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Consistent Clustering of Elements in Large Pairwise Comparison Matrices

2018

[EN] In multi-attribute decision making the number of decision elements under consideration may be huge, especially for complex, real-world problems. Typically these elements are clustered and then the clusters organized hierarchically to reduce the number of elements to be simultaneously handled. These decomposition methodologies are intended to bring the problem within the cognitive ability of decision makers. However, such methodologies have disadvantages, and it may happen that such a priori clustering is not clear, and/or the problem has previously been addressed without any grouping action. This is the situation for the case study we address, in which a panel of experts gives opinions…

L’oceano linguistico di Camilleri

2018

Some awkward issues on pairwise comparison matrices

2017

Many decision-making techniques use pairwise comparisons (PCs) elicited by one or more stakeholders involved in a given corresponding decision-making process. In very complex problems, the number of criteria or options to be compared may be too large, thus limiting PC applicability to large-scale decision problems due to the so-called curse of dimensionality, that is, a large number of pairwise comparisons need to be produced from a decision maker. For example, in AHP, Saaty [1] recommends that to obtain a reasonable and consistent PC matrix, the number of comparing elements should be at most seven. In [2] and [3], arguing on limitations of the human capabilities, the maximum number of elem…

Alkulukutesteistä

2016

Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on esittää tunnetuimmat alkulukutestit niin matemaattiselta perustoiltaan kuin käytännön toteutuksiltaan ohjelmakoodin muodossa. Alkulukutestit jaotellaan yleisesti deterministisiin ja probabilistisiin testeihin; deterministiset testit antavat täysin varman vastauksen, mutta ovat suurille luvuille huomattavasti probabilistia testejä hitaampia. Probabilistiset testit ovat nopeita tehdä, mutta saattavat antaa väärän vastauksen. Testien suoritusaikaa mitataan karkeasti niiden suorittamiseksi vaadittavien laskutoimitusten lukumääarällä. Tutkielmassa käsitellään deterministisistä testeistä jakolaskumenetelmä, Wilsonin lause, Prothin testi, Lucasin ja Lehmerin testi j…

Scientific and Design Stances

2010

Human technology interaction is a strange field of expertise, because both academics and industry are interested in it. And yet, every now and then, it becomes apparent that academics and industry do not always see eye to eye (Carroll, 1997). They seem to think in different manner. While scientists look for how things are, industry mostly seeks out how things should be. Indeed, sometimes two very different stances behind the basic thinking of the two important human–technology interaction (HTI) communities surface. Scientists primarily are interested in general laws and principles, even eternal truths with no exceptions. They want to identify general laws and use them to explain individual …

On the lattice of J-subnormal subgroups

1992

Postapokalipses un distopijas atainojums Džordža Millera filmā "Mad Max. Fury road"

2016

Bakalaura darbā tiks pētīts austrāļu režisora Džordža Millera filmas “Mad Max. Fury road” postapokaliptiskās un distopiskās vides atainojums un paņēmieni, ar kuriem vide izveidota filmas ietvaros. Teorētiskajā daļā tiks sīkāk apskatītas tēmas un žanri, kā arī semiotiskie un naratīva elementi, kas ietver informāciju, aprakstot autora izvēlētos paņēmienus kā atainot postapokaliptisku un distopisku vidi. Metodoloģijas daļā tiks pamatotas izvēlētās metodes pētījuma izveidei– naratīva un semiotiskā analīze. Pēc metodoloģijas apraksta seko empīriskā daļa, kurā tiks izanalizēta augstākminētā kinofilma. Lai sīkāk pētītu “Mad Max. Fury road”, tiks aprakstīta arī “Mad Max” franšīze kopumā, kurā ietil…

La letteratura italiana racconta la caduta del muro di Berlino

2020

The fall of the wall is an event that sets a date and raises a symbolic watershed that separates the before from the after. The essay analyzes the Italian literary texts that were directly confronted with the events of 1989 by reviewing a period of time that goes from the day after the fall of the wall to the present day. From Fortini to Volponi, from Giudici to Arbasino, up to Lagioia, Affinati and Camilleri: for these writers talking about the Berlin Wall means reflecting on the crisis of ideologies, on the contradictions of history, on the relationship between literature and reality.

Analysis of S-allele genetic diversity in Sicilian almond germplasm comparing different molecular methods

2015

Italian almond germplasm is characterized by a wide diversity in several growing areas among which Sicily is one of the most important. Analysis with consensus and specific primers and DNA sequencing was performed to investigate S-RNase genetic diversity and to elucidate the homology rate within a genetic pool of 27 Italian accessions. Interestingly, some of the self-compatible cultivars did not show the presence of Sf allele. Amplicons from consensus and allele-specific PCR primers revealed a high level of variability. Sequencing of all the S-RNase amplicons derived from consensus primers allowed the identification of two new S-RNase alleles (S51 and S52). Surprisingly, despite the AA repl…

Angus Campbell/Philip E. Converse/Warren E. Miller/Donald E. Stokes, The American Voter, New York 1960

2008

„American Voter“ gehort zu den am haufigsten zitierten Publikationen in der Wahlforschung. Seine herausragende Bedeutung erklart sich weniger aus den substantiellen Ergebnissen der Autoren — obwohl diese teils heute noch Gultigkeit haben — als vielmehr aus dem Erklarungsansatz, den die vier Autoren entwickelt haben. Zusammen mit Anthony Downs’ „Economic Theory of Democracy“ (→ Downs 1957) und „The People’s Choice“ von Lazarsfeld/Berelson/Gaudet (→ Lazarsfeld/Berelson/Gaudet 1944) bildet der „American Voter“ deshalb jene Trias von Klassikern, auf die sich die drei theoretischen Hauptstromungen der Wahlforschung — Rational Choice-Ansatz, (mikro-)soziologischer und sozialpsychologischer Ansatz…