The classical Rogers-Ramanujan identities have been interpreted by Lepowsky-Milne and the present authors in terms of the representation theory of the Euclidean Kac-Moody Lie algebra A(1) ((1)). Also, the present authors have introduced certain "vertex" differential operators providing a construction of A(1) ((1)) on its basic module, and Kac, Kazhdan, and we have generalized this construction ...

Norovirus, a leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans, is a highly diverse virus. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of a nontypeable genogroup II (GII) norovirus that was detected in a symptomatic Peruvian child in 2008. This virus showed low nucleotide sequence identities (≤82%) against all known genotypes.

The nearly complete genome sequence of a new species of potyvirus was obtained from the symptomless wild onion (Allium sp.) in Turkey. This virus has less than 67% nucleotide sequence identities over the polyprotein to other known potyviruses. We propose the name wild onion symptomless virus for this novel potyvirus.

A currently favored cognitive model of the abnormal behaviors and experiences characteristic of schizophrenia suggests that they may be linked to a disturbance in the effects of context. The present article reviews some of the relevant literature, noting the wide range of experimental paradigms that have been employed. This range of paradigms is both a strength and a potential weakness of the l...

Since the 1980s, the issue of social mix has become a public policy category in France. Enshrined in legislation, yet remaining controversial, it represents a major premise on which housing policies have been reconfigured. The concept of social mix is essentially based on who lives where, but it is also evoked in the context of urban renewal schemes for social housing estates, as well as in rel...

Combinatorial identities on Weyl groups of types A and B are derived from special bases of the corresponding coinvariant algebras. Using the Garsia-Stanton descent basis of the coinvariant algebra of type A we give a new construction of the Solomon descent representations. An extension of the descent basis to type B, using new multivariate statistics on the group, yields a refinement of the des...

A base of a permutation group G is a sequence B of points from the permutation domain such that only the identity of G fixes B pointwise. Answering a question of Pyber, we prove that all primitive solvable permutation groups have a base of size at most four.

A transposon, Tn4556, has recently been isolated from Streptomyces fradiae (S.-T. Chung, J. Bacteriol. 169:4436-4441, 1987). The ends of Tn4556 were found to contain inverted repeats of 38 base pairs with 70% sequence identity with the ends of Tn3. Insertion of Tn4556 into a Streptomyces plasmid resulted in a 5-base-pair duplication of the target site.