Background When pairwise comparisons are used to express preferences for alternatives or judgments on criteria's importance, several methods can be used to derive priorities in multi-criteria decision-making. In the case of inconsistency, different methods give different results. Objectives The...

African swine fever (ASF) is a disease outbreak that has substantially impacted agriculture, public health, and food security. This study tackles the lack of knowledge regarding the interactions between multiple factors causing the spread of ASF. We also present a potential for...

Seas, marine ecosystems, and coastal regions are crucial components of our environment. Numerous scientific strategies have been adopted to boost fisheries and aquaculture productivity. This study proposes a fuzzy-logic-based model to produce fisheries in India, which ranks fourth worldwide for...

This paper develops and implements an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model with an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ARIMA-ANFIS) for BTCUSD price prediction and risk assessment. The goal of these forecasts is to identify patterns from past data and achieve an understanding of the...

We propose a data-based approximation of the effects of trade sanctions. We validate the approximation by comparing it with exact responses simulated from a canonical multi-country multi-sector model. The approximation is palatable for a broad range of elasticities of substitution, except for...

The exact distribution of a quadratic form in n standard normal variables, Q; say, (or, equivalently, a linear combination of independent chi-squared variates) is, except in special cases, quite complicated. This has led to many proposals for approximating the distribution by a more tractable...