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Silkscreens, lithographs, and watercolors comprise this collection of art prints by Mexican American and other artists produced at Self-Help Graphics studio in Los Angeles, CA, and Coronado Studios in Austin, TX.
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Houston-based commercial litigation lawyer, Scott J. Atlas, collected the materials that comprise this collection through his pro bono work as a defense attorney for the capital murder trial of Ricardo Aldape Guerra. Guerra was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico wrongfully held on Texas Death Row for fifteen years before being exonerated in 1997. In 1982, twenty-year-old Guerra was arrested and indicted for the capital murder of Houston police officer J.D. Harris, despite all physical evidence pointing to Roberto Carrasco Flores as the one who shot and killed Officer Harris. Harris County prosecutors appealed to heightened anti-Mexican immigrant hostility in Houston by repeatedly emphasizing Guerra's undocumented immigration status to the jury in order to help secure his conviction and death sentence. After being released in 1997, Guerra returned to Mexico a national hero for overcoming what many Mexicans thought to be an unjust Texas legal system intent on punishing undocumented Mexican immigrants. The Scott J. Atlas Collection of Legal Materials on the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Case consists of digitized copies of all Atlas' related case files as well as audiovisual recordings of press coverage of the Aldape case. All the digitized case files are available for viewing online.
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Tejiendo la Memoria is a weekly radio program produced by the Museo de la Palabra y la Image / Museum of the Word and Image (MUPI). Each program is between five and seven minutes and relates an aspect of the social, cultural, or political history of El Salvador. The program was originally broadcast by the news program, Voces en Contacto, by the Association of Participatory Radio and Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS). The program currently airs on Conexión Comunitaria.
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The Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU) was established in August 1975 under the leadership of Antonio Orendain. Wanting a union that was accountable to them, a core of Rio Grande Valley farmworkers supported the foundation of the TFWU. Despite the financial problems it faced, the TFWU was able to focus the media spotlight on the plight of farmworkers. They campaigned for the establishment of a Texas Agricultural Board and the right of farmworkers to vote on union representation, but legislation died in subcommittee. In 1977 union members started a 420-mile march from San Juan to Austin. To gain more public support for their cause, Orendain led forty union members on a historical 1,600-mile march from Austin to Washington, DC. However, unable to maintain firm financial backing, the union continued to have a sporadic existence until its demise in the mid-1980s. In addition to the correspondence of TFWU labor organizer Orendain, the collection includes promotional materials such as the newspaper El Cuhamil, a half-hour film titled Los Trabajadores Agricolas de Tejas and several phonodiscs of songs for TFWU written by Esteban Jordan. Other items found in this collection are posters, buttons, bumper stickers, and banners.
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Nine members of the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1982 were put on trial by the Buenos Aires Federal Court of Criminal Appeals, a civilian court, and were charged with crimes including homicide, torture, illegal detention, and robbery. The collection consists of photocopies of case transcripts of testimonies by 828 witnesses at the 1985 trial of these military commanders. The 7630 sheets of testimonies, chiefly by released prisoners like Jacobo Timmerman, document instances of kidnapping, illegal detention in clandestine centers, systematic torture, coerced collaboration, and death under torture. Transcripts are arranged chronologically and a list of witnesses is included.
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The U.S. Latino and Latina WWII Oral History Project Collection is the product of an initiative that began in 1999 to document the experiences of Mexican Americans during WWII. The project is a joint initiative between the Center for Mexican American Studies and the UT School of Journalism designed to highlight the contributions of Mexican Americans that are not always recognized in traditional histories of the war. Individuals interviewed served in the U.S. armed forces during the conflict, whether as soldiers, nurses, technicians, or members of the civil service. The project may also be accessed through its own web page (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos/index.html) for additional information. The collection contains 400+ oral history interviews, including audio and video tapes and DVDs, transcripts, indexes to the interviews, narrative stories produced from the interviews, photographs, correspondence, and other documents from the U.S. Latino and Latina WWII Oral History Project.
Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Immigrant Rights, War Crimes1999-present -
The Unintended Portraits of the Meninas de Sinhá (Black Brazilian Women Elder Activists) collection is comprised of photographs and audio recordings of the group Meninas de Sinhá in the northeastern state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The group was created in the late 1980s by Valdete, a community leader and activist in the city of Belo Horizonte. She observed older women in her peripheral neighborhood of Alto Vera Cruz leaving the local clinic with large quantities of anti-anxiety medication. Believing that pharmaceuticals were not a solution, Valdete brought the women together to understand their anxieties. Hearing familiar stories of emotional and physical struggle from this older generation of women, she formed this community of support to improve these women's mental wellbeing by expressing their emotions through song. Each photograph is also accompanied with an audio file and transcripts of each member's response to the question: "What is the group for you?"
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The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice's (WCGJ) documentary footage for If Hope Were Enough contains the documentary production in English, Spanish, and French as well as raw footage of panels for the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court (ICC Prepcom) and interviews with survivors of gender-based violence conducted for the documentary. If Hope Were Enough documents the ways in which women have worked to bring accountability for crimes of sexual and gender violence in conflict and non-conflict situations around the world and the struggles of gender-based violence survivors in Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Mexico.


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"Are you with me?" he asks the nearly frantic throng, a group composed of people of all ages, most of whom have their fists stuck straight up in the air. The crowd roars back affirmatively; its collective wailing rattles the rafters in the restored theater. It is a scene that seems more suited to a revival tent or a political rally than a concert hall. A moment later, however, LeBlanc takes his place not at a pulpit, but at a drum kit plunked down in the center of the stage. He lays down a fevered wallop and flips the first of many pairs of drumsticks high over his head and into the stage drapes behind him.
