The travelling salesman problem is to find a shortest path from the travelling salesman’s hometown, make the round of all the towns in the set, and finally go back home. This paper investigates the travelling salesman problem with fuzzy random travelling time. Three concepts are proposed: expected shortest path, (α, β)-path and chance shortest path according to different optimal desire. Corresp...

SocialNews seeks to enhance the news results returned by online news services such as Google News or Bing News by leveraging social networking information to provide more relevant results to the user. For example, Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information about the user’s interests, hobbies, personal history, and friends. We describe a system that analyzes the content in a user’s social...

A Web survey of 1,715 college students was conducted to examine Facebook Groups users' gratifications and the relationship between users' gratifications and their political and civic participation offline. A factor analysis revealed four primary needs for participating in groups within Facebook: socializing, entertainment, self-status seeking, and information. These gratifications vary dependin...

Gravel Heart (2017) is the ninth postcolonial novel of Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who was awarded 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Being a part his literary diction, explores in-depth justification traumatic migrant stories with neurological symptoms like sense (un)belonging, assimilation, naturalisation, hybridity values and norms, keen in-betweenness. Born setting hometo...

Objective This article identifies mechanisms through which social class background shapes the marital outcomes of college-going white American women. Background Scholars are interested in relative influences ascriptive and achieved characteristics on mate selection. Research indicates that continues to influence marriage patterns college-educated Americans but does not identify this occurs. Met...

Japan is at the forefront of global trend, particularly among advanced countries, an aging population with declining birthrate and urbanization. The way responds to resolves these issues may serve as a remedy for other countries going forward. Among Japan’s policies targeting “regional revitalization” development,” which seek establish sustainable society, this book focuses on Hometown Tax Dona...

This study had three objectives: firstly, it aimed to examine an appropriate model for preventing and controlling the risk of meningococcal disease as a result of an epidemic carrying by returning pilgrims at Hat Yai International Airport; secondly, it aimed to establish the number of meningococcal carriers among pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia; thirdly, it considered the health problems t...