There is a gap between ethnic minority students and ethnic majority students in the attainment of higher education degrees (Allen, 1992; DesJardins, Ahlburg, and McCall, 2002; Hatch and Mommsen, 1984; Mehan, Hubbard, and Villanueva, 1994; Myers, 2003; Pathways to College Network, 2003). Racial or ethnic minority students have a higher probability of leaving postsecondary education than ethnic m...

In this paper, we consider a Cahn-Hillard/Allen-Cahn equation. By using the semigroup and the classical existence theorem of global attractors, we give the existence of the global attractor in H^k(0

a Department of Psychology, School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4, 7ET, UK b Eclectica, Institute for Training and Research, via Silvio Pellico, 1 10125, Torino, Italy c Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark d Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, AB Gesundheitspsychologie, PF 1...

aims: this study aims to review the economic cost of childhood (0-18 years) unintentional injuries (ui) and focuses upon comparing the cost burden between developing and developed countries. methods: articles were selected from pubmed using the search words “economic cost”, “unintentional injuries” and “children”. nine articles were selected. results: studies in china focused upon cost to hospi...

This thesis aims to introduce and analyse a primal-dual active set strategy for solving Allen-Cahn variational inequalities. We consider the standard Allen-Cahn equation with non-local constraints and a vector-valued Allen-Cahn equation with and without non-local constraints. Existence and uniqueness results are derived in a formulation involving Lagrange multipliers for local and non-local con...