Poverty reduction is entirely determined by the growth rate of population’s mean per capita income and by the change in the distribution of income. This places the empirical relation between growth and inequality at the heart of poverty reducing strategies. This study, which estimates the relation for Paraguay, aims to identify the growth effects of income and education inequality while control...

BACKGROUND Intestinal obstructions/pseudo-obstruction of the small/large bowel are frequent conditions but their management could be challenging. Moreover, a general agreement in this field is currently lacking, thus SICUT Society designed a consensus study aimed to define their optimal workout. METHODS The Delphi methodology was used to reach consensus among 47 Italian surgical experts in tw...

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in this paper, we use parametric form of fuzzy number and we converta fuzzy linear system to two linear system in crisp case. conditions for the existence of a minimal solution to $mtimes n$ fuzzy linear equation systems are derived and a numerical procedure for calculating the minimal solution is designed. numerical examples are presented to illustrate the proposed method.

in this paper a new algorithm is presented for coherent radar detection of targets, when distribution of the interference (clutter and noise) is non-gaussian. the neyman-pearson criterion is used for optimal detection and several successive received samples from a radar range cell are used for detection in the same cell. on the basis of recent empirical evidences, the interference distribution ...

(∆− λ)f = T for a Γ-invariant distribution T on H, compactly-supported on Γ\H. The three main examples for T are described in detail below. That is, a slight roughness is tolerated in f at the support of the Γ-invariant distribution T . Three natural types of target distributions T are: (i) T is supported at a single point on Γ\H, (ii) T is supported on a closed geodesic on Γ\H, (iii) T evaluat...