So begins another concert by Cowboy Mouth, America's motivational-rock 'n' roll machine.
While many acts in popular music scramble for labels to separate them from the pack, Cowboy Mouth has carved a unique niche with a mix of self-empowerment anthems and radio-minded pop. Ten years in the making, the band's sound -- equal parts Anthony Robbins, Stuart Smalley, and Hootie & the Blowfish -- lures fans who crave Cowboy Mouth's odes to the power of positive thinking.
In St. Louis there's no doubt that the you-can-do-anything message is what the crowd has come for. The vibe peaks late in the set when LeBlanc slips from behind his kit to roam the theater and lead the masses through a particularly uplifting Cowboy chorus. At one point he asks the crowd for silence while he holds a microphone over the upturned face of a girl of about ten years. She's been singing all night from atop her dad's shoulders, and as the room quiets, LeBlanc instructs her to show the audience how one really cuts loose on a Cowboy Mouth song. "Sing it like you're all alone in your room," LeBlanc requests politely, "like it's just you and the song and your Britney Spears stereo." A moment later, her tiny fist waving, she delivers her lines with adenoidal fury. "Let it go, let it go, let it go," she shouts. "When the world starts crashing down on you, let it go, let it go, let it go." As the kid finishes, the crowd roars, and the band kicks in again.
These moments are what LeBlanc and his bandmates (guitarists John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez and bassist Rob Savoy) live for.
"For whatever reason, Cowboy Mouth is able to do that, even if it's for a brief second," LeBlanc says. "It's a real blessing, and it's great. And why not celebrate it? Why not have fun, dance your ass off, sweat like a pig, and scream like you're having the greatest orgasm of your life? That's what it's all about." It's also key, LeBlanc says, to winning the game of life. "People get beat down so easily," he says, "because the media says if you don't smoke this cigarette or buy this car or have this haircut or have big tits or washboard abs, you're basically worthless. To hell with that. We're all just little kids, we're all just celebrating. I say find that little thing inside you that makes you think that you kick ass and run with it. Because you know what? It's right."
But while LeBlanc admits his act centers around a yes-I-can credo, he bristles at the suggestion that his music is designed as some unrealistic self-help tool. "It's not like we're Up with People or anything like that," LeBlanc says. "We don't just sing about how everything's happy, everything's great. Some of the songs we've written deal with the harsh realities of life. But there are many different ways that you can deal with what happens to you. We choose to celebrate it all, the good and the bad things. Because by acknowledging them, you have the power to wash them out of your system."
Such comments are enough to drive people who crave less didactic messages straight to the exits. LeBlanc's Keith Moon-meets-Sergeant Carter stage persona is also likely to prove too much for those who savor subtlety. But LeBlanc's gonzo attitude is a hit with his audience, and it's something of which he's proud today, especially considering his past. LeBlanc grew up like many teens, confused about who he was and where he fit in. He spent some of his youth abusing himself to the point of carving his own skin. But he found relief from his teenage troubles in the form of music.
"Rock 'n' roll pretty much saved my life," LeBlanc says. "I was just real angry, real pissed for a large part of my life -- one of those pissed-off kids who would be self-destructive and really didn't want to live, didn't see any point in it. Listening to music, stuff like Bo Diddley, Howling Wolf, and the New Orleans music of the Neville Brothers along with newer stuff like the Clash and R.E.M., really opened my eyes to what was possible. It woke something up inside of me that I haven't wanted to put back to sleep. Ever."


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The BYOND blog used to be somewhat active. The staff (well, Tom at least) started off this year strong, posting on Jan 13 & 27 and Feb 2 & 9.
It looks like Tom jinxed himself on the Feb. 9th post by saying "Hopefully you've noticed the more frequent news posts here at BYOND. We made a vow this year to improve communication, and the news is part of it." To also quote a BYOND blog post: "You know the old warning about never announcing something you're working on, because you'll lose all motivation to do it?"
I guess by announcing that the staff would post more frequently they were jinxed and didn't really make regular blog posts again (the only other ones this year are March 9 & 29, August 10, and September 2).
Is there a reason why the BYOND staff doesn't use the BYOND blog more?
People get quite interested in development progress of BYOND games, I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd be interested in hearing about the development progress of BYOND itself. It doesn't have to be development updates, it could be any BYOND-related ramblings. I'd be interested in reading posts from the staff about their thoughts on feature requests, submitted games/resources, things they think are neat, ideas they have, features on their wish list, lessons they've learned from working on BYOND, etc.
The BYOND staff seems to keep its distance from the BYOND community. I'm not sure if the staff just doesn't value community interaction or if they don't have the time for it. To have so little interaction it seems like the staff must actively try to avoid it. I think it'd be very beneficial. The BYOND community doesn't have that many good developers so getting regular posts from two more (Tom and Lummox - I think that's the whole BYOND development staff) would make quite an impact.


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Tequila Sunrise in Oakland Park adds Vegan and Vegetarian Options
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Maybe it's the newborn baby-sized deep fried chimichangas. Or ice creams that aren't quite ready for consumption until they are dipped in batter, coated in Corn Flakes, fried then lathered in chocolate syrup and whipped cream. But restaurant style Tex-Mex cuisine has never really struck me as very "veg friendly."
Which is why Tequila Sunrise's new menu of Veggie Mex is a welcome surprise. It's not totally out of left field - there is a tree growing through one of the dining rooms, after all, and the cozy Fort Lauderdale eatery offers plenty of veg-based, high-fiber, low fat, full flavored options already.
