Understanding gender norms, power and equity is important for developing successful sexual and reproductive health interventions. However, little attention has been given to how to capture the gender ideals and imbalances that inform these relationships in low resource settings. Pile sorting exercises were conducted in four gender-segregated focus groups in Ethiopia and Kenya. Each group receiv...

New deferred correction methods for the numerical solution of initial value problems in ordinary differential equations have recently been introduced by Dutt, Greengard and Rokhlin. A convergence proof is presented for these methods, based on the abstract Stetter-Lindberg-Skeel framework and Spijker-type norms. It is shown that p corrections of an order-r one-step solver yield order r(p+ 1) acc...

he interpretation and cultural nuances behind the concept of leadership are not only questionable but are subject to different meanings to different people. Yet, within the organisational context, there are specific boundaries that must be adhered to in order to inculcate certain values. Leadership at a political level is not excluded from democratically instated norms. The failure to maintain ...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People’s Republic of China Abstract Using a new technique for dealing with the bending term of the fourth order p-Laplacian elasticity problems, several new and more general results are obtained for the existence of at least single, twin or triple positive solutions. It...

Abstract. We show decay estimates for the propagator of the discrete Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon equations in the form ‖U(t)f‖l∞ ≤ C(1 + |t|)‖f‖l1 . This implies a corresponding (restricted) set of Strichartz estimates. Applications of the latter include the existence of excitation thresholds for certain regimes of the parameters and the decay of small initial data for relevant l norms. The an...

Abstract. In this paper, we introduce three new broad classes of secondorder generalized convex functions, namely, (F , b, φ, ρ, θ)-sounivex functions, (F , b, φ, ρ, θ)-pseudosounivex functions, and (F , b, φ, ρ, θ)-quasisounivex functions; formulate eight general second-order duality models; and prove appropriate duality theorems under various generalized (F , b, φ, ρ, θ)-sounivexity assumptio...

193 ABSTRACT. Objective: The goal of this article is to provide an overview of environmental strategies that may reduce college drinking. Drinking behavior is influenced by many environmental factors, including messages in the media, community norms and attitudes, public and institutional policies and practices and economic factors. College student drinking may be influenced by environmental fa...

In this extended abstract we borrow an example from the Portuguese Penal Code to advocate that norms used to regulate interaction in human societies, just as those used in multi-agent systems, require the joint use of the features based on the Closed World Assumption of rules in Logic Programming and those based on the Open World Assumption of ontologies in Description Logics, all of which are ...

Abstract We develop a new method of discretization and anti-discretization of weighted inequalities which we apply to norms in classical Lorentz spaces and to spaces endowed with the so-called Hilbert norm. Main applications of our results include new integral conditions characterizing embeddings Γp(v) ↪→ Γq(w) and Γp(v) ↪→ Λq(w) and an integral characterization of the associate space to Γp(v),...