Linguistic variables are reviewed and some aspects of the original definition revisited, showing that they provide a first formal frame to do computing with words in a “narrow sense”. A two-levels hierarchy of languages is discussed in order to move to simple cases of computing with words in natural language, supported by linguistic variables.

In recent years, progress has been made towards incorporating the sociocultural perspective in assessment of ecosystem services (ES) to identify relevant according different needs and perceptions populations consulted. New methods are being explored respond this emerging line research, without a generally accepted alternative found thus far. Aiming contribute article proposes new methodolo...

Finding data on race, racialized populations, and anti-racism in Canada can be a complex process when conducting research. One source of is the Census which has been collecting socio-demographic since 1871. However, collection racial, ethnic, or Indigenous changed throughout years from to Census. In response need for more support finding ethno-racial data, Ontario Council University Libraries’ ...

nowadays democracy is considered to be one of the most important parameters of development in new era. as a result, the trend toward democratization of a society’s culture is an essential step to achieve a stable development. in that case, identifying the relationship between acceptability of democracy and socialcultural factors is very important. in this study, using the method of survey and q...

In his article “Creolized Chinese Societies in Southeast Asia,” the anthropologist William Skinner developed the idea of the overseas Chinese diaspora as “the creation through ‘fusion’ of a new sociocultural system that achieved autonomy and stability despite continued contact with both parent societies.” In an anthropological view, Skinner saw Java as one of the examples in which the Chinese c...

The role of architecture within Britain's National Health Service has received little attention beyond the discussion of technical matters. Yet architectural design is not a neutral, value-free resource from which architects draw as desired. The layout, design and styling of buildings can manifest the geographicallyand temporallylocalized thinking, aspirations and prejudices of their designers ...

In this short report I outline work that makes a case for the abandonment of queries in approaches to information access. I first highlight problems with queries. I then point out the complementary nature of query-based and browse-based approaches. I describe the “Ostensive Model” that forms the core of a new approach combining the two traditional approaches. It replaces the current reliance up...

One important area of research that has emerged in recent years is the assessment of factors that contribute to the development of body image problems and, more concretely, to the development of body dissatisfaction. The female sociocultural beauty ideal, a constant object of research for over three decades now, is so ultra-thin that it is both unattainable and unhealthy. Likewise, the male bea...

The beliefs of patients attending walk-in clinic and outpatient section, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore were studied separately. The Walk-in Clinic and Outpatient population were divided into three groups by systematic randomization. The beliefs of Group I, Hand III were left untouched, contradicted and supported respectively. The follow up attendance pattern of the patients was t...