the aim of this paper is to introduce the concepts of fuzzy upper and fuzzy lower almost continuous, weakly continuous and almost weakly continuous multifunctions. several characterizations and properties of these multifunctions along with their mutual relationships are established in $l$-fuzzy topological spaces

Applications in which data take nonnegative values but have a substantial proportion of values at zero occur in many disciplines. The modeling of such “clumped-at-zero” or “zero-inflated” data is challenging. We survey models that have been proposed. We consider cases in which the response for the non-zero observations is continuous and in which it is discrete. For the continuous and then the d...

the continuous addition of industrial, municipal, and agricultural effluents to the environment has led to a great increase of toxic pollutants. it is well known that these pollutants are hazardous to animals, plants, microorganisms, and other living organisms including humans. as a result, effective technologies should be developed to remove these contaminants. biological remediation, as an...

context-dependent modeling is a well-known approach to increase modeling accuracy in continuous speech recognition. the most common way to implement this approach is via triphone modeling. nevertheless, the large number of such models results in several problems in model training, whilst the robust training of such models is often hardly obtained. one approach to solve this problem is via param...

This paper reports findings from the first systematic review of protocol studies focusing specifically on conceptual design cognition, aiming to answer the following research question:What is our current understanding of the cognitive processes involved in conceptual design tasks carried out by individual designers? We reviewed 47 studies on architectural design, engineering design and product ...

Local anesthetic infiltration prior to surgical incision closure is a frequently used technique in the operating room. Debate continues, with clinicians, as to the effectiveness of this technique in pain reduction. A literature review using PubMed with the criteria of "local anesthetic infiltration and pain reduction" was conducted for the use of local anesthetic infiltration prior to surgical ...