Systematic semantic ambiguities result from the interaction of the two operations that are involved in resolving ellipsis in the presence of scoping elements such as quantiiers and intensional operators: scope determination for the scoping elements and resolution of the elided relation. A variety of problematic examples previously noted | by Sag, Hirschb uhler, Gawron and Peters, Harper, and ot...

Due to brutal business competition, new product development (NPD) has become a key factor for promoting business sustainability. To help a company determine the direction of NPD for the future, this study applies the fuzzy analytical hierarchy procedure (AHP) and fuzzy data envelopment analysis (DEA) to develop an evaluation and ranking methodology, assisting decision makers to select NPD proje...

We investigate the distribution of energy density in a stationary self-reproducing inflationary universe. We show that the main fraction of volume of the universe in a state with a given density ρ at any given moment of proper time t is concentrated near the centers of deep exponentially wide spherically symmetric wells in the density distribution. Since this statement is very surprising and co...

Fast, user-centric access to and evaluation of large supercomputing results is a well-recognised problem among compute and data service providers. In the ESTEDI initiative, research and industry from Europe and beyond cooperate to overcome this obstacle. The basic approach is to augment the highvolume data generators with a database system for the management and extraction of spatio-temporal da...

Traditionally, mycotoxin problems have come to our attention mainly because of outbreaks of animal diseases and in several instances human diseases and there are then related to a mycotoxin as the causative agent. Undoubtedly this will continue to be a very important means for uncovering mycotoxin problems. However, in recent years, now that practical, sensitive analytical methods have become a...

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The purpose of OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems is to provide a framework for the analysis of multidimensional data. Many tasks related to analysing multidimensional data and making business decisions are still carried out manually by analysts (e.g. financial analysts, accountants, or business managers). An important and common task in multidimensional analysis is business diagnosis...

The paper of Finan and Hurley – published in Computers and Operations Research (2002) – was re-examined, where they discussed a seemingly contradictory phenomenon resulting from the ignoring of wash criteria in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). With that, they raised a serious challenge to the AHP methodology. However, by reviewing their arguments and example data, analyses regarding to the...

Regulatory T cells (Treg) have recently been identified as playing a central role in the immune response to allergens and during allergen-specific immunotherapy. We have extended our previous mathematical model describing the nonlinear dynamics of Th1-Th2 regulation by including Treg cells and their major cytokines. We hypothesize that immunotherapy mainly acts on the T cell level and that the ...

The complicated structure of fMRI signals and associated noise sources make it difficult to assess the validity of various steps involved in the statistical analysis of brain activation. Most methods used for fMRI analysis assume that observations are independent and that the noise can be treated as white gaussian noise. These assumptions are usually not true but it is difficult to assess how s...