Avoiding detection by parasitoids is nearly impossible for most leafminers in their visually striking mines, and they often suffer from a high mortality rate by a great variety of parasitoid species. The leafminer-parasitoid interaction bears a strong resemblance to the princess-monster game developed in game theory, in which a "monster" (parasitoid) selects an optimal search strategy to captur...

Introduction The robust economy and competition for employee talent has made it difficult for employers to fill open positions, and caused the hiring process to suffer. Organizations are increasingly willing to compromise good hiring practices to bring people on board as expeditiously as possible. It is not uncommon to use a single employment interview to make a hiring decision even for profess...

Market power and allegations of market power abuse are perhaps the most contentious contemporary issues concerning electricity markets. A number of industry observers and participants have made allegations regarding the abuse of market power. While some of these allegations may be well-founded, many others may be nothing more than an attempt by some to retroactively correct for their own bad bu...

We consider orbifoldings of the Moonshine Module with respect to the abelian group generated by a pair of commuting Monster group elements with one of prime order p = 2, 3, 5, 7 and the other of order pk for k = 1 or k prime. We show that constraints arising from meromorphic orbifold conformal field theory allow us to demonstrate that each orbifold partition function with rational coefficients ...

The main result of this work is an explicit construction of p-local subgroups of the Monster, the largest sporadic simple group. The groups constructed are the normalizers in the Monster of certain subgroups of order 32 , 52 , and 72 and have shapes 32+5+10-(Af11 xGL(2, 3)), 52+2+4-(S3xGL(2, 5)), and 72+1+2 • GL(2, 7). These groups result from a general construction which proceeds in three step...

The Monster group, the biggest of the sporadic groups, is equipped with the highest known number of dimensions and symmetries. Taking into account variants of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem and a novel topological approach cast in a physical fashion that has the potential to be operationalized, the universe can be conceived as a lower-dimensional manifold encompassed in the Monster group. Our universe...