OLISSIPO (Omnis Latinitatis Instrumentum Secundum Scholarum Instructionis Propositum Ordinatum) is a prototype developed by the Centro de Estudos Clássicos of the University of Lisbon and the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of CNR in Pisa, thanks to a common research project in the framework of the scientific agreement between the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR – Italy) and the ...

Over the past year, a series on commentaries have appeared in the Toxicological Sciences Forum Series related to the 2007 National Research Council (NRC) publication, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and A Strategy. The first article in the series provided an overview of the vision and was accompanied by an editorial by the three editors of Toxicological Sciences. During the past ...

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

HID lamps are used in applications where high luminous intensity is desired. They are used in a wide range of applications from gymnasiums to movie theatres, from parking lots to indoor aquaria, from vehicle headlights to indoor gardening. They require ballasts during start-up and also during operation to regulate the voltage and current levels. Electronic ballasts have advantages of less weigh...

Computed radiography (CR) systems are becoming prevalent in diagnostic radiology as the availability of lower cost devices and the increased emphasis on digital image networks in radiology occurs. Basic knowledge of the CR system and an understanding of system characteristics by the radiologist, physicist, and technologist are important for the installation and operation of these devices in the...

This project proposes and describes the implementation of a wide-area surveillance system comprised of a sensor/interceptor placement planning and an interceptor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) helicopter. Given the 2-D layout of an area, the planning system optimally places perimeter cameras based on maximum coverage and minimal cost. Part of this planning system includes the MATLAB implementati...

Background: At present, nothing is known of the role of miRNAs in the immune response in vivo despite the fact that inflammation is thought to underlie multiple acute and chronic diseases. In these circumstances, patients are commonly treated with corticosteroids such as dexamethasone. Results: To address this question, we have examined the differential expression of 104 miRNAs using real-time ...

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