After an emergency event (EE) happens, emergency decision making (EDM) is a common and effective way to deal with the emergency situation, which plays an important role in mitigating its level of harm. In the real world, it is a big challenge for an individual emergency manager (EM) to make a proper and comprehensive decision for coping with an EE. Consequently, many practical EDM problems driv...

Consistency of preference relations is associated with the study of the transitivity property. This is clearly related to the scales used for associating preferences values to judgements, and the conditions used to represent transitivity. Both issues, the scale to use and the consistency property, have been studied in the multiplicative model as well as in the fuzzy one. However, we make note t...

In group decision making, users’ behaviour are influenced by their long-term and group-induced preferences. However, how to leverage them is challenging due to their dynamic nature, which is also dependent on the specific group settings. In our work, we employ a group recommendation model that utilizes both types of preferences and we analyze alternative ways of combing them, under diverse grou...

On the basis of previous work by various investigators (2, 3, 5, 6), the present study was designed to test the following hypotheses about firstborns: (a) They will score higher on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) need for Affiliation scales (6), and need for Achievement scales (5) than other birth-order groups. (b) They will score higher on the College Entrance Exan1ination Boar...

This essay considers the transatlantic workings of different national formations anti-Blackness and colonial whiteness across several centuries, by taking 1773 London publication Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious Moral in relation to teaching poetry 2019. The recognition Wheatley received her careful negotiations with conditional white British benevolence must be understoo...

This paper examines the idea of double blackness and its role in constructing Sudanese social hierarchy Tayeb Salih’s Season Migration to North (1969). The article draws on several core concepts postcolonial anthropological studies, including race, culture, ethnicity, Otherness. Instead tackling novel from traditional perspective, adds an lens novel’s dynamics shed light some neglected aspects ...

Because current literature on globalization largely neglects racism, it fails to explain the experiences of contemporary African American youth within the new racialized social class formations of globalization. I suggest that because African American youth live within the borders of the sole remaining world superpower, their experiences might shed light on social class relations of advanced ca...

Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks hasconcentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns andquest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks isinterested in questioning the former constructed racial boundaries of blackness andrevolutionary ideologies of the ...

Abstract. We study the optimal rates of convergence for estimating a prior distribution over a VC class from a sequence of independent data sets respectively labeled by independent target functions sampled from the prior. We specifically derive upper and lower bounds on the optimal rates under a smoothness condition on the correct prior, with the number of samples per data set equal the VC dime...