BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Sri Lanka has been able to achieve low childhood mortality levels at low cost. However, this achievement may have been at the expense of increasing mortality inequalities between socio-economic groups. This study addresses the question whether socio-economic mortality inequalities rise as overall mortality falls by describing socio-economic inequalities in under 5 mortali...

BACKGROUND There has been a substantial increase of income inequalities in Sweden over the last 20 years, which also could be reflected in health inequalities, including mental health inequalities. Despite the growing body of literature focusing on health inequalities in Sweden, income-related inequalities in mental health have received little attention. Particularly scarce are research from No...

When addressing the maximum stable set problem on a graph G = (V,E), rank inequalities prescribe that, for any subgraph G[U ] induced by U ⊆ V , at most as many vertices as the stability number of G[U ] can be part of a stable set of G. These inequalities are very general, as many of the valid inequalities known for the problem can be seen as rank inequalities in which G[U ] is restricted to a ...

In this paper, we obtain some Rosenthal’s type inequalities for negatively orthant dependent (NOD) random variables.

We derive tight Bell's inequalities for N>2 observers involving more than two alternative measurement settings. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a general quantum state to violate the new inequalities. The inequalities are violated by some classes of states, for which all standard Bell's inequalities with two measurement settings per observer are satisfied.

Inequalities in health between rich and poor areas of Britain widened in the 1980s and 1990s, and the current government has repeatedly expressed its intention to reduce these inequalities. In this article, however, the authors report that inequalities in life expectancy have continued to widen, alongside widening inequalities in income and wealth, and argue that more potent and redistributive ...

We investigate Chern number inequalities on Kähler-Einstein manifolds and their relation to uniformization. For Kähler-Einstein manifolds with c1 > 0, we prove certain Chern number inequalities in the toric case. For Kähler-Einstein manifolds with c1 < 0, we propose a series of Chern number inequalities, interpolating Yau’s and Miyaoka’s inequalities.

We prove several complexity results about the gap inequalities for the max-cut problem, including: (i) the gap-1 inequalities do not imply the other gap inequalities, unless NP = CoNP; (ii) there must exist non-redundant gap inequalities with exponentially large coefficients, unless NP = CoNP; (iii) the associated separation problem can be solved in finite (doubly exponential) time.

In recent years, health inequalities have become an important public health concern and the subject of both research and policy attention in Korea. Government reports, as well as many epidemiological studies, have provided evidence that a wide range of health outcomes and health-related behaviors are socioeconomically patterned, and that the magnitude of health inequalities is even increasing. ...

We introduce a concept of dual consistency of systems of linear inequalities with full generality. We show that a cardinality constrained polytope is represented by a certain system of linear inequalities if and only if the systems of linear inequalities associated with the cardinalities are dual consistent. Typical dual consistent systems of inequalities are those which describe polymatroids, ...