Cheng Gong, Geunsik Lee, Bin Shan, Eric M. Vogel, Robert M. Wallace, and Kyeongjae Cho Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA Departme...

When G is a complex reductive algebraic group and G/K is a reductive symmetric space, the decomposition of C[G/K] as a K-module was obtained (in a non-constructive way) by Richardson, generalizing the celebrated result of Kostant-Rallis for the linearized problem (the harmonic decomposition of the isotropy representation). To obtain a constructive version of Richardson’s results, this paper stu...

This paper discusses the attempt in this issue of the journal by Peter Singer, John McKie, Helga Kuhse and 7eff Richardson, to defend QALYs against the argument from double jeopardy which Ifirst outlined in 1987. In showing how the QALY and other similar measures which combine life expectancy and quality of life and use these to justify particular allocations of health care resource, remain vul...

Richardson varieties play an important role in intersection theory and in the geometric interpretation of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule for flag varieties. We discuss three natural generalizations of Richardson varieties which we call projection varieties, intersection varieties, and rank varieties. In many ways, these varieties are more fundamental than Richardson varieties and are more easil...

The particular example given in §6 of Crowdy and Tanveer [1] to illustrate the general theory is in error because it is not consistent with the original assumptions underlying the theory. The theory developed in earlier sections assumes that a single-valued analytic function F(ζ, t) can be found in the annulus ρ(t) < |ζ | < 1 when the integration constants AO(t) and AI (t) in equations (16) and...

The McFadden Act of 1927 was one of the most hotly contested pieces of legislation in U.S. banking history, and its influence was felt over half a century later. This paper studies the Congressional voting behavior surrounding the Act’s passage. We find congressmen in districts in which landholdings were concentrated, and credit costlier were significantly more likely to oppose the act. The evi...

The occurrence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and progressive vaccinia in siblings, associated with hypogammaglobulinaemia, has already been recorded (McKay and Richardson, 1959). A similar combination in siblings described here seems worthy of record, because the gamma globulin value in the sib with progressive vaccinia was probably within normal limits, and in both patients there seems to ...

In A.S. Buch and W. Fulton [Invent. Math. 135 (1999), 665–687] a formula for the cohomology class of a quiver variety is proved. This formula writes the cohomology class of a quiver variety as a linear combination of products of Schur polynomials. In the same paper it is conjectured that all of the coefficients in this linear combination are non-negative, and given by a generalized Littlewood-R...

The recent discovery that seven of the 25 historically described populations of American pikas (Ochotona princeps Richardson) in the Great Basin of western North America appear to be extinct (Beever et al., 2003) has added emphasis to earlier warnings that Great Basin populations of this animal are highly vulnerable (McDonald & Brown, 1992). Here, I use archaeological and palaeontological recor...

Identification of furfural resistant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus from a collection of environmental and industrial isolates Biotechnology for Biofuels Sample doi:10.1186/s13068-015-0217-z Sarah J Field ([email protected]) Peter Ryden ([email protected]) David Wilson ([email protected]) Stephen A James ([email protected]) Ian N Roberts (ian.ro...