NOTICES OF PREPRINTS

Below is a list of recent Australasian mathematics research and teaching publications. The notices are listed according to the 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme.

05C80 N. C. Wormald, Maths, U of Melbourne, 3052.

The perturbation method for triangle--free random graphs. (05C30)

11Z50 P. Cerone, Maths, VUT, 3001.

On digit swaps and shifts.

20B05 C. E. Praeger, Maths, U of WA, 6009.

The separation theorem for group actions.

20F32 W. D. Neumann and L. Reeves, Maths, U of Melbourne, 3052.

Central extensions of word hyperbolic groups. (20F10, 20H15, 20J05)

20F32 W. D. Neumann and L. Reeves, Maths, U of Melbourne, 3052.

Regular cocycles and biautomatic structures. (20F10, 20H15, 20J05)

20K10 J. Hausen and P. Schultz, Maths, U of WA, 6009.

The maximal normal $p$-subgroup of the automorphism group of an abelian $p$-group.

20M10 P. M. Edwards, Econometrics, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

On joins with group congruences.

32A27 P. Cerone, Maths, VUT, 3001.

On series involving zeros of transcendental functions arising from Volterra integral equations. (44A10, 45D05)

34K05 P. Cerone and A. Sofo, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Summing series arising from integro--differential--difference equations.

35B20 R. H. J. Grimshaw, E. Pelinovsky and P. Sakov, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Interaction of a solitary wave with an external force moving with variable speed. (35B40)

46B20 J. R. Giles and Scott Sciffer, Maths, U of Newcastle, 2308.

Differentiability of convex functions on Banach spaces not containing $\ell_1$. (46A17)

54C10 J. R. Giles and M. O. Bartlett, Maths, U of Newcastle, 2308.

Separately continuous set--valued mappings on product spaces.

57M25 Alasdair McAndrew and Charles Osborne, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Isotopy of 6-connected digital knots.

57M99 Jun Yang, Maths, U of Melbourne, 3052.

Rationality problems for $K$--theory and Chern--Simons invariants of hyperbolic 3--manifolds. (19E99, 19F27)

58G10 Z. J. Zheng and C. H. C. Leung, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Connection indexing of 2D binary images on hexagonal grid for digital image representation and retrieval. (57M99)

62E15 C. M. Goldie and R. A. Maller, Maths, U of WA, 6009.

Generalized densities of order statistics.

62N10 Pak F. Tang and Neil S. Barnett, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Capability indices for multivariate processes.

62N10 Pak F. Tang and Neil S. Barnett, Maths, VUT, 3001.

SPC for short production runs: A review and literature survey.

63H30 Z. J. Zheng and C. H. C. Leung, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Quantitative measurements of feature indexing for 2D binary images of hexagonal grid for image retrieval. (68P20, 68U10)

65H05 H. J. Connell, R. L. May, J. J. Shepherd and A. M. White, Maths, RMIT, 3000.

Annular time--dependent flow of a Bingham fluid. (76A05)

65K05 Y. Xiao and E. K. Chu, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Non--monotone trust region stabilization algorithms and their numerical assessment.

68P15 C. H. C. Leung and D. Taniar, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Parallel query processing in object-oriented database systems.

68P15 K. Liu, C. H. C. Leung and Y. Jiang, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Taxonomy of skew in parallel databases.

68P20 Refyul Fatri and Nalin K. Sharda, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Aditi deductive database system and its applications.

68Q40 Richard Satur, Zhi-Qiang Liu and Mark Gahegan, Maths, VUT, 3001.

An intelligent KBS learning census data from examples.

68T35 Richard Satur and Zhi-Qiang Liu, Maths, VUT, 3001.

Object-oriented fuzzy cognitive maps.

76B15 P. Christodoulides and F. Dias, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Stability of capillary--gravity interfacial waves between two bounded fluids. (76B45, 76E99)

76C10 D. E. Pelinovsky and R. H. J. Grimshaw, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Nonlocal models for envelope waves in a stratified fluid.

76E05 A. P. Hooper and R. H. J. Grimshaw, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Disturbance growth of linearly stable viscous shear flows.

76F10 B. R. Morton and A. Ibbetson, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Jets deflected in a crossflow.

76R50 J. J. Monaghan, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Heat conduction with discontinuous conductivity. (80A20)

82B20 D. Bennett-Wood, A. J. Guttmann, A. L. Owczarek, J. L. Cardy and S. Flesia, Maths, U of Melbourne, 3052.

Oriented self--avoiding walks with orientation--dependent interactions. (82B26, 82B27, 82B40, 82B80)

85A99 T. J. Bogdan and P. S. Cally, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Jacket--modes: Solar acoustics oscillations confined to regions surrounding sunspots and plage.

85A99 S. T. Maddison, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Millimeter observations of protostellar disks.

95B40 E. K. Chu, Maths, Monash U, Clayton, 3168.

Robust pole assignment for second--order systems. (93B55)

Authors are invited to submit notices of their recent preprints. The notices should be in the format of the present issue, and should be sent to the Editor.