In a country in which contraception is controversial, abortion illegal and in which reproductive rights are limited, IVF is an unaffordable dream for most couples. But things are slowly changing in the only Christian democracy in Asia: the Philippines. In December 2012 the Senate passed the Reproductive Health bill and president Benigno Aquino III signed the measure into a law which is still no...

Believing that figural zoom invariance and the cross-figural boundary linking implied by medial loci are important aspects of object shape, we present the mathematics of and algorithms for the extraction of medial loci directly from image intensities. The medial loci called cores are defined as generalized maxima in scale space of a form of medial information that is invariant to translation, r...

submitted for the 2007 International Progress in Paper Physics Seminar Adhesive level effect on corrugated board strength – experiment and FE modeling Roman E. Popil, Michael K. Schaepe, Institute of Paper Science and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, Rami-Haj Ali, Bo-Siou Wei, Joonho Choi, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Believing that figural zoom invariance and the cross-figural boundary linking implied by medial loci are important aspects of object shape, we present the mathematics of and algorithms for the extraction of medial loci directly from image intensities. The medial loci called cores are defined as generalized maxima in scale space of a form of medial information that is invariant to translation, r...

Motivated by the work of Chung, Claesson, Dukes, and Graham in [5], we define a natural type B analog of the classic bubble sort, and use it to define a type B analog of the maximum drop statistic. We enumerate (by explicit, recursive, and generating function formulas) signed permutations with r type B descents and type B maximum drop at most k. We also find a connection between these signed pe...

A double Roman dominating function on a graph G=(V,E) is f:V?{0,1,2,3}, satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f(u)=1 adjacent to at least one assigned 2 or 3, and with f(u)=0 3 two vertices 2. The weight of f equals sum w(f)=?v?Vf(v). minimum G called domination number ?dR(G) G. We obtain tight bounds in some cases closed expressions generalized Petersen graphs P(ck,k). In shor...

A total Roman dominating function on a graph $G$ is a function $f: V(G) rightarrow {0,1,2}$ such that for every vertex $vin V(G)$ with $f(v)=0$ there exists a vertex $uin V(G)$ adjacent to $v$ with $f(u)=2$, and the subgraph induced by the set ${xin V(G): f(x)geq 1}$ has no isolated vertices. The total Roman domination number of $G$, denoted $gamma_{tR}(G)$, is the minimum weight $omega(f)=sum_...