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Yu, Qian, and Fujun Hou. "An approach for green supplier selection in the automobile manufacturing industry." Kybernetes 45, no. 4 (April 4, 2016): 571–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k-01-2015-0034.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study a modified multiplicative analytic hierarchy process (MMAHP) method, which is combined with multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and applied MMAHP model for solving green supplier selection problem. Design/methodology/approach – Supplier selection is typically a MCDM problem including both qualitative and quantitative factors that has to be taken into consideration. To select the best green suppliers with the highest potential for meeting a firm’s needs consistently, the MMAHP is utilized in this study. Then a green supplier selection problem of a well-known automobile manufacturing company in Qingdao is investigated. The authors also make a comparison of the results with that of the traditional AHP, during which the authors observe that the MMAHP is an effective approach for the considered problem and potential rank reversals can be avoided, that is, when a new supplier is added, the ranking of suppliers does not change and maintains its original relative ratio. Findings – A numerical example of green supplier selection is utilized to verify the proposed approach. The results show that the MMAHP is an effective approach for the considered problem and potential rank reversals can be avoided. Practical implications – The proposed approach can be used to solving green supplier selection problems and can avoid the rank reversal. Originality/value – The paper introduces the MMAHP method to help researchers to choose more effective approach for green supplier selection.

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SLEMROD, JOEL. "RANK REVERSALS AND THE TAX ELASTICITY OF CAPITAL GAINS REALIZATIONS." National Tax Journal 42, no. 4 (December 1, 1989): 503–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ntj41788818.

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Goodrich, Gregory B., and Andrew W. Ellis. "Climatic Controls and Hydrologic Impacts of a Recent Extreme Seasonal Precipitation Reversal in Arizona." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47, no. 2 (February 1, 2008): 498–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007jamc1627.1.

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Abstract The winter (December–February) of 2005/06 ranked as the driest in the instrumental record (since 1895) for nearly all regions of Arizona. The city of Phoenix, Arizona, recorded no precipitation during this time period, which was part of a record dry streak of 143 days without measurable precipitation. More important, the Salt and Verde watersheds, which supply the greater Phoenix area with approximately 50% of its water supply, received less than 3% of normal precipitation. Remarkably, this historically dry winter was preceded by the second wettest winter on record in 2004/05, a winter that filled reservoirs statewide and ameliorated a drought that has persisted since 1996 in some parts of the state. This study begins with a brief overview of the historical context of such reversals of extreme seasonal precipitation in Arizona followed by an analysis of the teleconnective impacts. The authors find that while an extreme reversal such as this has only happened once before in Arizona (1904/05 and 1905/06), there is a trend for increasing variability in winter precipitation from one year to the next in Arizona, especially since the 1960s. Large reversals of winter precipitation are followed by large reversals of the opposite sign in the summer monsoon more than 75% of the time. In general, large dry-to-wet reversals are associated with neutral ENSO–to–neutral ENSO conditions or a neutral ENSO–to–El Niño transition, whereas wet-to-dry reversals are associated with an El Niño–to–La Niña transition or, more commonly, with an El Niño–to–neutral ENSO transition. In addition, changes in the sign of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, eastern Pacific oscillation, and Pacific–North American (PNA) pattern are all significantly associated with precipitation reversals. During the seven winters when neutral ENSO and strongly positive PNA coexist, large wet-to-dry reversals occur in every case and nearly all rank among the largest such reversals. It is suggested that small reservoirs are more at risk for increasing climatic volatility than are large reservoirs.

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Millet, Ido, and Thomas L. Saaty. "On the relativity of relative measures – accommodating both rank preservation and rank reversals in the AHP." European Journal of Operational Research 121, no. 1 (February 2000): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(99)00040-5.

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Chapais, Bernard, and Francois Larose. "Experimental rank reversals among peers inMacaca fuscata: Rank is maintained after the removal of kin support." American Journal of Primatology 16, no. 1 (1988): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350160105.

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Parga, Joyce A. "Dominance rank reversals and rank instability among maleLemur catta: The effects of female behavior and ejaculation." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138, no. 3 (March 2009): 293–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20927.

