On December 15, 2010, after 11 months of legal standoff, the Swiss corporation Novartis finally closed a deal to acquire the remaining shares of eye-care company Alcon from minority shareholders. Why did it take almost a year? The acquisition had become a relatedparty transaction after Novartis purchased a 25% stake from then majority shareholder Nestlé and nominated some of its own directors t...

We give the first example of systolic freedom over torsion coefficients. The phenomenon is a bit unexpected (contrary to a conjecture of Gromov’s) and more delicate than systolic freedom over the integers. Dedicated to Rob Kirby, a lover of Mathematics and other wild places. Thank you for your inspiration. AMS Classification 53C22

In this paper, we describe a motivation to develop an Android mobile application for a wine lover. We introduce a simple map of concepts used for analysis and modeling of the subject domain. We also briefly describe the application architecture and the interfaces developed to support major use cases that a wine amateur may require in order to store and manage information about wines.

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