recently, abbasbandy and asady have been proposed a modificationof the distance based approach, namely ``sign distance method''.however, in this paper, it is shown that this method has some drawbacks, i.e.,the result is not consistent with human intuition for specialcases and this method cannot always logically infer rankingorder of the images of the fuzzy numbers. in this paper, wepresent a re...

this study is an investigation of fuzzy linear regression model for crisp/fuzzy input and fuzzy output data. a least absolutes deviations approach to construct such a model is developed by introducing and applying a new metric on the space of fuzzy numbers. the proposed approach, which can deal with both symmetric and non-symmetric fuzzy observations, is compared with several existing models by...

A binary session is a private communication channel that connects two processes, each adhering to protocol description called type . In this work, we study the first system ensures fair termination of sessions. fairly terminates if all infinite executions admitted by its are deemed unrealistic because they violate certain fairness assumptions Fair entails eventual completion pending input/outpu...

A curvilinear pattern among a series of visual items (e.g., dots) can be regarded as a kind of probabilistic inference, in which each consecutive angle, regarded independently, is more nearly collinear than would be expected by chance alone. This paper investigates judgments of curvilinearity as a function of the joint distribution of successive inter-dot angles. Subjects were asked to classify...

Background: Excitatory amino acid carrier 1 (EAAC1) is a glutamate transporter found in neuronal tissues and is extensively expressed in the retina. EAAC1 plays a role in a variety of neural functions, but its biological functions in the retina has not been fully determined. The purpose of this study was to identify proteins regulated by EAAC1 in the retina of mice. To accomplish this, we used ...

NUMEROUS antigens have been described to date that were claimed to crossreact with the carcinoembryonic antigen of the digestive tract (CEA) discovered by Gold and Freedman (1965). Among them, only one has been sufficiently purified and characterized to allow further, more detailed studies of its immunological relationship with CEA, its identity with other cross-reacting substances, and its pos...

OBJECTIVE To measure the uncertainty of temporal assertions like "3 weeks ago" in clinical texts. DESIGN Temporal assertions extracted from narrative clinical reports were compared to facts extracted from a structured clinical database for the same patients. MEASUREMENTS The authors correlated the assertions and the facts to determine the dependence of the uncertainty of the assertions on t...

We examined the brain activity underlying the development of our understanding of negative numbers, which are amounts lacking direct physical counterparts. Children performed a paired comparison task with positive and negative numbers during an fMRI session. As previously shown in adults, both pre-instruction fifth-graders and post-instruction seventh-graders demonstrated typical behavioral and...