This study examined the probability of (a) being placed in a disciplinary alternative education setting for mandatory versus discretionary reasons and (b) returning within the same year among an ethnically diverse sample (African American, Caucasian, Hispanic) of middle and high school students (N=270). Participants were compared based on ethnicity, gender, grade level, and special education st...

In this paper, we describe improvements to the function field sieve (FFS) for the discrete logarithm problem in Fpn , when p is small. Our main contribution is a new way to build the algebraic function fields needed in the algorithm. With this new construction, the heuristic complexity is as good as the complexity of the construction proposed by Adleman and Huang [2], i.e Lpn [1/3, c] = exp((c ...

A number of pitfalls can be encountered in the interpretation of common blood liver function tests. These tests can be normal in patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis. The normal range for aminotransferase levels is slightly higher in males, nonwhites and obese persons. Severe alcoholic hepatitis is sometimes confused with cholecystitis or cholangitis. Conversely, patients who present so...

Code to recognise and hence solve the second-order linear ODEs that define the special functions of mathematical physics is being developed for the Reduce ODE solver. It allows an arbitrary, possibly symbolic, affine transformation of the independent variable. At first sight, the problem appears to be one of pattern matching or table look-up, but simple special-purpose code written for each cla...