Time Allocation and Food Consumption among the Kiwai-Speaking Papuan in Papua New Guinea

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名古屋工業大学博士(工学)Doctor of Engineering主査：中村　修一doctoral thesi

近代日本の給排水・衛生設備史の研究

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Constructing interval-valued fuzzy material implication functions derived from general interval-valued grouping functions

Grouping functions and their dual counterpart, overlap functions, have drawn the attention of many authors, mainly because they constitute a richer class of operators compared to other types of aggregation functions. Grouping functions are a useful theoretical tool to be applied in various problems, like decision making based on fuzzy preference relations. In pairwise comparisons, for instance, those functions allow one to convey the measure of the amount of evidence in favor of either of two given alternatives. Recently, some generalizations of grouping functions were proposed, such as (i) the n-dimensional grouping functions and the more flexible general grouping functions, which allowed their application in n-dimensional problems, and (ii) n-dimensional and general interval-valued grouping functions, in order to handle uncertainty on the definition of the membership functions in real-life problems. Taking into account the importance of interval-valued fuzzy implication functions in several application problems under uncertainty, such as fuzzy inference mechanisms, this paper aims at introducing a new class of interval-valued fuzzy material implication functions. We study their properties, characterizations, construction methods and provide examples.upported by CNPq (301618/2019-4, 311429/2020-3), FAPERGS (19/2551-0001660-3), UFERSA, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (TIN2016-77356-P, PID2019-108392GB I00 (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)) and Navarra de Servicios y Tecnologías, S.A. (NASERTIC)

Kinetic control of threading and dethreading in linked rotaxanes via hydrogen bonding.

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Pseudo overlap functions, fuzzy implications and pseudo grouping functions with applications

Overlap and grouping functions are important aggregation operators, especially in information fusion, classification and decision-making problems. However, when we do more in-depth application research (for example, non-commutative fuzzy reasoning, complex multi-attribute decision making and image processing), we find overlap functions as well as grouping functions are required to be commutative (or symmetric), which limit their wide applications. For the above reasons, this paper expands the original notions of overlap functions and grouping functions, and the new concepts of pseudo overlap functions and pseudo grouping functions are proposed on the basis of removing the commutativity of the original functions. Some examples and construction methods of pseudo overlap functions and pseudo grouping functions are presented, and the residuated implication (co-implication) operators derived from them are investigated. Not only that, some applications of pseudo overlap (grouping) functions in multi-attribute (group) decision-making, fuzzy mathematical morphology and image processing are discussed. Experimental results show that, in many application fields, pseudo overlap functions and pseudo grouping functions have greater flexibility and practicability.This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12271319) and research project No. PID2019-108392GB-I00 (AEI/10.13039/501100011033). The Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 20&ZD047

Impact of COVID-19 Expansion on Disaster Relief －An Investigation from the Okayama Prefecture Welfare Evacuation Center and Local Government Survey－

COVID-19が確認された2020年も各地で災害が発生し，我が国の災害支援の在り方を見直すきっかけにもなった。平成30年７月豪雨災害で甚大な被害を経験した岡山県福祉避難所と各自治体に，コロナ禍で災害発生した場合に要配慮者の受け入れは可能か，避難所運営の課題は何であるのかアンケート調査を行った。その結果，円滑な災害支援には自治体との連携を切に望む施設が多いことが判明した。また，要配慮者へ提供する支援内容の認識も福祉避難所側と自治体側の両者には差異があり，内容の確認を図るだけでもスムーズな支援に繋がること，そして単に施設数を増加させるだけでは的確な災害支援は行えないことが示唆された。departmental bulletin pape

On fuzzy implications derived from general overlap functions and their relation to other classes

