Polis Faaliyetlerinde Gri Alanlar ve Etik

GRI: The Gamma-Ray Imager mission

With the INTEGRAL observatory, ESA has provided a unique tool to the astronomical community revealing hundreds of sources, new classes of objects, extraordinary views of antimatter annihilation in our Galaxy, and fingerprints of recent nucleosynthesis processes. While INTEGRAL provides the global overview over the soft gamma-ray sky, there is a growing need to perform deeper, more focused inves...

Extending POLIS with User-Defined Data Types

Introduction: Sustaining the Life of the Polis

How are publics of protection and care defined in African cities today? The effects of globalization and neo-liberal policies on urban space are well documented. From London to São Paulo, denationalization, privatization, offshoring and cuts in state expenditure are creating enclaves and exclusions, resulting in fragmented, stratified social geographies (see Caldeira 2000; Ong 2006; Harvey 2006...

The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities

Ever since Antiphanes brought on the stage a character, perhaps Comedy herself, complaining that comedy was more difficult to compose than tragedy (fr. 189.17-23 K-A), it has become something of a truism to say that the poets of Old Comedy had at their disposal much richer and less generically restricted literary possibilities than their colleagues working in tragedy. Comments Postprint version...

POLIS : Test of the scan unit

This document contains brief descriptions of recent scientific results and instrument developments. In many cases intermediate results are presented, as well as isolated topics taken from larger projects. The papers are sorted in alphabetical order with respect to the first author.