But as of this month, they are offering some vegan and vegetarian dishes alongside their traditional menu. While an entirely separate vegan and vegetarian menu is in the works, the following new options are available now...
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Digital Foci is challenging the traditional photo album with its new digital Photo Book. Users are able to view their digital uploads on its 8.0-inch LCD complete with a host of added features, including music and video support. But do we really need digital photo books? Aren't laptops and photo-sharing sites good enough? Let's take a look.
Digital Foci Photo Book Specifications:
At 2.2-pounds, the Photo Book is relatively heavy, but also has a sense of hardiness and build-quality to the touch. The device comes built into a cheesy plastic-leather case and is available in either black or white. The case opens like a book and is secured shut by a hidden magnet, a feature that I found convenient and reliable, and certainly preferable to Velcro.
After folding back the casing you are met by the electronic device complete with its hard plastic shell and eight-inch LCD. The display seems flimsy and bleeds easily from pressure. I suppose that's the tradeoff with non-glossy LCD displays that resist glare better than their glossy counterparts. The screen is offset leftward, while the buttons - menu, back, four-way controller, "OK" and volume/zoom - are positioned to the right along with the speaker. At a glance, the layout is very simple.
On the side of the device sit two housing portals. One of the portals is exclusively for a Compact Flash card, while the other is for all others, including an SD card. There is also a mini USB connection. Beware trying to open the protective flaps covering these portals, as they are unnecessarily difficult to pry open and will most likely force you into breaking a nail or breaking the plastic.
Finally, the power button is on the bottom of the device, and that doubles as a battery meter denoted by color, a factory reset button and an input for the AC power adapter.
The Photo Book comes equipped with an AC power adapter, USB cable, USB adapter, and the manual. Its lithium polymer battery, which can last up to 2.5 hours, can be charged via AC or USB connection.
It takes approximately 20 seconds for the Photo Book to boot. After that, it displays a screen that lays out all available photo albums, each signified by a photo book icon displaying a sample image. It's a simple layout that's easy to figure out.
However, it gets more complicated if you're looking to go further than that to tweak your settings, select albums, copy/paste photos into a new album etc. The problem is that the menu icons are denoted by confusing images, which are not very clear. Popular online photo sharing sites are known for their simplicity and clarity, and the Photo Book doesn't meet the standard they set.
There is also noticeable lag when cycling through larger photos. The Photo book supports many RAW file types, and I shudder to think how severely those sizeable image files will bog the Photo Book down.
The Photo Book allows you to upload images via memory card or USB. Both are relatively easy to do especially since the USB method has no software or installation requirements; you simply drag and drop to the desired folder displayed on your computer. I enjoyed the absence of software as it saves time that would have been spent downloading and on a learning curve, but in the end, it's really a personal preference.
Being able to upload more than just still images is a definite plus. With the Photo Book, you have the option to upload videos - which is a nice and welcome surprise - and music to accompany your photo viewing experience if you find music at all necessary. In any case, the Photo Book's versatility as a multimedia device is appreciated.
Photos on the 8.0-inch LCD (800x600) have decent color quality and are generally clear, but do show some pixilation thanks to the relatively low pixel density. By comparison, the iPhone 4 is less than half the size of the Photo Book at 3.5-inches, and it has a 960x640 pixel resolution.
The Photo Book simply has too many little quirks that I feel need to be fine-tuned in order to make this a go-to item for consumers. Once things are straightened out, then the Photo Book might be worth the near $200 price tag. Until that time, however, the traditional photo album and photo sharing sites still reign.
With that said, the Photo Book gets the job done and does not have any major issues. Plus, it's fun to use and versatile, given its ability to support video and music all in a simple memory card or USB format.


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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 703826, 11 pages
Global Dynamic Behavior of a Multigroup Cholera Model with Indirect Transmission
1Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shan'xi 030051, China
2Complex Systems Center, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shan'xi 030006, China
3Institute of Information Economy, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China
4School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Received 4 October 2013; Accepted 7 November 2013
Academic Editor: Antonia Vecchio
Copyright © 2013 Ming-Tao Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
For a multigroup cholera model with indirect transmission, the infection for a susceptible person is almost invariably transmitted by drinking contaminated water in which pathogens, V. cholerae, are present. The basic reproduction number is identified and global dynamics are completely determined by . It shows that is a globally threshold parameter in the sense that if it is less than one, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable; whereas if it is larger than one, there is a unique endemic equilibrium which is global asymptotically stable. For the proof of global stability with the disease-free equilibrium, we use the comparison principle; and for the endemic equilibrium we use the classical method of Lyapunov function and the graph-theoretic approach.
1. Introduction
Cholera, a waterborne gastroenteric infection, remains a significant threat to public health in the developing world. Outbreaks of cholera occur cyclically, usually twice per year in endemic areas, and the intensity of these outbreaks varies over longer periods [1]. Hence, in the last few decades, enormous attention is being paid to the cholera disease and several mathematical dynamic models have been developed to study the transmission of cholera [1–7]. In these papers, they consider the population is uniformly mixed, but many factors can lead to heterogeneity in a host population. So in this paper we divide different population into different groups, which can be divided geographically into communities, cities, and countries, to incorporate differential infectivity of multiple strains of the disease agent.
