In this article, we put forward the small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs) credit guarantee is the effective measure to solve the financing difficulty for SMEs. Through the analysis of the actuality of Chinese SMEs credit guarantee legal system, we try to find the shortages such as the deficiency of the SMEs special guarantee legislation, the unreasonable capital financing structure, the ris...

Congestive heart failure is a common, chronic and debilitating condition with an extremely poor prognosis. This paper presents an approach to creation of risk assessment model for congestive heart failure. Two types of hierarchical multi-attribute models are developed and compared: qualitative and quantitative. The results for both models showed that the models can successfully assist and help ...

The Internet is one of the most utilized resources for obtaining information, learning, communication, and as a source of advice. The most sought after advice and information are related with health matters. In the United States, for example, over 16 million people per year visit WebMD (http:// my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default), an online portal dedicated to providing health information an...

Crop model simulates growth and yield of crop in field scale and can be used to provide useful field information for farmers, such as irrigation application dates and amount, fertilizer application dates and amount, the choose of crop variety. Researchers have used crop models for many years, but they have had limited success in packaging these complex models in a framework that make them easy ...

0749-5978/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.10.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (L.P. Tost). Four experiments test the prediction that feelings of power lead individuals to discount advice received from both experts and novices. Experiment 1 documents a negative relationship between subjective feelings of power and use of advice. Experimen...

In rendezvous, two agents traverse network edges in synchronous rounds and have to meet at some node. In treasure hunt, a single agent has to find a stationary target situated at an unknown node of the network. We study tradeoffs between the amount of information (advice) available a priori to the agents and the cost (number of edge traversals) of rendezvous and treasure hunt. Our goal is to fi...

Non-technical summary Founders often have big problems with firm financing issues. Financing problems may arise for many reasons. Information asymmetry and uncertainty are important, but so are such things as ignorance. Experienced entrepreneurs should have more knowledge about financing issues and should be more likely to know who to turn to for help and advice. Thus, they have advantages over...

We consider the problem of online graph multi-coloring with advice. Multi-coloring is often used to model frequency allocation in cellular networks. We give several nearly tight upper and lower bounds for the most standard topologies of cellular networks, paths and hexagonal graphs. For the path, negative results trivially carry over to bipartite graphs, and our positive results are also valid ...

It’s not usual for citations or footnotes to be included in abstracts. One of our purposes here is to expose something of the elementary logical structure of abductive reasoning, and to do so in a way that helps orient theorists to the various tasks that a logic of abduction should concern itself with. We are mindful of criticisms that have been levelled against the very idea of a logic of abdu...

This paper describes potential applications of multi-attribute preference models (MAPM) in e-commerce and offers some guidelines for their implementation. MAPM are methodologies for modeling complex preferences that depend on more than one attribute or criterion, and include multi-attribute utility theory, conjoint analysis, and the Analytic Hierarchy Process. There are numerous examples of app...