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Resistance and Oppression in Su-Chen Christine Limâs Novels: A Radical Feminist Analysis
This study analyzes the Chinese womenâs resistance to oppression by women themselves in Su-Chen Christine Limâs novels: âA Bit of Earthâ, âFistful of Coloursâ, âGift from the Godsâ and âRice Bowlâ. These novels depict the problems faced by Chinese women owing to the patriarchal practices and the long-standing Confucian beliefs that are found to be inherent within the Chinese society. It is found that oppressions by women unto women in the Chinese society happen due to a number of reasons. This study attempts to answer the âwhenâ, âhowâ and âwhyâ of oppressions of women by women in the selected novels. This study also aspires to delve into the counter-measures that women as victims take to reduce, to stop or even to face the adverse effects of oppression. Concepts like subjugation, alienation, separatism, confrontation and escapism mark the kind of resistance that the female characters in Su-Chen Christine Limâs novels adopt to cope with various forms of âacceptedâ oppressions.This study also highlights the quest for discovery of âself âor the assertion of self- identification- a perpetual area of womenâs struggle. The Radical Feminist Theory is used to analyze and highlight female oppression and resistance found in the novels, and this will shed more light on the existence of oppression by women unto women, especially in a quagmire with womenâs mind-set moulded by just being in a patriarchal society.Key Words: Su-Chen Christine Lim; Chinese womenâs resistance to oppressio
Two-log-convexity of the Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence
The Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence arises in a series
expansion of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind. It has been
proved that the sequence is log-balanced. In the paper, by exploring a
criterion due to Chen and Xia for testing 2-log-convexity of a sequence
satisfying three-term recurrence relation, we prove that the new sequence
are strictly log-convex and hence the
Catalan-Larcombe-French sequence is strictly 2-log-convex.Comment: 8 pages in Journal of Inequality and Applications,201
Sharp Threshold Asymptotics for the Emergence of Additive Bases
A subset A of {0,1,...,n} is said to be a 2-additive basis for {1,2,...,n} if
each j in {1,2,...,n} can be written as j=x+y, x,y in A, x<=y. If we pick each
integer in {0,1,...,n} independently with probability p=p_n tending to 0, thus
getting a random set A, what is the probability that we have obtained a
2-additive basis? We address this question when the target sum-set is
[(1-alpha)n,(1+alpha)n] (or equivalently [alpha n, (2-alpha) n]) for some
0<alpha<1. Under either model, the Stein-Chen method of Poisson approximation
is used, in conjunction with Janson's inequalities, to tease out a very sharp
threshold for the emergence of a 2-additive basis. Generalizations to
k-additive bases are then given.Comment: 22 page
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