Qualitative counterparts of expected utility can be expressed by means of Sugeno inte-grals. Both von Neumann and Morgenstern-like and Savage-like axiomatic justiications are provided. In this framework, pessimistic (i.e., risk-averse) as well as optimistic attitudes can be captured.

The homo-trimeric, membrane bound Microsomal Glutathione Transferase 1 (MGST1, EC. 2.5.1.18) belongs functionally to both the glutathione transferase family (GST) and the Membrane Associated Proteins in Eicosanoid and Glutathione Metabolism (MAPEG) superfamily. It is found in high amount in the liver, where it is localised to the endoplasmatic reticulum and the outer membrane of mitochondria. M...

A recommender system based on ranks is proposed, where an expert’s ranking of a set of objects and a user’s ranking of a subset of those objects are combined to make a prediction of the user’s ranking of all objects. The rankings are assumed to be induced by latent continuous variables corresponding to the grades assigned by the expert and the user to the objects. The dependence between the exp...

This article presents an axiomatic analysis of the best choice decision problem from a reflexive crisp binary relation on a finite set (a digraph). With respect to a transitive digraph, optimality and maximality are usually accepted as the best fitted choice axioms to the intuitive notion of best choice. However, beyond transitivity (resp. acyclicity), optimality and maximality can characterise...

The foregoing commentaries demonstrate wide differences between their authors’ choice of terms describing epidemiologic research designs, and in the relative importance they attach to directionality, timing, and sample selection. Nowhere is this more evident than in their discrepant definitions of “prospective” and “retrospective” studies. According to Drs Greenland and Morgenstern, “Prospectiv...

The existence of von Neumann–Morgenstern solutions (stable sets) for assignment games has been an unsolved question since Shapley and Shubik [11]. For each optimal matching between buyers and sellers, Shubik [12] proposed considering the union of the core of the game and the core of the subgames that are compatible with this matching. We prove in the present paper that this set is the unique st...