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The awareness of environmental protection/conservation and sustainable development has increased in the last two decades. In the competitive thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) industry, green supplier evaluation involves environmental criteria in the traditional evaluation process and emphasises that TFT-LCD manufacturers should improve the performance of their suppliers with limited resources. The purpose of this study is to develop a hybrid multiple criteria decision-making with preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluations to evaluate and assist polariser suppliers for improving the performance of green suppliers in the TFT-LCD industry to achieve the aspiration level. Based on supplier audit forms, the proposed methods are as follows: to develop a decision framework by an influential network relation map (INRM); to obtain the influential weights of the criteria; to involve the concept of aspiration levels in the preference function; and to evaluate and reduce the...

Radiation therapy is a common and important treatment for some specific tumors in the treatment of cancer. In recent years, there has been a new development in radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). IMRT modulates the intensity of the radiation beam to focus a higher radiation dose on the tumor while minimizing radiation exposure to surrounding normal tissues. This study aims to investigate the optimal selection of beam angles. Besides limiting the radiation dose to the tumor and the adjacent organs, we also take the dose distribution into consideration and optimize the beam angles and beam intensity maps simultaneously. Compared with the typical equi-spaced model, our proposed approach can provide optimal beam configuration to help physicians in decision-making.