In the case of cholera, the transmission usually occurs through ingestion of contaminated water or feces rather than through casual human-human contact [1]. Therefore, direct contact of healthy person with an infected person is not a risk for contracting infection, whereas a healthy person may contract infection by drinking contaminated water in which pathogens, V. cholerae, are present [2]. The members of this bacterial genus (V. cholerae) naturally colonize in lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Therefore we consider that cholera transmits to other individuals via bacteria in the aquatic environment and formulates a multi-group epidemic model for cholera. Letbe the total population which is divided into four epidemiological compartments, susceptible compartment, infectious compartment, recovered compartment , and vaccinated compartment. Letbe the density of V. cholerae in the aquatic environment. As a consequence of the increase in the density of virulent V. cholerae in the aquatic environment, humans become infected and begin to shed increasing numbers of bacteria into the aquatic environment, further elevating bacterial density and exacerbating the outbreak [1]. The growth rate of density of bacteria in the aquatic environment is assumed to be proportional to the number of infectious individuals. We assume that the immunity induced by vaccination is perfect; therefore individuals in vaccinated individualscannot be infected. The model is called a multi-group cholera SIRVW epidemic model.
In recent years, multi-group epidemic models have been used to describe the transmission dynamics of many infectious disease in heterogeneous individuals, such as HIV/AIDS [8], dengue [9], West-Nile virus [10], sexually transmitted diseases [11]; and so on. It is well known that global dynamics of multi-group models with higher dimensions, especially the global stability of the endemic equilibrium, is a very challenging problem. Lajmanovich and York [12] proved global stability of the unique endemic equilibrium by using a quadratic global Lyapunov function on a class of -group SIS models for gonorrhea; Hethcote [13] proved global stability of the endemic equilibrium for multi-group SIR model without vital dynamics; Thieme [14] proved global stability of the endemic equilibrium of multi-group SEIRS model under certain restrictions. However, they only proved global stability of the endemic equilibrium for multi-group model under some special conditions. In 2006, Guo et al. [15] have first succeeded to establish the complete global dynamics for a multi-group SIR model, by making use of the theory of non-negative matrices, Lyapunov functions and a subtle grouping technique in estimating the derivatives of Lyapunov functions guided by graph theory. By using the results or ideas of [15], the papers [16, 17] proved the global stability of the endemic equilibrium for multi-group model with nonlinear incidence rates and the papers [18, 19] proved the global stability of the endemic equilibrium for multi-group model with distributed delays.
Distinguishing from these multi-group models with direct transmission from person to person, a multi-group cholera model with indirect transmission from the bacteria of the aquatic environment to person is proposed in this paper. We prove that the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if , while an endemic equilibrium exists uniquely and is globally asymptotically stable if .
The organization of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we construct a multi-group cholera epidemiological and give some dynamic analysis on the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium. An example is given in Section 3 and some conclusions are included in Section 4.
2. Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
For a multi-group epidemic model with cholera, the population of human is divided intodiscrete groups, where. Let , , , and be the numbers of susceptible, infectious, recovered, and vaccinated individuals in group at time, respectively. Letbe the density of bacteria in the aquatic environment in groupat time. Based on the assumptions in Section 1, the disease transmission rate of cholera between compartmentsandis denoted by, which means the susceptible individuals in theth group can contact the bacteria of the aquatic environment in theth () group. So the new infection that occurred in theth group is given by. The recruitment rate of individuals intocompartment with theth group is given by a constant. Within theth group, it is assumed that natural death of human is. A simple immunization policy is considered where the vaccination rate incompartment is given by a constant and the losing immunity rate from vaccination individuals is. We assume that individuals incompartment recover with a rate constant. Incompartment, the brucella shedding rate fromcompartment is, and the decaying rate of brucella is. So a general multi-group SIRVW epidemic model is described by the following system of differential equations:
The parameters , , , , , andare positive for all, which is made for the biological justification. And we assume thatis nonnegative for alland-square matrixis irreducible, which implies that every pair of groups is joined by an infectious path so that the presence of an infectious individual in the first group can cause infection in the second group.
Observe that the variabledoes not appear in the first and last two equations of system (1); this allows us to consider the following reduced system:
For each group, adding the four equations in system (2) gives
then it follows that
Therefore, omega limit sets of system (2) are contained in the following bounded region in the nonnegative cone of:
It can be verified that regionis positively invariant with respect to system (2). System (2) always has a disease-free equilibrium
on the boundary of, where
2.1. The Basic Reproduction Number
According to the next generation matrix formulated in papers [20–22], we define the basic reproduction numberof system (2). In order to formulate, we order the infected variables first by disease state and then by group, that is,
Consider the following auxiliary system:
Follow the recipe from van den Driessche and Watmough [21] to obtain
We can get the inverse of, which equals
Thus, the next generation matrix is,
So we can calculate the basic reproduction number of system (2),
anddenotes the spectral radius. As we will show,is the key threshold parameters whose values completely characterize the global dynamics of system (2).
2.2. Global Stability of the Disease-Free Equilibrium of System (2)
For the disease-free equilibriumof system (2), we have the following property.
Theorem 1. If, the disease-free equilibriumof system (2) is globally asymptotically stable in the region.
Proof. Let, and defineis an eigenvalue of, sois a simple eigenvalue ofwith a positive eigenvector [23]. By Theorem 2 in [21], there hold two equivalences:
To prove the locally stability of disease-free equilibrium, we check the hypotheses (A1)–(A5) in [21]. Hypotheses (A1)–(A4) are easily verified, while (A5) is satisfied if all eigenvalues of thematrix
have negative real parts, where,
Calculate the eigenvalues of:
If, thenand, and the disease-free equilibriumof (2) is locally asymptotically stable.
