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A Mechanism to Improve the Interpretability of Linguistic Fuzzy Systems with Adaptive Defuzzification based on the use of a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm [PDF]

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2012
This paper proposes a mechanism that helps improve the interpretability of linguistic fuzzy ruled based systems with common adaptive defuzzification methods.
AntonioA. Márquez, FranciscoA. Márquez, Antonio Peregrín   +2 more
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
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Developing a new approach for evaluation of business processes in a fuzzy environment

Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2016
Evaluation of business processes plays a significant role in business development and improvement. Therefore, organizations need a systematic approach to evaluate all the changes through robust and powerful techniques that can formulate the relationship ...
Ghasem Bagherzadeh, Kaveh M. Cyrus, Abdolreza Yazdani-Chamzini, Algita Miečinskienė   +3 more
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‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson, Rebecca Hale, Tom Haward, Kwaku Adjepong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un modelo de evaluación de la calidad de las bibliotecas universitarias digitales basado en técnicas difusas

A quality evaluation model for digital university libraries based on fuzzy tools

Encontros Bibli, 2006
Se presenta un modelo para la evaluación de la calidad de las bibliotecas universitarias digitales basado en técnicas difusas. El modelo contiene tanto criterios objetivos como subjetivos.
E. Herrera-Viedma, S. Alonso, Josefina Vílchez Pardo, Javier López Gijón, B. Ávila   +2 more
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Fuzzy linguistic model for evaluating the risk of neonatal death [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2002
OBJECTIVE: To introduce a fuzzy linguistic model for evaluating the risk of neonatal death. METHODS: The study is based on the fuzziness of the variables newborn birth weight and gestational age at delivery. The inference used was Mamdani's method. Neonatologists were interviewed to estimate the risk of neonatal death under certain conditions and to ...
Nascimento, Luiz Fernando C, Ortega, Neli Regina S   +1 more
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Publicly funded private schools and academic achievement: A comparative analysis of PISA data in European countries

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya, Léonard Moulin, Denis Fougère   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling of Fuzzy Expert Information in the Problem of a Machine Technological Adjustment

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
The paper considers the problem of stating fuzzy expert information for intelligent systems of decision support. The application of such systems is worthwhile when complex agricultural machines operate under the changing field conditions, characterized ...
Dimitrov Valery, Borisova Lyudmila, Nurutdinova Inna   +2 more
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Model of investment decision-making in a small industrial enterprise

Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, 2020
The need for the development of small enterprises in Russia, set against the background of stagnation in this segment of the economy in recent years, makes studying the problem of the investment attractiveness of this market segment relevant when it ...
Elena Vetrova, Sofiya Doroshenko, Nikita Tihomirov, Galiya Khakimova, Lasha Kakava   +4 more
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source