We give examples of reducible characteristic cycles for irreducible HarishChandra modules for U(p, q) by analyzing a four-dimensional singular subvariety of C. We relate this singularity to the Kashiwara-Saito singularity arising for Schubert varieties for GL(8,C) with reducible characteristic cycles, as well as recent related examples of Williamson. In particular, this gives another explanatio...

We consider a class of graph problems introduced in a paper of Goemans and Williamson that involve finding forests of minimum edge cost. This class includes a number of location/routing problems; it also includes a problem in which we are given as input a parameter k, and want to find a forest such that each component has at least k vertices. Goemans and Williamson gave a 2-approximation algori...

Although there has been much speculation about psychopaths' distinctive use of speech, to date there have been no published data documenting that psychopaths communicate any di€erently than others. This study examined the clinical observation that psychopathic speech is poorly integrated compared to that of controls. 39 inmates from a Wisconsin state penitentiary were asked to produce two stori...

This article describes the effect of thermal radiation on the thin film nanofluid flow of a Williamson fluid over an unsteady stretching surface with variable fluid properties. The basic governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy, and concentration are incorporated. The effect of thermal radiation and viscous dissipation terms are included in the energy equation. The energy and concent...

The small town of Williamson, West Virginia, the "Heart of the Billion Dollar Coal Field" according to the road sign that welcomes incoming visitors was in disarray on a warm, 30°C day in July, 1987. Why? Because a known "AIDS" victim had been swimming in the town pool. The pool manager, a high school teacher, immediately alerted the mayor of Williamson, whom also serves as the town pharmacist....

Peter D. Williamson died in his home in Lyme, New Hampshire on June 4th, 2008 after a courageous year-long battle with lung cancer. With his passing the neurology community lost a compassionate advocate, clinician, researcher and fundraiser in the field of epilepsy and epilepsy surgery. He is survived by his wife Susan, their four children, and six grandchildren. Peter D. Williamson was born in...

This article discusses the relationship between the divine promises in the Abraham narrative and the use made by this Old Testament material in the New Testament. It is argued that the New Testament's reinterpretation of the Abrahamic Covenant (e.g. relating the promise of blessing to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and applying the promise of multitudinous descendants to the Christian Church) is fu...