Rome in 1622

VSSC / 1622 : Voting System Standards

I EEE is actively involved in creating standards for voting systems and related applications via the IEEE Voting System Standards Committee (VSSC/1622). An upcoming VSSC/1622.2 standard on election results reporting lets election officials organize election results and report them to the media. Another goal of VSSC/1622 is to improve US voting processes by creating a common data format (CDF) fo...

Introduction. The Rome Foundation and Rome III.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

Exhibiting in Rome

When in Rome, reform

It was a hot autumn in Italy last year, and things show little sign of cooling down over the winter, at least, not politically. The final months of 2008 saw a wave of protests throughout Italy that were triggered by a government decree altering the procedures used to select academic staff. The decree, issued by Mariastella Gelmini, Italy’s Minister for Education, University and Research, is onl...

Être médecin à Rome

controllers were not alone in seeking to end such traditional ideas and practices. Women were informed by magistrates and medical men that life did exist before quickening and that any interference-not that just carried out by a third party with a sharp instrument-could be described as an attempt at abortion. But by the 1920s lawyers and doctors were expressing their own unhappiness with the 18...