Let Ω ⊂⊂ C n , n ≥ 3, be a smoothly bounded domain. Suppose that Ω admits a smooth defining function which is plurisubharmonic on the boundary of Ω. Then the Diederich-Fornaess exponent can be chosen arbitrarily close to 1, and the closure of Ω admits a Stein neighborhood basis.

Designs over finite fields arise by replacing finite sets by vector spaces and orders of sets by dimensions of vector spaces. More formally, a t− (v, k, λ; q) design is a collection of k-subspaces over Fq , called blocks, such that each t-subspace is contained in exactly λ blocks. Such a design over a finite field is called simple, if no repeated blocks occur in the collection. Otherwise, the d...

At a dinner in the Great Hall of the Queen's University of Belfast on the 12th December 1989 the Northern Ireland Branch of the Medical Women's Federation celebrated the centenary of the first admission of women to the classes of the Faculty of Medicine of the Queen's College, Belfast, and to the clinical classes of the Belfast Royal Hospital. In September 1889 a meeting of medical professors a...

We consider all complex projective manifolds X that satisfy at least one of the following three conditions: (1) There exists a pair (C , φ), where C is a compact connected Riemann surface and φ : C −→ X a holomorphic map, such that the pull back φ∗TX is not semistable. (2) The variety X admits an étale covering by an abelian variety. (3) The dimension dimX ≤ 1. We prove that the following class...

Nurse anesthesia programs across the country are frequently in search of better selection criteria and more efficient evaluation systems. The goal is to select qualified applicants who will successfully complete the program and represent the profession of nurse anesthesia. The primary method of assessing the quality of candidates' noncognitive attributes at the Oakland University Beaumont Progr...

In this paper, we investigate the communication cost of reproducing Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering correlations arising from bipartite quantum systems. We characterize the set of bipartite quantum states which admits a local hidden state model augmented with c bits of classical communication from an untrusted party (Alice) to a trusted party (Bob). In case of one bit of information (c =...

This paper examines the effect of attending elite private high school on college placement using admissions data from the most selective high school in a large metropolitan area. To overcome omitted variable bias, we limit the sample to admitted applicants and control directly for the scores assigned by admissions based on in-depth analyses of the applicants

We construct a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain whose boundary contains no complex analytic variety such that some boundary point admits no holomorphic peak function.

We show that the variety generated by the three-element Heyting algebra admits a meet dense, regular completion even though it is not closed under MacNeille completions.