In Bostock v. Clayton County, one of the blockbuster cases from its 2019 Term, Supreme Court held that federal antidiscrimination law prohibits employment discrimination on grounds sexual orientation and gender identity. Unsurprisingly, result won wide acclaim in mainstream legal popular media. Results aside, however, reaction to Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion, which purported ground o...

In this paper, I present a statistical-based approach to the part-of-speech guessing problem. I see assigning a part-of-speech, such as Adjective or Noun, as a classification problem. My guessing framework, which relies on automated learning of a language model, is described in detail. The rich feature analysis presented is suitable for linguistic data, such as the ones observed in German. I us...

The aim of this note is to give a proof of Tate’s theorems on homomorphisms of abelian varieties over finite fields [22, 8], using ideas of [26, 27]. We give a unified treatment for both l 6= p and l = p cases. In fact, we prove a slightly stronger version of those theorems with “finite coefficients”. I am grateful to Frans Oort and Bill Waterhouse for useful discussions. My special thanks go t...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

Recently, Zhang et al. proposed a location-based thresholdendorsement scheme (LTE) to thwart bogus data injection attacks. This scheme exhibits much greater filtering power than earlier symmetric schemes and results in enhanced energy savings. In this paper, we show that LTE has a significant vulnerability. We also propose an improved scheme that mitigates this weakness and thereby achieves the...

The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)'s top management has ordered a probe of all foreign-qualified specialist registrations going back at least a decade, and instituted a 'double verification' mechanism for all future such applications following a dramatic system failure.

Come to this workshop to prepare and practice a negotiation strategy for a faculty position. In this workshop, we will help you answer the two most common questions asked by UCSF trainees during the negotiation process: What should I ask for? How can I ask for it? We highly recommend that you attend or watch the video from Bill Lindstaedt?s ?Negotiating your faculty job offer [1]? seminar prior...

We generalize the Bisin and Verdier (2000, 2001) model of intergenerational transmission to permit an arbitrary number of cultural traits. A key observation – that this model is equivalent to an evolutionary game under replicator dynamics – allows us to exploit the extensive literature on replicator systems. For some substantively interesting special cases, we demonstrate global stability of eq...