A multi-objective heuristic particle swarm optimiser (MOHPSO) based on Pareto multi-objective theory is proposed to solve multi-objective optimality problems. The optimality objectives are the roof displacement and structure weight. Two types of structure are analysed in this paper, a truss structure and a framework structure. Performance-based seismic analysis, such as classical and modal push...

Exposure measurement error is a problem in many epidemiological studies, including those using biomarkers and measures of dietary intake. Measurement error typically results in biased estimates of exposure-disease associations, the severity and nature of the bias depending on the form of the error. To correct for the effects of measurement error, information additional to the main study data is...

Instances of non-commutativity are pervasive in human behavior. In this paper, we suggest that psychological properties such as attitudes, values, preferences and beliefs may be suitably described in terms of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics. We expose the foundations of nonclassical measurement theory building on a simple notion of orthospace and ortholattice (logic). Two axioms...

We propose a system of equations to describe the interaction of a quasiclassical variable X with a set of quantum variables x that goes beyond the usual mean field approximation. The idea is to regard the quantum system as continuously and imprecisely measured by the classical system. The effective equations of motion for the classical system therefore consist of treating the quantum variable x...

This article delves into the scoring function of the statistical paraphrase generation model. It presents an algorithm for exact computation and two applicative experiments. The first experiment analyses the behaviour of a statistical paraphrase generation decoder, and raises some issues with the ordering of n-best outputs. The second experiment shows that a major boost of performance can be ob...

The linear measurement error model is an alternative to the classical regression model, in which we assume that the independent variables are subject to error. This assumption can cause statistical inferences and parameter estimators to di er dramatically from those obtained from the classical regression model. However, inferences may remain unchanged even though the independent variables are a...

Stern-Gerlach experiment is a paradigm of measurement theory in quantum mechanics. Notwithstanding several analysis given in literature, no clear understanding of the apparent collapse has been given so far. Indeed, one can imagine a Stern-Gerlach device where all environmental effects are removed and ask the question on how the measurement goes on. In this letter we will prove that a the Stern...

Examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. This article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in Nigerian Universities. The structural-fu...

A well studied instantiation of Dung’s abstract theory of argumentation yields argumentation-based characterisations of non-monotonic inference over possibly inconsistent sets of classical formulae. This provides for single-agent reasoning in terms of argument and counter-argument, and distributed non-monotonic reasoning in the form of dialogues between computational and or human agents. Howeve...

We present ultimate version of no-hidden-variables theorem. We shall derive a proposition under the existence of the Bloch sphere in a single spin-1/2 system. The existence of a single classical probability space for measurement outcome within the formalism of von Neumann’s projective measurement cannot coexist with the proposition. Namely, we have to give up the existence of such a classical p...