background: gender inequality harms the health of millions of women and girls in all over the world. this study aimed to identify the state of gender equity in the health sector of the islamic republic of iran.   methods: this study was based on the secondary analysis of the available data in four provinces. the research team held three sessions to select the appropriate indicators for measurin...

In this paper, we present an improved subgradient algorithm for solving a general multi-agent convex optimization problem in a distributed way, where the agents are to jointly minimize a global objective function subject to a global inequality constraint, a global equality constraint and a global constraint set. The global objective function is a combination of local agent objective functions a...

Background: Timely access to cardiovascular health services is necessary to prevent heart damages. The present study examined inequality in geographical distribution of cardiovascular health services in Iran.   Methods: Present study is a cross-sectional study conducted using demographic data from all Iranian provinces (31 provinces) from 2012 census by the Statistics Center of Iran (SC...

The isoperimetric inequality for Steiner symmetrization of any codimension is investigated and the equality cases are characterized. Moreover, a quantitative version of this inequality is proven for convex sets.

in this paper, we introduce a satisfaction function (sf) to compare interval values on the basis oftseng and klein’s idea. the sf estimates the degree to which arithmetic comparisons between two intervalvalues are satisfied. then, we define two other functions called lower and upper sf based on the sf. weapply these functions in order to present a new interpretation of inequality constraints wi...

The usual Heisenberg uncertainty relation, ∆X∆P ≥ h̄/2, may be replaced by an exact equality for suitably chosen measures of position and momentum uncertainty, which is valid for all wavefunctions. This exact uncertainty relation, δX∆Pnc ≡ h̄/2, can be generalised to other pairs of conjugate observables such as photon number and phase, and is sufficiently strong to provide the basis for moving fr...

We present a propagator that achieves MDD consistency for a separable equality over an MDD (multivalued decision diagram) store in pseudo-polynomial time. We integrate the propagator into a constraint solver based on an MDD store introduced in [1]. Our experiments show that the new propagator provides substantial computational advantage over propagation of two inequality constraints, and that t...

We generalize the well-known Hölder inequality and give a condition at which the equality holds.