33; mean heart dose p = 0.929). The RT setting was controlled online for each fraction and was robustly reproducible in FB-EH. ConclusionRT plans for treating lung tumours implemented depend on the reproducibility of the DIBH and advantages of the respiratory situation with respect to OAR. The primary tumour localization in UL correlates with advantages of RT in DIBH, compared to FB-EH. For LL-tumours there is no difference between RT in FB-EH and RT in DIBH with respect to heart or lung exposure and therefore, reproducibility is the dominant criterion. FB-EH is recommended as a very robust and efficient technique for LL-tumours.

Robust Optimization of Energy-Saving Train Trajectories Under Passenger Load Uncertainty Based on p-NSGA-II

Railway electrification has attracted substantial interest in recent years as a key part of the global effort to achieve transport decarbonization. To improve the energy efficiency of train operations, of particular interest is the optimization of train speed trajectories. However, most studies formulate the problem as a single-objective optimization model and do not take into account train mass uncertainty associated with the passenger load variations. This article formulates a biobjective robust optimization model to minimize both the energy consumption and journey time, in which the robustness against the uncertain train mass is considered and viewed as a decision-maker preference. A novel multiobjective optimization algorithm, namely, p-nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II), is proposed, incorporating the original NSGA-II and a proposed preference dominance criterion to handle the DM preference. With the proposed p-NSGA-II, not only all solutions will converge to the optimal Pareto front but also solutions with better robustness in the Pareto front will be automatically selected and retained; meanwhile, the spread of the selected solutions is maintained. The effectiveness of the p-NSGA-II to generate a set of performance-robust driving schemes is verified by numerical case studies. The results show that the p-NSGA-II can achieve up to 40.59% robustness improvement compared to the original NSGA-II.

Penerapan Metode AHP dalam Penentuan Prioritas Pembangunan Jembatan Rangka di Kabupaten Deli Serdang

Bridges as an important part of the transportation system have a role in spurring economic growth and regional development. For this reason, the government is obliged to build bridge infrastructure in a stable condition so that connectivity between regions can be realized. Given the many infrastructure development activities that have been delayed since 2019 as a result refocusing as well as the limitations of the APBD, it is necessary to select the order of priority for the bridge implementation program. This study aims to analyze the dominant criteria and sub-criteria that need to be considered so that the order of priority for the construction of a truss bridge in Deli Serdang Regency can be compiled. The method used is AHP with a quantitative approach through a questionnaire. The criteria considered are economic (cost), technical (sub-criteria for bridge age, length, width, and implementation time), land use (sub-criteria for agriculture/plantation, tourism, fisheries, and mining), accessibility (sub-criteria for distance and time), social and regional development (the sub-criteria are population, social facilities, government facilities, and regional development), and policies (the sub-criteria are musrembang, Reses/Pokir DPRD, and stakeholders). The results of the study show that the dominant criteria to consider are social and regional development, followed by technical, land use, economic, policy, and accessibility criteria. The order of priority for the construction of a truss bridge is the Sei Belawan Bridge, Tanjung Anom Village as the first priority, the Bridge Lau Cirem Perpanden Village as the second priority, and Sei Serdang Bridge, Negara Beringin Village as the third priority.

A Multi-Objective Crowding Optimization Solution for Efficient Sensing as a Service in Virtualized Wireless Sensor Networks

The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of applications and service domains, from smart cities, autonomous vehicles, surveillance, medical devices, to crop control. Virtualization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is widely regarded as the most revolutionary technological technique used in these areas. Due to node failure or communication latency and the regular identification of nodes in WSNs, virtualization in WSNs presents additional hurdles. Previous research on virtual WSNs has focused on issues such as resource maximization, node failure, and link-failure-based survivability, but has neglected to account for the impact of communication latency. Communication connection latency in WSNs has an effect on various virtual networks providing IoT services. There is a lack of research in this field at the present time. In this study, we utilize the Evolutionary Multi-Objective Crowding Algorithm (EMOCA) to maximize fault tolerance and minimize communication delay for virtual network embedding in WSN environments for service-oriented applications focusing on heterogeneous virtual networks in the IoT. Unlike the current wireless virtualization approach, which uses the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II), EMOCA uses both domination and diversity criteria in the evolving population for optimization problems. The analysis of the results demonstrates that the proposed framework successfully optimizes fault tolerance and communication delay for virtualization in WSNs.

