COUPLING FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING AND CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR MSW LANDFILL SITE SELECTION (CASE STUDY: LANZHOU, CHINA)

Coupling Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Clustering Algorithm for MSW Landfill Site Selection (Case Study: Lanzhou, China)

The siting of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills is a complex decision process.Existing siting methods utilize expert scores to determine criteria weights, however, they ignore the uncertainty of data and criterion weights and the efficacy of results.In this study, a coupled fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approach was employed to si

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Plant Accessible Water Storage Capacity and Tree-Scale Root Interactions Determine How Forest Density Reductions Alter Forest Water Use and Productivity

Forest disturbances such as wildfire and drought-related disease often lead to declines in productivity that both influence and are influenced by forest water use, particularly in the semi-arid environments of the Western US.Fuel treatments are frequently proposed to reduce vulnerability to these Work Socks drought-related impacts and in some cases

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Analysis of speech: a reflection on health research

In this study, we take speech and writing Eyebright as discursive construction, indicating the reasons for making it the object of analysis and introducing different instruments to achieve this.We highlight the importance of discourse analysis for the development of health research, since this method enables the interpretation of reality from a tex

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Modeling influences on winter distribution of caribou in northwestern Alaska through use of satellite telemetry

Plug I hypothesize that the distribution of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) is affected by multiple, interrelated factors.These factors include, but are not limited to, terrain and snow characteristics as well as predation pressure and habitat.To test this hypothesis, I attributed caribou locations derived from satellite telemetry

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Phylogenomic Analyses Clarify True Species within the Butterfly Genus Speyeria despite Evidence of a Recent Adaptive Radiation

When confronted with an adaptive radiation, considerable evidence is needed to resolve the evolutionary relationships of these closely related lineages.The North American genus Speyeria is one especially challenging radiation of butterflies due to potential signs of incomplete lineage sorting, ongoing hybridization, and similar morphological charac

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