Background Childhood obesity has increased as a health problem worldwide and WHO have declared that obesity is a global epidemic problem which is needed to be managed promptly. In the last decades, prevalence of childhood obesity has raised dramatically. Childhood obesity may results in overweight and impose other health problems. It is also a risk factor for development of Type-2 Diabetes Mell...

We present XMM-Newton observations and spectral fitting of two highly redshift, [OIII]-luminous, narrow-line radio galaxies, B3 0731+438 and 3C 257. Their X-ray continua are well fitted by a partial covering model with intrinsically unabsorbed and absorbed powerlaw components. The spectral models indicate that both objects harbour highly obscured nuclei, with NH ≈ 0.5 − 2 × 10 23 cm. Correcting...

in this study, a novel variable impedance control for a lower-limb rehabilitation robotic system using voltage control strategy is presented. the majority of existing control approaches are based on control torque strategy, which require the knowledge of robot dynamics as well as dynamic of patients. this requires the controller to overcome complex problems such as uncertainties and nonlinearit...

If all we know about normalized fuzzy sets is which set is a subset of which, will we be able to detect crisp sets? It is known that we can do it if we allow all possible fuzzy sets, including non-normalized ones. In this paper, we show that a similar detection is possible if we only allow normalized fuzzy sets. We also show that we can detect type-1 fuzzy sets based on the subsethood ordering ...

Since its original formulation, the theory of fuzzy sets has spawned a number of extensions where the role of membership values in the real unit interval $[0, 1]$ is handed over to more complex mathematical entities. Amongst the many existing extensions, two similar ones, the fuzzy multisets and the hesitant fuzzy sets, rely on collections of several distinct values to represent fuzzy membershi...

Words mean different things to different people, and so are uncertain. We, therefore, need a fuzzy set model for a word that has the potential to capture their uncertainties. In this paper I propose that an interval type-2 fuzzy set (IT2 FS) be used as a FS model of a word, because it is characterized by its footprint of uncertainty (FOU), and therefore has the potential to capture word uncerta...

Abstract Convexity is a deeply studied concept since it very useful in many fields of mathematics, like optimization. When we deal with imprecision, the convexity required as well and some important applications can be found fuzzy optimization, particular sets. In this paper have extended notion for interval-valued sets order to able cover wider area imprecision. We show its interesting propert...

In theory of interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy sets, type-reduction is one of the most difficult parts. Karnik-Mendel (KM) algorithms have been the most popular method for computing type-reduction of IT2 fuzzy sets. These algorithms present two independent procedures for computing the generalized centroid of an IT2 fuzzy set: the first one for computing its left part (denoted by cl), and the second o...

QUALIFLEX, a generalization of Jacquet-Lagreze’s permutation method, is a useful outranking method in decision analysis because of its flexibility with respect to cardinal and ordinal information. This paper develops an extended QUALIFLEX method for handling multiple criteria decision-making problems in the context of interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Interval type-2 fuzzy sets contain membership val...

Interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems have a wide range of applications due to their abilities to handle uncertainties compared to their type-1 counterparts. This paper presents an approach for developing closed-form mathematical representations for interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems. Having such a representation can be useful in real-time implementation of the system and in its mathematical ana...