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Kitajima, K., and B. M. Bolker. "Testing performance rank reversals among coexisting species: crossover point irradiance analysis." Functional Ecology 17, no. 2 (April 2003): 276–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.07101.x.

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Wechsler, Beat. "Dominance Relationships in Jackdaws (Corvus Monedula)." Behaviour 106, no. 3-4 (1988): 252–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853988x00278.

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AbstractDominance interactions (supplantings) of 26 jackdaws (Corvus monedula) living in a captive flock were recorded for a period of 2 years. The transitivity of the dominance hierarchy did not increase over time. Though there were 238 rank changes in course of the study, a portion of 6 % of all possible triads of the flock was always intransitive. Only 16.5% of the observed supplantings involved aggressive behaviour. There was no significant correlation between the body weight of a jackdaw and its dominance rank. Male-Male dyads had a disproportionally high frequency of dominance interactions and rank changes. Females were more likely to gain in rank in course of a rank change if their mate was already dominant to the opponent and to lose in rank if their mate was subordinate to the opponent. With the males there was no such tendency. Only 5.4% of the observed dominance interactions were temporary reversals with respect to the defined dominance relationship of a dyad. The probability of temporary reversals was increased if the mate of the supplanting jackdaw was present (less than 60 cm away) during the dominance interaction even though it did not interfere. When it was present, it joined the supplanting interaction in 10.0% of the cases. Breeding jackdaws had an increased percentage of reversed dominance interactions in front of their nest box. This site-related dominance was especially marked as soon as the female started to incubate.

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Wijnmalen, Diederik J. D., and William C. Wedley. "Correcting illegitimate rank reversals: proper adjustment of criteria weights prevent alleged AHP intransitivity." Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 15, no. 5-6 (September 2008): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mcda.431.

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Zahir, Sajjad. "Normalisation and rank reversals in the additive analytic hierarchy process: a new analysis." International Journal of Operational Research 4, no. 4 (2009): 446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijor.2009.023538.

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Pérez-Ramos, Ignacio M., Itziar R. Urbieta, Miguel A. Zavala, and Teodoro Marañón. "Ontogenetic conflicts and rank reversals in two Mediterranean oak species: implications for coexistence." Journal of Ecology 100, no. 2 (October 25, 2011): 467–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01912.x.

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Park, Youngsun. "Effects of Normalization and Aggregation Methods on the Volatility of Rankings and Rank Reversals." Journal of the Korean society for quality management 41, no. 4 (December 31, 2013): 709–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7469/jksqm.2013.41.4.709.

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Herben, Tomáš, František Krahulec, Tomas Herben, and Frantisek Krahulec. "Competitive Hierarchies, Reversals of Rank Order and the de Wit Approach: Are They Compatible?" Oikos 58, no. 2 (June 1990): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3545434.

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Leskinen, P., and J. Kangas. "Rank reversals in multi-criteria decision analysis with statistical modelling of ratio-scale pairwise comparisons." Journal of the Operational Research Society 56, no. 7 (July 2005): 855–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601925.

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Black, Jeffrey M., and Myrfyn Owen. "Determinants of Social Rank in Goose Flocks: Acquisition of Social Rank in Young Geese." Behaviour 102, no. 3-4 (1987): 129–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853986x00081.

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AbstractThe paper describes a study of social rank acquisition in goslings reared from eggs taken from a full-winged flock of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) at the Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge. Eggs were taken from pairs of known history and the adult's aggressiveness was ranked according to their reaction to humans. This rank was shown to be meaningful intraspecifically both by the outcome of encounters between geese and by the fact that no pairs scored as non-aggressive were able to nest in the preferred colony. A group of goslings reared by their own parents and cross-fostered goslings were also examined. 1. Within a rearing group of goslings (sibling-reared broods), the oldest and heaviest birds ranked highest in the first month and males performed better in encounters than females of the same size in the second month. 2. In encounters between unfamiliar goslings from different sibling-broods in the third month of life, the most important determinants of the new rank were body size, weight and sex. Previous experience also influenced rank; previous success yielded continued success. Goslings lost weight during the test; loss was negatively correlated with rank. The performance of goslings reared without adults bore no relationship to their parent's aggressive score. 3. In the semi-captive flock, parents that scored as "aggressive" reared more and larger goslings than non-aggressive pairs. The rank of these in the third month correlated with their size and sex (independent of size). The cross-fostering experiment suggested that there was a genetic as well as an environmental influence on rank acquisition. 4. In encounters between goslings of similar rank from sibling-broods and parent-reared ones, the latter ranked significantly higher. Parent-reared goslings, though less familiar to the experimental regime, gained weight and goslings from sibling-broods lost weight. 5. Once established, rank order remained stable; the few reversals related either to changes in size or to cooperation between goslings in confrontations. 6. Parental quality clearly affects, through learning and heredity, the physical and social development of goslings, and consequently their chances of survival and reproduction. We suggest that these effects are reinforced by brood size; larger families gain better resources in competitive situations. In wild geese, competitive ability is crucial both to survival in winter and to the acquisition of nesting sites and rearing areas for the young.

