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Bravo! Neurology at the opera.

Opera is a complex musical form that reflects the complexity of the human condition and the human brain. This article presents an introduction to the portrayal of medical professionals in opera, including one neurologist, as well as two characters in whom neurological disease contributes to the action of the musical drama. Consideration is also given to the neuroanatomy and neuropathology of op...

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Creativity and Conservation: Managing Significance at the Sydney Opera House

for large-scale work. conserved, and how change should be managed in the future. This paper examines how the dialogue with the original architect has been integrated into heritage-management strategies that guide both the dayto-day care of the building, as well as proposals for large-scale work. It also reflects on the challenges of marrying the World Heritage process for assessing significance...

Superluminal neutrinos at OPERA confront pion decay kinematics.

Violation of Lorentz invariance (VLI) has been suggested as an explanation of the superluminal velocities of muon neutrinos reported by OPERA. In this Letter, we show that the amount of VLI required to explain this result poses severe difficulties with the kinematics of the pion decay, extending its lifetime and reducing the momentum carried away by the neutrinos. We show that the OPERA experim...

ICANOE and OPERA experiments at the LNGS/CNGS

We discuss two experiments ICANOE and OPERA that have been proposed within the context of long-baseline and atmospheric neutrino experiments in Europe. The joint ICANOE/OPERA program aims at further improving our understanding of the effect seen in atmospheric neutrinos. This program is based on (1) a continuation of the observation of atmospheric neutrinos with the improved technique of ICANOE...