Fuzzy linear regression (FLR) model can be thought of as a fuzzy variation of classical linear regression model. It has been widely studied and applied in diverse fields. When noise exists in data, it is a very meaningful topic to reveal the dependency between the parameter h (i.e. the threshold value used to measure degree of fit) in FLR model and the input noise. In this paper, the FLR model ...

Veech groups uniformize Teichmüller geodesics in Riemann moduli space. We gave examples of infinitely generated Veech groups; see Duke Math. J. 123 (2004), 49–69. Here we show that the associated Teichmüller geodesics can even have both infinitely many cusps and infinitely many infinite ends.

In this note we exhibit a condition under which a sequence of elements a19 , an in a commutative noetherian local ring A form an Asequence, and derive a number of corollaries. Recall that if M is an A-module, then a19 , an is an M-sequence if 1) ai+1 is a nonzerodivisor on M/(a19 9a1)M for i = 0, 9n — 1,. and 2) M Φ (al9 . . . , α n ) M . If a19 , an is an A-sequence and / is the ideal generate...

In this paper we investigate the automatic detection of phoneme boundaries in audio recordings of an unknown language. This work is motivated by the needs of the project BULB which aims to support linguists in documenting unwritten languages. The automatic phonemic transcription of recordings of the unwritten language is part of this. We cannot use multilingual phoneme recognizers as their phon...

The examination of the neck for a thyroid mass and the assessment of a patient’s thyroid status are fundamental to clinical practice, yet many students and doctors lack confidence in these examinations. This review aims to provide a logical and reproducible approach to examining for thyroid disorders, consistent with The Principles of Clinical Examination [1], and based on classic textbook acco...