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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-1330</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-1330</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.48313/uda.vi.63</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Hyperbolic fuzzy set, Entropy measure, Medical waste treatment</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Assessing medical waste treatment technique based on hyperbolic fuzzy EM-SWARA with COPRAS and ARAS approaches</article-title><subtitle>Assessing medical waste treatment technique based on hyperbolic fuzzy EM-SWARA with COPRAS and ARAS approaches</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Agarwal</surname>
		<given-names>Nidhi</given-names>
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	<aff>Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2025</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2025</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2025 REA Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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			<article-title>Assessing medical waste treatment technique based on hyperbolic fuzzy EM-SWARA with COPRAS and ARAS approaches</article-title>
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			Medical Waste Treatment Techniques (MWTT) have become a significant concern due to the imminent risks they pose to human health and the environment. Proper and secure treatment and disposal of toxic and harmful medical waste are essential and various MWTT options are available to achieve this. The selection of the ideal MWT option is a complex and crucial Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem as the decision is influenced by several factors both qualitative and quantitative aspects. This study presents a hybrid MCDM method for analyzing and opting the MWT options within a Hyperbolic fuzzy framework. The Hyperbolic Fuzzy Set (HyFS) is an advanced tool that addresses uncertainty with greater precision, providing more flexibility for the decision makers. An entropy measure and a score function have been introduced in a hyperbolic fuzzy environment. Objective weights are evaluated using the entropy measure while subjective weights are assessed through the Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) model. Consequently, a pioneering hybrid MCDM approach is presented combining HyF-EM-SWARA with Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS) and Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) techniques to identify the optimal MWT option in India. Furthermore, relative evaluations and variability analysis are presented to demonstrate the stability and reliability of the proposed hybrid MCDM methods for ranking the preferences of MWTT.
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