From Noyon to Geneva

Geneva Photometric Passbands from the Natural System

Previous determinations of the passband functions were based on the reduced results of the Geneva photometric system as available in the published catalogs. Initially the Geneva system was deened as a natural (i.e. without nor-malization to zero for a given spectral type) extraatmospheric system. In some cases, however, we need the reduction coeecients for transformation of colors to the primev...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Brucellosis summit in Geneva.

The sixth meeting of the Joint FAD/WHO Expert Committee on Brucellosis, which was held in Geneva from 12to 19 November 1985, received a great deal less publicity than the USA-USSR political summit taking place nearby. Nevertheless, the Committee discussed important worldwide issues affecting human and animal health and reviewed the developments in brucellosis which have occurred since 1970, whe...

Geneva Biomedical Research Institute

In 1980 Mark Ptashne published a review entitled How λ repressor and Cro work followed by another, in 1988, called How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work. The bold — almost, some might feel, naïve — ambition these titles betray is unashamedly the author’s: to generate a coherent picture of how genes are switched on and off. Mark Ptashne’s approach has always been transparent. During gro...

The Geneva Vision System