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Contents: A Note on the Simple Groups Over p-Adic Fields (C H Cheng) Nonlinear Feedforward Sequences of m-Sequences IV (Z Dai et al.) Transformation Semigroups (J M Howie) Partially Commutative Shuffing (Y Kobayashi) On Two Infinite Hierarchies of Prefix Codes (D Long) An Invitation to Inverse Semigroup Theory (J C Meakin) Some Questions on Euclid Rings (M Nagata) Some Problems on the Semigroup of Singular Matrices (K S S Nambooripad) Semisimplicity for Semigroups (R H Oehmke) Products of Semigroups (G B Preston) An Application of Lattice Theory to the Theory of Varieties of Semigroups that are Unions of Groups (N R Reilly) Conjugacy In Finite Symmetric Inverse Semigroups (T Saito) Fundamental Orderings of Semigroups: A Survey (B M Schein) Local Distribution of Non-Primitive Words (H J Shyr & F K Tu) The Amalgamation of Closure and Boundary Functions on Semigroups and Partially Ordered Sets (K P Shum) Vertex Operators of Affine Lie Algebras with First Kind (Y Xu) and other papers Readership: Pure and applied mathematicians.