Having incorporated the characteristics of Chinese politics, this article puts forward an exploratory analytic framework for understanding protest success and points out how political opportunities and protest frames can explain protest success. Political opportunities not only include direct intervention by the central government but also support from state-sponsored media and favourable polic...

Existing similarity measures between intuitionistic fuzzy sets/vague sets are analyzed, compared and summarized by their counterintuitive examples in pattern recognition. The positive aspects of each similarity measure are demonstrated, along with counter cases and discussion of the conditions under which each may not work as desired. The research presented here could benefit selection and appl...

A house is an essential human factor. A housing market is formed by the demand and supply of houses. A global housing market fluctuates by each country's policies and situations. Because of the various social, cultural and economic aspects affecting complexity, it is difficult to analyze the factors affecting the housing market. Consequently, in this paper, we analyze several housing market fac...

It is well documented that efficient measurement of inpatient length of stay (LOS) can greatly enhance the planning and management of hospital resources. This paper describes the use of a data mining approach to predict the LOS using historical data. The data are first pre-processed using attribute-aggregation, attribute-generalization and relevance analysis procedures to reduce the numbers of ...

We compare the yields of two methods to obtain Bernstein type pointwise estimates for the derivative of a multivariate polynomial in points of some domain, where the polynomial is assumed to have sup norm at most 1. One method, due to Sarantopoulos, relies on inscribing ellipses into the convex domain K. The other, pluripotential theoretic approach, mainly due to Baran, works for even more gene...

The paper presents the design of target NISC (No Instruction Set Computer) architecture for matrix application in a C based design flow. It starts with the implementation of a standard application program which generates customized designs using the NISC toolset. Further, it demonstrates and analyzes the compilation and simulation results of several matrix applications on a number of different ...

Different from most of the existing studies, this paper analyzes the financing performance of crowdfunding projects in an asymmetric way. First of all, 14 antecedent conditions of the project performance are extracted through the review on the existing research. Secondly, a cross-tabulation analysis is carried out to explore the main and contrarian effects of the antecedent conditions based on ...

Brain tumor is most vital disease which commonly penetrates in the human beings. Studies based on brain tumor confirm that people affected by brain tumors die due to their erroneous detection. In this paper, an enhanced Fuzzy CMeans segmentation (FCM) technique is proposed for detecting brain tumor. To justify the performance of the proposed method, a comparative analysis is being carried out w...

Interval-valued fuzzy sets involve more uncertainties than ordinary fuzzy sets and can be used to capture imprecise or uncertain decision information in fields that require multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This paper takes the simple additive weighting (SAW) method and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) as the main structure to deal with in...

BACKGROUND Data-driven risk stratification models built using data from a single hospital often have a paucity of training data. However, leveraging data from other hospitals can be challenging owing to institutional differences with patients and with data coding and capture. OBJECTIVE To investigate three approaches to learning hospital-specific predictions about the risk of hospital-associa...