The OPERA experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the muon to tau neutrino channel. The detector is hybrid, being made of an emulsion/lead target and of electronic detectors. It is placed in the CNGS neutrino beam 732 km away from the neutrino source. Runs with CNGS neutrino...

Opera Scelte di Marcello Malpighi, by LUIGI BELLONI (Classici della Scienza, No. 11), Turin, Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1968, pp. 649, illus., L. 9500. Few Italian medical men are of more interest to English readers than Marcello Malpighi because of his intimate relationship with our Royal Society. Luigi Belloni who has for many years concentrated his attention on the rich field of I...

OPERA is a dedicated experiment for the observation of nm into nt oscillations through t appearance using a 730 km long baseline nm beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The detector is equipped with two spectrometers for muon identification and charm background rejection. Bakelite RPCs are used as inner trackers inside the iron magnet of the spectrometers. The experiment has...

to evaluate the effect of various levels of nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen use efficiency and grain yield of canola cultivars, a split plot experiment based on randomized complete block design was conducted in 2007. factors were: nitrogen fertilizer at four levels (zero, 50, 100 and 150 kg/ha) in the main plots and canola cultivars at three levels (‘clover’, ‘opera’ and ‘okape’) in the sub plo...

Sexuality and eroticism are present in all of opera’s interwoven ‘layers’, broadly: drama, music and singing. Interaction with the resulting whole evokes an emotional response in the listener/audience that is erotic in nature. Lacanian psychoanalytic theory pertaining to the gaze and, in particular, the voice provides a useful framework to explore the sexuality and eroticism within and beyond o...

We study the potential of the CNGS beam in constraining the parameter space of a model with one sterile neutrino separated from three active ones by an O(eV) masssquared difference, ∆m sbl . We perform our analysis using the OPERA detector as a reference (our analysis can be upgraded including a detailed simulation of the ICARUS detector). We point out that the channel with the largest potentia...

Shandong art is deeply influenced by Confucianism. As a big province of culture and drama, it has given birth to various kinds operas strong local characteristics. Among operas, dulcimer plays an important role as accompaniment instrument, the primary instrument for many operas. Lv opera Wuyin are two most in Shandong, so this paper summarizes characteristics causes analyzing opera. Finally, so...

In this paper we develop some considerations on multimedia applications, starting from the experience gained by implementing a multimedia representation of an opera theatre: namely the Teatro alla Scala di Milano. After a hyper-realistic approach influenced by current trends in multimedia applications we are now considering a more abstract approach, in order to stimulate the aesthetic experienc...