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AUTHOR
A. Stella
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is currently planned for between 2022 and 2024. LOFT is designed to exploit the diagnostics of rapid X-ray flux and spectral variability that directly probe the motion of matter down to distances very close to black holes and neutron stars, as well as the physical state of ultra-dense matter. These primary science goals will be addressed by a payload composed of a Large Area Detector (LAD) and a Wide Field Monitor (WFM). The LAD is a collimated (<1 degree field of view) experiment operating in the energy range 2-50 keV,…
Italian Goat Consortium: a collaborative project to study the Italian caprine biodiversity.
The Italian Goat Consortium (IGC), joined the effort of many Universities and Research Institutes, in a comprehensive study of the Italian goat population genetic makeup using a medium density (54K) SNPs chip. Currently IGC has genotyped more than 1,000 animals from more than 30 goat breeds and populations from all Italian geographical and agroecological areas of goat rearing. The aim of this work is to obtain a clear picture of the Italian caprine biodiversity, to reconstruct the ancestry, to disentangle the genetic background and to assess the relationships among and within the investigated breeds. To date, the IGC dataset includes about 50 million genotypes. The data were quality checked…
Erratum to “Choices of Stent and Cerebral Protection in the Ongoing ACST-2 Trial: A Descriptive Study” (European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (2017) 53(5) (617–625) (S1078588417300424) (10.1016/j.ejvs.2016.12.034))
Due to a miscommunication during the production of this article, the members of the ACST-2 Collaborative Group were not properly indexed in PubMed. This has now been corrected online. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience that this oversight might have caused.