In this paper we examine, from a social perspective, access to family planning clinics for disabled people. We argue that disabled people are commonly understood to be either asexual, uninterested in sex or unable to take part in sexual activity, or sexual 'monsters' unable to control their sexual drives and feelings. These understandings are reproduced through the use of cultural representatio...

This study investigates how architectural and interior design practice for residential properties in China changed significantly as the result of the policy of increasing private ownership in the 1980s. Before the reform policies (which commenced in 1978), residential houses had been owned and managed by work units. They were designed and constructed with the principal aims of being economical ...

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We examined the effects of macroeconomic performance and social policy on the extent and depth of poverty in America using state-level panel data from the 1981-2000 waves of the Current Population Survey. We found that a strong macroeconomy at both the state and national levels reduced both the number of families who were living in poverty and the severity of poverty. The magnitude and source o...

Using hashing techniques, this paper develops a family of space-efficient Las Vegas randomized algorithms for k-SUM problems. This family includes an algorithm that can solve 3-SUM in O(n) time and O( √ n) space. It also establishes a new time-space upper bound for SUBSETSUM, which can be solved by a Las Vegas algorithm in O(2 √ 8 9 ) time and O(2) space, for any β ∈ [0, 9 32 ].

‎We use of two notions functionally convex (briefly‎, ‎F--convex) and functionally closed (briefly‎, ‎F--closed) in functional analysis and obtain more results‎. ‎We show that if $lbrace A_{alpha} rbrace _{alpha in I}$ is a family $F$--convex subsets with non empty intersection of a Banach space $X$‎, ‎then $bigcup_{alphain I}A_{alpha}$ is F--convex‎. ‎Moreover‎, ‎we introduce new definition o...

Two properties concerning the space of differences of sublinear functions D(X) for a real Banach space X are proved. First, we show that for a real separable Banach space (X, ‖ · ‖) there exists a countable family of seminorms such that D(X) becomes a Fréchet space. For X = R this construction yields a norm such that D(R) becomes a Banach space. Furthermore, we show that for a real Banach space...

G-Frames in Hilbert spaces are a redundant set of operators which yield a representation for each vector in the space. In this paper we investigate the connection between g-frames, g-orthonormal bases and g-Riesz bases. We show that a family of bounded operators is a g-Bessel sequences if and only if the Gram matrix associated to its denes a bounded operator.

For the thin obstacle problem in $${\mathbb {R}}^3$$ , we show that half-space solutions form an isolated family space of $$\frac{7}{2}$$ -homogeneous solutions. a general solution with one blow-up profile this family, establish rate convergence to profile. As consequence, obtain regularity free boundary near such contact points.