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Wedley, William C., Bertram Schoner, and Eng Ung Choo. "Clustering, dependence and ratio scales in AHP: Rank reversals and incorrect priorities with a single criterion." Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 2, no. 3 (December 1993): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mcda.4020020304.

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Mufazzal, Sameera, and S. M. Muzakkir. "A new multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) method based on proximity indexed value for minimizing rank reversals." Computers & Industrial Engineering 119 (May 2018): 427–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2018.03.045.

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Wada, Makoto, and Kenji Kansaku. "The effect of vision on tactile TOJ during arm crossing." Seeing and Perceiving 25 (2012): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187847612x646578.

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When people cross their arms, subjective rank ordering of successive unseen tactile stimuli delivered to both arms is affected (often being reversed) (Shore et al., 2002; Yamamoto and Kitazawa, 2001). It is also known that vision plays a significant role in modulating perceived limb position (Graziano et al., 2000). In this study, we examined the effect of vision; i.e., eyes opening and closing on tactile temporal order judgment (TOJ) with their arms crossed or uncrossed. In a psychophysical experiment, participants (, 13 males, 27.3 ± 1.8 y.o.) were required to judge temporal order of two tactile stimuli that were delivered to their both ring fingers with four conditions: uncrossed arms with eyes closed, crossed arms with eyes closed, uncrossed arms with eyes open and crossed arms with eyes open. To evaluate judgment probabilities of the participants, degree of reversals of their judgment was calculated as the sum of differences between correct response rates of the arms crossed condition and those of the arms uncrossed condition. In arms uncrossed conditions, judgment probabilities of the participants were not significantly different between eyes closed and open conditions. In contrast, reversal of the judgment with eyes closed was significantly larger than that with eyes open in arms crossed conditions (). The results suggest that vision play a significant role in tactile order judgment when the subject arms crossed.

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Gupta, Vishal. "Comparative Performance of Contradictory and Non-Contradictory Judgement Matrices in AHP Under Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics." International Journal of Decision Support System Technology 10, no. 1 (January 2018): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdsst.2018010102.

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Over the years, although AHP has proved its success in various diverse fields, many authors in the literature have also shown its shortcomings, often called as criticisms of AHP. One such criticism is allowing the consideration of contradictory judgement matrices. Such matrices violate the principle of ordinal transitivity and thus there does not exist any ranking of corresponding decision elements which satisfy all the judgements. In this paper, the results of our investigation towards measuring this criticism are further explored and discussed by comparing the quality of priority vector of contradictory judgement matrices and non-contradictory judgement matrices under Rank Reversals and the common frame work of “aggregated deviation”. The results further strengthen the notion of contradictory judgement matrices as a strong criticism of AHP for higher order judgement matrices and necessitate some proper avoidance (if not elimination) procedure for them.

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Sánchez-Gomez, David, Miguel A. Zavala, Daniël B. Schalkwijk, Itziar R. Urbieta, and Fernando Valladares. "Rank reversals in tree growth along tree size, competition and climatic gradients for four forest canopy dominant species in Central Spain." Annals of Forest Science 65, no. 6 (January 2008): 605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/forest:2008040.

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Barfod, Michael Bruhn, Robin van den Honert, and Kim Bang Salling. "Modeling Group Perceptions Using Stochastic Simulation: Scaling Issues in the Multiplicative AHP." International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 15, no. 02 (March 2016): 453–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219622016500103.

