Children are increasingly born into cohabiting parent families, but we know little to date about the implications of this family pattern for children’s lives. We examine whether children born into premarital cohabitation and first marriages experience similar rates of parental disruption, and whether marriage among cohabiting parents enhances union stability. These issues are important because ...

The regulation of mitochondrial permeability, a key event in the initiation of apoptosis is governed by the opposing actions of the pro- and anti-apoptotic members of the BCL2-family of proteins. The BCL2-family can be classified further based on the number of BCL-homology (BH) domains they encode. Pathogen mediated modulation of BCL2-family members play a significant role in their ability to a...

In this paper, we present a new parametric family of three-step iterative for solving nonlinear equations. First, design fourth-order triparametric that, by holding only one its parameters, get to accelerate convergence and finally obtain sixth-order uniparametric family. With last family, study convergence, complex dynamics (stability), numerical behavior. The parameter spaces dynamical planes...

In this paper, a complex dynamical study of a parametric Chebyshev-Halley type family of iterative methods on quadratic polynomial is presented. The stability of the fixed points is analyzed in terms of the parameter of the family. We also calculate the critical points building their corresponding parameter planes which allow us to analyze the qualitative behaviour of this family. Moreover, we ...

This paper studies robustness of MIMO control systems with parametric uncertainties, and establishes a lower dimensional robust stability criterion. For control systems with interval transfer matrices, we identify the minimal testing set whose stability can guarantee the stability of the entire uncertain set. Our results improve the results in the literature, and provide a constructive solution...

In this paper a sufficient condition on the minimum dwell time that guarantees the stability of switched linear systems is given. The proposed method interprets the stability of switched linear systems through the distance between the eigenvector sets of subsystem matrices. Thus, an explicit relation in view of stability is obtained between the family of the involved subsytems and the set of ad...