I would like to thank my advisors, Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Joe Altonji, for their helpful comments. I also benefited from conversations with Henry Siu, Jim Sullivan and Chris Taber, and from input from workshop participants at Northwestern University and participants of the 2002 All-UC Group in Economic History Conference and the 2002 Cliometrics Conference. Justin Hayes and Humphrey Southa...

We apply Nadel’s method of multiplier ideal sheaves to show that every complex del Pezzo surface of degree at most six whose automorphism group acts without fixed points has a Kähler-Einstein metric. In particular, all del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4, 5, or 6 and certain special del Pezzo surfaces of lower degree are shown to have a Kähler-Einstein metric. This result is not new, but the proofs ...

Currently, we have several effective treatments for smoking cessation including pharmacotherapy, self-help materials, counseling and psychological treatments, which are the first choice in the therapeutic approach of nicotine dependence (Becoña, Miguez, López, & Fernández del Río 2010; Fiore et al, 2008; HartmannBoyce, Stead, Lancaster and Cahill, 2013; Patnode et al, 2015; Schlam and Baker, 20...

Recently, Siu, Chin and Yang failed in their attempt to use the FDAMIX protocol to eliminate the Fault Diagnosis Agreement (FDA) problem with mixed faults on the processors in a general network. Therefore, in this study, a new protocol, the FDAL protocol, is introduced to solve the FDA problem with mixed faults on the links. The FDAL is capable of detecting/locating faulty links to reconfigure ...

1. Tse HF, Siu CW, Lee KL, et al. The incremental benefit of rateadaptive pacing on exercise performance during cardiac resynchronization therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:2292–7. 2. Lau CP. Normal exercise cardiopulmonary physiology and chronotropic incompetence. In: Lau CP, editor. Rate Adaptive Cardiac Pacing: Single and Dual Chamber. Mount Kisco, NY: Futura Publishing, 1993:7–23. 3. Fei L,...

Let M be a close complex manifold and T M its holomorphic tangent bundle. We prove that if the global holomorphic sections of tangent bundle generate each fibre, then M is a complex homogeneous manifold. It implies that every irreducible close Kähler manifold with ample tangent bundle is isomorphic to the projective space. This provides an alternative proof of Hartshore's conjecture in algebrai...

James Zou, Gregory Valiant, Paul Valiant, Konrad Karczewski, Siu On Chan, Kaitlin Samocha, Monkol Lek, Exome Aggregation Consortium, Shamil Sunyaev, Mark Daly, Daniel G MacArthur Microsoft Research, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA, USA Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, USA Computer Science Department, Brown University, Providence RI, USA Analytic and Translational...

Y. X. Wang , X. L. Zhu, M. Deng, Y. W. Siu, C. S. Leung, Q. Chan, T. M. Chan, and W. S. Poon Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control...