This article takes the autofictional trauma cinema created by Lebanese artists and film-makers Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige in their Je veux voir [‘I want to see’] (2008) as a case study that demonstrates potential value of film-analytical methodology grounded concept cinéma-monde. A Franco-Lebanese co-production starring Catherine Deneuve, occupies hybrid generic position between documenta...

We describe how certain permutation actions of large symmetric groups can be efficiently implemented on a computer. Using a specially tailored adaptation of a general technique to enumerate huge orbits, and substantial distributed computation on a cluster of workstations, we collect further evidence related to the approach to Foulkes’ conjecture suggested in [Black and List, 1989]. 1 Foulkes’ c...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is widely used in patients requiring long-term tube feeding. Traditional PEG studies usually focused on practical, technical, and ethical issues. There have been little epidemiological studies on PEG utilization and services in Asia. We evaluated the changes in PEG utilization, patient selection, patient characteristics, and medical service in Taiwan fr...

Preterm delivery is a public health issue of major proportion. More than 12% of deliveries in the United States that occur at less than 37 weeks gestation preterm labor (PTL) represents the largest single reason for preterm birth (PTB). Attempts to prevent PTB have been unsuccessful. This paper of maintenance tocolytic therapy will examine the efficacy and safety of the drugs, both oral and sub...

VOCs comprise both methane (CH 4) and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs). NMVOCs are defined as " all those artificial organic compounds different from methane which can produce photochemical oxidants by reaction with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight " .

We consider several topics in the theory of partitions, focusing on questions regarding multipartitions. Results include the formulation of a combinatorial explanation of the crank statistic generalized to multipartitions; the conjecture and proof of several multipartition identities; the calculation of the number of k-partitions of n with crank n, n-1, or n-2; the construction of a crank-rever...

This article gives counterexamples for some conjectures about risk orders. One is that in risky situations, diversification is always beneficial. A counterexample is provided by the Cauchy distribution, for which the sample means have the same distribution as the sample elements, meaning that insuring half the sum of two iid risks of this type is precisely equivalent to insuring one of them ful...