INTRODUCTION.............................................................. 373 CLASSIFICATION ......... 374 DESCRIPTION OF F. NECROPHORUM. 376 Cellular Morphology ................................... 376 Lipopolysaccharide ................................... 376 Toxins ................................... 377 Biochemical Properties ........ ........................... 378 Serological Properties ....

We study the asymptotic probability that a random walk with heavytailed increments crosses a high boundary on a random time interval. We use new techniques to extend results of Asmussen [Ann. Appl. Probab. 8 (1998) 354–374] to completely general stopping times, uniformity of convergence over all stopping times and a wide class of nonlinear boundaries. We also give some examples and counterexamp...

A total of 374 patients were followed up for at least 10 years after tubal ligation, and 43% required further gynaecological treatment. Major gynaecological surgery was needed by 25%. There seems a good case for the selective use of hysterectomy as a method of sterilization.

We study generalized point – line configurations and their properties in the projective plane. These generalized configurations can serve as building blocks for (n4) configurations. In this way, we construct (374) and (434) configurations. The existence problem of finding such configurations for the remaining cases (224), (234), and (264) remains open.