The authors interpret decision field theory (J. R. Busemeyer & J. T. Townsend, 1993) as a connectionist network and extend it to accommodate multialternative preferential choice situations. This article shows that the classic weighted additive utility model (see R. L. Keeney & H. Raiffa, 1976) and the classic Thurstone preferential choice model (see L. L. Thurstone, 1959) are special cases of t...

This essay reviews interpretive approaches to dyadic analysis using qualitative data. After reviewing classic approaches to dyadic analysis of qualitative data, we explore some of the benefits these classic approaches offer family communication studies. We then look to three new approaches to dyadic analysis—multiadic analysis, affective analysis, and collaborative autoethnography—that can be o...

It is known that every class-regular symmetric μ,m -net is tactical. Also it is known that all μ,m nets with m 2 or μ 1 are tactical. In the work of Al-Kenani and Mavron 2003 , it is proved that every symmetric net with m 3 is tactical if and only if it is class regular. In this paper, we construct 2, 4 -net and show that it is class regular and therefore tactical. New necessary and sufficient ...

The well-known problem of classical mechanics considered by Bertrand (1857) and Darboux (1901) is reviewed in the context of Cartan’s geometry. UDK: 514.85; MSC: 37J35, 53C05

In this paper, we present a unified approach using model category theory and an associative law to compare some classic variants of the geometric realization functor.