PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 9 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: The ACLU of RI sent a letter to all RI municipal leaders reminding them of their obligation to help maintain government transparency in public meetings in accordance with Governor Raimondo's recent Executive Order (EO), and supplemental guidance about the EO. In an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, the recently released EO suspended certain provisions of the state's O  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 11 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release: The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, welcomed news that a group of local Muslim physicians has donated 4,500 KN95 masks to Rhode Island Hospital. CAIR-MA said that the individuals are now partnering with a Muslim nonprofit to deliver more protective masks to hospit  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Detention Watch Network issued the following news release: News broke of a hunger strike at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island that began on Saturday with approximately 60 people participating, while across the country there are over 60 immigrant women who are on hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state. Two weeks since the first person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody tested positive for coronavirus, hung  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 10 -- The Journal of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2020 edition: * On the measure of maximal entropy for finite horizon Sinai Billiard maps * Residually finite rationally solvable groups and virtual fibring * Rigid continuation paths I. Quasilinear average complexity for solving polynomial systems * Strongly anisotro  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 8 -- Mathematics of Computation, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features numerical analysis, computational discrete mathematics, number theory, algebra and combinatorics from the American Mathematical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Adaptive nested source term iteration for radiative transfer equations * Cubature method to solve BSDEs: Error expansion and complexity control * Decomposition of polyn  more

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, April 7 -- Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island issued the following news: Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (Neighborhood), a not-for-profit health plan that serves approximately one in five Rhode Islanders, announced, effective April 1, it is waiving requirements for health care providers to seek prior authorizations for all behavioral health and all inpatient medical services regardless of whether they are COVID-19 related or not. As of March 18, Neighbo  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 8 -- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2020 edition: * Decomposition-space slices are toposes * Deleting or adding arrows of a bound quiver algebra and Hochschild (co)homology * Discrete Hilbert transform a la Gundy-Varopoulos * Indecomposable objects determined by their index in higher homological algebra   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 8 -- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Computation of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and some applications to finite groups * Davies' method for heat-kernel estimates: An extension to the semi-elliptic setting * Decay estimates for higher-order elliptic operators * Flow equivalence of G-SFTs * Geomet  more