This research report examines self-continuity and its role as a protective factor against suicide. First, we review the notions of personal and cultural continuity and their relevance to understanding suicide among First Nations youth. The central theoretical idea developed here is that, because it is constitutive of what it means to have or be a self to somehow count oneself as continuous in t...

We discuss piecewise rational motions with first order geometric continuity. In addition we describe an interpolation scheme generating rational spline motions of degree four matching given positions which are partially complemented by associated tangent information. As the main advantage of using geometric interpolation, it makes it possible to deal successfully with the unequal distribution o...

As weak forms of continuity in topological spaces, weak continuity [I], quasi continuity [2], semi continuity [3] and almost continuity in the sense of Husain [4] are well-known. Recently, the following four weak forms of continuity have been introduced: weak quasi continuity [5], faint continuity [6], subweak continuity [7] and almost weak continuity [8]. These four weak forms of continuity ar...

We consider the ferromagnetic Ising model on a sequence of graphs Gn converging locally weakly to a rooted random tree. Generalizing [Probab. Theory Related Fields 152 (2012) 31–51], under an appropriate “continuity” property, we show that the Ising measures on these graphs converge locally weakly to a measure, which is obtained by first picking a random tree, and then the symmetric mixture of ...

We treat image-to-device gamut mapping as a multi-criteria optimization problem. Our approach leads to a parameterized mathematical optimization problem that allows to constrain the degree to which objectives like contrast preservation, hue preservation, saturation preservation and the continuity of the mapping can be violated while maximizing the device gamut exploitation. We demonstrate the f...

In this paper, the issue of multi-degree reduction of Bézier curves with C and G-continuity at the end points of the curve is considered. An iterative method, which is the first of this type, is derived. It is shown that this algorithm converges and can be applied iteratively to get the required accuracy. Some examples and figures are given to demonstrate the efficiency of this method. 2011 Els...

Recently, a mixed hybrid operator, generalizing the well-known Phillips operators and Baskakov-Szász type operators, was introduced. In this paper, we study Bézier variant of these new operators. We investigate the degree of approximation of these operators by means of the Lipschitz class function, the modulus of continuity, and a weighted space. We study a direct approximation theorem by means...

An effective internal control system and the degree of compliance with corporate governance principles are important factors in ensuring continuity companies capital markets. Financial performance is most commonly used indicator for monitoring continuity. In literature, there studies investigating whether have an effect on financial performance. However, no study moderator success governance. F...

In this paper, we are examining the relationship between stock trading costs and commitment components and find both abnormal and normal commitments associated with these costs are associated. Moreover, stock trading costs have a greater influence by both abnormal and normal negative commitments more than positive commitments. Further analysis has shown that in general, investors are unable to ...

In this paper we deal with Jain-Schurer operators. We give an estimate, related to the degree of approximation, via K-functional. Also, present a Voronovskaja-type result. Moreover, show that operator preserves properties modulus continuity function. Finally, study monotonicity sequence operators when attached function is convex and non-decreasing.