Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) through mathematical methods can help clarify choices between alternative solutions based on many, often conflicting, criteria and aspects.
Although topology and shape have been considered mutually exclusive optimization methods since their inception, it is conceivable that they will find choicest solutions in tandem, with shape optimization refining a solution found by topology.
Using a study called the Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource, which sized up thousands of bodies with an Air Force scanner, the designers devised a multiple-choice solution for light and heavy sitters alike.
The first-choice solution, more antibiotics, does not always work and some patients develop recurrent infection.
I remember thinking that Google Docs (and Writely before it) would easily take over Microsoft Office as the choice solution for creating and editing new information.
On the other hand, free flaps remain the first-choice solution for covering wide cutaneous areas and complex reconstruction requiring composite or functional flaps.
In the Scottish study these encouraged students to make choices, propose solutions and work independently.
This hopefully highlights the practical, creative nature of engineering, with a clear connection to judgments and choices about solutions that achieve a balance between potentially conflicting outcomes in terms of their aesthetic, economic, environmental, technical and other criteria.
But the stacked deck of cards dealt by the Peterson crowd at AmericaSpeaks prevented the kind of comprehensive choices and solutions offered in the NASI survey.
Coquillettidia larvae were attracted by these mixtures and the response was amplified since the degree of first choice response was higher than response obtained for single compounds tests: 76.19% first choice for solutions mimicking cattail exudates (χ2 = 9.34; p = 0.002) and 75.64% first choice for solutions mimicking maize exudates (χ2 = 10.98; p = 0.0009).
