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Female deputies from various political parties in the Czech Chamber of Deputies are advocating for the provision of menstrual products in elementary and high schools. This initiative highlights the growing importance of menstruation as a political issue, with discussions on accessibility to menstrual products gaining traction. Collaboration among female politicians from different parties has been instrumental in driving positive changes, such as redefining rape laws and addressing overlooked issues. The proposal to introduce menstrual products in schools is supported by relevant ministries and is expected to be approved before the end of the current parliament, with funding coming from women themselves through adjustments in VAT rates. [Extracted from the article]

Defectors often survive in spatial game theory, prompting researchers to devise models for cooperators' survival. However, most models overlook players' perspectives based on their strategies. This study introduces an agent-based model considering players' varied neighborhood conditions. In the first model, losing a competition alters the neighborhood definition, randomly adjusting the number of neighborhoods. In the second model, the number of neighborhoods changes based on the player's strategy after losing a competition. Compared to the other proposed model and a traditional spatial prisoner's dilemma model, the second model facilitates easier maintenance of cooperator density. • We suggest an agent-based model considering variability of the neighborhood of the players. • If a player loses a competition with neighbors, the number of neighborhoods is replaced. • We found that the model allowed the easy maintenance of the density of cooperators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, stationary probability distribution (SPD), mean first passage time (MFPT) and stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon of an abstract model of the Myc/E2F/MiR-17-92 network with time delay and cross-correlation noise sources are investigated. The impacts of time delay τ , additive and multiplicative noise intensities Q and D , and cross-correlation intensity λ between noises on the SPD, MFPT, and SNR are discussed, respectively. Research results show that: (i) the high protein level (or ON) state is enhanced (or weaken) by the τ (or λ ); (ii) the MFPT as a function of Q or D exhibits a maximum, which is the signature of the noise enhanced stability (NES) of the ON state. The stability of the ON state can also enhance (or weaken) by the λ (or τ ); (iii) the existence of a maximum and a minimum in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is identifying the characteristics of the SR and stochastic reverse-resonance (SRR) phenomenon, τ and λ enhance the SR and weaken the SRR phenomenon for SNR as a function of Q , while τ (or λ ) weakens (or enhances) the SR phenomenon for SNR as a function of D ; and (iv) the time delay weakens the SR, and causes the SR phenomenon to disappear for SNR as a function of λ . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Short of an absolute majority both the center-right and center-left blocs will now reach out to smaller parties to discuss forming a new government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The minority party that may decide the next German government wants to sell the state's holding in Deutsche Telekom to pay for a nationwide open-access fibre network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The threat came after the party denounced violent anti-refugee protests [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the Web site www.pedsderm.net from the Society for Pediatric Dermatology.