This study mainly addresses two questions: (i) what is the verse grammar that governs the modern speaker’s scansion of classical Chinese verse lines? (ii) how can his apparently intuitive judgment of metrical harmony of verse lines be accounted for in a principled way? For the first question, we have argued that the modern verse grammar represents the coexistence of five minimally different sub...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one of non-parametric methods for evaluating efficiency of each unit. Limited resources in healthcare economy is the main reason in measuring efficiency of hospitals. In this study, a bootstrap interval data envelopment analysis (BIRDEA) is proposed for measuring the efficiency of hospitals affiliated with the Hamedan University of Medical Sciences. The propos...

Let / = [0, 1], ® = Lebesgue measurable subsets of [0, 1], and let A denote the Lebesgue measure on (/, ©). Let t: / —> / be measurable and surjective. We say t is full, if for all A e «, AL4) > 0, r(A), t\A), ..., measurable, the condition (1) n|im \(t"(A)) = 1 holds. We say t is interval full if (1) holds for any interval A c /. In this note, we give an example of t: / -> / which is continuou...

Static and dynamic multiobjective topology optimization of trusses with interval parameters is investigated. The uncertain parameters of the trusses are described by an interval model. The multiobjective topology optimization model of trusses with interval parameters is constructed. On the basis of Taylor expansion and natural interval extension, the stress and displacement response intervals u...

‎selecting the most suitable robot among their wide range of specifications and capabilities is an important issue to perform the hazardous and repetitive jobs‎. ‎companies should take into consideration powerful group decision-making (gdm) methods to evaluate the candidates or potential robots versus the selected attributes (criteria)‎. ‎in this study‎, ‎a new gdm method is proposed by utilizi...

PosMed (http://omicspace.riken.jp/) prioritizes candidate genes for positional cloning by employing our original database search engine GRASE, which uses an inferential process similar to an artificial neural network comprising documental neurons (or 'documentrons') that represent each document contained in databases such as MEDLINE and OMIM. Given a user-specified query, PosMed initially perfo...

In collaborative play, young children can exhibit different types of engagement. Some children are engaged with other children in the play activity while others are just looking. In this study, we investigated methods to automatically detect the children’s levels of engagement in play settings using non-verbal vocal features. Rather than labelling the level of engagement in an absolute manner, ...