PMID- 22955049
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130328
LR  - 20121112
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 90
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Jan
TI  - On the ranking of chemicals based on their PBT characteristics: comparison of 
      different ranking methodologies using selected POPs as an illustrative example.
PG  - 112-7
LID - S0045-6535(12)01041-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.08.015 [doi]
AB  - Knowledge of the environmental behavior of chemicals is a fundamental part of the 
      risk assessment process. The present paper discusses various methods of ranking 
      of a series of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) according to the persistence, 
      bioaccumulation and toxicity (PBT) characteristics. Traditionally ranking has 
      been done as an absolute (total) ranking applying various multicriteria data 
      analysis methods like simple additive ranking (SAR) or various utility functions 
      (UFs) based rankings. An attractive alternative to these ranking methodologies 
      appears to be partial order ranking (POR). The present paper compares different 
      ranking methods like SAR, UF and POR. Significant discrepancies between the 
      rankings are noted and it is concluded that partial order ranking, as a method 
      without any pre-assumptions concerning possible relation between the single 
      parameters, appears as the most attractive ranking methodology. In addition to 
      the initial ranking partial order methodology offers a wide variety of analytical 
      tools to elucidate the interplay between the objects to be ranked and the ranking 
      parameters. In the present study is included an analysis of the relative 
      importance of the single P, B and T parameters.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Sailaukhanuly, Yerbolat
AU  - Sailaukhanuly Y
AD  - Center of Physical Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis, Al-Farabi Kazakh 
      National University, 050012 Almaty, Kazakhstan.
FAU - Zhakupbekova, Arai
AU  - Zhakupbekova A
FAU - Amutova, Farida
AU  - Amutova F
FAU - Carlsen, Lars
AU  - Carlsen L
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20120903
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
SB  - IM
MH  - Classification/*methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*classification/metabolism/toxicity
MH  - Environmental Pollution/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*classification/metabolism/toxicity
MH  - Risk Assessment/methods
EDAT- 2012/09/08 06:00
MHDA- 2013/03/30 06:00
CRDT- 2012/09/08 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/08/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/08/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/09/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/03/30 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0045-6535(12)01041-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.08.015 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2013 Jan;90(1):112-7. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.08.015. Epub 
      2012 Sep 3.