A new uncertain dominance and its properties in the framework of uncertainty theory

Theoretical analysis and empirical study results all show that there are situations in reality where observed data are not random variables. Thus, decision-making criteria based on probability theory are not suitable for people to make decisions. This paper proposes an uncertain dominance based on uncertainty theory to offer an alternative decision-making criterion for such situations. The paper first defines a new criterion of first- and second-order uncertain dominance, then proves some necessary conditions of them based on uncertainty theory. Some sufficient and necessary conditions of the first- and second-order uncertain dominance are given when uncertain variables are all normal or linear uncertain variables. In addition, the paper proves the link between the uncertain dominance criterion and the expected utility criterion and shows that the first-order uncertain dominance is suitable for all people to make decisions and the second-order uncertain dominance is suitable for risk-averse people to make decisions.

ІНСТРУМЕНТИ ВИМІРЮВАННЯ ЯКОСТІ ОСВІТНЬОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ У КОНТЕКСТІ ЗА БЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ЇЇ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ В УМОВАХ ВОЄННОГО СТАНУ І ПІСЛЯВОЄННОГО ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ КРАЇНИ

Summary. This article the determined that there are various mechanisms for assessing the quality of educa-tional activity of higher education institutions: accredita-tion, framework and rating, but university ratings are the most optimal mechanism for measuring the quality of educational activity in the context of ensuring its effec-tiveness. The indicators for measuring the quality of edu-cational activity used in the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), the European Teaching Rankings (THE Europe Teaching Rankings) were analyzed the Shanghai Aca-demic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking, ARWU), the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd) World University Rankings, QS), national rating "TОР-200". According to the criteria of dominance of objective or subjective and result or reputation components, the main international university rankings can be ranked in the following order: (Shanghai Ranking) – objective, result; THE World University Rankings – objective-subjective, result-reputational; QS World University Rankings –sub-jective-objective, reputation-resultative; reputational andadvertising.The use of this approach to ensure the quality of edu-cational activity will improve the reputation of national universities in the world educational space, and in the modern conditions of war and in the period of post-war reconstruction, it will provide an opportunity to update and update educational programs, increase the im-portance of universities as a leading component of the socio-economic recovery of the country.

Левое либертарианство и генетическая справедливость

Distributive justice is one of the central questions of contemporary moral and political phi­losophy. Discussions on this topic are often presented as a confrontation between two groups of thinkers: libertarians and luck egalitarians. The former emphasize the dependence of the existing distribution on the individual choice and personal responsibility of people, and therefore are skeptical about various redistribution programs. The latter, on the contrary, emphasize the influence of morally arbitrary luck on the economic situation of people, and therefore welcome redistributive measures to compensate for this brute luck. Left-libertarian claims to reconcile these two types of moral considerations. The classical left-libertarian point of view seeks to offset the influence of brute luck through an egalitarian distribution of the benefits of owning natural resources that are independent of anyone’s choice and respon­sibility. However, this position does not sufficiently take into account the influence of other factors of brute luck and, in particular, genetic endowments on the distribution of economic wealth. This article discusses three approaches that allow left-libertarians to take into ac­count the factor of genetic luck in interpersonal distribution. First, it is Hillel Steiner’s pro­posal to attribute genetic information to natural resources, the benefits of which are subject to egalitarian redistribution. Second, it is the concept of equal opportunity for welfare by Pe­ter Vallentyne, Michael Otsuka and Eric Roark. Thirdly, it is the universal dominance crite­rion of Philippe Van Parijs and Kasper Ossenblok. The first two approaches face a number of moral and practical difficulties, but the third approach is able to overcome them. Thus, the universal dominance criterion is the most promising way to reconcile left-libertarianism and justice in the distribution of genetic endowments.

Assessment of flood susceptibility in coastal peri-urban areas: an alternative MCDA approach for ungauged catchments

ABSTRACT The sustainable development of coastal peri-urban areas is associated with the awareness of the local vulnerability to natural disasters, such as flood hazards. In ungauged basins, statistical and modelling approaches combined with geographic information systems have been widely used for the evaluation of different scenarios. In the current study, a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) simulated the response of the floodplains to the variations of the most dominant criteria, which affected the flood susceptibility of the area. An index of flood susceptibility is proposed to compare the simulated outcomes of the different scenarios. We provide a thorough discussion about improving the accuracy of the MCDA method through calibration and validation procedures, in association with the HEC-RAS 2D model. Observed and simulated inundation depths were compared for the validation process. The derived maps effectively revealed the flood susceptibility of the area upon the criteria variation, particularly the elevation and the rainfall.