Now we will prove that the disease-free equilibriumof system (2) is globally attractive when. From the third equation of system (2), we have
So we can have that, for a small enough positive number, there exists , such that for all,
Also from the equations of system (2), we have
From system (9) andwith all. Thus, when, we derive
Consider the following auxiliary system
Letbe the matrix defined by
and set. It follows from Theorem 2 in [21] thatif and only if. Thus, there exists ansmall enough such that. Using the Perron-Frobenius theorem, all eigenvalues of the matrixhave negative real parts when. Therefore it has
which implies that the zero solution of system (24) is globally asymptotically stable. Using the comparison principle of Smith and Waltman [23], we know that
By the theory of asymptotic autonomous system of Thieme [24], it is also known that
Sois globally attractive when. It follows that the disease-free equilibriumof (2) is globally asymptotically stable when. This completes the proof.
2.3. The Uniform Persistence and Unique Positive Solution of System (2)
In this section, we give the proof of the uniform persistence and the unique positive solution of system (2). Define
Theorem 2. When, there exists a positive constantsuch that whenfor
Proof. Consider the following system:
Using Corollary 3.2 in Zhao and Jing [25], it then follows that system (31) has a unique positive equilibrium which is globally asymptotically stable.
As to, choosesmall enough such that, where. Let us consider a perturbed system
From our previous analysis of system (32), we can restrictsmall enough such that (32) admits a unique positive equilibriumwhich is globally asymptotically stable.is continuous in, so we can further restrictsmall enough such that, .
For the sake of contradiction of Theorem 2, there is asuch that, , , for all. Then for, we have
Since the equilibrium (, , ) of (32) is globally asymptotically stable and, . There exists asuch that, for . As a consequence, for , there holds
Consider the following system
Since the matrixhas positive eigenvaluewith a positive eigenvector. It is easy to see that
Using the comparison principle of Smith and Waltman [23], we also know that
which leads to a contradiction, therefore we claim that
This completes the proof.
We also have the following result of system (2).
Theorem 3. If, then system (2) admits at least one positive equilibrium, and there is a positive constantsuch that every solutionof the system (2) withsatisfies
which implies that system (2) is uniformly persistent.
Proof. Now we prove that system (2) is uniformly persistent with respect to. By the form of (2), it is easy to see that bothandare positively invariant andis relatively closed in. Furthermore system (2) is point dissipative. Let
It is easy to show that
Noting that. We only need to prove. Assume. It suffices to show that, , for all , . Suppose not. Then there exist an , , andsuch that, and we partitioninto two setsandsuch that
is nonempty due to the definition of.is non-empty since. For any and we have that
It follows that there is ansuch that, for, This means thatdoes not belong to for, which contradicts the assumption that . This proves the system (41).
is globally asymptotically stable for system (2). It is clear that there is only an equilibriaumin and by aforementioned claim, it then follows thatis isolated invariant set in,. Clearly, every orbit inconverges to,is acyclic in. Using Theorem 4.6 in Thieme [26], we conclude that the system (2) is uniformly persistent with respect to. By the result of [27, 28], system (2) has an equilibrium. We further claim that, . Suppose that, ; from of (2), we can get, . It is a contradiction. Then is a componentwise positive equilibrium of system (2). This completes the proof.
The following theorem shows that there exists a unique positive solution for system (2) when.
Theorem 4. If, then there only exists a unique positive equilibrium for system (2).
Proof. Consider the following system:
We have that
Hence, the equilibrium of system (2) is equal to the following system:
Therefore, we only need to prove that (46) has a unique positive equilibrium when. Use the method in [12] to demonstrate the unique positive equilibrium of (46). First we prove that , , is the only positive solution of (46). Assume that andare two positive solutions of (46), both nonzero. If, thenfor some (). Assume without loss of generality that and moreover thatfor all (). Sinceandare positive solutions of (46), we substitute them into (46). We obtain
Butand; thus from the above equalities we get
This is a contradiction, so there is only one positive solution, , of (46). So when , there only exists a unique positive equilibrium for system (2).
2.4. Global Stability of the Unique Endemic Solution of System (2)
In this section, we prove that the unique endemic equilibrium of system (2) is globally asymptotically stable in. In order to prove global stability of the endemic equilibrium, the Lyapunov function will be used. In the following, we also use a Lyapunov function to prove global stability of the endemic equilibrium.
Theorem 5. If, the unique positive equilibriumof system (2) is globally asymptotically stable in.
Proof. Following [15] we define
which is a Laplacian matrix whose column sums are zero and which is irreducible. Therefore, it follows from Lemma 2.1 of [15] that the solution space of linear system
has dimension 1 with a basis
wheredenotes the cofactor of theth diagonal entry of. Note that from (53) we have that
For suchwe define a Lyapunov function
where, , , and. It is easy to see thatfor alland the equalityholds if and only if. The derivative along the trajectories of system (2) is
From system (44), we have
Now we claim that
Appealing to (51), (55) and (59),
From (61) we have
Next we show thatfor allby applying the graph-theoretic approach developed in [29–31]. As in [29],denotes the directed graph associated with matrix,presents a subgraph of,denotes the unique elementary cycle of,presents the set of directed arcs in , anddenotes the number of arcs in. Thencan be rewritten as
For instance,
Note that for each unicycle graph, it is easy to see that
and hencefor each, andif and only if
The equality holds if and only if , , , and for all. Therefore, following from LaSalle's Invariance Principle [32], the unique endemic equilibriumof system (2) is globally asymptotically stable. This completes the proof.
3. A Numerical Example
Consider the system (1), when, one has the two-group model as follows:
We can give the basic reproduction number of system (71), which is
Taking, , , , , , , , , , , , , and using Matlab ODE solver, we run numerical simulations for two cases.
