Article 14, Prisoners and the Supreme Court: Third Time Lucky?: R (Stott) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2018] UKSC 59; [2018] 3 WLR 1831

Wiley Reports Third Quarter 2018 Results

Third quarter revenue up 4% to $455.7 million, or down 1% at constant currency Third quarter GAAP EPS up 45% to $1.19 primarily due to impact of the US Tax Act; Adjusted EPS down 14% at constant currency Year-to-date revenue up 4% to $1,318.9 million, or up 1% at constant currency Year-to-date GAAP EPS $2.39 compared to $1.15 in prior year; Adjusted EPS at constant currency up 1% Cash Provided ...

BioCode: Third time lucky?

Fifteen year ago a draft BioCode was presented to the taxonomic community (Greuter et al. 1996). There is now a new version, published in Taxon (Greuter et al. 2011) and available online on the International Committee on Biological Nomenclature website as well as that of the International Commision for Zoological Nomenclature. Has the BioCode matured since it was last put forward? Was it ahead ...

The Median Justice on the United States Supreme Court

Justice Blocks and Predictability of U.S. Supreme Court Votes

Successful attempts to predict judges' votes shed light into how legal decisions are made and, ultimately, into the behavior and evolution of the judiciary. Here, we investigate to what extent it is possible to make predictions of a justice's vote based on the other justices' votes in the same case. For our predictions, we use models and methods that have been developed to uncover hidden associ...

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...