During the late 1990s, as the debate over affirmative action escalated, Texas moved into the national limelight. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found the use of race or ethnicity in college admissions unconstitutional in Hopwood v. Texas, the state embarked on a bold experiment. In 1997, the Texas legislature passed H.B. 588, commonly termed the Top Ten Percent Law, which...

We obtain a characterization of the Lie algebras admitting abelian complex structures in terms of certain affine Lie algebras aff(A), where A is a commutative algebra.

2) MHM(pt) is the category of graded polarizable rational mixed Hodge structures, such that rat is the forgetful functor 3) M ∈MHM(X) admits a weight filtration W • satisfying -morphisms preserve W • strictly -Gr k M is semisimple -W • on pt is the usual weight filtration 4) MHM(X) has a duality functor D For a morphism s : X → Y DMHM(X) has functors f∗, f!, f∗, f , that are sent by rat and Dmo...

Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences It is shown that any completely preordered topological real algebra admits a continuous utility representation which is an algebra-homomorphism (i.e., it is linear and multiplicative). As an application of this result, we provide an algebraic characterization of the projecti...

The spread of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (CPKP) is a challenging public health threat. Early identification and isolation of infected patients and carriers are key measures of control. This study describes a CPKP screening strategy in a tertiary Italian hospital. During the five-month study period, 1687 patients were screened by rectal swabs. Of these, 65 (3.9%) tested positi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the hypothesis that junior doctors' examination skills are deteriorating by assessing the medical admission note examination record. DESIGN Retrospective study of the admission record. SETTING Tertiary care hospital. METHODS The admission records of 266 patients admitted to Wellington hospital between 1975 and 2011 were analysed, according to the total number of ...

Abstract Background Cefalexin is a commonly prescribed oral antibiotic, with similar side chain to amoxicillin. The objectives of this study were (1) describe the frequency and nature previously recorded cefalexin adverse reaction (AR) labels in electronic medical record (EMR) inpatient cohort, (2) evaluate accuracy these (3) examine association between allergy label antibiotics during an admis...

Obstructions of rational commensurability of reducible surface automorphisms are given. There are 3-manifolds admitting different surface bundles structures with monodromies not rational commensurable.