fuzzy linear regression models are used to obtain an appropriate linear relation between a dependent variable and several independent variables in a fuzzy environment. several methods for evaluating fuzzy coefficients in linear regression models have been proposed. the first attempts at estimating the parameters of a fuzzy regression model used mathematical programming methods. in this the...

Hate speech in the form of racism and sexism is commonplace on the internet (Waseem and Hovy, 2016). For this reason, there has been both an academic and an industry interest in detection of hate speech. The volume of data to be reviewed for creating data sets encourages a use of crowd sourcing for the annotation efforts. In this paper, we provide an examination of the influence of annotator kn...

Modeling Macroeconomies as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents Blake LeBaron and Leigh Tesfatsion, AER Papers & Proceedings, 98(2), 246-250 “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” G.E.P. Box (1979, p. 202) Macroeconomists seek to understand the structure and performance of economies at a national or regional level and the manner in which government policy makers attempt to inf...

This thesis focuses on gaining linguistic insights into textual discussions on a word level. It was of special interest to distinguish messages that constructively contribute to a discussion from those that are detrimental to them. Thereby, we wanted to determine whether “I”and “You”-messages are indicators for either of the two discussion styles. These messages are nowadays often used in guide...

This research explores the perspectives of public library staff on the subject of bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is either using non-fiction advisory texts to help people understand and deal with mental and physical health problems, primarily mild mental health difficulties including mild to moderate depression, or it is using fiction books to provide enjoyment for people with similar health prob...

Current resource provisioning schemes in Internet services leave servers less than 50% utilized almost all the time. At this level of utilization, the servers’ energy efficiency is substantially lower than at peak utilization. A solution to this problem could be dynamically consolidating workloads into fewer servers and turning others off. However, services typically resist doing so, because of...

The forestry industry provides a good illustration of the active roles that industry associations, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national governments, and international organizations can play in developing and promoting codes of conduct that are formally sanctioned and certified. It also reflects some of the challenges of disseminating codes of conduct in developing countr...

Visual perceptual disorders are often presented as a disparate group of neurological deficits with little consideration given to the wide range of visual symptoms found in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disease. Here, the authors attempt a functional anatomical classification of all disorders linked to visual perception, whatever the clinical context in which they arise, including those dis...

This paper introduces discrete large games where the set of players is a countable dense ‘grid’ with a finitely additive distribution. In these games any function from player names to mixed actions is a legitimate strategy profile. No extraneous continuity or measurability conditions are assumed. Randomness can be modeled explicitly and an exact law of large numbers holds. Equilibria enjoy a st...

We appreciate the thoughtful comments by Subramanian and O’Malley to our paper on comparing mixed models and population average models, and the opportunity this response affords us to make a stronger and more general case regarding prevalent misconceptions surrounding statistical estimation. There are several technical points made in the paper that can be debated, but we will focus on what we b...