The corpus-based study focuses on the use of hedges in persuasive TED Talk speeches, which are powerful, premeditated speeches delivered a distinctive communicative environment that combines elements both spoken and written discourse. authors employ quantitative qualitative methods to analyze hedging devices used bolster three rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, logos. results show only 2% words...

The paper aims to show an applicability of the algebraic approach introduced in [7,9,11,6] to solving a problem of fuzzy control. In this approach, linearly ordered term-domains of linguistic variables can be considered as linear hedges algebras (LinHAs). It is interesting that in LinHAs, a formal notion of fuzziness measure of linguistic hedges and terms can be defined in a reasonable way, bas...

One conceptualization of meta-analysis is that studies within the meta-analysis are sampled from populations with mean effect sizes that vary (random-effects models). The consequences of not applying such models and the comparison of different methods have been hotly debated. A Monte Carlo study compared the efficacy of Hedges and Vevea's random-effects methods of meta-analysis with Hunter and ...

Objective: To replicate and extend findings from a previous controlled trial of Cognitive Trauma Therapy for Battered Women (CTT-BW; Kubany et al., 2004), the current study presents data on the treatment of 8 women with PTSD related to intimate partner violence (IPV). Method: CTT-BW was administered weekly, using the manual provided by Kubany and a multiple baseline across participants design. ...

Garden Dormouse ( Eliomys quercinus ) populations have declined by 50% throughout Europe over the last 30 years. They are increasingly found in German cities, but little is known about their urban lifestyle. A radiotelemetry study was performed city of Wiesbaden, to investigate daily resting habits Dormice. The location and structure nest sites used for daytime rest (DNS) five individuals (one ...

The efficacy of the Hedges and colleagues, Rosenthal-Rubin, and Hunter-Schmidt methods for combining correlation coefficients was tested for cases in which population effect sizes were both fixed and variable. After a brief tutorial on these meta-analytic methods, the author presents two Monte Carlo simulations that compare these methods for cases in which the number of studies in the meta-anal...

The paper presents results on factorization by similarity of fuzzy concept lattices with hedges. Factorization of fuzzy concept lattices including a fast way to compute the factor lattice was presented in our earlier papers. The basic idea is to have, instead of a whole fuzzy concept lattice, its factor lattice. The factor lattice results by factorizing the original fuzzy concept lattice by a s...

Numerical information is very common in all kinds of documents from newspapers and magazines to household bills and wage slips. However, many people find it difficult to understand, particularly people with poor education and disabilities. Sometimes numerical information is presented with hedges that modify the meaning. A numerical hedge is a word or phrase employed to indicate explicitly that ...

Fuzzy set theory provides a framework in which natural language expressions can be modelled mathematically, thereby even taking the vagueness of linguistic terms into account. In fuzzy systems a linguistic term (e.g. fast) is represented by a fuzzy set, while a linguistic modifier (e.g. very) is modelled by an operator (also known as hedge) transforming a fuzzy set into another. In the paper fi...

We present an algorithm to distinguish several types of brick walls, picket fences, and hedges based on the analysis of backscattered sonar echoes. The echo data are acquired by a mobile robot with a single-transducer 50 kHz pulse-echo sonar computer-controlled scanning system packaged as its sensor head. For several locations along a wall, fence, or hedge, a fan of backscatter sonar echoes is ...