The problem of combining the ranked preferences of many experts is an old and surprisingly deep problem that has gained renewed importance in many machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval applications. Effective rank aggregation becomes difficult in real-world situations in which the rankings are noisy, incomplete, or even disjoint. We address these difficulties by extending sev...

This paper is an extension of Hsu and Hsu (Int J Ind Eng Comput 3(5):939–948, 2012) aiming to determine the optimal order quantity of product batches that contain defective items with percentage nonconforming following a known probability density function. The orders are subject to 100 % screening process at a rate higher than the demand rate. Shortage is backordered, and defective items...

Humans with seven or more repeats in exon III of the DRD4 gene (long DRD4 carriers) sometimes demonstrate impaired attention, as seen in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and at other times demonstrate heightened attention, as seen in addictive behavior. Although the clinical effects of DRD4 are the focus of much work, this gene may not necessarily serve as a "risk" gene for attentional...

1 Bao Rong Chang, Cheng Shiu Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 840 Cheng-Ching Rd., Neau-Song Hsiang, Kaoshiung, Taiwan Abstract  The traditional affective instruction evaluation on engineering education has contained two separate sections, (I) Section I: Student self-evaluation (include 10 items) and (II) Section II: Evaluation of the instructor’s teaching (include 10 ...