A vedis Donabedian was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 January 1919. As a child he moved to a small town near Jerusalem in Palestine (now Israel) after his family fled the Armenian holocaust. However, in Palestine he experienced the social turmoil of that region. Although a Christian, he had Jewish, Arab, and Christian friends as he was growing up in Palestine. At the interpersonal level he was ab...

Karel Souček, Andrés Kamaid, Anh D. Phung, Lukáš Kubala, J. Chloë Bulinski, Richart W. Harper, and Jason P. Eiserich* Departmentof InternalMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof PhysiologyandMembrane Biology,Universityof California,Davis,California Cancer Center, SchoolofMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof Biological Sciencesand PathologyandCel...

Thank you very much Dean. I am delighted to be back at the Law School this afternoon. As I look around the room, I see people from my past and present. I was a student of Professor Gorman and Professor Lesnick in the early 1970s. A few years later, I worked with individuals who are in the audience from the State Department of Education in Harrisburg. Richard Mandell' was part of the interviewin...

A more sums than differences (MSTD) set is a finite subset S of the integers such that |S + S| > |S − S|. We construct a new dense family of MSTD subsets of {0, 1, 2, . . . , n − 1}. Our construction gives Θ(2n/n) MSTD sets, improving the previous best construction with Ω(2/n) MSTD sets by Miller, Orosz, and Scheinerman.

When the random intersection graph G(n,m, p) proposed by Karoński, Scheinerman, and Singer-Cohen in [8] is compared with the independent-edge G(n, p), the evolutions are different under some values of m and equivalent under others. In particular, when m = nα and α > 6, the total variation distance between the graph random variables has limit 0.

In 1971 Trotter (or Bogart and Trotter) conjectured that every finite poset on at least 3 points has a pair whose removal does not decrease the dimension by more than 1. In 1992 Brightwell and Scheinerman introduced fractional dimension of posets, and they made a similar conjecture for fractional dimension. This paper settles this latter conjecture.

BACKGROUND A caring, compassionate practitioner of the medical arts is the idealized version of what makes a good doctor. If asked to think of a painting of a doctor we most likely conjure an image of a physician sitting at a patient's bedside checking the pulse with a concerned look on his face. The reality is however that cynicism, among other negative attitudes, is becoming more prominent am...

a Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain c Instituto de Investigación Biocruces, Baracaldo, Bizkaia, Spain d Departamento de Especialidades Médico-Quirúrgicas, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkai...