Complete intersections in affine algebraic varieties and Stein spaces -- Some applications of the theory of positive vector bundles -- Factorial and almost factorial schemes in weighted projective spaces -- On set-theoretic complete intersections -- The classification of quotient singularities which are complete intersections -- Compressed algebras -- Some properties of subcanonical curves -- About the conormal scheme -- On the uniqueness of certain linear series on some classes of curves -- On the local cohomology modules for ideals generated by monomials in an R-sequence -- In characteristic p=2 the Veronese variety Vm ? ?m(m+3)/2 and each of its generic projection is set-theoretic complete intersection -- Idรฉaux de dรฉfinition des courbes monomiales -- Curves on rational and elliptic normal cones which are set theoretically complete intersection -- Complete intersections in ?2: Cayley-Bacharach characterizations -- Poincarรฉ forms, Gorenstein algebras and set theoretic complete intersections