The concept of set inclusion has remained insufficiently developed in the fuzzy set literature to be of much use to social scientists. However, a fully fledged concept of fuzzy set inclusion, along with appropriate statistical methods for evaluating it, could be very useful in the social...

The so-called Pareto–Levy or power-law distribution has been successfully used as a model to describe probabilities associated to extreme variations of stock markets indexes worldwide. The selection of the threshold parameter from empirical data and consequently, the determination of the...

The framework of multifractal analysis (MFA) is distilled to the most sophisticated one. Within this transparent framework, it is shown that the harmonious representation of MFA utilizing two distinct Tsallis distribution functions, one for the tail part of probability density function (PDF) and...

We study the dependence of the CNO nuclear reaction rates on temperature, in the range of 107–108K, the typical range of temperature evolution from a Sun-like star towards a white dwarf. We show that the temperature dependence of the CNO nuclear reaction rates is strongly affected by the...