This paper explores the political economy of the prison telephone industry, with special emphasis on changes in the industry since the mid-1980s. Contrary to the expectations of competition advocates, the principal outcome of deregulation in the prison telephone sector has been a sharp increase in price, as new market entrants compete for monopoly service contracts on the basis of steadily esca...

This paper discusses the attempt in this issue of the journal by Peter Singer, John McKie, Helga Kuhse and 7eff Richardson, to defend QALYs against the argument from double jeopardy which Ifirst outlined in 1987. In showing how the QALY and other similar measures which combine life expectancy and quality of life and use these to justify particular allocations of health care resource, remain vul...

Andrews, Chan, and Kim recently introduced a modified definition of crank and rank moments for integer partitions that allows the study of both even and odd moments. In this paper, we prove the asymptotic behavior of these moments in all cases. Our main result states that the two families of moment functions are asymptotically equal, but the crank moments are also asymptotically larger than the...

Person search targets to the probe person from unconstrainted scene images, which can be treated as combination of detection and matching. However, existing methods based on Detection-Matching framework ignore objectness repulsion (OR) are both beneficial reduce effect distractor images. In this paper, we propose an OR similarity by jointly considering information. Besides traditional visual te...