The following question is answered: What is the minimum number of octads required to define a Steiner system Y(5, 8, 24)? A set of octads is said to define a particular Steiner system if it is a subset of the special octads of that system, but of no other. As the title suggests, it is possible to produce a set of eight octads which defines the system, whereas any collection of seven octads is a...

1 Sudakov Minoration Suppose that (T, ρ) is a finite metric space and let {X t , t ∈ T } be a stochastic process indexed by T satisfying

S ome years ago I interviewed the chief executive officer of a successful Thai manufacturing firm as part of a pilot survey project. While trying to figure out a good way to quantify the firm’s experience with government regulations and corruption in the foreign trade sector, the CEO exclaimed: “I hope to be reborn as a custom official.” When a well-paid CEO wishes for a job with low official p...

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This study examines the automatic activation of negative prejudices towards Turks using a masked affective priming paradigm in a sample of German adolescents (aged 13 to 15). Pictures of Turks and Germans were used as masked primes; positive and negative adjectives conveying either other-relevant valence (e.g., honest, evil) or possessor-relevant valence (e.g., talented, dull) were used as targ...