We show interesting relations between extremal partition functions of a family of conformal field theories and dimensions of the irreducible representations of the Fischer-Griess Monster sporadic group. We argue that these relations can be interpreted as an extension of Monster moonshine.

Defending a territory must have significant costs, such as expenditure of energy by the territorial animal, loss of time that could be devoted to other activities, and increased danger from predation or injury during defensive activities. A fundamental assumption of studies of animal territorial behavior is that there must be some profit from the behavior that more than offsets the obvious cost...

☆ We are grateful to Kaushik Basu, Patrick Bolton, Rocc Debraj Ray for useful discussions. We also thank two an pants at the May 2009 “Microfoundations of Developme the WIDER conference on Land Inequality and Conflict their comments and feedback. We thank the Internation nancial support under grant RA-2009-11-025. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 353 4392. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. ...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years of age, but in many low and middle-income countries where vital registration data are lacking, updated estimates with regard to the proportion of deaths attributable to diarrhea are needed. METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review to identify studies reporting diarrhea prop...

BACKGROUND The evidence regarding the association between lung cancer and occupational exposure to cement is controversial. This study investigated causes of deaths from cancer of respiratory tract among cement workers. METHODS The deaths of the Greek Cement Workers Compensation Scheme were analyzed covering the period 1969-1998. All respiratory, lung, laryngeal and urinary bladder cancer pro...

This study describes AIDS mortality and occupational factors among servicemen in the Brazilian Navy. This is a proportional mortality study of 2,586 servicemen's death certificates (20-72 years of age) recorded from 1991 to 1995. Death certificates and occupational histories came from the Brazilian Navy Insurance System archives. Association was measured using proportionate mortality odds ratio...

This report presents the results of proportionate mortality ratios (PMR) and proportionate cancer mortality ratios (PCMR) among 13,301 members of the International Union of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Ironworkers who had been members for a minimum of 1 year, were actively paying dues into the death beneficiary fund, and had died between 1984-1991. Using the United States proportionate mo...

The conditions that are generally considered to justify the use of the proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) to compare exposed and nonexposed populations also permit the computation of the ratio of mortality odds between the cause (of death) of interest and the "other" causes considered. This mortality odds ratio (MOR) comparing the exposed with the nonexposed equals the exposure odds ratio comp...

r Since the turn of the century, formaldehyde has been the main preservative in commercial embalming fluids (1). In an industrial hygiene survey of a mortuary science college conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the airborne formaldehyde concentrations exceeded 3.0 ppm in two samples when the ventilation system was closed and dropped to 0.20-0.91 ppm when the ...

Advances in the regularity method p. 2 Fighting spam : the science p. 3 The consequences of Imre Simon's work in the theory of automata, languages, and semigroups p. 5 Querying priced information in databases : the conjunctive case p. 6 Sublinear methods for detecting periodic trends in data streams p. 16 An improved data stream summary : the count-min sketch and its applications p. 29 Rotation...