It has not gone unnoticed that the Buddhist aim of eliminating suffering coincides with the objectives of medicine (Duncan et al, 1981; Soni, 1976). The Buddhist emphasis on compassion finds natural expression in the care of the sick, and according to the Vinaya the Buddha himself stated "Whoever, O monks, would nurse me, he should nurse the sick" (Zysk, 1991:41). Buddhist clergy and laity have...

In his 1984 AMS Memoir, George Andrews defined the family of k–colored generalized Frobenius partition functions. These are enumerated by cφk(n) where k ≥ 1 is the number of colors in question. In that Memoir, Andrews proved (among many other things) that, for all n ≥ 0, cφ2(5n+3) ≡ 0 (mod 5). Soon after, many authors proved congruence properties for various k–colored generalized Frobenius part...

This paper surveys recent developments in the strong law of large numbers for dependent heterogeneous processes. We prove a generalised version of a strong law for L2-mixingales that seems to have gone unnoticed in the econometrics literature, and also a new strong law for Lp-mixingales. These results greatly relax the dependence and heterogeneity conditions relative to the results that are cur...

In 1994, Maudlin proposed an objection to retrocausal approaches to quantum mechanics in general, and to the transactional interpretation (TI) in particular, involving an absorber that changes location depending on the trajectory of the particle. Maudlin considered this objection fatal. However, the TI did not die; rather, a number of responses were developed, some attempting to accommodate Mau...