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A consistent quantization with a clear notion of time and evolution is given for the anisotropic Kantowski–Sachs cosmological model. It is shown that a suitable coordinate choice allows to obtain a solution of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation in the form of definite energy states, and that the results can be associated to two disjoint equivalent theories, one for each sheet of the constraint surface.

Let Hk(W, q) be the Iwahori–Hecke algebra associated with a finite Weyl group W , where k is a field and 0 6= q ∈ k. Assume that the characteristic of k is not “bad” for W and let e be the smallest i > 2 such that 1+q+q+· · ·+q = 0. We show that the number of simple Hk(H, q)-modules is “generic”, i.e., it only depends on e. The proof uses some computations in the CHEVIE package of GAP and known...

The eminent surgeon and author Morrice McCrae has put together an excellent and wide-ranging biography of Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), the Scottish doctor who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use.

The issue of adjuncts has long been a neglected field of linguistic study whether it be syntactic or semantic. It is only in Pustejovsky (1995) that we find a brief mention of adjuncts. In addition to what the author calls true arguments, default arguments, and shadow arguments, he sets up a class of true adjuncts citing the following sentence , Mary drove down to New York on Tuesday. We will t...

I agree that by now integration has attained a level above where it was before World War I. But I would not quite agree that this view is “iconoclastic.” It is, rather, the conventional wisdom among all non-economists, and perhaps among most economists as well. But it is true that it is a challenge to some things written by Sachs and Warner, Rodrik and Krugman and propounded in this room; so pe...

Mr. Sachs has served on the Hospital Board as chairman of the building committee, vice-president, and a member of the executive committee. A graduate of Washington University, Mr. Sachs has been active in the promotion and advancement of the electrical industry since 1924. His company has participated in most of the major electrical developments in the St. Louis area and is known throughout the...

There are two orders of facts about polysemy: a satisfactory theory must account in a natural way for both. The first concerns differences in the semantic content of the interpretations of a word in different contexts. It is this aspect of polysemy which has been the most actively researched, with the aim of discovering regularity and predictability. Noteworthy recent proposals concerning polys...