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This paper proposes a new decision support approach for applying stochastic simulation to the multiplicative analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in order to deal with issues concerning the scale parameter. The paper suggests a new approach that captures the influence from the scale parameter by making use of probability distributions. Herein, the uncertainty both with regard to the scale and the inherent randomness from the parameter is captured by probabilistic input and output distributions. Provided that each alternative and criteria under consideration are independent it is assumed that the embedded uncertainty from the progression factors remains the same. The result is then an interval estimate for each alternative’s final scores. This can lead to overlapping intervals of scores which may be interpreted as possible rank reversals. Thus, the decision support approach makes it possible to calculate the probability of overlapping for any given set of pairwise comparisons.

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Wooddell, Lauren J., Brianne A. Beisner, Amy C. Nathman, Ashleigh Day, Ashley Cameron, Ori Pomerantz, and Brenda McCowan. "Sex Differences in Hierarchical Stability in a Formation of a Mixed-sex Group of Rhesus Macaques." Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science 61, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.30802/aalas-jaalas-21-000067.

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Forming groups of captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is a common management practice. New formations of unfamiliar macaques can be costly, with high levels of trauma, particularly as intense aggression is used to establish a dominance hierarchy. Combining previous subgroups into one new group may be beneficial, as some individuals already have established dominance relationships. We tested this hypothesis by forming a new mixed-sex group of rhesus macaques that combined an established group of females with an established group of males. Prior to the mixed-sex group formation, both the female and male hierarchies had been stable for 3 y; after mixed-sex group formation these hierarchies were maintained by the females and were initially maintained by the males for 3 wks. However, the temporary hospitalization (due to a laceration caused by aggression) of the alpha male destabilized the male hierarchy. Age and weight then predicted male rank. Temporary hospitalizations resulted in rank changes for the males, evidenced by reversals in subordination signals. This study indicates that using established groups of familiar individuals may maintain female hierarchical stability in a mixedsex group formation, but further research is needed to understand how to maintain and predict male hierarchical stability to reduce trauma. Improved knowledge of hierarchical stability would be invaluable to managers of large rhesus macaque groups and would help improve the welfare of captive rhesus macaques.

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Rehberger, Max, and Michael Hiete. "Allocation Procedures for Generic Cascade Use Cases - An Evaluation Using Monte Carlo Analysis." Materials Science Forum 959 (June 2019): 32–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.959.32.

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Cascade use - a concept for increasing resource efficiency by multiple use of resources - gains in importance, in particular for bio-based materials. Allocation of environmental burdens and costs along the cascade chain plays a major role in deciding whether to establish a cascade or not. This highlights the need for a methodology for properly assessing different types of cascades. To provide guidance in terms of choice of allocation procedure available from life cycle assessment (LCA), Monte Carlo analysis is used. Especially hybrid, individually tailored allocation approaches can be evaluated in this way. The results show a high diversity of possible outcomes in terms of general allocation intensity (how much burden is shifted between steps of the cascade), rank reversals (exchange of positions inside the burden ranking) and variance of the overall results of the cascade allocation. Results are valuable for selecting an allocation procedure for cascade LCA and for further interpreting cascade models using specific allocation procedures.

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Debasish, Sathya Swaroop. "Investigating Expiration Day Effects in Stock Index Futures in India." Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 1, no. 1 (December 15, 2010): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v1i1.210.

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This study attempts to examine whether potential expiration effects exist on the NSE Nifty index by comparing the trading volume and return process at expiration with a comparison group. The period of analysis covers index futures expirations from June 2001 to May 2009. The trading volume and return process on expiration days and during expiration weeks were compared with a set of comparison days and comparison weeks. The current study used the pooled t-test and Wilcoxon rank sum test to investigate whether mean returns, price ranges, and adjusted trading volumes (i.e. time-independent trading volumes) were significantly different at expiration. The procedure as used by Stoll and Whaley (1987) was used to examine if price reversals existed during expiration days and comparison days.The evidence indicates that the trading volume on expiration days and in expiration weeks was significantly larger than on comparison days and during comparison weeks. Further, the results suggest that there were no price distortions on the expiration day or during the expiration week for the complete sample period and the second sub-period. For the first sub-period, however, evidence suggesting that expiration days and weeks experienced higher volatility than normal does exist. No evidence of significantly different mean returns, volatility, or price reversals at expiration was found. This could be due to the longer settlement period in India. However, when the complete sample period was divided into two sub-periods it was found that expiration day (weeks) during the first sub period may have experienced price distortions. The results of this study are crucial to investors, stock exchange officials, and regulators.

