The energy dependence of a given process teaches us about the dynamics of this process. If the energy dependence can be described by a Reggetype approach a la Donnachie and Landshoff [1] we call the process soft. The total hadron-proton cross sections dependence on center-of-mass energy exemplifies the behaviour of soft processes.. If the energy dependence can be described by perturbative QCD (...

The Northern Cross radiotelescope in Medicina is being used by the Basic Element for SKA Training project (BEST, Montebugnoli et al. 2006) as test bed for technological developments aimed at the Square Kilometer Array (SKA),within the SKA-Design Studies (SKA-DS) programme. In the framework of these activities, 6 of the 24 East-West arm sections of the original telescope will be refurbished, alo...

Although 1.4 million people speak Northern Khmer in Thailand, they are aware that their language is still in decline. To deal with this threat, native speakers have cooperated with linguists from Mahidol University to work on a community-based research project since 2007. Teaching the Northern Khmer language as a subject in the formal school system was the first project which started at Ban Pho...

Capelin (Mallotus villosus) is a commercially exploited, key forage-fish species found in the boreal waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. We examined the population structure of capelin throughout their range in the Canadian northwest Atlantic Ocean using genetic-based methods. Capelin collected at ten beach and five demersal spawning locations over the period 2002 through 200...

In recent years, major global institutions have amplified their efforts to address intimate partner violence (IPV) against women-a global health and human rights violation affecting 15-71% of reproductive aged women over their lifetimes. Still, some scholars remain concerned about the validity of instruments used for IPV assessment in population-based studies. In this paper, we conducted two va...

The impact of the Mongol invasions of the Middle East has been the subject of extensive research, especially in the last few decades. Scholars have evaluated the damage and the benefits brought by the Mongols to the Islamic world in different fields such as the military, religion, politics, economy and culture. Despite this, in the case of Anatolia, the Mongol period is still under-studied when...

[1] A new three-dimensional seismic model and relocated regional seismicity are used to illuminate the great Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake of December 26, 2004. The earthquake initiated where the incoming Indian Plate lithosphere is warmest and the dip of the WadatiBenioff zone is least steep along the subduction zone extending from the Andaman Trench to the Java Trench. Anomalously high t...