Competence in mathematics is integral to a wide range of disciplines, professions and areas of life. This Eurydice report reveals crucial elements of the policies and practices that shape mathematics instruction in European education systems, focusing on reforms of mathematics curricula,...

In recent decades, a legal equality or “rights” politics that focuses on same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws, and military service has become the most visible and resourced politics opposing heterosexism. To achieve these ends, advocates of the legal equality agenda...

This article examines the recent proliferation of statistics about LGBT people and the use of those statistics by LGBT advocacy organizations focused on legal reform. The article examines the eugenics origins of statistical methods and asks what light those origins shed on the ways legal...

In Bayesian analysis of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, prior distributions for some of the taste-and-technology parameters can be obtained from microeconometric or presample evidence, but it is difficult to elicit priors for the parameters that govern the law of motion of...

In this paper we introduce several classes of generalized convexfunctions already discussed in the literature and show the relationbetween those function classes. Moreover, for some of those functionclasses a Farkas-type theorem is proved. As such this paper unifiesand extends results existing...

We consider the univariate two-scale refinement equation.The paper analyzes the correlation between the existence of smoothcompactly supported solutions of this equation and the convergence ofthe corresponding cascade algorithm/subdivision scheme. We introducea criterion that expresses this...

We consider infinite products of the form ,where {mk} is an arbitrary sequence of trigonometric polynomials of degree at most n with uniformly bounded normssuch that mk(0)=1 for all k. We show that can decrease at infinity not faster than and present conditions underwhich this maximal decay...

It is well known that the rock-paper-scissors game has no pure saddle point. We show that this holds more generally: A symmetric two-player zero-sum game has a pure saddle point if and only if it is not a generalized rock-paper-scissors game. Moreover, we show that every finite symmetric...