Abstract In this paper, the robust stability of T-S fuzzy uncertain system for neural networks with time-varying delays is investigated. The constraint on the time-varying delay function is removed, which means that a fast time-varying delay is allowed. Based on the LyapunovKrasovskii functional techniques and integral inequality approach (IIA), novel robust stability criteria have been derived...

We show that paradoxical consequences of violations of Bell’s inequality are induced by the use of an unsuitable probabilistic description for the EPR-Bohm-Bell experiment. The conventional description (due to Bell) is based on a combination of statistical data collected for different settings of polarization beam splitters (PBSs). In fact, such data consists of some conditional probabilities w...

Americans are deeply divided over the meaning of the poverty and racial exclusion revealed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Media accounts of the hurricane riveted, angered, and depressed many Americans, but did not lead to a national consensus in favor of new policies to fight poverty and economic inequality. This article considers theories and research evidence that may help to explain this ...

The experience of disability is part of the daily lives of people who have a disease, lesion or corporal limitation. Disability is still understood as personal bad luck; moreover, from the social and political points of view, the disabled are seen as a minority. The aim of this study is to contribute to the knowledge about the experience of disability. The research presents a new approach on th...

Many economic decisions involve a binary choice for example, workers choosing between education and labor force participation, consumers determining whether to buy a good, firms selecting whether to enter a market or whether to adopt a new technology. In such settings, agents’ choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well ...

■ Abstract Research on the relationship between schools and communities has reemerged as a principal focus of the sociology of education. Current research, however, rejects earlier conceptualizations of school communities as being organized locally and identifiable by reference to demographic and neighborhood characteristics. Neoinstitutional research on schools has focused examination instead ...