Gun Control Is Not Enough: The Need to Address Mental Illness to Prevent Incidences of Mass Public Violence (Comment)

Senseless violence and tragedy plagued our nation throughout 2012. This Comment begins by providing a brief discussion of the role of mental illness in our society, followed by an overview of legislation regulating the use of firearms in our nation's history. Next, the tragedies that occurred at Columbine High School, Aurora, Colorado, Virginia Tech, and Tucson, Arizona are discussed. By examining each event-the warning signs exhibited by the gunmen, and how they were able to obtain firearms-it becomes apparent that our national system for collecting pertinent information and performing background checks is severely lacking

FARM COMMODITY PAYMENT LIMITS: WHAT IMPACT WILL THEY HAVE ON THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF SOUTHEASTERN AGRICULTURE?

Agricultural and Food Policy,

A second look at the toric h-polynomial of a cubical complex

We provide an explicit formula for the toric $h$-contribution of each cubical shelling component, and a new combinatorial model to prove Clara Chan's result on the non-negativity of these contributions. Our model allows for a variant of the Gessel-Shapiro result on the $g$-polynomial of the cubical lattice, this variant may be shown by simple inclusion-exclusion. We establish an isomorphism between our model and Chan's model and provide a reinterpretation in terms of noncrossing partitions. By discovering another variant of the Gessel-Shapiro result in the work of Denise and Simion, we find evidence that the toric $h$-polynomials of cubes are related to the Morgan-Voyce polynomials via Viennot's combinatorial theory of orthogonal polynomials.Comment: Minor correction