This paper first improves Chen and Hsieh’s definition of generalized fuzzy numbers, which makes it the generalization of definition of fuzzy numbers. Secondly, in terms of the generalized fuzzy numbers set, we introduce two different kinds of orders and arithmetic operations and metrics based on the λ-cutting sets or generalized λ-cutting sets, so that the generalized fuzzy numbers are integrat...

In this paper the concept of (computational) verb number and arithmetical operations of verb numbers are presented. A verb number is a kind of special computational verb, which is derived from structures of (host) verb+(real, interval, fuzzy) number. From the linguistic point of view, a verb number is a computational verb with contexts defined by (real, interval, fuzzy) numbers. Verb numbers ca...

Background and objectives: Cancer is a public health problem all over the world. Herbal medicines have a vital role in the prevention and treatment of cancer and large numbers of plants and their isolated constituents have shown potential anticancer activity. Methods: Twenty seven medicinal plants from southern Iran provinces have been extracted with methanol and screened for their cytotoxic ac...

In the standard numerical anchoring paradigm, the influence of externally provided anchors on judgment is typically explained as a result of elaborate thinking (i.e., confirmatory hypothesis testing that selectively activates anchor-consistent information in memory). In contrast, theories of attitude change suggest that the same judgments can result from relatively thoughtful or non-thoughtful ...

For some time now, the evidence debate has been very active. Methods are valued in relation to their power to guarantee evidence. A scientific dichotomy is present: the one between qualitative and quantitative approaches, between linguistic and numeric methods. Quantitative approaches building on numeric methods are held more scientific per se. Qualitative approaches building on linguistic meth...

The paper begins with a short description of equipment available to students in the Department’s real-time course. This is followed by an overview of specific software packages for data and function visualization, numeric calculation, and symbolic manipulation. After a discussion of the structure of a typical data acquisition application and functions available within the mr real-time library, ...