In this paper, a preference aggregation method is developed for ranking alternative courses of actions by combining preference rankings of alternatives given on individual criteria or by individual decision makers. In the method, preference rankings are viewed as constraints on alternative utilities, which are normalized, and linear programming models are constructed to estimate utility interva...

Objective: To estimate the rates of recurrence, cure, and treatment abandonment in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated with a four-drug fixed-dose combination (FDC) regimen, as well as to evaluate possible associated factors. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study involving 208 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis enrolled in the Hospital Tuber...

We establish a nonlinear real estate model based on cobweb theory, where the demand function and supply function are quadratic. The stability conditions of the equilibrium are discussed. We demonstrate that as some parameters varied, the stability of Nash equilibrium is lost through period-doubling bifurcation. The chaotic features are justified numerically via computing maximal Lyapunov expone...

a method based on electrical capacitance tomography (ect) and an improved least squares support vector machine (ls-svm) is proposed for void fraction measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow. in the modeling stage, to solve the two problems in ls-svm, pruning skills are employed to make ls-svm sparse and robust; then the real-coded genetic algorithm is introduced to solve the difficult problem of ...

In this work, the performance of a photoelectrochemical cell to degrade mixture contaminants emerging concern (CECs) in distilled water and simulated wastewater effluents (SWWE) was assessed. The CECs included trimethoprim (TMP), diclofenac (DFC), sulfamethoxazole (SMX) carbamazepine (CBZ) (100 μg·L−1 each). WO3 nanoplate-like structures synthesized on fluorine tin oxide coated glass (FTO) were...

The methods of Invisible Invariants and Invisible Ranking were developed originally in order to verify temporal properties of parameterized systems in a fully automatic manner. These methods are based on an instantiate-projectand-generalize heuristic for the automatic generation of auxiliary constructs and a small model property implying that it is sufficient to check validity of a deductive ru...

Chinese character riddle is a riddle game in which the riddle solution is a single Chinese character. It is closely connected with the shape, pronunciation or meaning of Chinese characters. The riddle description (sentence) is usually composed of phrases with rich linguistic phenomena (such as pun, simile, and metaphor), which are associated to different parts (namely radicals) of the solution ...

We present the results of a large-scale, end-to-end human evaluation of various sentiment summarization models. The evaluation shows that users have a strong preference for summarizers that model sentiment over non-sentiment baselines, but have no broad overall preference between any of the sentiment-based models. However, an analysis of the human judgments suggests that there are identifiable ...