Dunn et al. (2011) attempt an exciting piece of research, investigating which word-order parameters are co-dependent or independent, and which are stable or not. Claims about “universality” have to be taken with several grains of salt, since they investigate only four families, compared to the dozens of families that have been part of samples for the last several decades. More significantly, ho...

1 Mestak O, Kullac R, Mestak J, Nosek A, Krajcova A, Sukop A. Evaluation of the long-term stability of sheath plication using absorbable sutures in 51 patients with diastasis of the recti muscles: an ultrasonographic study. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Nov;130(5):714e-719e. 2 Tadiparthi S1, Shokrollahi K, Doyle GS, Fahmy FS. Rectus sheath plication in abdominoplasty: assessment of its longevity an...

10 The question of efficient characterization of inclusion neighbourhood is crucial in some 11 methods for learning (equivalence classes of) Bayesian networks. In this paper, neighbouring 12 equivalence classes of a given equivalence class of Bayesian networks are characterized effi13 ciently in terms of the respective essential graph. One can distinguish two kinds of inclusion 14 neighbours: u...

Consider sets X and Y each with associated membership functions. Further suppose that there is a map f : X → Y . A membership may be induced onY from the membership ofX calculated using the extension principle, and the two memberships on Y may be combined to give an overall membership. The point with the highest membership in X can be determined directly or by back mapping the value with the hi...

The concept of upper and lower semicontinuity of fuzzy mappings introduced by Bao and Wu [Y.E. Bao, C.X. Wu, Convexity and semicontinuity of fuzzy mappings, Comput. Math. Appl., 51 (2006) 1809–1816] is redefined by using the concept of parameterized triples of fuzzy numbers. On the basis of the linear ordering of fuzzy numbers proposed by Goetschel and Voxman [R. Goetschel, W. Voxman, Elementar...

In (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 97 (1998) 33), we presented a fuzzy multipurpose decision making model integrating di4erent preference representations based on additive reciprocal fuzzy preference relations. The main aim of this paper is to complete the decision model studying conditions under which reciprocity property is maintained when aggregating preference relations using an OWA operator guided...

We study combinatorics of billiard partitions which arose recently in the description periodic trajectories ellipsoidal billiards d-dimensional Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces. Such uniquely codify sets caustics, up to their types, generate trajectories. The period a trajectory is largest part while winding numbers are remaining summands corresponding partition. In order take into account...

Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes are two closely related notions in the area of separating systems. Roughly speaking, they consist in a dominating set of a graph such that every vertex is uniquely identified by its neighbourhood within the dominating set. In this paper, we study the size of a smallest locating-dominating set or identifying code for graphs of girth at least 5 and o...