n 2001, prisoners in Pennsylvania challenged a prison policy prohibiting them from watching films rated R, X, or NC-17. The prison policy was designed to implement the Zimmer Amendment,2 which denies funding to any prison that shows R, X, or NC-17 films.3 After the District Court denied the prisoners’ claims in a cursory opinion, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit remanded for a more fa...

This paper is a survey on the Zimmer program. In its broadest form, this program seeks an understanding of actions of large groups on compact manifolds. The goals of this survey are (1) to put in context the original questions and conjectures of Zimmer and Gromov that motivated the program, (2) to indicate the current state of the art on as many of these conjectures and questions as possible an...

1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BT, UK 2Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, Meudon Cedex 92195, France 3Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road...

This paper shows several security weaknesses of a MultiFactor Authenticated Key Exchange (MK-AKE) protocol, proposed by Pointcheval and Zimmer at ACNS’08. The Pointcheval-Zimmer scheme was designed to combine three authentication factors in one system, including a password, a secure token (that stores a private key) and biometrics. In a formal model, Pointcheval and Zimmer formally proved that ...

aims: job rotation is considered as one of the human resource development methods. this study was carried out to investigate the correlation between job rotation and visiting number of environmental health employees. materials & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was done on environmental health employees in three health centers of north, north west and east of tehran in 2011. 42 p...

abstract: knee joint has major role in lower extremity activities. emong different elements of knee joint complex, anterior cruciate ligament has becom more interested because of its alignment, structural complication, varied never receptors and frequently susceptibility to injury. afterinjury of this ligament knee extensor torque decreases. the aim of this research was that reduce of quadricep...

PURPOSE Recently, the Zimmer Trabecular Metal Total Ankle Replacement (Zimmer TM TAR) was developed to be used through a lateral transfibular approach. The purpose of this paper is to describe the surgical technique and early outcomes of the TAR via the lateral approach using the Zimmer TM TARs. METHODS Sixty-seven patients underwent primary TAR using the Zimmer TM TAR between May 2013 and Ma...

Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), CNRS UMR 7284, INSERM U1081, University of 7 Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. 8 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom. 9 Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg 40530, Sweden 10 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-S...