Imagined Sons 18: Greek Salad

Fruit Salad

Paul Erdős liked fruit salad. I mixed this one for him from ingredients obtained while working on some of his problems. He was pleased by it and carried it to several places to offer to others as well. It is very sad that I have to add to the manuscript: dedicated to his memory. 1. Nearly bipartite graphs. Szentendre, 1994. Although we are in the shade, the summer afternoon is very hot, the wat...

Simple Green Salad

A Salad of Cocycles

We study the centraliser of locally compact group extensions of er-godic probability preserving transformations. New methods establishing ergodicity of group extensions are introduced, and new examples of squashable and non-coalescent group extensions are constructed. Smooth versions of some of the constructions are also given. §0 Introduction Let T be an ergodic probability preserving transfor...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in Salad

To the Editor: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia has emerged as an important nosocomial pathogen, especially in debilitated and immunocompro-mised persons (1). However, comparatively little is known of the epidemiology of this bacterium, and sources and routes of transmission of S. mal-tophilia are not well understood. The bacterium is widely distributed in the environment, including in plant rhi-zo...

Green Revolution: Salad Spinning Superseded

Obesity remains a serious health concern throughout the United States and the world (Cecchini et al. 2010). Validated strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight include (A) exercising vigorously (Jakicic et al. 2001), (B) preparing meals at home rather than eating in restaurants (Bezerra et al. 2012), and (C) consuming lots of fruits and vegetables (Rolls et al. 2004). To ou...