There are distinct techniques to generate fuzzy implication functions. Despite most of them using the combination of associative aggregators and fuzzy negations, other connectives such as (general) overlap/grouping functions may be a better strategy. Since these possibly non-associative operators have been successfully used in many applications, such as decision making, classification and image processing, the idea of this work is to continue previous studies related to fuzzy implication functions derived from general overlap functions. In order to obtain a more general and flexible context, we extend the class of implications derived by fuzzy negations and t-norms, replacing the latter by general overlap functions, obtaining the so-called (GO, N)-implication functions. We also investigate their properties, the aggregation of (GO, N)-implication functions, their characterization and the intersections with other classes of fuzzy implication functions.This research was funded by CNPq (grant numbers: 312053/2018-5, 301618/2019-4, 311429/2020-3), FAPERGS (grant number: 19/2551-0001660-3), CAPES-Print (grant number: 88887.363001/2019-00), Spanish Ministry Science and Tech. (grant numbers: TIN2016-77356-P, PID2019-108392GB I00 (AEI/10.13039/501100011033)), and Fundación “La Caixa” (grant number: LCF/PR/PR13/51080004)

Subsistence Strategies of the Immigrant Households in a Coastal Village of Seram, Indonesia

This paper examines the variation in subsistence pattern and food use among the households of a coastal community of Seram Island, Indonesia, which subsists mainly on shifting cultivation, exploitation of sago palms, fishing, and the collection and sale of such cash-crop trees as clove, coconut palm, and cacao. The data was gathered from 50 households by the questionnaire method during a 2-month stay in 1996. With respect to subsistence activities, the questionnaire to each household enquired about: (1) kinds of subsistence activities the household engages in, (2) the approximate monthly income from each activity, (3) kinds of food crop and cashcrop trees, (4) ownership or usufruct of sago palms, (5) the number of sago palms exploited in a month, (6) methods and monthly frequency of fishing. The questionnaire for food use was conducted on seven successive days. The kinds of food consumed in the three meals of the day were recorded, separating staple food and side dishes. The monthly amount of money expended on the purchase of food was also asked. On the basis of subsistence patterns, which are defined as different combinations of the three subsistence activities (agriculture, including silviculture of cash-crop trees, exploitation of sago palms, and fishing) , the households are classified into four types: (A) engaging only in agriculture (22.0%) , (B) agriculture and exploitation of sago palms (18.0%) , (C) agriculture and fishing (26.0%) , (D) all the kinds of subsistence activity (34.0%) . The monthly income from agriculture, exploitation of sago palms, and fishing averages 21,800 Rp (Rupiah), 42,900 Rp, and 15,400 Rp, respectively. There is a great variation in monthly income among the households, averaging 55,900 Rp. The average monthly income of the B-type households is the highest (80,900 Rp) among the four types of the households, and about four times as much as that of the A-type households. In order to analyze the variation of subsistence pattern, the households are divided into three types: the "indigenous" households (Itype) whose heads belong to the nine patri-clans which are indigenous to the village territory, and the "immigrant" households whose heads (IIItype) or forefathers (II-type) migrated from other areas of Indonesia. The most conspicuous difference is found in the exploitation of sago palms. The I-type households engage in the activity with a four times higher percentage than III-type households (80% vs. 20%) . This is because only the I-type households have ownership or usufruct of naturally-growing sago palms. About 55% of the III-type households belong to the C-type subsistence pattern, which is not found in the I-type households. The average monthly income is the highest in the I-type households (64,400 Rp/month) , and the lowest in the III-type households (41,500 Rp/month) . The percentage of households owning clove trees is significantly higher in the "indigenous households" than in the "immigrant households", although there is no difference in the ownership of cacao trees that have been recently introduced to the village. From the data on 483 meals, the most important staple food is sago starch, accounting for 29.2% of the total number of instances. Other staple foods are ordered in importance: rice (23.2%) , banana (19.1%) , cassava (18.5%) , and others (10.0%) . Vegetables account for 49.5% of the total instances of side dishes, and fish species are second in importance, accounting for 39.9%. Meat, beef, pork or chicken, and eggs occupy the remainder, together accounting for 10.6%. There is also a considerable variation in food use among the types of subsistence pattern.departmental bulletin pape

Short-term Meeting Efforts in a Ward Nursing

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