Would an ill person interact with an application the same way as a healthy person? Could a simulation of a chemical spill provide the same stressful environment for emergency response workers to give realistic feedback about the usability of a chemical spill assistant application? Researchers have noted [1, 2] that traditional laboratory usability studies are insufficient for mobile application...

In this article we look into characterizing primitive groups in the following way. Given a primitive group we single out a subset of its generators such that these generators alone (the so-called primitive generators) imply the group is primitive. The remaining generators ensure transitivity or comply with specific features of the group. We show that, other than the symmetric and alternating gr...

Denote by S the projective special linear group PSL2(q) over the field of q elements. We determine, for all values of q > 3, the degrees of the irreducible complex characters of every group H such that S 6 H 6 Aut(S). We also determine the character degrees of certain extensions of the special linear group SL2(q). Explicit knowledge of the character tables of SL2(q), GL2(q), PSL2(q), and PGL2(q...

This contribution is based on the four presentations made at the Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting titled Gene Expression in Fungi held during IMC9 in Edinburgh. This overview is independent from other articles published or that will be published by each speaker. In the SIG meeting, basic principles of in vivo animal models for virulence studies were discussed. Infection associated genes of ...

During two terms of a fluid power engineering course, four formative and summative course assessments, weekly e-mail feedback journals, midterm e-surveys, focus groups, and departmental student evaluation of instruction (SEI) forms, were used to assess student perceptions of their learning and the instruction methods used. The weekly e-mail feedback journals and midterm e-surveys enabled severa...

LetX be the base locus of a linear system L of hypersurfaces in Pr(C). In this paper it is showed that the existence of linear syzygies for the ideal of X has strong consequences on the fibres of the rational map associated to L. The case of hyperquadrics is particularly addressed. The results are applied to the study of rational maps and to the Perazzo’s map for cubic hypersurfaces.

a celebrated result of i. schur asserts that the derived subgroup of a group is finite provided the group modulo its center is finite, a result that has been the source of many investigations within the theory of groups. in this paper we exhibit a similar result to schur's theorem for vector spaces, acted upon by certain groups. the proof of this analogous result depends on the characteristic o...

let $g$ be a non-abelian group and let $z(g)$ be the center of $g$. associate with $g$ there is agraph $gamma_g$ as follows: take $gsetminus z(g)$ as vertices of$gamma_g$ and joint two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ whenever$yxneq yx$. $gamma_g$ is called the non-commuting graph of $g$. in recent years many interesting works have been done in non-commutative graph of groups. computing the clique...