Cultural values may influence the extent to which nations care about the well-being of current and future generations of children. The author used archival data to examine this possibility in a sample of 20 wealthy nations. As predicted, after controlling for national wealth, a general pattern was evident such that the more a nation prioritized Egalitarianism versus Hierarchy values and Harmony...

Structured attributes have domains (value sets) that are partially ordered sets, typically hierarchies. Such attributes allow knowledge discovery programs to incorporate background knowledge about hierarchical relationships among attribute values. Inductive generalization rules for structured attributes have been developed that take into consideration the type of nodes in the domain hierarchy (...

In the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP/ANP), the local preference values v1p,v2p,...,vnp of n alternatives A1,A2,...,An with respect to a criterion Cp are measured in ratio scale (Saaty, 2006). Estimated values for the relative ratios vip/vjp (i,j=1,2,...,n) of the local preference values are elicited directly from decision maker (DM) via ratio-scaled pairwise comparisons. These estimated value...

Bali telah menyimpan berbagai bentuk tradisi yang unik, serta berbeda dengan daerah lainnya. Seperti salah satunya adalah tabuh rah. Tradisi ini merupakan bagian dari ritual atau yajna dilaksanakan oleh masyarakat Hindu Bali. Dalam sarana digunakan dua ekor ayam jago diadu. Darah keluar tersebut akan sebagai Namun, pada masa sekarang rah mengalami perubahan makna menjadi tajen. Perubahan dipeng...

We consider the generalized problem of moments (GPM) from a computational point of view and provide a hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations whose sequence of optimal values converges to the optimal value of the GPM. We then investigate in detail various examples of applications in optimization, probability, financial economics and optimal control, which all can be viewed as particul...

I discuss a method for producing a quasi–realistic inter–generational quark mass hierarchy in string models. This approach involves non–Abelian singlet states developing intermediate scale vacuum expectation values. I summarize recent investigations into string model realization of this. Talk presented at QCD98, Paris, France, 1–6 June 1998.

The Young Psychiatrists' Network is a movement of early-career psychiatrists that was established in 2009 with the principles of peer regulation, lack of hierarchy and transparency. From humble beginnings as a small group of professionals in Eastern Europe, the Network is expanding into a globally inclusive platform. Future challenges, such as retention of the Network's core values, are now bei...

We consider the class of nonlinear optimal control problems with all data (differential equation, state and control constraints, cost) being polynomials. We provide a simple hierarchy of LMI-relaxations whose optimal values form a nondecreasing sequence of lower bounds on the optimal value. Preliminary results show that good approximations are obtained with few moments.

We show that if SAT does not have small circuits, then there must exist a small number of satisfiable formulas such that every small circuit fails to compute satisfiability correctly on at least one of these formulas. We use this result to show that if PNP[1] = PNP[2], then the polynomial-time hierarchy collapses to Sp2 ⊆ Σp2∩Πp2. Even showing that the hierarchy collapsed to Σp2 remained open p...

We characterize the collapse of Buss’ bounded arithmetic in terms of the prov­ able collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general model-theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.