Abstract Background In Canada, graduating medical students consider many factors, including geographic, social, and academic, when ranking residency programs through the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS).The relative significance of these factors is poorly studied in Canada.It is also unknown how students differentiate between their top p
Abstract Background The right sampling of homologous PINE sequences for phylogenetic or molecular evolution analyses is a crucial step, the quality of which can have a significant impact on the final interpretation of the study.There is no single way for constructing datasets suitable for phylogenetic analysis, because this task intimately depends
In this paper, we describe an approach to database preference queries based on the notion OAK of outranking, suited to the situation where preferences on different attributes are not commensurable.This model constitutes an alternative to the use of Pareto order whose main drawback is to leave many tuples incomparable in general.Even though outranki