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SEO, JUNGKUN. "The Party Politics of “Guns versus Butter” in Post-Vietnam America." Journal of American Studies 45, no. 2 (October 8, 2010): 317–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875810001143.

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As the Vietnam War concluded with the failure of US foreign policy, the so-called “Cold War consensus” collapsed in American politics and society. A significant number of lawmakers came to revisit their national security positions, and under these circumstances the Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) bills came up in the 91st Congress (1969–70). The costly missile program quickly stirred a major controversy, particularly over a trade-off between guns (defense budget) and butter (welfare spending). This article examines how and why party rank-and-file members in US Congress stayed the course or shifted their positions during the ABM debates. The empirical findings suggest that representatives did not immediately abandon their national security preferences, but rather employed gradual position shifts in legislative processes. In addition, institutional conditions such as “in-party” and “party-out-of-power” hindered or helped legislators' position reversals. This case study of the “guns-or-butter” debates in 1969 and 1970 sheds light on how the representative system in America works in response to public discomfort, with lawmakers trying to fine-tune their individual policy positions and collective party reputations simultaneously.

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Thomas, C. K., B. H. Ross, and B. Calancie. "Human motor-unit recruitment during isometric contractions and repeated dynamic movements." Journal of Neurophysiology 57, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 311–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1987.57.1.311.

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Spike-triggered averaging was used to determine the twitch tensions and contraction times of motor units in the abductor pollicis brevis muscle of two human subjects for two directions of isometric contraction: abduction and opposition of the thumb. During isometric contractions in each direction, the threshold force for motor-unit recruitment and the twitch amplitude were correlated linearly. These data suggested that an orderly pattern of recruitment, according to increasing twitch size, describes the function of the human abductor pollicis brevis muscle for each contraction direction. Rank order of motor-unit recruitment in each isometric contraction direction was correlated, but not identical. All units contributed tension in each direction of contraction, so no clear evidence was found for task-dependent motor units. In two subjects, motor-unit recruitment order during isometric contraction of the first dorsal interosseous and abductor pollicis brevis muscles was then compared with that of motor-unit pairs in both muscles during repetitive dynamic movements. Recruitment according to increasing twitch size was largely preserved during the repetitive opening and closing of scissors. The recruitment reversals that were observed were usually between pairs of units with similar thresholds.

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Triantaphyllou, Evangelos. "Two new cases of rank reversals when the AHP and some of its additive variants are used that do not occur with the multiplicative AHP." Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 10, no. 1 (January 2001): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mcda.284.

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Kong, Feng. "Rank Reversal and Rank Preservation in TOPSIS." Advanced Materials Research 204-210 (February 2011): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.204-210.36.

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TOPSIS has been in use for more than 20 years in many fields. However, few researches have studied its defect of rank reversal. This paper, by studying the fundamental cause for the rank reversal problem in TOPSIS, put forward an improvement on TOPSIS based on the decision maker’s subjective preferences, which can, proved by a numerical example, overcome the rank reversal problem and lead to more scientific decision result that is in more agreement with the decision makers’ subjective intensions.

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de Gouvenain, Roland C., Richard K. Kobe, and John A. Silander. "Partitioning of understorey light and dry-season soil moisture gradients among seedlings of four rain-forest tree species in Madagascar." Journal of Tropical Ecology 23, no. 5 (August 16, 2007): 569–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467407004385.

