This paper is concerned with some feasibility issues in mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs) where additional joint constraints are present that must be satis ed by the state and design variables of the problems. We introduce su cient conditions that guarantee the feasibility of these MPECs. It turns out that these conditions also guarantee the feasibility of the quadratic...

We consider a problem of managing a system of spatially distributed markets under capacity and balance constraints and show that solutions of a variational inequality enjoy auction principle properties implicitly. This enables us to develop efficient tools both for derivation of existence and uniqueness results and for creation of solution methods.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) World Health Report 2010, “Health systems financing, the path to universal coverage,” promoted universal health coverage (UHC) as an aspirational objective for country health systems. Yet, in addition to the dimensions of services and coverage, distribution of coverage in the population, and financial risk protection highlighted by the report, the conside...

When reaching for an object that unexpectedly moves, the hand is 'magnetically' drawn toward the object. This occurs even before the subject perceives object motion [1–3], possibly through sub-cortical visuo-motor processes [4]. Whether a similar process exists for the lower limb is open to question. The evolution of a rapid visuo-motor process has obvious advantages for the hand, for example f...

Segmentation of femurs in Anterior-Posterior x-ray images is very important for fracture detection, computer-aided surgery and surgical planning. Existing methods do not perform well in segmenting bones in x-ray images due to the presence of large amount of spurious edges. This paper presents an atlas-based approach for automatic segmentation of femurs in x-ray images. A robust global alignment...

The current paper investigates the influence of demography, geographical constraints, and land regulation on house price in Malaysia based developers’ perspective. A survey questionnaire was distributed among real estate developers country for demographical factors, population growth, income, standard living, household confidence future prices are identified to be important determinants. Meanwh...