If , , , and , we have . Hence the disease-free equilibrium of system (71) is globally asymptotically stable (see Figure 1(a)). If, , , and , we have . Hence the endemic equilibrium of system (71) is globally asymptotically stable (see Figure 1(b)).
4. Conclusion
Cholera epidemic has become a major health problem for many developing countries. From good understanding of the transmission dynamics of cholera in many emergent epidemic regions, the heterogeneous host population can be divided into several homogeneous groups according to modes of transmission, contact patterns, or geographic distributions. Hence, in this paper, we proposed a multi-group cholera SIRVW epidemiological model. In order to distinguish many multi-group models with direct transmission from person to person, we only considered this multi-group cholera model with indirect transmission from the bacteria of the aquatic environment to person. Firstly, the basic reproduction numberof this model is given. Then, it is found that the model has two non-negative equilibria, the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium. The disease-free equilibrium exists without any condition whereas the endemic equilibrium exists provided. Finally, through the analysis of the model it has been found that the global asymptotic behavior of multi-group SIRVW model is completely determined by the size of. That is, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable ifwhile an endemic equilibrium exists uniquely and is globally asymptotically stable if. By running numerical simulations for the cases of two-groups model, we can see that the disease-free equilibrium of system (71) is globally stable whenand the unique endemic equilibrium of system (71) is globally stable when.
This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 11301490, 11301491, 11331009, 11171314, and 11147015, Natural Science Foundation of Shan'Xi Province Grant no. 2012021002-1, the specialized research fund for the doctoral program of higher education preferential development, no. 20121420130001, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant no. 2012M520814, Shanghai Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grants no. 13R21410100 and IDRC104519-010.
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It doesnt work like that. At best i could make an event that would remove core as soon owner gets it if date is >1700s and im not even sure if thats possible, but AI would still be able to send colonists as soon as it cores before the event fires.
And if Greenland was so severely penalized, then there would no point in colonizing it pretty much... Even in vanilla it was probably useful only for those who needed a jump point, or those who wanted to prevent others from colonizing, which is no longer an issue in MPM.
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whats the point of doing all that, just leave it as it is, a frozen wasteland. Do wasteland province count towards province totals? ie: do they slow down the game? if so delete the damn thing hahaha
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I just took a peek in the latest version and had some suggestions.
1. Baleres should be added to Catalonia.
2. Aquitaine culture actually is a part of the Occitan culture, so I suggest deleting this culture or renaming Occitan culture to Provençal culture.
3. A region named "Occitania" might be added to southern France, and a decision to form "Occitania" for southern cultures of France might also be considered.
4. The capital of Scotland was located in Scone before 1420. Maybe capital of Scotland should be moved back to the province of Fife in 1399?
5. Leonese culture should be present in Leon region as well as Asturias.
6. Maybe Geats should still be present in southern Sweden?
7. Shandong Bando should be renamed to Shandong and such city like Yantai actually didn't exist at that time. "Sichuan Pendi" should be renamed to Sichuan.
8.Culture and religion in Samsun should be Greek and Orthodox.
Thx Tkh ill look into those things.
Are there some random events you guys would like to see?
As for southern France, if i make it all Occitain culture, then its very possible you would end up with 1 revolter state that would be as powerful as France. Id like to hear* what others think about this before i apply it.
As it is, the southern France is split between Occitain and Aquitaine, first having Auvergne as primary second Guyenne as primary country.
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You can add more "unification" decisions. Like in Miscmod they have "form arabian country" the same can be done for "belgium" "greece" and so on...Are there some random events you guys would like to see?
You can add the "dynamic colonies" system that isnt bad.
You can add more "colonizable regions" in Africa (just a 2nd line regions in Ivory coast, for have more room for colonize.
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When i said events, i mean literally "events". If you know of an event from your national history, that you can describe (or point me to a wiki link where i can read its description) and that has a broader potential (i need things that can happen for everyone) tell me about it / link me.
For example i just wrote an event where if youre a monarchy, and have a neighbor thats also a monarchy, both are at peace and have less than -2 aristocracy - your nobles ask you for a permission to travel to their court on a diplomatic mission. You can choose to allow them, or send your court officials instead.
Its a simple RPG-ish event that doesnt use anything culturally-specific and can thus be used for EVERYONE in the world, which makes a great random event by definition.
Another idea would be a certain kind of adviser triggering something, for example a HRE nation + theologian = problems with Pope. Thats a good idea for Catholic world event.
I mostly need good stories that make these events alive
More complex the better.
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I do, yeah, because Occitan is a pretty broad culture which (as Tkh said) would include Aquitaine.
I think at this point in history you could probably fit Provençal and Aquitaine into a Occitan culture group separate from French, with Occitania or L'occitan as the union state. There was a pretty big divide between Paris and Toulouse for a lot of medieval history.
Ill see what i can do as soon as i finish my ongoing test France game XD
I just wrote some pretty complex relations events. For example you can choose to send envoys to neighbor's court, who can then choose to send you gift ($) which you can actually receive via another event
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Wouldnt it be easier just to have the envoy add a modifier increasing the passive relation gain from being neighbours?
