Two Groups Not on All Fours

Two Groups Not on All Fours

Jennifer Vines This is the fi rst of 12 Correspondence pieces in this issue that are in response to an important PLoS Medicine Research Article: Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2(11): e298. Readers wishing to add their own ...

The art of vaginal breech birth at term on all fours

Despite a shift in clinical practice favouring cesarean section for breech presentation, adequate skills are still needed for a safe vaginal breech birth. This case report illustrates the physiological mechanism of vaginal breech birth. The accompanying pictures are a testimony to the "hands-off" approach and could be used for educational purposes.

Groups Not Acting on Manifolds

In this article we collect a series of observations that constrain actions of many groups on compact manifolds. In particular, we show that “generic” finitely generated groups have no smooth volume preserving actions on compact manifolds.

On Finite Groups With Two Irreducible Character Degrees

Some numerical results on two classes of finite groups

In this paper, we consider the finitely presented groups $G_{m}$ and $K(s,l)$ as follows;$$G_{m}=langle a,b| a^m=b^m=1,~[a,b]^a=[a,b],~[a,b]^b=[a,b]rangle $$$$K(s,l)=langle a,b|ab^s=b^la,~ba^s=a^lbrangle;$$and find the $n^{th}$-commutativity degree for each of them. Also we study the concept of $n$-abelianity on these groups, where $m,n,s$ and $l$ are positive integers, $m,ngeq 2$ and $g.c.d(s,...