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Resource partitioning has been hypothesized to play a role in the maintenance of tree diversity in tropical forests. We looked for evidence of light and soil moisture partitioning among seedlings of four native Malagasy tree species, the pioneer, gap-adapted species Harungana madagascariensis and the three shade-tolerant species Ocotea cymosa, Stephanostegia capuronii and Uapaca ferruginea. Four hundred and eighty seedlings were transplanted in experimental plots in the Tampolo coastal forest and grown for 2 y. Growth rates increased with increasing light availability for all species, and with increasing dry-season soil moisture for H. madagascariensis. With increasing light availability, survival increased for H. madagascariensis, S. capuronii and U. ferruginea but decreased for O. cymosa. While dry-season soil moisture did not influence the growth or survival of the shade-tolerant species, it interacted with understorey light in its effect on the performance of H. madagascariensis, which performed better in wet soils at high light than in dry soils in shade. Rank reversals in species performance suggested that three of the four tree species partition resource gradients as seedlings, mostly light and secondarily dry-season soil moisture. There was only partial agreement between the performance of transplanted seedlings and the distribution of natural seedlings of the same four species with respect to light and soil moisture, suggesting that the success of tropical tree regeneration can only be partly accounted for by seedling performance across resource gradients.

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Norton, Edward C., Morgen M. Miller, Jason Wang, Kasey Coyne, and Lawrence C. Kleinman. "Response about Rank Reversal." Value in Health 16, no. 2 (March 2013): 451–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2013.02.003.

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Bepari, Bikash, Shubham Kumar, Awanish Tiwari, Divyam, and Sharjil Ahmar. "An Iterative Transient Rank Aggregation Technique for Mitigation of Rank Reversal." International Journal of Synthetic Emotions 9, no. 1 (January 2018): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijse.2018010104.

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With the advent of decision science, significant elucidation has been sought in the literature of multi criteria decision making. Often, it is observed that for the same MCDM problem, different methods fetch way-apart ranks and the phenomenon leads to rank reversal. To alleviate this problem, different methodologies like the Borda rule, the Copeland method, the Condorcet method, the statistical Thurstone scaling, and linear programming methods are readily available in the literature. In connection with the same, the authors proposed a novel technique to aggregate the ranks laid by different methods. The algorithm initially assigns equal weights to the methods involved to avoid biasness to a particular method and a simple average rank was obtained. Then, after the separation measures of individual methods with respect to average rank were calculated. Considering the separation measure the higher the weightage, the dynamic weights are ascertained to declare the weighted aggregate rank subjected to the terminal condition which include whether the previous rank equals to the current rank or not. To substantiate the proposed algorithm, a materials selection problem was taken into consideration and solved with the proposed technique. Moreover, the same problem was solved by existing voting techniques like the Borda and the Copeland-Condoract methods. The authors found a correlation of more than 85% between the proposed and existing methodologies.

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Beraha, Laura. "Roll Out the Barrels: Emptiness, Fullness, and the Picaresque-Idyllic Dynamic in Vasilii Aksenov’s “Zatovarennaia bochkotara”." Slavic Review 56, no. 2 (1997): 212–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500783.

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Barrels roll. In a mythological, folk, or literary text, they set off a reciprocal dynamic of emptying out and filling in. Where Diogenes filled his barrel with his own cynical self, Francois Rabelais removed him, then poured back in the wine drained off to accommodate his asceticism. On the basis of this example, Mikhail Bakhtin demonstrates the need to re-embody the disembodied; in connection with the folk laughter that replenishes the hollow chill of mortality, he notes that Rabelais celebrated the “cheerful death” of the Duke of Clarence in a barrel full of malmsey. In Vladimir Propp’s analysis of myth, folktales, and initiation rites, barrels stand in for the bellies of great fish; these swallow and then regurgitate the hero, supplying in the interim “temporary death,” mystic instruction, and the makings of a leader or a savior of the people. It is in an ocean-going barrel that Aleksandr Pushkin’s Prince Gvidon, condemned to an infant death, grows “not by days, but by hours” (“Skazka o tsare Saltane” [Tale of Tsar Saltan, 1831]), repeating the pattern of reversals in birth dreams, through exposure on the water and entombment in womb-like receptacles, studied by Otto Rank. Il'ia Erenburg’s apostle of absolute and universal negation had planned to start his mission by crossing the Atlantic in a beer barrel (Julio Jurenito, 1922). The dual or schizophrenic narrator of Sasha Sokolov’s Shkola dlia durakov (School for fools, 1976), though otherwise anonymous, is moved to fill his mentor’s barrel with his own singular name.

