This study aims to examine the Islamic banking performances of the 10 countries with the highest Islamic bank assets between 2018-2022 (including the period of Covid-19 pandemic), to observe whether different criteria weighting methods yield different results and whether there is a relationship...

The growing adoption of renewable energy, particularly photovoltaic (PV) solar systems, has led to the development of numerous simulation software tools to simplify system design, analysis, and optimization. This study evaluates five widely used PV simulation software packages-SAM, PVsyst,...

In many professional activities humans are getting better generation by generation. This is supposed to be the case, for instance, in sports and in science. Is it true in the arts? In this paper, we consider violinists from the time period in which audio and video recordings became possible....

We study the aggregation of partial orders into a complete ordering, and prove both possibility and impossibility results in this context. First, we show that the standard independence of irrelevant alternatives condition is stronger here since even dictatorial aggregation rules may fail to...