The ALMA receiver suite includes provisions for covering the Ka and Q bands from 30 { 45.5 GHz. This contribution summarizes some of the scienti c drivers for this capability, in particular observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation anisotropy and scattering of the CMBR from hot gas in massive clusters of galaxies, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich e ect. In addition to its unique capabiliti...

Equity was a core value in the Alma Ata declaration on PHC. However, the interpretation of equity varied and its application became difficult. Equity goals and objectives have often been rhetoric rather than practical. Policy reforms since Alma Ata have been dominated by the neo-liberal economic ideology, which does not include equity as its core value. After 25 years, reforms such as the essen...

a Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS, B.go Grotta Gigante-42/c, 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy b Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127 Bologna, Italy c Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali, Via dell'Agricoltura 5, 48123 R...

Five new species belonging to the astome ciliates, living in the digestive tract of Oligochaeta worms belonging to the genus Alma from Cameroon, have been described. The techniques used are: vital staining, staining of the nucleus with Diamidino Phenyl Indol (DAPI), scanning electron microscopy and silver staining method (Fernandez Galiano, 1976, 1994). This work confirms the presence of the ge...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) consists of 64 antennas of 12m diameter that will initially observe in 4 frequency bands between 84 and 720 GHz with spatial resolutions down to 0. 01 and velocity resolutions as fine as 0.05 km/s. These technical requirements are based on three primary science goals. We illustrate two of these requirements: (i) the ability to detect spectral line emiss...

The Norwegian BIBSYS consortium replaced the self-developed and -hosted library system by Alma, a Library Services Platform delivered by Ex Libris in December 2015. Academic libraries and consortia in particular, considering replacing its current ILS with a next generation library system could use the BIBSYS experience. In this article, BIBSYS shares its experiences with the procurement process...

Dense cores are the simplest star-forming sites that we know, but despite their simplicity, they still hold a number of mysteries that limit our understanding of how solar-type stars form. ALMA promises to revolutionize our knowledge of every stage in the life of a core, from the pre-stellar phase to the final disruption by the newly born star. This contribution presents a brief review of the e...