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Korobov, V. B., A. G. Tutygin, L. A. Chizhova, and A. S. Lokhov. "SOME REASONS FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE RANK REVERSAL EFFECT IN RANKING (USING EXAMPLES OF SOLVING SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS)." Фундаментальные исследования (Fundamental research), no. 3 2022 (2022): 72–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17513/fr.43217.

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Tiwari, Rohit Kumar, and Rakesh Kumar. "A Robust and Efficient MCDM-Based Framework for Cloud Service Selection Using Modified TOPSIS." International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing 11, no. 1 (January 2021): 21–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcac.2021010102.

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Cloud computing has become a business model and organizations like Google, Amazon, etc. are investing huge capital on it. The availability of many organizations in the cloud has posed a challenge for cloud users to choose a best cloud service. To assist the cloud users, we have proposed a MCDM-based cloud service selection framework to choose a best service provider based on QoS requirement. The cloud service selection methods based on TOPSIS suffers from rank reversal problem as it ranks optimal service provider to non-optimal on addition or removal of a service provider and deludes the cloud user. Therefore, a robust and efficient TOPSIS (RE-TOPSIS)-based novel framework has been proposed to rank the cloud service providers using QoS provided by them and cloud user's priority for each QoS. The proposed framework is robust to rank reversal problem and its effectiveness has been demonstrated through a case study performed on a real dataset. Sensitivity analysis has also been performed to show the robustness against the rank reversal phenomenon.

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Kong, Feng, Wei Wei, and Jia-Hao Gong. "Rank reversal and Rank Preservation in ANP method." Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography 19, no. 3 (May 3, 2016): 821–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09720529.2016.1197570.

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Li, Yu, Matteo Giuliani, and Andrea Castelletti. "A coupled human–natural system to assess the operational value of weather and climate services for agriculture." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21, no. 9 (September 18, 2017): 4693–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4693-2017.

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Abstract. Recent advances in weather and climate (W&C) services are showing increasing forecast skills over seasonal and longer timescales, potentially providing valuable support in informing decisions in a variety of economic sectors. Quantifying this value, however, might not be straightforward as better forecast quality does not necessarily imply better decisions by the end users, especially when forecasts do not reach their final users, when providers are not trusted, or when forecasts are not appropriately understood. In this study, we contribute an assessment framework to evaluate the operational value of W&C services for informing agricultural practices by complementing traditional forecast quality assessments with a coupled human–natural system behavioural model which reproduces farmers' decisions. This allows a more critical assessment of the forecast value mediated by the end users' perspective, including farmers' risk attitudes and behavioural factors. The application to an agricultural area in northern Italy shows that the quality of state-of-the-art W&C services is still limited in predicting the weather and the crop yield of the incoming agricultural season, with ECMWF annual products simulated by the IFS/HOPE model resulting in the most skillful product in the study area. However, we also show that the accuracy of estimating crop yield and the probability of making optimal decisions are not necessarily linearly correlated, with the overall assessment procedure being strongly impacted by the behavioural attitudes of farmers, which can produce rank reversals in the quantification of the W&C services operational value depending on the different perceptions of risk and uncertainty.

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Norton, Edward C., Morgen M. Miller, Jason J. Wang, Kasey Coyne, and Lawrence C. Kleinman. "Rank Reversal in Indirect Comparisons." Value in Health 15, no. 8 (December 2012): 1137–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2012.06.001.

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Pollock, DA. "Classification, reconstructed phylogeny and geographical history of genera of Pilipalpinae (Coleoptera : Tenebrionoidea : Pyrochroidae)." Invertebrate Systematics 9, no. 4 (1995): 563. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it9950563.

