Since the foundations of Population Genetics the notion of genetic equilibrium (in close analogy with Classical Mechanics) has been associated with the Hardy-Weinberg (HW) principle and the identification of equilibrium is currently assumed by stating that the HW axioms are valid if appropriate values of χ(2) (p < 0.05) are observed in experiments. Here we show by numerical experiments with the...

Despite our recent commentary on the article by Resende and Weber, the authors still seem to believe that Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) himself was affected by facial paralysis. They came to this erroneous conclusion from a paper by Jongkees and by “neurological examination of the photograph of Sir Charles Bell” (Fig 1). However, had they taken the effort to check Jongkees’ German translation wi...

We consider the problem of constructing explicit Hitting sets for Combinatorial Shapes, a class of statistical tests first studied by Gopalan, Meka, Reingold, and Zuckerman (STOC 2011). These generalize many well-studied classes of tests, including symmetric functions and combinatorial rectangles. Generalizing results of Linial, Luby, Saks, and Zuckerman (Combinatorica 1997) and Rabani and Shpi...

Whenwe first published this News story (BMJ 2015;351:h6820, doi:10.1136/bmj.h6820), we reported that Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research, told The BMJ that no more than two dozen non-profit organizations that are members of the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition had been invited by the FDA to help develop any provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act...

OBJECTIVE The factor structure of the Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS)-Form V was studied in 2 large French samples, using confirmatory factorial analyses (CFA) to test the 4-dimensional model of sensation seeking postulated by Zuckerman. METHOD The study included 769 healthy subjects and 659 patients who met the DSM-IV criteria for substance use disorders or eating disorders and completed the S...

Every day, history is being made in our communications field by ComSoc members and others. Some incremental, while other monumental. To recognize past accomplishments to set the stage for future advancements, has established Communications History standing committee. In this President's Page, I am pleased introduce Dr. Doug Zuckerman, Committee Chair, share with us committee's activities.

Let G be a reductive complex Lie group with Lie algebra g. We call a subgroup H ⊂ G cramped if there is an integer b(G,H) such that each finite-dimensional representation of G has a non-trivial invariant subspace of dimension less than b(G,H). We show that a subgroup is cramped if and only if the moment map T ∗(K/L) → k∗ is surjective, where K and L are compact forms of G and H. We will use thi...

I would like to thank Drs Terplan and Zuckerman for their comments on the recently published position statement, which myself and the other cosignatory authors take very seriously. If I may summarise Drs Terplan and Zuckerman‘s argument. It starts with the assumption that there is now clear evidence proving that levonorgestel (LNG)and norethisterone acetate (NETA)-containing combined oral contr...