In this paper we briefly describe the story of Solar Physics in Italy during one century and we try to evaluate its international impact. At the beginning, in the serendipitous phase, we have e relevant contribution of italian solar physicist like Secchi and Tacchini. The choice of the Abetti father and son to build in Arcetri a Solar Tower, under the technical supervision of George Ellery Hale...

A two phased approach incorporating the extended great deluge technique is detailed in relation to the Examination Timetabling Problem as described in the 2 International Timetabling Competition (ITC2007). The approach proves to be both robust and general. Robust in the sense that it is capable of producing six of the best results published in literature so far on the benchmark datasets and gen...

An important, if much neglected, arena within the field of tourism studies is the role of tourism scholars as consultants in the development process. For individuals within this field of ‘expert knowledge’ participation in consultancy projects often places them at the heart of complex and competing interests at local, national and international level. Such complexity necessitates ethically info...

The aim of the study is a political analysis relationship between sports and politics based on an institutional approach using SWOT analysis. author's hypothesis understanding that interpenetration in modern world becoming global comprehensive will increase: politicization as social institution entire sphere acquiring new normality. paper highlights basic trends main socio-political opportuniti...

This paper presents the design of a new version of the Arena operating system targeted at real-time applications. Arena is a run-time operating system for parallel applications. The main principle of Arena is to provide predictable and controllable resource management. This is achieved by placing resource management at the user level of the system, thereby allowing any degree of application inf...

The 18th century is a turning point in the history of peoples Caucasus. progressive decline Iran and Ottoman Empire, active entry Peter’s Russia into international arena put question fate Caucasus among most important problems world politics at that time. Having become one main sources contradictions relations these countries, this region, due to its strategic positions, attracted attention Eur...

This meeting report presents the cutting-edge research that is developing around the waterflea Daphnia, an emerging model system in environmental genomics. Daphnia has been a model species in ecology, toxicology and evolution for many years and is supported by a large community of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and ecotoxicologists. Thanks to new advances in genomics and transciptomics and...