Taxonomy of quantities

Taxonomy of quantities

The adjectives "generic", "subgeneric", "specific", and "individual" are proposed to be added to the term "quantity", depending on the case, in order to diminish the ambiguity of this term and to classify the different types of quantities.

Taxonomy of Global Air Transport

Data from the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization Information Systems were used as a base for characterizing, classifying and comparing air transport demand and supply features of 156 countries. Relevant data from 1980 were chosen to reflect five sets of characteristics namely, air transport, 50cm-economic status, population demography, geographical and environmenta...

Framing of Numerical Quantities

Judgments and decisions are dependent upon the information available. They are also dependent upon the way the information is presented. Message characteristics that make recipients willing to endorse a message have been discussed within the rhetoric tradition and studied empirically in the psychology of persuasion (Cialdini, 2007), advertising (Armstrong, 2010), and health communication (Berry...

Measurements of Electrical Quantities

Multiplication of fuzzy quantities

The addition operation over the class of fuzzy numbers or fuzzy quantities was investigated and discussed e.g. in [1], [8] or [7]. It is easy to define in an analogous way also the operation of multiplication (cf. [1] or in certain sense also [3] and [4]). Moreover, some of the methods and concepts suggested for the addition case in [5] and further used in [6] and [7] can be evidently adapted t...