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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Empirical study of innovation efficiency of China's high-tech industries using two-stage stochastic super-efficiency nonparametric technologies
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Determination of a Representative Collective Value Function Through a Value Function-Based Consensus-Reaching Process
Consensus-reaching among decision-makers (DMs) is an important prerequisite for effective group decision-making. Determining a collective value function that is recognized by major DMs is new in consensus rese...
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Open AccessThe nature and nurture of network evolution
Although the origin of the fat-tail characteristic of the degree distribution in complex networks has been extensively researched, the underlying cause of the degree distribution characteristic across the comp...
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A Cognitive Uncertainty Calculation Method Based on Probabilistic Linguistic Term Set and Applications in Geopolitical Risk Assessment
Risk is essentially uncertain, including objective uncertainty of natural attributes and subjective uncertainty of human cognition. The latter is associated with human cognitive thinking and social consciousne...
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Financial fund allocation in China's catastrophe insurance market: a game-theoretic analysis
Chinese government-led disaster relief mode has been timely, comprehensive, and highly efficient. China usually adopts a government-led disaster relief model to burden a share of catastrophe losses. However, a...
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A multi-criteria decision-making approach to vulnerability assessment of rural flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Assessment of rural regions’ vulnerability to flooding is gaining prominence on a global scale. However, researchers are greatly undermined in their efforts to make a comprehensive assessment owing to the mult...
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Open AccessOn a Choquet Integral DEA Cross-Efficiency Evaluation Method Involving the Satisfaction of Decision-Making Units and Weight Balance of Indicators
The secondary goal approach is an effective way to address the problem of the non-uniqueness of the optimal weights The secondary goal approach is an effective way to address the problem of the non-uniqueness ...
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Impact assessment of crude oil mix, electricity generation mix, and vehicle technology on road freight emission reduction in China
To achieve net zero emissions, the global transportation sector needs to reduce emissions by 90% from 2020 to 2050, and road freight has a significant potential to reduce emissions. In this context, emission r...
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Market-Sensing and Market-Reaching Capabilities
This chapter, which is mainly based on Forrest et al. (Review of Economic and Business Studies 13(2):53–76, 2020a) and Forrest et al. (Pennsylvania Economic Review 28(1):17–42, 2021), studies the concepts of ...
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Economy’s Properties Emerging Out of Micro Agents of Inconsistent Interests
As indicated by the existing literature, computer simulations can reveal how characteristics of micro-level individuals give rise to macro-level phenomena of systemic wholes. This chapter, which is mainly base...
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Budget and Demand Correspondence
By clearly distinguishing three binary relations, the first one ≦ defined on the Euclidean space ℝℓ, the second one ≾i on a consumer’s set of all possible consumptions, and the third one ≤i on real numbers, this ...
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Optimal Production Correspondence and Aggregated Supply/Demand
Many theoretically beautiful conclusions of the prevalent producer theory were derived on the common assumption that every firm attempts to maximize its profit and minimize its cost, while all firms employ the...
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Flood disaster risk assessment of and countermeasures toward Yangtze River Delta by considering index interaction
An effective risk assessment and response to flood disasters will help ensure the sustainable development of a region. A perfect flood disaster assessment index system should consider the interactions between ...
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Synergy between climate risk perception, adaptation responses, and agricultural productivity: the case of rice farming communities in Pakistan
The climate variability in Pakistan adversely affects rice crops and undermines the food security and livelihoods of millions of rural households whose survival depends directly on rice farming. This study exa...
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A Voting Mechanism Designed for Talent Shows in Mass Media: Weighted Preference of Group Decision Makers in Social Networks Using Fuzzy Measures and Choquet Integral
As the development of social networks tends to shape people’s view about choices, decision making theories are challenged by numerous unprecedented difficulties, from both the theories and practice. One hot to...
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This study explored rice farmers’ on-farm autonomous adaptation (OFAA) strategies to climate change and evaluated their impact on rice yield and total crop returns. The study used empirical data of 480 farmers...
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Livelihood diversification in managing catastrophic risks: evidence from flood-disaster regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan
Pakistan’s agricultural productivity is considered to be low despite several agriculture promotion policies. Such policies concentrate primarily on on-farm development and overlook rich prospects for off-farm ...
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Guest editorial to the special issue: Big data analysis and management: climate economics, meteorological hazards and environmental risk
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Knowledge map** analysis of research progress and frontiers in integrated disaster risk management in a changing climate
Integrated disaster risk management in a changing climate is a key concern for disaster reduction and global sustainable development now and in the future. This study conducted descriptive statistical and bibl...
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A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model for Pre-positioning of Relief Supplies
Pre-positioning and distribution of emergency supplies are important activities in the preparedness and response stages for disasters. The goal of this paper is to address the joint decision-making of pre-posi...
