We introduce and discuss a notion of fuzzy uniform structure that provides a direct link with the classical theory of uniform spaces. More exactly, for each continuous t-norm we prove that the category of all fuzzy uniform spaces in our sense (and fuzzy uniformly continuous mappings) is isomorphic to the category of uniform spaces (and uniformly continuous mappings) by means of a covariant func...

This paper reports on the application of the operational complexity index [Frizelle, G., Woodcock, E., 1995. Measuring complexity as an aid to developing operational complexity. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 15(5), 26–39]. The aim is to address what is the relationship between costs and the complexity index. The investigation carried out measurements on two types...

We test the theoretical prediction that profit sharing reduces worker separations and by doing so increases the incidence of training. Using individual level UK data, we confirm that profit sharing is a robust determinant of lower separation rates and of greater training incidence. Critically, we cannot confirm the predicted link between separations and training. Instead, the evidence supports ...

Despite the global nature of problems such as rapid depletion of fossil fuels and water resources, most of the solutions being developed to address these issues are based on studies done in the developed world. We conducted a study of energy, water and fuel conservation practices in urban India, replicating the work of Dillahunt et al., a qualitative study that explored the current practices, b...

We present experimental evidence that security prices do not respond to pressure from their own excess demand, unlike traditionally assumed in economic theory. Instead, prices respond to excess demand of all securities, despite the absence of a direct link between markets. We propose a model of price pressure that explains these findings. In our model, agents set order prices that reflect the m...

A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL which involves linking mentions written in non-English documents to entries in the English Wikipedia: to compare textual clues across languages we need to compu...

The paper describes a tool designed within the first stage of the European project INVISIP in order to explore geographical metadata in the site planning process. A visual data mining approach is applied to a database of geographical metadata to help the user find an optimal subset of the existing geographical datasets for his particular planning task. It allows the user to perform both confirm...

The nonlocal conservation laws for the N=1 supersymmetric KdV equation are shown to be related in a simple way to powers of the fourth root of its Lax operator. This provides a direct link between the supersymmetry invariance and the existence of nonlocal conservation laws. It is also shown that nonlocal conservation laws exist for the two integrable N=2 supersymmetric KdV equations whose recur...

Brushing teeth is a daily habit to maintain oral hygiene, including the maintenance of oral cleanliness and prevention of caries and periodontal disease. However, tooth brushing is often not carried out correctly or forgotten because the task is boring. Although several works have contributed to improving brushing performance and motivation, the feedback seems to be very remote from the brushin...

This paper describes our approach to the 2011 Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Knowledge Base Population (KBP) cross-lingual entity linking problem. We recast the problem of entity linking as one of cross-document entity coreference. We compare an approach where deductive entity linking informs crossdocument coreference to an inductive approach where coreference and linking judgements are mutuall...