Maps can be represented as being road intersections which are connected together using roads. This representation is effectively a mathematical graph which is a set of nodes (points) that are connected by edges (lines). Consider Valletta city which is mostly grid-like and looks like a net. Republic Street on its own looks like a chain with every
A young Maltese scientist helped operate the world’s largest particle accelerator during its final days before it was switched off for a major upgrade. Maria Aquilina, a 26-year-old University of Malta PhD student based at CERN, was part of an international team carrying out some of the last measurements on the Large Hadron Collider. “It was the honour
An international research team, including the present author from the Queen Mary University of London Medical School Malta Campus ( QMUL ), in Victoria, Gozo, has cast doubt on the traditional account of how Baroque painter Olivio Sozzi (1690-1765) died. Sozzi, celebrated for frescoes across southeastern Sicily, was long believed to have fallen fatally
The Fourier transform is a mathematical tool that takes a complex, messy signal and breaks it down into its individual, pure frequencies, much like separating a blended smoothie back into its original, distinct fruit ingredients. A simple smoothie could be made up from banana and strawberries. In a similar way, a compound signal could be made up of
An article entitled ‘Exploring the multifaceted roles of social robots in early childhood literacy lessons: Insights from Maltese classrooms’, by the present author together with Claire Bonello and Natalia I. Kucirkova, was recently published in the International Journal of Social Robotics . It reports on a study in Maltese early childhood classrooms