I can and will eventually add checks to make sure events that dont have options only fire for those who have money, and for those events that to do have choices that spend money, AI will only do it if its yearly income is over a certain %. Right now, its theoretically possible that some 1 province minor could go into negative cash (and thus have to take a loan), but thats extremely unlikely to happen as there are more events in vanilla that can do this than mine
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What's about dividing pommerania in the actual duchies that were there in 1399? Like Pommerania-Wolgast, Pommerania-Sttetin etc... With a decision to unify the duchies
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Well, I read it on wikipedia... exactly here
Also, Rugia was the actual danish vassal, not the whole thing
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Namaste. The great Epics of India Ramayana and Mahabharatha
Introduction: The Ramayana and Mahabharatha are the two epics and they are the history of two great and ideal families. According to mythology Rama lived in Treta Yuga and Krishna and Pandavas lived at the end of Dvaparayuga. It is told that the Kaliyuga started on the next day of SriKrishnas fall. There are lots of evidences we can show that these legends lived, ruled and guided India and Indian citizen. Foreign Scholars: Prof. Jacobi and Macdonell said that the Ramayanas story originated from the story mentioned in the Rig Veda. The story of Indras battle with Vritra was mentioned in the Vedas and this idea was taken while composing Ramayana. But we dont believe in it. When two people think the same idea and it doesnt mean that the second one has followed the idea of the first one. Moreover, we consider this as History. No doubt, no argument and no second thought in it. Dr.R.C.Majumdar raised the issue of Aryans invasion over non-Aryans. The same thing is echoed by the Tamilians. There are strong evidences available in the Ramayana itself that Ravana was not a Dravidian and Brahmanic Practices influenced him. Reference sundara kandam. The Epics: The path of Rama is called Ramayana. Among these two Epics Ramayana was the earlier. Ramayana was composed with Anushtub metre whereas in Mahabharatha Upajaathi, Vamsastha metres are used. Further, in Mahabharatha contains words such as ----- UVACHA etc., while introducing speeches, which may be survivals of prose narratives connecting old epic songs. Such words are totally absent in Ramayana. Ramayana was work of a single poet with a single connected story and a uniform style while the Mahabharatha is a collection of many works with the base of Pandava and Kaurava stories. The First poem (Adi Kavyam): It is said that the Ramayana was first poem (Kavyam) in Sanskrit Literature. Though there were many texts are available before the Ramayana period right from Vedas, Ramayana is considered as Adi Kavyam. Because this was first work which is other than teachings and instructions. The works composed before Ramayana were either teachings or instructions by the teachers or prayers. The Origin of Ramayana: Story of Ramayana is very famous among Hindus. But in short this was advised by the Creator Brahma and instructed by Sage Narada to Valmiki, who was a hunter named Ratnakara and turned as a Sage by his severe penance, the result of Rama Nama Mahima (greatness of the name Rama). The first Sarga (Chapter) of Ramayana is the conversation between Sage Valmiki, the author of Ramayana and Sage Narada. Narada instructed the story of Rama in short and Sage Valmiki composed the same in a book form. This first Sarga is well known as Samkshepa Ramayanam (Ramayana in brief). We can understand that this work was composed at the period of Rama, because the verses of Ramayana were taught to his twin sons Lava and Kusa and they both sang Ramayana on the streets of Ayodhya and also in front of Rama during the performance of Ashwamedha Yajna. So that this is considered as one of the Epic. Though Sage Vyasa, author of Mahabharatha composed Srimad Bhagavatam, which describes the story of Krishna is not considered as the Epic. Sri Krishna is the main source of Mahabharatha. This way we maintain the tradition. Date of Ramayana: According to the traditional Hindus Ramayana was composed during Treta Yuga. The researchers do not agree with this. They put forth their arguments with their opinion and at last we understand that the Ramayana was composed during 1000 BC. In Ramayana very less number of names of rulers and kingdoms were mentioned, whereas, in Mahabharatha vast names of kingdoms and kings and their issues were mentioned. In Ramayana no ruler or kingdom of south India was mentioned except Kishkinda and Sri Lanka. But in Mahabharatha some names of south Indian rulers, particularly the Pandiya King of Madurai was mentioned. References available that Chitrangatha, who was married to Arjuna, during his Tirtha Yatra (holy visit) was the princess of Pandiya Kingdom and this king took part in the great Mahabharatha war. Development of Ramayana: All Hindus believe that the author of Ramayana was Sage Valmiki and there is no doubt. Prof. Jacobi, after careful study of the work came to the following conclusion that Ramayana originally consisted of only 5 Kandas from Ayodhya Kanda to Yuddha Kanda (2 to 7). And others are later editions based on the following arguments: 1) The logical conclusion is the Coronation of Rama. So it ends with Yuddha Kanda and usual recitation also stops with this. 2) In Balakanda(1) and in Uttara Kanda (8) Rama was described as the incornation of God.*** while in other five kandas he was described only as human being. 3) In 1st & 8th there are many stories of Sages Rishyasrnga, Viswamitra and the story of the Ganges are available and they dont have any connection with the main plot. 4) In the Samkshepa Ramayanam, which was narrated by Sage Narada to Sage Valmiki, the author, starts only from the plot of Ayodhya Kanda. 5) There was no detail of wives of Ramas brothers during the Coronation ceremony of Rama. Urmila was well known by everyone as wife of Lakshmana, whereas it was told to Surpanaka, Ravanas sister by Rama in the forest that Lakshmana was unmarried. Prof. Jacobi and A.A. Macdonell told one important noteworthy point was that there were some Sargas are composed before Ayodhya Khanda and which was enlarged with inclusions of many Sargas and named as Bala Khanda. *** here I would like to say that there was noteworthy work on Rama called Amanushya Stavam which describes that Rama was incarnation of Lord Sriman Narayana and shown his celestial power often. For example, Siva Dhanur Bhangam (breaking the Bow of Lord Siva), Srabhanga Moksham, Sabari Moksham,(Salvation to Sages Sarabhanga and Sabari) Ahalya Sapa Vimochanam, Samudra taranam (crossing the ocean), Vibhishana Saranaagathi (surrender of Vibhishana) etc. Treasure of Culture: Ramayana is the treasure of Culture and our civilization. There are so many incidents in Ramayana, which are noteworthy and must be highlighted. 