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An MAGDM Approach Combining Numerical Values with Uncertain Linguistic Information and Its Application in Evaluation of R&D Projects Xin-Bao Liu , Feng Pei , Jian-Bo Yang , Shan-Lin Yang [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2010
In multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems, decision attributes of alternatives are often considered as with quantitative and qualitative information.
Xin-Bao Liu   +3 more
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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Zur Analyse der Heterogenitat in den Sprachfahigkeiten von Immigranten wird ein neues Mas zur Messung der linguistischen Distanz von Sprachen verwendet, das auf einem vom Max-Planck-Institut fur evolutionare Anthropologie entwickelten Verfahren basiert.
Isphording, Ingo E., Otten, Sebastian
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

El distanciamiento del emisor frente a su propio mensaje

open access: yesStudia Iberystyczne, 2011
Speaker’s Distance Towards his own Enunciation This paper approaches linguistic methods either grammatical or lexical, used by Spanish speaking participants of a communication act to express distance to their own ...
Agata Komorowska
doaj   +1 more source

Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance [PDF]

open access: yes
There are two complementary models of immigrants’ economic and social adjustment – the positive assimilation model of Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011).
Miller, Paul W., Chiswick, Barry R.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Are We There Yet? Factors Affecting Proficiency Development for Speaking and Writing in Intensive English Study

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics and Language Teaching
Though millions of students study in intensive language programmes, expected gains and the effects of widely accessible factors such as linguistic distance, L2 proficiency, sex, age, and learning contexts remain unclear. Using the ACTFL proficiency scale,
K. James Hartshorn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic distance, overseas Chinese education, and China's exports of cultural products

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Management
Aim/purpose – Linguistic distance, as a core element of cultural distance, significantly affects bilateral trade flows. Mitigating its adverse impact has become a central concern for both policymakers and scholars.
Zhang Ling, Wang Yuxin
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A Decision Making Approach with Linguistic Weight and Unavoidable Incomparable Ranking

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2019
In order to deal with the decision making problem including some linguistic values uncertainty information, we propose an approach for decision making with linguistic weighted and unavoidable incomparable ranking based on Linguistic-valued lattice ...
Yunxia Zhang   +3 more
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Hesitant fuzzy linguistic ordered weighted distance operators for group decision making

open access: yes, 2023
Since the concept of hesitant fuzzy sets was put forward, different types of extensions have been proposed to deal with actual problems. A hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set provides a linguistic and computational basis to increase the flexibility and ...
Wang, H, Merigó, JM, Xu, Y, Xu, A
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