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Loquendo Announces Successful Conclusion of LUNA Project
Speech technologies provider, Loquendo , has announced that the three-year LUNA project - a European Union sponsored initiative - has concluded successfully.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
Evidence for a spinodal limit of amorphous excitations in glassy systems
What is the origin of the sharp slowdown displayed by glassy systems? Physical common sense suggests there must be a concomitant growing correlation length, but finding this length has been nontrivial.
Champagne isn't all that sparkles
Bubbly doesn't have to cost a lot this holiday season- especially if you don't limit your celebrations to champagne.
Formal Ontology and Information Systems
CiteSeerX Beta Abstract Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community, and its importance is being recognized in a multiplicity of research fields and application areas, including knowledge engineering, database design and integration, information retrieval and extraction.
Trento, December 8 - Italy's oldest pilot presented his WWII memoirs in this northern Italian city Tuesday a year after renewing his license to keep him flying until he's 104.
As the old saying goes, "The devil is in the details." But according to the Catholic church of yore, he's also in "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "West Side Story," and the theme to "The Simpsons." If the 50-year transition from swing to hip hop by way of rock n' roll didn't hep you to the relentless churn of popular music, try upping the historical ...
Mussolinia s tragic first wife on film
Vincere , the latest feature by veteran Italian director Marco Bellocchio , is about Ida Dalser, the first wife of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini .
Essl Museum Invites Ten International Museums to Take Part in Exhibition Project
Sarah Morris, 1972 [Rings], 2006. Household gloss paint on canvas, 289 x 578 cm.
From Pisgat Ze'ev to pisgat Africa
Not many families have lit Shabbat candles and made kiddush at an altitude of 3,000 meters midway up Mount Kilimanjaro, known as "the Roof of Africa." But the Drucker family, a modern-Orthodox family from Pisgat Ze'ev, did just that.
Cycle routes, canyons and Tibetan bridges in the Dolomites
During a rare browsing session in a Borders bookstore I noticed that Lonely Planet has published a book on cycling in Italy [and one on cycling in France]. I picked it up and turned to the section on the Dolomites, not expecting to find very much.
Neurobiology Looks To Shed Light On Vision, Art
If you ask a child how they see, they say they open their eyes. Simple enough. But what if you ask the child what's going on in the eye? It's a far more complex question, says Bevil R. Conway, a visiting lecturer in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and in trying to answer it, researchers like Conway hope to provide a window into the ...
Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution
Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV , and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where I live .
Estimation of grassland biophysical parameters using hyperspectral...
Estimation of grassland biophysical parameters using hyperspectral reflectance for fire risk map prediction D. Gianelle A , C , L. Vescovo A and F. Mason B A IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach, Environment and Natural Resources Area, San Michele alla TMAdige, I-38040 Trento, Italy.
Iranian director Sadr-Ameli honored at Italy's Religion Today Festival
Iranian filmmaker Rasoul Sadr-Ameli has won a special award for "Every Night, Loneliness" at the 12th Religion Today Film Festival.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
Harmonic damped oscillators with feedback: a Langevin study
We consider a system in direct contact with a thermal reservoir and which, if left unperturbed, is well described by a memory-less equilibrium Langevin equation of the second order in the time coordinate.
On-chip single photon sources using planar photonic crystals and single quantum dots
A theoretical framework is presented that allows one to connect to a wide range of quantum light propagation effects in a physically intuitive and straightforward way.
Methods for labeling error detection in microarrays based on the...
The mislabeled samples deteriorate supervised learning procedures. The LOOE-sensitivity algorithm is an approach for mislabeled sample detection for microarray based on data perturbation.
Architect Renzo Piano Charms Press at Cersaie with Below the Belt Humor
So it's easy to fall for the Italian charm of Renzo Piano . Though maybe my crush began when I wrote about his super green California Academy of Sciences way back in 2006.
Connie Berti's golden pot of tradition
When it's time for a special family dinner, Connie Berti makes a dish that takes a family to cook.
Abergavenny-born woman dies in Italy crash
THE devastated family of a former Abergavenny woman who died following a motorbike crash in Italy described her as caring, popular and determined.
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