The present study considered a fuzzy natural color system (NCS) in which triangular pyramid membership functions are constructed on the NCS color triangle. This system can process a fuzzy input to an NCS system and output to a center of gravity of three weights associated with respective grades. Triangular membership functions are applied to the hue, and triangular pyramid membership functions ...

Nuclear emulsions of the Ilford K series, exposed to X-rays from 15 to 150 kVp and systematically underdeveloped, exhibit supralinear blackness--exposure curves ranging from 1- to 4-hit in character, and whose shape is the same at all excitation voltages. Processing can be so adjusted that the curve shape is well represented by the alpha--beta model, and matches an experimental dose--response c...

Following a prior analysis of measured pp elastic differential cross sections, the impact parameter representation in terms of profile functions is calculated from two different parametrizations of single diffractive dissociation data. The derivative of this quantity with respect to the collision energy squared s measures the growth rate of the reaction’s blackness. Its distribution in impact p...

The article explores the representation of young-black men in the 2002 film City of God. The film deploys “pathological scripts” of Black masculinity in Brazil as criminal and deviant. The controlling image of Black men’s bodies as a source of danger and impurity sustains Brazilian regime of racial domination, and the narratives of violence make explicit the ways in which the Brazilian nation i...

In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems with multiple types of linguistic preference relations. The paper has two parts with similar structures. In the first part, we transform the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations into the expected additive linguistic preference relations, and present a procedure for group decision making based on multiple types of additiv...

Computational methods for discovering the preferences of individuals are useful in many applications. In this paper, we propose a method for learning valued preference structures, using a natural extension of so-called pairwise classification. A valued preference structure can then be used in order to induce a ranking, that is a linear ordering of a given set of alternatives. This step is reali...