Metris is a version of the Tetris game that uses a player’s musical response to control game performance. The game is driven by two factors: traditional game design and the player’s individual sense of music and sound. Metris uses tuning principles to determine relationships between pitch and the timbre of the sounds produced. These relationships are represented as bells synchronised with signi...

This paper considers the Greenspan/Summers/IMF (GSI) argument that the Asian way of doing business was the deep cause of the Asian crisis. The IMF reform programme for the crisis-affected Asian countries suggested they should abandon the Asian business model and adopt the US corporate model. The main findings are: a) contrary to GSI doctrine, poor corporate governance and lack of competition ar...

Color preference research has traditionally focused on summarising or explaining the color preferences of groups of people. Claims of universal patterns and trends in color preference have generally been based on group analyses, with little consideration of the individual. Initial investigation of this issue has revealed that, although patterns can be identified at the group level, individual d...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of semihyperring $(R,+,cdot)$ together with a suitable partial order $le$. Moreover, we introduce and study hyperideals in ordered semihyperrings. Simple ordered semihyperrings are defined and its characterizations are obtained. Finally, we study some properties of quasi-simple and $B$-simple ordered semihyperrings.

in this paper, we improve some recent coupled fixed point resultsfor single-valued operators in the framework of ordered $b$-metricspaces established by bota et al. [m-f. bota, a. petrusel, g.petrusel and b. samet, coupled fixed point theorems forsingle-valued operators in b-metric spaces, fixed point theoryappl. (2015) 2015:231]. also, we prove that perov-type fixed pointtheorem in ordered gen...

For all M,N∈P(U) such that M⊂N, we first introduced the definitions of (M,N)-uni-soft ideals and (M,N)-uni-soft interior ideals of an ordered semigroup and studied them. When M=∅ and N=U, we meet the ordinary soft ones. Then we proved that in regular and in intra-regular ordered semigroups the concept of (M,N)-uni-soft ideals and the (M,N)-uni-soft interior ideals coincide. Finally, we introduc...

Let $S$ be an ordered semigroup. A fuzzy subset of $S$ is anarbitrary mapping   from $S$ into $[0,1]$, where $[0,1]$ is theusual interval of real numbers. In this paper,  the concept of fuzzygeneralized bi-ideals of an ordered semigroup $S$ is introduced.Regular ordered semigroups are characterized by means of fuzzy leftideals, fuzzy right ideals and fuzzy (generalized) bi-ideals.Finally, two m...

Test score distributions of schools or demographic groups are often summarized by frequencies of students scoring in a small number of ordered proficiency categories. We show that heteroskedastic ordered probit (HETOP) models can be used to estimate means and standard deviations of multiple groups’ test score distributions from such data. Because the scale of HETOP estimates is indeterminate up...

In the literature there are two different notions of lovely pairs of a theory T, according to whether T is simple or geometric. We introduce a notion of lovely pairs for an independence relation, which generalizes both the simple and the geometric case, and show how the main theorems for those two cases extend to our general notion.