Let Γ denote a bipartite Q-polynomial distance-regular graph with vertex set X, diameter d ≥ 3 and valency k ≥ 3. Let RX denote the vector space over R consisting of column vectors with entries in R and rows indexed by X. For z ∈ X, let ẑ denote the vector in RX with a 1 in the z-coordinate, and 0 in all other coordinates. Fix x, y ∈ X such that ∂(x, y) = 2, where ∂ denotes path-length distance...

In each of 2 trials, 75 female and 75 male broilers of different sizes (large and small) were obtained from a commercial grower and were commercially processed. Breast fillets were deboned at 0.25, 1.5, 3, 6, and 24 h postmortem (total n = 15 per treatment per time point). Muscle pH and L* value were determined for each deboning time. Breast fillets were subjected to texture analysis using Allo...

We thank Hernán et al. (1) for their thoughtful comments about the causal relationships among exposure, birth, and perinatal death; how selection bias can distort those relationships; and the role of composite outcomes. In our article (2), we do not claim composite outcomes to be a solution (“escape”) from the selection bias caused by conditioning on birth when analyzing the effect of pregnancy...

The article reviews the book "Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community," edited by Gary L. Kramer.

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We introduce a 2-cocycle for symplectic and skew-hermitian hyperbolic groups over arbitrary fields and skew fields, with values in the Witt group of hermitian forms. This cocycle has good functorial properties: it is natural under extension of scalars and stable, so it can be viewed as a universal 2-dimensional characteristic class for these groups. Over R and C, it coincides with the first Che...