In the opera Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner reports the poisoning of Tristan and Isolde by a “love potion.” Shortly after ingestion of the potion, the protagonists declare their love, and both die during the opera. The opera has been extensively interpreted by psychoanalysts and musicologists, but, although at least Isolde’s death remains unexplained and might be due to the potion, the medic...

A new concep t in the fo rm of a mobi le sc reen (0 .5 x 0 .4 m) produc ing u l t ra -c lean exponent ia l LAF (a i r f low cent ra l zone 0 .6 m/s and pe r iphera l zone 0 .4 m/s) was inves t iga ted as an addi t ion to convent iona l turbulent /mix ing opera t ing room vent i l a t ion . The evalua t ion was per formed dur ing s t r ic t ly s tandard ised sham opera t ions re f lec t ing cond...

Our objective in this work is to analyze the advantages, limitations, and challenges of a TV soap opera as a tool for communicating issues related to human cloning. Our object of study is O clone (The clone), broadcast by TV Globo, the main channel in Brazil, reaching an audience of approximately 85 million people per day. The methodology we used in our study was an 'exhaustive qualitative meth...

We study the potential of the CNGS beam in constraining the parameter space of a model with three active plus one sterile neutrino such as to explain the LSND results. We perform our analysis using the OPERA detector as a reference (our analysis can be upgraded including a detailed simulation of the ICARUS detector). We point out that the best channel to look for sterile neutrinos at the CNGS b...

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech. This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The "OPERA" hypothesis proposes that such benefits are driven by adaptive plasticity in speech-processing networks, and that this plasticity occurs when five conditions are met. These are: (1) Overlap: there is anatomical overlap in the brai...

Self-organizing neural networks are used for brick finding in OPERA experiment. Self-organizing neural networks and wavelet analysis used for recognition and extraction of car numbers from images.

The OPERA experiment will search for neutrino oscillations using a muon neutrino beam and a hybrid emulsion-scintillator detector. Basic principles, current status and expected performance of the experiment are discussed.

Purpose of Research. The purpose the research is to analyze Andreas Weirich's directing operas «Le Faucon» and «Alcide» by D. Bortniansky on stage Lviv National Opera. Methodology. methodology based an interdisciplinary approach that allows us use knowledge from history music culture, musicology, theatre studies, performing arts, contemporary theatre, etc. To achieve goal research, author has u...

The challenges of maintaining a building such as Sydney Opera House are immense and are dependent upon a vast array of information. The value of information can be enhanced by its currency, accessibility and the ability to correlate data sets (integration of information sources). A building information model correlated to various information sources related to the facility is used as definition...

Modeling the interactivity of conversations recently has gained increasing interest in the telecommunications community, especially with regard to the integration of multimedia applications over packet-based transmission technologies. A quantitative description of interactivity either relies on (subjective) user tests or on instrumental (objective) metrics which use appropriate signal parameter...