A note on valid inequalities for minimizing the total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop

This note reconsiders the valid inequalities designed by Kharbeche and Haouari (2013) for mixed-integer programming formulations of minimizing the total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop scheduling problem. While the majority of their proposed valid inequalities are able to substantially improve the computational time to find an optimal solution, we show that one of them is incorrect, due to the misinterpretation of a dominance criterion proven in Pan and Fan (1997). As a consequence, in some instances, all optimal solutions are excluded from the solution space, resulting in suboptimal solutions. To resolve this issue, we first demonstrate the suboptimality of the proposed valid inequality with a small illustrative example. Second, we formulate a new valid inequality, which correctly captures the dominance criteria of Pan and Fan (1997). Finally, we show the effect of this correction on the solution quality in a numerical study with scheduling instances that have 10 to 20 jobs. Depending on the number of jobs, between 10% and 22% of the supposedly optimal solutions with the incorrect valid inequality are in fact suboptimal. In terms of the objective function value, the error results in a loss of up to 12%.

Policy Support and Research Productivity among Lecturers in Ugandan Public Universities: Case of Kyambogo University

In today’s competitive global higher education market, research productivity has become a dominant criterion for determining the university’s effectiveness. Besides, high-quality research benefits individual academics, their departments and institutions by raising their global rankings, recognition and prestige, with multiple accruing benefits. However, in a situation of low research output from Ugandan public universities, there is urgent need for increased organisational support to facilitate lecturers in conducting this cardinal university function. This mixed-methods study was, therefore, intended to evaluate the effect of the university research policy on lecturers’ research productivity in Kyambogo University, one of the biggest but relatively new public universities in Uganda. A correlational survey design guided the study using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A sample of 127 PhD-holding lecturers, three faculty deans, Directors of Quality Assurance and Human Resource, the University Bursar and the University Librarian participated in the study. Data collected using questionnaire and interviews were analysed using structural equation modelling for quantitative data while thematic content analysis was used for qualitative data to establish relationships between the variables. The findings revealed moderate policy support for research productivity with a mean value of 3.07, a positive and significant relationship between the variables with a beta value of .416 and a P-value of .000. The study recommended the formulation and implementation of favouring and supportive policies to increase lecturers’ research productivity in public universities. The findings will likely be used to inform university managers on generating practical policy interventions to boost research productivity among lecturers in public universities.

The dominance of skill in online poker

Does skill dominate luck in online poker? In many countries around the world, the legality of the online poker industry rests on courts’ evaluation of the “skill dominance” criterion. Because it is not precisely defined, however, the skill dominance criterion may be misleading when it comes to the legal qualification of online gambling activities. We argue that this concept might be better framed as “do skilled players dominate the game” than as “does skill dominate game outcomes”. We introduce a novel, comprehensive dataset on online poker play – where we follow 91,439 players over 40 consecutive months (representing over 85 million hands played) – and develop simple tests to show that (i) skill in the game drives individual results, and (ii) players improve their skills with experience and quit playing the game as a function of starting ability. A lower bound estimate suggests that it takes at least 7 months of full-time training for a novice to acquire the basic skills exhibited by the most experienced players in our data. We conclude that the scholarly debate around this industry may move beyond that of its legality to focus instead on issues of regulation. Beyond the case of online poker, the procedures and tools we develop can be readily transferred to evaluate the skill dominance criterion in other purported games of skill, such as sports betting or stock trading.

A new stochastic dominance criterion for dependent random variables with applications

In this paper we develop a new tool for the comparison of paired data based on a new criterion of stochastic dominance that takes into account the dependence structure of the random variables under comparison. This new procedure provides a more detailed comparison of dependent random variables and overcomes some difficulties of standard techniques like Student's t and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests for non normal data. This tool provides an alternative to the usual stochastic dominance criterion which only considers the marginal distributions in the comparison. We show how this new tool can be fruitfully used for the comparison of paired asset returns.