The Imperial Statue from Iustiniana Prima

The PRIMA Fringe Sensor Unit

Context. The Fringe Sensor Unit (FSU) is the central element of the Phase Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry (PRIMA) dual-feed facility and provides fringe sensing for all observation modes, comprising off-axis fringe tracking, phase referenced imaging, and high-accuracy narrow-angle astrometry. It is installed at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and successfully se...

Etruscan women’s clothing and its decoration: the polychrome gypsum statue from the ‘Isis Tomb’ at Vulci

The Imperial Animal

scriptions of genital and sexual development are clear and thorough. However, his description of the various genetic and hormonal factors involved in sexual development is skimpy and very difficult to follow. For example, Jost's classic experiments on the factors involved in determining sex and internal and external genital development are hardly mentioned, and certainly not dealt with in a way...

I Comici Roboti: Performing the Lazzo of the Statue from the Commedia Dell'Arte

We are combining robotics and puppetry to build a multirobot team that performs a lazzo from the Commedia dell’Arte. The robots are built on lego bases using a Handyboard processor. The robots communicate with each other and with a human director via radio links. Our robot hardware and software are described, as our experiences at AAAI-02.

Creep along the Imperial Fault, southern California, from GPS measurements

[1] In May of 1999 and 2000, we surveyed with Global Positioning System (GPS) 46 geodetic monuments established by Imperial College, London, in a dense grid (half-mile spacing) along the Imperial Fault, with three additional National Geodetic Survey sites serving as base stations. These stations were previously surveyed in 1991 and 1993. The Imperial College sites were surveyed in rapid-static ...