A new tool for assessing sediment quality based on the Weight of Evidence approach and grey TOPSIS

Multi-biomarker responses as indication of contaminant effects in Gambusia affinis from impacted rivers by municipal effluents

“…Many urban rivers in the Pearl River Delta region of South China have been heavily polluted by municipal wastewaters and runoffs (Jiang et al, 2015;Pan et al, 2014). However, the effects of water quality in aquatic biota have been little studied in this region.…”

“…Pesticides and PAHs were extracted from water samples according to our previous methods described by Yang et al (2010) and Jiang et al (2015). Sixteen PAHs (SI Table S1) were selected according to the EPA priority control list, while 38 pesticides were selected according to the list of top-use pesticides in Guangdong Province of China (SI Table S2).…”

“…Sixteen PAHs (SI Table S1) were selected according to the EPA priority control list, while 38 pesticides were selected according to the list of top-use pesticides in Guangdong Province of China (SI Table S2). Quantitative analyses of PAHs and pesticides were performed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) using an electron impact ionization source (EI) under selected ion monitoring mode (SIM) (Jiang et al, 2015;Yang et al, 2010).…”

A Novel Sorting Method Topsis-Sort: An Application for Tehran Environmental Quality Evaluation

“…The classical TOPSIS method (see Jia et al, 2012;Ahmadi et al, 2014;Bilbao-Terol et al, 2014;Mulliner et al, 2016) and its extensions, such as interval TOPSIS (see Giove, 2002;Jahanshahloo et al, 2006;Dymova et al, 2013), fuzzy TOPSIS (see Awasthi et al, 2011;Awasthi & Chauhan, 2012;Bao et al, 2012;Ye & Li, 2014;Lee et al, 2014;Kusi-Sarpong et al, 2015;Şengül et al, 2015), interval-valued fuzzy TOPSIS (see Chen & Tsao, 2008;Ashtiani et al, 2009;Mokhtarian, 2015;Zhang & Xu, 2015), and grey TOPSIS (see Chen & Tzeng, 2004;Oztaysi, 2014;Siozinyte et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2015), have demonstrated their capabilities and potentials in dealing with MCDM problems of various fi elds.…”

“…Sustainability is a complex concept that requires comprehensive analysis (Książek et al, 2015;Xia et al, 2015). Multi criteria decision analysis has been regarded as a suitable set of methods to perform sustainability evaluations (Lazauskaite et al, 2015;Pourahmad et al, 2015).…”