This study utilises philosophical deliberation to analyse the psycho-social and emotional conflicts that arise out of widowhood practices in the Luo community of Kenya. Towards this end, it explores the attendant effects of Luo widowhood practices on family, power and gender relations, and suggests resolutions to the challenges they generate.

In this paper a novel four-leg interleaved DC-DC boost converter is proposed which is well suitable for fuel cell vehicles (FCV) application. The voltage stress of two switches of this converter is half of the conventional interleaved converters. Therefore, smaller and cheaper switches can be utilized. Also "on" state duration of the two of four switches are reduced in comparison with...

We introduce and study a new containment relation in graphs – lift contractions. H is a lift contraction of G if H can be obtained from G by a sequence of edge lifts and edge contractions. We show that a graph contains every n-vertex graph as a lift contraction, if (1) its treewidth is large enough, or (2) its pathwidth is large enough and it is 2-connected, or (3) its order is large enough and...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2012.12.005 ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu, Nanjing 210096, China. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. Shan), [email protected]. edu.au (W. Liang), [email protected] (J. Luo), [email protected] (X. Shen). Feng Shan a,e,⇑, W...

Care (Dr Patel) and Medicine (Drs Chapman, Luo, Woodruff, and Arora), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Correspondence:Dr Arora, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, AMB W216, Chicago, IL 60637 ([email protected] .edu). Author Contributions: Drs Patel and Arora had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for ...