OBJECTIVE To measure the socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran (the Islamic Republic of Iran). METHODS We analysed data from the provincially representative Demographic and Health Survey, which was done in Iran in 2000. We used a dichotomous hierarchical ordered probit model to develop an indicator of socioeconomic status of households. We assessed the inequality in infant mort...

Adapting methods from complex system analysis, this paper analyzes the features of the complex relationship between wage inequality and the development and industrialization of a country. Development is understood as a combination of a monetary index, GDP per capita, and a recently introduced measure of a country's economic complexity: Fitness. Initially the paper looks at wage inequality on a ...

The approximated cost-benefit function of pollution abatement from two integrated assessment models are employed in constructing of social welfare functions (SWF). Following a normative approach and evaluating equally the environmental goods in rich and poor countries, furthermore using distributional weights, a relation between elasticity of marginal utility e and inequality aversion parameter...

We consider the uncertainty bound on the sum of variances of two incompatible observables in order to derive a corresponding steering inequality. Our steering criterion when applied to discrete variables yields the optimum steering range for two qubit Werner states in the two measurement and two outcome scenario. We further employ the derived steering relation for several classes of continuous ...

Atkinson’s Theorem (Atkinson, 1970) is a classic result in inequality measurement. It establishes Lorenz dominance as a useful criterion for judging whether one distribution is more unequal than another, because if distribution A Lorenz dominates distribution B, then all indices in a broad class of measures must agree that A is less unequal than B. Yet recent research shows that standard inequa...

Recently a restriction (" quantum inequality-type relation ") on the (renormal-ized) energy density measured by a static observer in a " globally static " (ultrastatic) spacetime has been formulated by Pfenning and Ford for the minimally coupled scalar field, in the extension of quantum inequality-type relation on flat spacetime of Ford and Roman. They found negative lower bounds for the line i...

The well-known second moment Heisenberg-Weyl inequality (or uncertainty relation) states: Assume that f : R → C is a complex valued function of a random real variable x such that f ∈ L(R), where R = (−∞,∞). Then the product of the second moment of the random real x for |f | and the second moment of the random real ξ for ∣∣∣f̂ ∣∣∣2 is at least ER,|f |2 / 4π, where f̂ is the Fourier transform of f ...

The prime purpose of this paper is to provide a refinement Jensen’s inequality in connection with positive finite sequence. We deal the for particular cases and point out relation between new result earlier results inequality. As results, we obtain refinements quasi-arithmetic power mean inequalities. Finally, several are obtained information theory help main results.

Let T be an Archimedean (continuous) t-norm and ∈]0, 1 2 [. Fodor and Ovchinnikov have studied a relation between the inequality T (max(x− , 0),min(x+ , 1)) T (x, x) and the convexity of the additive generator of T . Here we clarify this relation and answer open problems from previous studies. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: primary 03E72; secondary 20M05; 26E50; 68T37

in this paper, two pairs of new inequalities are given, which decompose two hilbert-type inequalities.