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The 12 genera of Pilipalpinae are classified on the basis of characters of larvae and adults. Three new genera and six new species are here described: Malagaethes, gen. nov. (type species M. lawrencei, sp. nov.); Ranomafana, gen. nov. (type species R. steineri, sp. nov.); Binburrum, gen. nov. (type species Techmessa ruficollis Champion); Binburrum angusticollis, sp. nov.; Binburrum concavifrons, sp. nov.; Cycloderus immaculicollis, sp. nov. and Cycloderus hirsutus, sp. nov. The following new synonymies of specific names are proposed (with valid names given first): Paromarteon constans Lea, 1917 = Eucistela cyanea Carter, 1922; Paromarteon mutabile Blackburn, 1897 = Paromarteon mutabile var. nigripenne Lea, 1920; Temnopalpus bicolor Blackburn, 1888 = Temnopalpus tricolor Lea, 1920; Pilipalpus dasytoides Fairmaire, 1876 = Copobaenus maculicollis Pic, 1942 and Pilipalpus danvini Abdullah, 19646; Exocalopus pectinatus Broun, 1893 = Exocalopus antennalis Broun, 1903. The following subspecies have been elevated to species rank: Paromarteon apicale Lea, Paromarteon fasciatum Lea and Paromarteon parvum Lea. Phylogenetic analysis of 30 structural characters of larvae and adults yielded the following set of incompletely resolved relationships among genera of Pilipalpinae: (((Paromarteon + ((Temnopalpus + Malagaethes) + Pilipalpus + (Ranomafana + (Incollogenius + ((Exocalopus + (Binburrum + (Cycloderus + Morpholycus)) + Techmessodes) + Techmessa))))). The data set contained much homoplasy and several reversals. The historical geographical relationships inferred from the reconstructed phylogeny were compared with geological evidence for the break-up of Pangaea and Gondwanaland. The ancestral stock of Pilipalpinae was widespread on Gondwanaland, and differentiated through its fragmentation. Remnant relict genera persisted on Madagascar, New Zealand, southern South America (Magellanica), and Australia. Brooks Parsimony Analysis was conducted on the data resulting in the following area relationships: (Holarctic + (Madagascar + (New Zealand + (Australia + Chile)))). This agrees generally with accepted geological evidence and is considered support for they hypothesised phylogeny. A single clade (Temnopalpus + Malagaethes) was in disagreement (homoplasous) with the area cladogram, indicating possible incongruence in the data. The area relationships of other Southern Hemisphere groups were compared with Pilipalpinae.

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Wang, Ying-Ming, and Ying Luo. "On rank reversal in decision analysis." Mathematical and Computer Modelling 49, no. 5-6 (March 2009): 1221–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2008.06.019.

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García-Cascales, M. Socorro, and M. Teresa Lamata. "On rank reversal and TOPSIS method." Mathematical and Computer Modelling 56, no. 5-6 (September 2012): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2011.12.022.

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Soltanifar, Mehdi, and Saeid Shahghobadi. "Survey on rank preservation and rank reversal in data envelopment analysis." Knowledge-Based Systems 60 (April 2014): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2013.12.021.

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Holder, R. D. "The Good University Guide and Rank Reversal." Journal of the Operational Research Society 49, no. 9 (September 1998): 1019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3010183.

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Kong, Feng, and Fan Jiang. "An Improvement on Rank Reversal in FAHP." Information Technology Journal 12, no. 23 (November 15, 2013): 7656–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/itj.2013.7656.7660.

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Saaty, Thomas L., and Mujgan Sagir. "An essay on rank preservation and reversal." Mathematical and Computer Modelling 49, no. 5-6 (March 2009): 1230–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2008.08.001.

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Holder, R. D. "The good university guide and rank reversal." Journal of the Operational Research Society 49, no. 9 (September 1998): 1019–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600615.

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Holder, R. D. "The good university guide and rank reversal." Journal of the Operational Research Society 49, no. 9 (1998): 1019–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.jors.2600615.

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Barzilai, Jonathan, and Boaz Golany. "Ahp Rank Reversal, Normalization And Aggregation Rules." INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research 32, no. 2 (May 1994): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03155986.1994.11732238.

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Summers, Cliff H., Gina L. Forster, Wayne J. Korzan, Michael J. Watt, Earl T. Larson, �yvind �verli, Erik H�glund, et al. "Dynamics and mechanics of social rank reversal." Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191, no. 3 (September 11, 2004): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-004-0554-z.

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Belton, Valerie, and Tony Gear. "The legitimacy of rank reversal—A comment." Omega 13, no. 3 (January 1985): 143–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-0483(85)90052-0.

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Saaty, Thomas L. "Rank Preservation and Reversal in Decision Making." Journal of Advances in Management Sciences & Information Systems 1 (November 27, 2015): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/2371-1647.2015.01.03.

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