In this paper, the concepts of positive dependence and linearlypositive quadrant dependence are introduced for fuzzy random variables. Also,an inequality is obtained for partial sums of linearly positive quadrant depen-dent fuzzy random variables. Moreover, a weak law of large numbers is estab-lished for linearly positive quadrant dependent fuzzy random variables. Weextend some well known inequ...

this paper examines the effects of corporate governance (board structure and ownership structure) and some financial variables on financial statement restatements. for this purpose, citing firms have been divided into two groups: a group comprising firms (48 firms) that have maximum amount of the annual adjustment (more than 5% of ebit) and a group (control group; 46 firms) comprising firms tha...

Without shared understanding, hardly any group learning takes place. Though much has been written about the essence of shared understanding, less is known about how to assess the process of reaching shared understanding. Therefore, the study focuses on ways of assessing shared understanding. A conceptual framework is described that makes a distinction between the process of reaching shared unde...

In the effort to develop critical cyberphysical systems, existing computing formalisms are extended to include continuous behaviour. This may happen in a way that neglects elements necessary for correct continuous properties and correct physical properties. A simple language is taken to illustrate this. Issues and risks latent in this kind of approach are identified and discussed under the umbr...

This report provides a mathematical proof of a result which is a generalization of Wiener filtering to Positive α-stable (PαS) distributions, a particular subclass of the α-stable distributions family whose support is [0;+∞[. PαS distributions are useful to model nonnegative data and since they are heavy-tailed, they present a natural robustness to outliers. In applications such as nonnegative ...

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