Building upon a series of works by Thomas J. Bouchard, Lindon J. Eaves, Hans J. Eysenck and other contemporaries, we present strong evidence that the assumed causal relationship between personality and left–right ideology is too simplistic. We suggest the relationship is not predictive and instead is better understood by dividing the overarching left–right ideological spectrum into more meaning...

The Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP) is the problem of finding the minimal cost assignment of jobs to machines such that each job is assigned to exactly one machine, subject to capacity restrictions on the machines. We propose a class of greedy algorithms for the GAP. A family of weight functions is defined to measure a pseudo-cost of assigning a job to a machine. This weight function in tu...

Statistical decision theory axiomatically assumes that the relative desirability of different options that humans perceive is well described by assigning them optionspecific scalar utility functions. However, this assumption is refuted by observed human behavior, including studies wherein preferences have been shown to change systematically simply through variation in the set of choice options ...

Building upon a series of works by Thomas J. Bouchard, Lindon J. Eaves, Hans J. Eysenck and other contemporaries, we present strong evidence that the assumed causal relationship between personality and left–right ideology is too simplistic. We suggest the relationship is not predictive and instead is better understood by dividing the overarching left–right ideological spectrum into more meaning...

The purpose of this study was to detect social desirable response bias on Chinese nurses’ attitudes and beliefs toward sexuality care of cancer patients. A cross-sectional self-reported questionnaire based survey was used. Measures included a 12-item Inventory of Sexuality Attitude and Belief Survey (SABS) and a 10-item Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Total social desirability scores ...

Many real-world problems have a multiobjective character. A-posteriori techniques such as multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEA) generate best compromise solution sets, i.e. Pareto-fronts and Pareto-sets. Classic MOEA are able to find quite efficiently good approximations of the complete Pareto-fronts also for very complex problems. In real-world applications only small sections of the c...

In this study, a simple and fast magnetic dispersive solid phase extraction methodology was developed G@Fe3O4/Fe/Ag nanoparticles for preconcentration and determine of phenolic compounds in water samples. The sorbent was characterized by assorted characterization method. The effects of diverse factor on the extraction process were studied thoroughly via design of experiment and desirability fun...

I introduce and study a fairly general imprecise secondorder uncertainty model, in terms of lower desirability. A modeller’s lower desirability for a gamble is defined as her lower probability for the event that a given subject will find the gamble (at least marginally) desirable. For lower desirability assessments, rationality criteria are introduced that go back to the criteria of avoiding su...