1) Rama & his brothers always respected his elders and parents. 2) There was a tradition maintained that the youngsters never crossed the words of the elders. 3) The king was the representative of the subjects and to be liked by the citizen. 4) People were truthful and were afraid of bad impression. 5) Youngsters always saluted the elders everyday. 6) Wicked people were given chances to change their nature. Like this we can say so many qualities of Ramayana. Ramayana in outside India: When I was doing M.Phil in Sanskrit in the Pondicherry Central University I read a book on this title. In that book it is mentioned that the Ramayana was spread in Asian countries like China, Japan, Barma, Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, Indonesia and other countries through Buddhism. Dasaratha Jathaka is a part of Jataka Tales in which Ramayana was written. Even today in the traditional dances of Bali and Thai we can notice that the ramayanas influence is there. Ramayana is resource of Sanskrit Literature: The Sanskrit Dramas and poems (Kavyas) were composed from 1 BC. Bhasa, the father Sanskrit Dramas, Pravarasena, Bhatti, Kalidasa, Bhavabhuthi, King Bhojaraj and other poets had written dramas and poems based the theme Ramayana. Ramayana is the Heritage of India. |
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Is this version of the Ramyana Corrrect? It may be a poem but if it was written in Sanskrit why would it ryme in English? I have a copy of the Ramayana but it is not chapter and verse style like the Quran or Bible so its harder to refrence. My book is by Charavarti Rajagopalachari. I dont know if he is an authortative source on the epics or how he ranks compared to other scholars.
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Possibly the best resource for VAlmIki RAmAyaNa in Sanskrit and English is:
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् । ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥ To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect. |
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I have a version of the Ramayan that is hard to reference, it's from the venkateshvara steam press. Yesterday, I recieved another, more neately organised, two volume version from the Gitapress in Sanskrit and Hindi. It's 13,64$ at vedicbooks: http://www.vedicbooks.net/srimad-val...s-p-15684.html I am really excited about recieving these books. I have not read the Valmiki Ramayana before. |
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Translation and Commentary http://ramayanaepic.com/ Various commentaries in Sanskrit and English Translation, very beauiful audio rendition of the first 22 sargas of the Balakanda. http://valmiki.iitk.ac.in/index.php?id=introduction Last edited by Sahasranama : 12 January 2011 at 12:29 PM. |
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I WAS PLANNING to have my own heart scanned for this article--until the radiologist told me that I'd be blasted with "more radiation in a single dose than your wife will absorb in a lifetime of mammograms." Boy, did that kill the mood. That much juice might be acceptable if you're a fifty-two-year-old guy with chest pain, high cholesterol, high CRP, and a family history of heart disease. Fortunately, I'm not. So instead I asked Dr. Mehmet Oz, vice-chair of surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, to provide some recent scans to demonstrate what these miraculous machines can see.
1 A healthy heart, captured by one of the most advanced scanners in the world. (Don't mind the green stuff; that's just where the image has been truncated.) This patient had no symptoms; he just wanted to make sure he was okay. The scan cost $700 and took fifteen minutes. Just eighteen months ago, he would have needed a $4,000 angiogram--sedation, a catheter threaded through the groin and up to the heart (you heard me), and a full day of recuperation--to arrive at the same conclusion.
2 This guy wasn't so lucky. The internal mammary artery has been harvested from the chest wall and turned into a coronary bypass graft. The lower end of the artery was sewn to the major coronary artery just beyond the blockage to avoid a heart attack; note that the artery below the connection is plump with blood. This kind of post-op scanning is an easy way to monitor the success of a procedure and check for any new blockages.
3 Color may dazzle, but sometimes black and white just captures the moment. This image (of a third patient) was taken by a last-generation scanner with lower resolution, thus the blurriness. But there's no mistaking the calcium deposits in the heart. (Those are rib bones on the right, where there should be calcium.) The cluster in the middle represents aortic stenosis, a blockage across the aortic valve. The two specks above show plaque in the main coronary arteries; that's atherosclerosis.
MIRACULOUS THOUGH THEY ARE, the scanners are also controversial. Many doctors (Oz included) are concerned that these tests can provide too much information. "Say you're forty-five, your cholesterol's a little high, and your doctor wants to scan you," says Oz. "The question you need to ask yourself is, What are you gonna do with the information? Either the test is perfectly normal or it's not. If it's normal, you're fine. But if it's not completely normal, that doesn't mean you're not fine. That's where I get a little nervous, because that could lead to a bunch of tests that are aggressive and invasive and searching for problems where there are none that can do any real harm. Prevention is more important than detection, and they're not the same thing. You cannot test yourself to safety." --BRENDAN VAUGHAN


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The Indoor Kids #96: Vanity Gaming with Anders Holm!
By Katie Levine on May 13, 2013
Kumail and Emily welcome Ders from Workaholics to talk about games that celebrities have "starred" in through the years, Workaholics, douchiness, and Infinity news. We also play an epic Twitter game with Burnside.
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I wrote my first column on the construction industry's skilled labor shortage in August of 1999. Six years later, it's still a critical issue that will only get worse.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2012 the construction industry will create another million jobs. Although that sounds significant, the construction industry does not even make the list for the top 30 occupations with the largest job growth!
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