Chierchia (1998) proposed that the semantic type of nouns varies across languages: in some languages, nouns denote entities; in others, nouns denote predicates; in yet others, nouns of both types are attested. Chierchia posits the existence of two parameters to account for this division— namely [±arg], which determines whether a language contains nouns denoting arguments, and [±pred], which det...

Hierarchical structures and uncertainty measures are two main aspects in granular computing, approximate reasoning and cognitive process. Typical hesitant fuzzy sets, as a prime extension of fuzzy sets, are more flexible to reflect the hesitance and ambiguity in knowledge representation and decision making. In this paper, we mainly investigate the hierarchical structures and uncertainty measure...

Many Turkish people migrated to Germany between 1955 and 1975. This study was carried out in Göttingen, Germany. Fifty Turkish people (described as patients) were asked about the care they had received from German health care personnel, and 50 German nurses and 50 German physiotherapists were questioned about care they had given to Turkish patients. Significant findings were the needs of the Tu...

In this study, the genetic diversity of three milk protein genes namely beta-casein, kappacasein and beta-lactoglobulin was estimated in Turkish cattle breeds. Based on these genes, breeds in Turkey have been grouped as: 1) Eastern Anatolian Red, Anatolian Black and Southern Anatolian Red and 2) Turkish Grey, Turkish Holstein and Holstein Candidate Bulls. B alleles of the three studied genes, w...

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making is a focus point in linguistic decision making, in which the main method is based on preference ordering. This paper develops a new hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method for group multi-criteria linguistic decision making; the method is inspired by the TOPSIS method and the preference degree between two hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs). To...

This textbook, published in 2008, gives advice to Final Year students applying for the National Foundation Training Programme for F1 and F2 doctors. The problems with this application process over the past several years are well known to senior students, junior doctors, programme directors, postgraduate Deans, universities, the public and indeed politicians. This book is timely and is an effort...

This textbook, published in 2008, gives advice to Final Year students applying for the National Foundation Training Programme for F1 and F2 doctors. The problems with this application process over the past several years are well known to senior students, junior doctors, programme directors, postgraduate Deans, universities, the public and indeed politicians. This book is timely and is an effort...

Tax fairness is a normative concept. Economists have spent decades in search of the elusive social welfare function. Tax policy specialists ponder the proper manner in which to present tables about tax burdens. And politicians try to ascertain or, in some cases, shape attitudes about desirable tax burdens. Lurking behind all three activities is the public itself. It is ultimately public attitud...

Many individuals are still hesitant to undergo colonoscopy despite numerous advertisements and campaigns about it. A few years back, a famous TV personality named Katie Kouric, had her colonoscopy broadcasted through live television because she wanted the public to see that there’s nothing scary or frightening about the procedure. Her husband died of colon cancer at a young age. Had he had a co...