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The analytic hierarchy process with stochastic judgements

2014

The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a widely-used method for multicriteria decision support based on the hierarchical decomposition of objectives, evaluation of preferences through pairwise comparisons, and a subsequent aggregation into global evaluations. The current paper integrates the AHP with stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA), an inverse-preference method, to allow the pairwise comparisons to be uncertain. A simulation experiment is used to assess how the consistency of judgements and the ability of the SMAA-AHP model to discern the best alternative deteriorates as uncertainty increases. Across a range of simulated problems results indicate that, according to c…

Une nouvelle approche mixte d'enrichissement de dimensions dans un schéma multidimensionnel en constellation Application à la biodiversité des oiseaux

2015

International audience; Les entrepôts de données (DW) et les systèmes OLAP sont des technologies d'analyse en ligne pour de grands volumes de données, basés sur les be-soins des utilisateurs. Leur succès dépend essentiellement de la phase de conception où les exigences fonctionnelles sont confrontées aux sources de données (méthodologie de conception mixte). Cependant, les méthodes de conception existantes semblent parfois inefficaces, lorsque les décideurs définissent des exi-gences fonctionnelles qui ne peuvent être déduites à partir des sources de don-nées (approche centrée sur les données), ou lorsque le décideur n'a pas intégré tous ces besoins durant la phase de conception (approche c…

Consistency Analysis of Genome-Scale Models of Bacterial Metabolism: A Metamodel Approach.

2015

Genome-scale metabolic models usually contain inconsistencies that manifest as blocked reactions and gap metabolites. With the purpose to detect recurrent inconsistencies in metabolic models, a large-scale analysis was performed using a previously published dataset of 130 genome-scale models. The results showed that a large number of reactions (~22%) are blocked in all the models where they are present. To unravel the nature of such inconsistencies a metamodel was construed by joining the 130 models in a single network. This metamodel was manually curated using the unconnected modules approach, and then, it was used as a reference network to perform a gap-filling on each individual genome-s…

On Generalizing Lipschitz Global Methods forMultiobjective Optimization

2015

Lipschitz global methods for single-objective optimization can represent the optimal solutions with desired accuracy. In this paper, we highlight some directions on how the Lipschitz global methods can be extended as faithfully as possible to multiobjective optimization problems. In particular, we present a multiobjective version of the Pijavskiǐ-Schubert algorithm.

Primary Progressive and progressive relapsing multiple sclerosis show different clinical and instrumental findings and disability progression? A comp…

2013

Model and quality assessment of single image dehazing

2016

This thesis is mainly related to color imaging science, involving many disciplines, such as color image enhancement, image formation, color reproduction, optical physics, radiometry, colorimetry, image quality and psychophysics.Dehazing aims at recovering the image information degraded by light scattering, e.g. bad weather. This process is an ill-posed and a challenging problem. Although a variety of approaches have been proposed, there is still room for further improvement and standardization. In this work, we investigate the limitations of haze model in terms of accuracy of color image recovery. We address also the link between the visibility deterioration and the spectral content of the …

Temporal variability analysis reveals biases in electronic health records due to hospital process reengineering interventions over seven years

2019

[EN] Objective To evaluate the effects of Process-Reengineering interventions on the Electronic Health Records (EHR) of a hospital over 7 years. Materials and methods Temporal Variability Assessment (TVA) based on probabilistic data quality assessment was applied to the historic monthly-batched admission data of Hospital La Fe Valencia, Spain from 2010 to 2016. Routine healthcare data with a complete EHR was expanded by processed variables such as the Charlson Comorbidity Index. Results Four Process-Reengineering interventions were detected by quantifiable effects on the EHR: (1) the hospital relocation in 2011 involved progressive reduction of admissions during the next four months, (2) th…

The multivariate physical activity signature associated with metabolic health in children and youth: An International Children's Accelerometry Databa…

2020

There is solid evidence for an association between physical activity and metabolic health outcomes in children and youth, but for methodological reasons most studies describe the intensity spectrum using only a few summary measures. We aimed to determine the multivariate physical activity intensity signature associated with metabolic health in a large and diverse sample of children and youth, by investigating the association pattern for the entire physical intensity spectrum. We used pooled data from 11 studies and 11,853 participants aged 5.8–18.4 years included in the International Children's Accelerometry Database. We derived 14 accelerometry-derived (ActiGraph) physical activity variabl…

Data handling in NMR facilities and assignment of NMR spectra in synthetic chemistry labs: Why electronic structure validation should become part of …

2017

1H,13C,17O NMR and IR spectroscopic study of all methyl chloropropanoates

1994

1 H, 13 C and 17 O NMR chemical shifts, n J(H,H) and n J(C,H) spin-spin coupling constants and IR absorption maxima and intensities for the most characteristic bands of methyl propanoate and all eleven chloropropanoic acid methyl esters are reported