For a finite group G and a finite G-CW-complex X, we construct groups H•(G, X) as the homology groups of the G-invariants of the cellular chain complex C•(X). These groups are related to the homology of the quotient space X/G via a norm map, and therefore provide a mechanism for calculating H•(X/G). We compute several examples and provide a new proof of “Smith theory”: if G = Z/p and X is a mod...

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1 Bob Zmud was the accepting Senior Editor for this article. 2 Much research has been done on organizational forms, particularly hierarchies, communities, and markets. A classic article that describes how firms can be organized is Ouchi, W. G., “Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans,” Administrative Science Quarterly (25), 1980, pp. 129-141. Three more recent articles that examine the use of market...

Tubular organs are essential for organisms to establish transport systems for nutrients, liquids and gases. The development of tubes requires endocytosis of bound ligands, receptors and proteins at the plasma membrane (Bonifacino and Traub, 2003; Nelson, 2009). Clathrin coated vesicles (CCVs) organize major routes of cargo selective endocytosis in higher eukaryotic cells (Conner and Schmid, 200...

THIS YEAR we are met not only for the 46th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association but also to celebrate its 25th year as a national voluntary health agency. The Association came into being in 1922, and Lewis A. Conner of New York was elected the first President. Also, he was the first editor of the American Heart Journal which the Association began in 1926. I did not have ...

This document is dedicated to my entire family, but especially to Amanda, Conner, mom and pawpaw. Amanda and Conner provided me with the necessary strength, determination and never ending support and were my inspiration in pursuing and finishing my PhD. Mom and pawpaw are, without a doubt, the two most influential people in my life. For good and for bad, everything that I am is as a result of m...

Let G = Z/ps ( p an odd prime). We show that restricting the local representations in a unitary G-manifold M with isolated fixed points results in severe restrictions on the number of fixed points (counted with the sign of their orientation), paralleling results obtained by Conner and Floyd in the case G = Z/p . Specifically, the number of noncancelling fixed points is either zero or divisible ...