Gustav Pfeifer (Hg.), 1317 – Eine Stadt und ihr Recht. Meran im Mittelalter. Una città e il suo diritto. Merano nel Medioevo (Veröffentlichungen des Südtiroler Landesarchivs / Pubblicazioni dell’archivio provinciale di Bolzano 43), Bozen: Athesia 2018. 528 S. ISBN 978-88-6839-331-1. € 39,–

We have retrieved high-resolution UV spectra of 69 hot stars from the HST archive and determined the strengths of the interstellar Ni II absorption features at 1317.217 Å arising from the ground 3d 2D5/2 electronic state to the 3d(G)4p F o 5/2 excited level. We then compared them to absorptions to either the 3d(F )4p D o 5/2 or 3d (P )4p P o 3/2 upper levels occurring at, respectively, λ = 1741...

This paper presents a novel force sensitive structure exploiting a dynamic mode for probing the elastic properties of living cells. A key feature of this structure is the possibility to conduct measurements in liquid environments while keeping high dynamic performances. The structure indeed provides a steady area that can be adapted so that suspension or adherent cells can be placed in culture ...

Multiwaveband images of extended jets in quasars reveal that in some locations electrons reach energies of at least 100 TeV, while in others the particle acceleration is less efficient. The jet of the quasar 1317+520 (z=1.06) contains shocks that are both transverse and oblique to the jet axis as well as regions where the axial magnetic field and polarization indicate cross-jet velocity shear. ...

A portion of this research was undertaken as part of the Ptolemy project, which is supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U. S. Air Force (under the RASSP program, contract F33615-93-C-1317), Semiconductor Research Corporation (project 94-DC-008), National Science Foundation (MIP-9201605), Office of Naval Technology (via Naval Research Laboratories), the State of California ...