Often it is appropriate to have more than one decision maker perform the pairwise comparisons that are part of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). With group judgments one would hope for broad consensus among the decision makers, in which case one would aggregate judgments via their geometric mean. However, consensus may not always be reached and significant dispersion may exist among the jud...

amr bayn al-amrayn (principle of middle position) is amongst the fundamentals of the shī‘ī intellectual doctrines. it is attempted in this paper to demonstrate the genuineness and integrity of the theory of amr bayn al amrayn according to the principle of unity of divine acts and autonomous creatorship of god, the original principle of causality as well as the principle of analogical gradation ...

The well-known hierarchy between the Planck scale (∼ 10GeV) and the TeV scale, namely a ratio of ∼ 10 between the two, is coincidentally repeated in a inverted order between the TeV scale and the dark energy scale at ∼ 10eV implied by the observations. We argue that this is not a numerical coincidence. The same brane-world setups to address the first hierarchy problem may also in principle addr...

The increasing popularity of Singular Value Decomposition Algorithms, used in real time signal processing, demands a rapid development of their fast and reliable implementations. This paper shows several modiications to the Jacobi-like parallel algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and their impact on the algorithm's performance. In particular, the optimisations for the parallel memo...

An approach to network intrusion detection is investigated, based purely on a hierarchy of SelfOrganizing Feature Maps. Our principle interest is to establish just how far such an approach can be taken in practice. To do so, the KDD benchmark dataset from the International Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tools Competition is employed. Extensive analysis is conducted in order to address the ...

MHC tetramers are an essential tool for characterizing antigen-specific CD4+ T cells. However, their ex vivo analysis is limited by the large sample requirements. Here we demonstrate a combinatorial staining approach that allows simultaneous characterization of multiple specificities to address this challenge. As proof of principle, we analyse CD4+ T-cell responses to the seasonal influenza vac...

This paper is part of a general project of developing a systematic and algebraic proof theory for nonclassical logics. Generalizing our previous work on intuitionistic-substructural axioms and singleconclusion (hyper)sequent calculi, we define a hierarchy on Hilbert axioms in the language of classical linear logic without exponentials. We then give a systematic procedure to transform axioms up ...