The DSF Quorum Sensing System Controls the Positive Influence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia on Plants

none7siopenAlavi P.; Muller H.; Cardinale M.; Zachow C.; Sanchez M.B.; Martinez J.L.; Berg G.Alavi, P.; Muller, H.; Cardinale, M.; Zachow, C.; Sanchez, M. B.; Martinez, J. L.; Berg, G

Muller, Samuel B., Collection, circa 1970

This collection consists of the medical equipment used by Dr. Samuel B. Muller in the Nursing Department during his stay at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Samuel B. Muller was born in 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1932, Dr. Muller received his Bachelors of Science, and in 1934, a Doctor in Medicine from the University of Kansas. In 1934 he married Cordelia White. He practiced medicine in Southeast Kansas following the marriage. In 1941, Dr. Muller began working at the Royal Oak Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. In 1942, Dr. Muller became a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve and served in the South Pacific during World War II until 1945. After the war, Dr. Muller served as the City Health Officer in Pittsburg, Kansas from 1946 – 1973 joining the Crawford County Medical Society, The Red Cross Blood Drive, and the Mirza Shrine in the Process. In 1972, Dr. Muller also took up the job of the District Coroner. In 1973, Dr. Muller became a faculty member at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) as the director of Student Health Services. In 1974, Dr. Muller became a fellow for the American Academy of Family Nurses. In the late 1970s, Dr. Muller left the Department. Dr. Muller passed away in Pittsburg in 1991.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/1366/thumbnail.jp

The Relation between Monotonicity and Strategy-Proofness

The Muller-Satterthwaite Theorem (Muller and Satterthwaite, 1977) establishes the equivalence between Maskin monotonicity and strategy-proofness, two cornerstone conditions for the decentralization of social choice rules. We consider a general model that covers public goods economies as in Muller and Satterthwaite (1977) as well as private goods economies. For private goods economies we use a weaker condition than Maskin monotonicity that we call unilateral monotonicity. We introduce two easy-to-check domain conditions which separately guarantee that (i) unilateral/Maskin monotonicity implies strategy-proofness (Theorem 1) and (ii) strategy-proofness implies unilateral/Maskin monotonicity (Theorem 2). We introduce and discuss various classical single-peaked domains and show which of the domain conditions they satisfy (see Propositions 1 and 2 and an overview in Table 1). As a by-product of our analysis, we obtain some extensions of the Muller-Satterthwaite Theorem as summarized in Theorem 3. We also discuss some new "Muller-Satterthwaite domains" (e.g.,Proposition 3).Muller-Satterthwaite Theorem; restricted domains; rich domains; single-peaked domains; strategy-proofness; unilateral/Maskin monotonicity

The Calov Bible of Bach

Reviewed Book: Cox, Howard H. The Calov Bible of Bach. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1985

On the non-minimality of the largest weight codewords in the binary Reed-Muller codes

The study of minimal codewords in linear codes was motivated by Massey who described how minimal codewords of a linear code define access structures for secret sharing schemes. As a consequence of his article, Borissov, Manev, and Nikova initiated the study of minimal codewords in the binary Reed-Muller codes. They counted the number of non-minimal codewords of weight 2d in the binary Reed-Muller codes RM(r, in), and also gave results on the non-minimality of codewords of large weight in the binary Reed-Muller codes RM(r, in). The results of Borissov, Manev, and Nikova regarding the counting of the number of non-minimal codewords of small weight in RM(r,m) were improved by Schillewaert, Storme, and Thas who counted the number of non-minimal codewords of weight smaller than 3d in RM(r,m). This article now presents new results on the non-minimality of large weight codewords in RM(r, m)