Executive Summary This paper discusses impediments to female candidate success in national elections in the Western Melanesian country of Solomon Islands. Increased female representation in parliaments is desirable both for reasons of gender equity and because evidence suggests such increases come coupled with development benefits. Yet, while numbers of women members of parliament (MPs) are inc...

Abstract According to popular scholarly consensus, the role of classical prophets ceased following rebuilding Jerusalem during Second Temple period. This paper will attempt propose an explanation 1 Maccabees’ comments about cessation prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination dynamics involved in Hebrew Bible’s final chronological confrontation between prophet religious leader Isra...

Reed-Solomon codes and Gabidulin codes have maximum Hamming distance and maximum rank distance, respectively. A general construction using skew polynomials, called skew Reed-Solomon codes, has already been introduced in the literature. In this work, we introduce a linearized version of such codes, called linearized Reed-Solomon codes. We prove that they have maximum sum-rank distance. Such dist...