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On the Hilbert scheme of curves in higher-dimensional projective space
In this paper we prove that, for any , there exist infinitely many
and for each of them a smooth, connected curve in such
that lies on exactly irreducible components of the Hilbert scheme
\hilb(\P^r). This is proven by reducing the problem to an analogous statement
for the moduli of surfaces of general type.Comment: latex, 12 pages, no figure
A manual and computerized consistent framework for assessing the vulnerability of receptor environments
Completing Klehr v. A.O. Smith Corp., and Resolving the Oddity and Lingering Questions of Civil RICO Statute of Limitations Accrual
The breeding biology of the Acadian Flycatcher
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/56369/1/MP125.pd
Geometric collections and Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity
The paper begins by overviewing the basic facts on geometric exceptional
collections. Then, we derive, for any coherent sheaf \cF on a smooth
projective variety with a geometric collection, two spectral sequences: the
first one abuts to \cF and the second one to its cohomology. The main goal of
the paper is to generalize Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity for coherent sheaves
on projective spaces to coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties
with a geometric collection . We define the notion of regularity of a
coherent sheaf \cF on with respect to . We show that the basic
formal properties of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of coherent sheaves
over projective spaces continue to hold in this new setting and we show that in
case of coherent sheaves on \PP^n and for a suitable geometric collection of
coherent sheaves on \PP^n both notions of regularity coincide. Finally, we
carefully study the regularity of coherent sheaves on a smooth quadric
hypersurface Q_n \subset \PP^{n+1} ( odd) with respect to a suitable
geometric collection and we compare it with the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
of their extension by zero in \PP^{n+1}.Comment: To appear in Math. Proc. Cambridg
Developing transferable management skills through Action Learning
There has been increasing criticism of the relevance of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) in developing skills and competencies. Action learning, devised to address problem-solving in the workplace, offers a potential response to such criticism. This paper offers an insight into one university’s attempt to integrate action learning into the curriculum. Sixty-five part-time students were questioned at two points in their final year about their action learning experience and the enhancement of relevant skills and competencies. Results showed a mixed picture. Strong confirmation of the importance of selected skills and competencies contrasted with weaker agreement about the extent to which these were developed by action learning. There was, nonetheless, a firm belief in the positive impact on the learning process. The paper concludes that action learning is not a panacea but has an important role in a repertoire of educational approaches to develop relevant skills and competencies
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture
Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures. The two studies reported here used the same naming task with (1) typically developing 24-46-month-old hearing children acquiring English and (2) 24-63-month-old deaf children of deaf and hearing parents acquiring British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English. In Study 1 children scored within the range of correct spoken responses previously reported, but produced very few representational gestures. However, when they did gesture, they expressed the same action meanings as reported in previous research. The action bias was also observed in deaf children of hearing parents in Study 2, who labelled pictures with signs, spoken words and gestures. The deaf group with deaf parents used BSL almost exclusively with few additional gestures. The function of representational gestures in spoken and signed vocabulary development is considered in relation to differences between native and non-native sign language acquisition
Virasoro constraints and the Chern classes of the Hodge bundle
We analyse the consequences of the Virasoro conjecture of Eguchi, Hori and
Xiong for Gromov-Witten invariants, in the case of zero degree maps to the
manifolds CP^1 and CP^2 (or more generally, smooth projective curves and smooth
simply-connected projective surfaces). We obtain predictions involving
intersections of psi and lambda classes on the compactification of M_{g,n}. In
particular, we show that the Virasoro conjecture for CP^2 implies the numerical
part of Faber's conjecture on the tautological Chow ring of M_g.Comment: 12 pages, latex2
Alternating groups and moduli space lifting Invariants
Main Theorem: Spaces of r-branch point 3-cycle covers, degree n or Galois of
degree n!/2 have one (resp. two) component(s) if r=n-1 (resp. r\ge n). Improves
Fried-Serre on deciding when sphere covers with odd-order branching lift to
unramified Spin covers. We produce Hurwitz-Torelli automorphic functions on
Hurwitz spaces, and draw Inverse Galois conclusions. Example: Absolute spaces
of 3-cycle covers with +1 (resp. -1) lift invariant carry canonical even (resp.
odd) theta functions when r is even (resp. odd). For inner spaces the result is
independent of r. Another use appears in,
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/paplist-mt/twoorbit.html, "Connectedness of
families of sphere covers of A_n-Type." This shows the M(odular) T(ower)s for
the prime p=2 lying over Hurwitz spaces first studied by,
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/othlist-cov/hurwitzLiu-Oss.pdf, Liu and
Osserman have 2-cusps. That is sufficient to establish the Main Conjecture: (*)
High tower levels are general-type varieties and have no rational points.For
infinitely many of those MTs, the tree of cusps contains a subtree -- a spire
-- isomorphic to the tree of cusps on a modular curve tower. This makes
plausible a version of Serre's O(pen) I(mage) T(heorem) on such MTs.
Establishing these modular curve-like properties opens, to MTs, modular
curve-like thinking where modular curves have never gone before. A fuller html
description of this paper is at
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/paplist-cov/hf-can0611591.html .Comment: To appear in the Israel Journal as of 1/5/09; v4 is corrected from
proof sheets, but does include some proof simplification in \S
Do it Right or Not at All: A Longitudinal Evaluation of a Conflict Managment System Implementation
We analyzed an eight-year multi-source longitudinal data set that followed a healthcare system in the Eastern United States as it implemented a major conflict management initiative to encourage line managers to consistently perform Personal Management Interviews (or PMIs) with their employees. PMIs are interviews held between two individuals, designed to prevent or quickly resolve interpersonal problems before they escalate to formal grievances. This initiative provided us a unique opportunity to empirically test key predictions of Integrated Conflict Management System (or ICMS) theory. Analyzing survey and personnel file data from 5,449 individuals from 2003 to 2010, we found that employees whose managers provided high-quality interviews perceived significantly higher participative work climates and had lower turnover rates. However, retention was worse when managers provided poor-quality interviews than when they conducted no interviews at all. Together these findings highlight the critical role that line mangers play in the success of conflict management systems
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