Genius, scandal and the first seaclocks

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

GENIUS: the first real-time detector for solar pp-neutrinos?

The GENIUS project is a proposal for a large supersensitive Germanium detector system for WIMP and double beta decay searches with a much increased sensitivity relative to existing and other future experiments. In this paper, the possibility to detect low energy solar neutrinos with GENIUS in real-time through elastic neutrino-electron scattering is studied.

The stillbirth ‘scandal’

The scope of stillbirth has been overlooked by many, few would estimate that in high income countries that, late stillbirths (pregnancies 28 weeks or later) occurs twice as often as death due to HIV/ AIDS; ten times more common than deaths due to Hepatitis B; twice a common as deaths due to congenital anomalies; twice as common as deaths due to preterm complications, and ten times more common t...

The great medicines scandal.

The GENIUS Grid Portal

The architecture and the current implementation of the GENIUS (Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission) Grid portal, jointly developed by INFN and NICE srl within the context of INFN Grid and DataGrid projects, is presented and discussed. Particular care is devoted to the description of job creation and submission and the services for transparent access to user’s d...