Violetta, Historian Verdi, ‘Sempre libera’ (Violetta), La traviata, Act I (1853)

Should my accountant sing La Traviata at the Met?

The request for this Point / Counterpoint was received on Sept. 6, 2007. It was also the day that Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti died at the age of 71 from advanced pancreatic cancer. One year earlier, Pavarotti had developed resectable pancreatic cancer and underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy, or Whipple resection, in New York. Why did he have his surgery in New York? Well, Pavarotti was...

Verdi Compiler: Final Report

The VERDI fission fragment spectrometer

The VERDI time-of-flight spectrometer is dedicated to measurements of fission product yields and of prompt neutron emission data. Pre-neutron fission-fragment masses will be determined by the double time-of-flight (TOF) technique. For this purpose an excellent time resolution is required. The time of flight of the fragments will be measured by electrostatic mirrors located near the target and t...

The Colin de Verdi

In 1990, Y. Colin de Verdi ere introduced a new graph parameter (G), based on spectral properties of matrices associated with G. He showed that (G) is monotone under taking minors and that planarity of G is characterized by the inequality (G) 3. Recently Lovv asz and Schrijver showed that linkless embeddability of G is characterized by the inequality (G) 4. In this paper we give an overview of ...

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015: Section 11. The ethics of resuscitation and end-of-life decisions.

uropean Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015 ection 11. The ethics of resuscitation and end-of-life decisions eo L. Bossaerta,∗, Gavin D. Perkinsb,c, Helen Askitopouloud,e, Violetta I. Raffay f, obert Greifg, Kirstie L. Haywoodh, Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos i, Jerry P. Nolanj, atrick Van de Voordek,l, Theodoros T. Xanthosm,n, on behalf of The ethics of esuscitation and end-of-li...