Niemi (1969), in an important but neglected paper, found that when orderings were drawn from a simulation based on the impartial culture, the greater the proportion of voter orderings that were single-peaked (a condition he called partial single-peakedness), the more likely was there to be a transitive group ordering. Niemi also found that the likelihood of transitivity increased with n, group ...

In colorectal cancer (CRC), the treatment guidelines differ for Union International Contrè Cancer (UICC) stage II and III colon cancer patients. In patients with stage II colon cancer without risk factors such as T4 tumor, tumor perforation, emergency surgical procedure, or less than 12 removed lymph nodes, the low risk of recurrence is justifying no role of adjuvant chemotherapy. It would be c...

On October 15, we met to listen to a presentation by Marques Griffin from ChevronTexaco. He gave an overview of the entire oil production process and gave an idea of what types of positions his company had available. We also had this semester’s officer auction, where bidders could hire an officer for an hour to do such as things as cleaning or yard work. Our volleyball tournament to be held on ...

Motivated by the need to cope with floods of data, algorithm design is undergoing profound changes. Self-improvement, online property-preserving filtering, uncertainty, sublinearity and property testing are all parts of the story. I will discuss some of these exciting developments with an emphasis on its geometric aspects.