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Member Preferences for Cooperative Attributes: A Best-Worst Scale Analysis
Cooperatives are member-oriented organizations, and their sustainable performance is highly influenced by the level of commitment of their members....
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Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best–Worst Scaling Approach
Giant seawalls have been constructed in areas stricken by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake to protect nearby townships from tsunamis, but their...
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Community stakeholder preferences for evidence-based practice implementation strategies in behavioral health: a best-worst scaling choice experiment
BackgroundCommunity behavioral health clinicians, supervisors, and administrators play an essential role in implementing new psychosocial...
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A best-worst scaling survey of medical students’ perspective on implementing shared decision-making in China
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to ascertain the importance rankings of factors affecting the implementation of shared decision-making...
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A Consensus-Based Best-Worst Method for Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making
The resolution of Multi-criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problems driven by human knowledge involves collecting their opinions, which usually implies...
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Discrete choice experiments or best-worst scaling? A qualitative study to determine the suitability of preference elicitation tasks in research with children and young people
BackgroundOrdinal tasks are increasingly used to explore preferences for health states. This study aimed to determine the suitability of two ordinal...
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Measuring consumers’ preferences for craft beer attributes through Best-Worst Scaling
The current paper investigates consumers’ consumption behavior and preferences for craft beer. More specifically, it uncovers consumers’ consumption...
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Scaling
As already described, scaling refers to the assignment of numbers to objects according to specified rules. This assignment should be designed in such...
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Best–Worst Scaling Study to Identify Complications Patients Want to Be Informed About Prior to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
BackgroundSurgeons must discuss the most severe surgical complications with their patients while making a treatment decision. However, it is unclear...
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A State-of the-Art Survey of Best-Worst Method Applications for the Problems Related to COVID-19
The best-worst method (BWM) and its variations have been widely utilized in decision making problems since 2015. During the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Agropastoralists’ Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Modeling: Software and Coding Method Accuracies for Best-Worst Scaling Data
Investigating software and coding method accuracies are still a challenge when dealing with best-worst scaling data. Comparing various climate change...
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Cost-Availability Aware Scaling: Towards Optimal Scaling of Cloud Services
Cloud services have become increasingly popular for develo** large-scale applications due to the abundance of resources they offer. The scalability...
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The Relative Importance of Education and Criminal Justice Costs and Benefits in Economic Evaluations: A Best–Worst Scaling Experiment
ObjectivesMental and behavioural disorders (MBDs) and interventions targeting MBDs lead to costs and cost savings in the healthcare sector, but also...
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The Regeneration of a Shop** Center Starts from Consumers’ Preferences: A Best-Worst Scaling Application
Malling in the United States was characterized by the construction of large shop** centers in the suburbs of the city, in close connection with...
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Estimating commuting modal split by using the Best-Worst Method
MethodThis paper endeavors to introduce a new approach to modal split estimation. In the frame of the research, a customized model of the recently...
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New Housing Preferences in the COVID-19 Era: A Best-to-Worst Scaling Experiment
The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, as in many countries around the world, has imposed rigid restrictions on outdoor activities, resulting in forced...
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Differential Item Functioning via Robust Scaling
This paper proposes a method for assessing differential item functioning (DIF) in item response theory (IRT) models. The method does not require...
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Hybrid models for optimization of deep-drawn cups deploying scaling laws: a case study for sustainable development
The deep drawing process is considered environmentally friendly as it generates minimal waste. This paper introduces the multi-draw deep drawing...
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Evaluating the predication model of metaphor comprehension: Using word2vec to model best/worst quality judgments of 622 novel metaphors
In this paper our goal is to undertake a systematic assessment of the first, most widely known, and simplest computational model of metaphor...
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Scaling Laws for CFD-DEM Simulations of CLC
In this chapter, the parcel approach and various scaling laws are described for computationally efficient simulations of CLC process using CFD-DEM....