M-matrices satisfy Newton's inequalities

Newton's inequalities $c_n^2 \ge c_{n-1}c_{n+1}$ are shown to hold for the normalized coefficients $c_n$ of the characteristic polynomial of any $M$- or inverse $M$-matrix. They are derived by establishing first an auxiliary set of inequalities also valid for both of these classes. They are also used to derive some new necessary conditions on the eigenvalues of nonnegative matrices.Comment: 6 page

Books That Are Noteworthy

Review of two books:Modernizing China Investing in Soft Infrastructure by Raphael W Lam, Markus Rodlauer, and Alfred Schipke , 2017, pp.372, ISBN 9781513539942, IMF.Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization, by Mansur Hasib, 2014, pp. 174, published by Tomorrow Strategy Today, LLC, ISBN: 1502312115

Boredom in acute psychiatric care.

Patients hospitalized in acute care psychiatric settings often complain of boredom. Neither historical context nor geographical settings seem to make a difference. Boredom can be found in contemporary studies and older studies, in studies in the United States and the United Kingdom (Raphael, 1974; Raphael & Peers, 1972; Shields, Morrison, & Hart, 1988; Thomas, Shattell, & Martin, 2002). Boredom does not seem to correlate to how long a person has been in the hospital or model of health care delivery. Perhaps you can understand how patients would get bored after a 2-3 month stay as was customary in the past, but not today, with short 3-5 day hospitalizations. How do patients have time to be bored

The Panopticon under the Light of Politics and Technology

This paper focuses on Foucault's concept of the Panopticon. The Panopticon since time immemorial has been used as a concept in order to control society. Since this is being used as a tool to control society, this then is considered to be a form of technology of which is being used by individuals who hold power

Re-Imaging Modern Jewish Theology: A Closer Look at Post-Holocaust Theology

Grimm argues for a more accessible theology and metaphor for God. She looks to Melissa Raphael\u27s post-Holocaust theology as a beginning to this new trend. Raphael, who started her theological study in the thealogy movement (known for its feminization of God,) brings this knowledge to her study of the Holocaust. The traditional Jewish theological explanation of the Holocaust asserts that God was absent during the Holocaust so as not to interfere with free will. However, this ignores the experience of half of the victims of the Holocaust: women. God appeared absent to some, she says, because they were looking for the wrong God: the patriarchal God who would assert his kingly power. Instead, Raphael says that God was present in the Holocaust in the form of Shekinah, the feminine and extremely imminent metaphor for God. Women in concentration camps recognized God\u27s presence when they washed themselves and each other and acknowledged their humanity. The question became not, how can God protect us? but how can we protect God? When this is accomplished, God\u27s presence guides men and women to care for and respect each other. Grimm acknowledges that Raphael contributes greatly to a new theological concern to make the divine more available to a wider range of people, but she laments that the Holocaust-specific nature of Raphael\u27s theology of the Shekinah prevents it from being a more widely applicable metaphor

Shooting society : documenting contemporary life in Malta

Gillian M. Martin reviews "Shooting society: documenting contemporary life in Malta", edited by Carmel Borg and Raphael Vella, whose publication sets out to ‘document contemporary life in Malta’ by offering a photographic and textual compendium of contributions from a selection of 80 authors and photographers currently active in Maltese academia, journalism and literature. The short texts range from the purely academic to the overtly creative and each one is anchored onto a visual image - a ‘moment’ in the colourful kaleidoscope of social life in contemporary Malta.peer-reviewe

A BEAUTY THAT SAVES: DOSTOEVSKY’S THEOLOGY OF BEAUTY THE IDIOT

This paper examines Dostoevsky’s understanding of beauty and its place in The Idiot. Examining the historical and immediate environment in which Dostoevsky wrote the novel provides crucial insights into his conception of beauty. It is argued that the beauty Dostoevsky encountered in Florence colored his use of beauty in The Idiot. The use recent popes have made of Dostoevsky’s works also underscore the Christian theology of his ideal. From the post-Vatican II pontiffs and from Dostoevsky’s own writing it becomes clear that Dostoevsky’s view of beauty flows from the Christian belief that Christ is the Supreme Beauty. The beauty of Prince Myshkin and other characters all flow from this Beauty by reflecting Him in different ways. Ultimately, however, Myshkin fails to bring about salvation. He lacks the perfect beauty and goodness of Christ, the only one who can save. This salvific beauty is noticeably missing from the novel. The Hans Holbein painting of “Christ in the Tomb,” it is argued, lacks beauty because it fails to show forth the Incarnation. Instead, it depicts Christ without any hint of his divinity and without any hope of resurrection. Through this examination of Dostoevsky’s context and theology, it is concluded that the lack of a beauty that saves in The Idiot is meant to underscore mankind’s inability to save itself

Supersymmetry Breaking in the Anthropic Landscape

In this paper I attempt to address a serious criticism of the ``Anthropic Landscape" and "Discretuum" approach to cosmology, leveled by Banks, Dine and Gorbatov. I argue that in this new and unfamiliar setting, the gauge Hierarchy may not favor low energy supersymmetry. In a added note some considerations of Douglas which substantially strengthen the argument are explained.Comment: An important modification based on conversations with M. Douglas. The conclusion is greatly strengthened. Low energy susy is strongly disfavore