Good Fellows: Men's Role & Reason in the Fight for Gender Equality

This essay attempts to make the case for including – even embracing – men in the fight for gender equality. I do not mean to argue that men should supplant women in this struggle, or that enlisting men implies dismissing or diminishing women. My aim instead is to make this fight less isolated and more practical, and to attack the so-called women's problem with a broader, blunter tool. If men believe in equality, then expanding that belief to explicitly include women is not a leap of logic or act of charity. It is instead a basic extension of a truth already deemed self-evident, and a channel through which men can begin to redefine their own identities and interests. Men have been an obstacle to women's equality for a very long time. Perhaps the moment has come to make them part of the solution as well.

Extension Mode in Sliding Window Technique to Minimize Border Distortion Effect

<p>This paper deals with border distortion effect at starting and ending of finite signal by proposing sliding window technique and basic extension mode implementation. Single phase of transient and voltage sag is chosen to be analyzed in wavelet. The signal which being used for the analysis is simulated in Matlab 2017a. Disturbance signal decomposes into four level and Daubechies 4 (db4) has been chosen for computation. The proposed technique has been compared with conventional method which is finite length power disturbance analysis. Simulation result revealed that the proposed smooth-padding mode can be successfully minimized the border distortion effect compared to the zero-padding and symmetrization approach.</p><p><em> </em></p>

With Random Parametric Equation of Circle Inscribed Polygon Generation Algorithm and Analysis

For getting the parametric equation of random polygon, by the basic extension factor to stretch the round, there generates polygon of meeting the required conditions. Such algorithm overcomes the disadvantage in the generation of polygon from round under control of a single parameter and the complication of mathematical background. Firstly, a detailed introduction is given to the basic extension factor and the selection of relevant coefficient, and then the errors of such algorithm are analyzed. And the experimental result shows that the mathematical background of such method is relatively easy, the parameters are easy to control and constitute, and the generation of arbitrary polygon is available with high precision. Such the parametric equation of random polygon and method can be used in relevant fields such as geometric modeling, CAD/CAM, and computer graphics.

Extension Control and its Application in Power System

Extension is a new subject which solves sontradictory problems. It studies the extensive possibility of things and the rules and methods of exploitation and innovation with formalized model. The extension control theory and method has provided the basis theory and method for people to solve the existent contradictory questions in the automatic control system such as stability, accuracy and speed.This paper briefly introduces the related basic concepts of extension control, such as the structure of canonical extension control, extension set of character status of basic extension controller, and general extension control algorithm, and so on. Also presents the extension applition in power systems. The future work and prospect of development are described.

Extension to UML Using Stereotypes

The objective of this chapter is to first present the basic extension mechanisms proposed by UML. We then propose an extension to facilitate the modeling of specific applications. UML provides three extension mechanisms to allow the modelers to make some common extensions without having to modify the language of modeling underlying “Tag Values,” “Restrictions,” and “Stereotypes.” There are several adaptations of UML, which occasionally exceed the extension mechanisms of UML. In this chapter, we present our proposal of “Evolutionary Stereotypes.” We also present a tool that incorporates evolutionary stereotypes within two modules: the model checker and the dynamic semantics. A case study about time restrictions in a real-time system is shown. The reason for this proposal is that UML provides mechanisms for doing extensions; but, UML does not assure incorporation of new elements to the meta-model with dynamic semantics.