We explore the consequences of a set of axioms which extend Scarsini’s axioms for bivariate measures of concordance to the multivariate case and exhibit the following results: (1) A method of extending measures of concordance from the bivariate case to arbitrarily high dimensions. (2) A formula expressing the measure of concordance of the random vectors (±X1, · · · ,±Xn) in terms of the measure...

O ambiente linguístico e cultural é determinante para o desenvolvimento de uma língua, particularmente a criança bilingue. Se contexto favorável ao bilinguismo, aquisição outra língua torna-se competência positiva na vida da criança. Para as crianças que iniciam aprendizagem escolar no seu país origem ou cujos pais têm como línguafamiliar português, termos “em cima, cheio, lado, muitos, longe”,...

We generalize the Manolescu-Owens smooth concordance invariant δ(K) of knots K ⊂ S to invariants δpn(K) obtained by considering covers of order p, with p a prime. Our main result shows that for any prime p 6= 2, the thus obtained homomorphism ⊕n∈Nδpn from the smooth concordance group to Z∞ has infinite rank. We also show that unlike δ, these new invariants typically are not multiples of the kno...

The notion of concordance is central to many multiple criteria techniques relying on ordinal information, e.g. outranking methods. It leads to compare alternatives by pairs on the basis of a comparison of coalitions of attributes in terms of “importance”. This note proposes a characterization of the binary relations that can be obtained using such comparisons, within a general framework for con...

We review the free parameters in the concordance cosmology, and those which might be added to this set as the quality of astrophysical data improves. Most concordance parameters encode information about otherwise unexplored aspects of high energy physics, up to the GUT scale via the “inflationary sector,” and possibly even the Planck scale in the case of dark energy. We explain how neutrino pro...

We present CoocViewer, a graphical analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative literary analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the new...