Francesco Bossa (1941–2019)

BoSSA: The Deconstructed Violin Reconstructed

Traditional musical instruments provide compelling metaphors for human-computer interfacing, both in terms of input (physical, gestural performance activities) and output (sound diffusion). The violin, one of the most refined and expressive of traditional instruments, combines a peculiar physical interface with a rich acoustic diffuser. We have built a new instrument that includes elements of b...

The Bossa Framework for Scheduler Development

Process scheduling is an old problem, but there is no single scheduler that is perfect for all applications. Indeed, in the last few years, the emergence of new applications, such as multimedia and real-time applications, and new execution environments, such as embedded systems, has given rise to a host of new scheduling algorithms [2, 3, 5, 7, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]. Nevertheless, bec...

Francesco Boato

Francesco Blast

Hog thyroid tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1, phenylpyruvate keto-enol isomerase), an enzyme which is believed to play a role in the biosynthesis of thyroxine, has been purified over lOOO-fold. The purification procedure involves a heat step at 70”, gel f&ration on Sephadex G-100, ion exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl Sephadex C-50, and, finally, gel titration on Sephadex G-50. The enzyme is homo...

De Francesco 8 pages

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) will continue to be a serious global health threat for many years to come because of the chronic nature of the infection, its high prevalence and the significant morbidity of the resulting disease. Recently, a small number of molecules have produced encouraging results in proof-of-concept clinical trials. At the same time, preclinical evidence is accumulating that develo...