She was involved in a scandal involving a drug called Cronassial, a pharmaceutical industry called Fidia and the Nobel committee.
Through various donations, Fidia (at the time a small pharmaceutical company) used the scientist from 1975 onwards to market a new panacea drug called Cronassial (which was banned in the Nineties across Europe as it was linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome and possibly because of the human spongiform encephalopathy scare).
The drug was approved thanks to the corrupt hand of Duilio Poggiolini (with the ministry of health) who was finally arrested in 1993.
Fidia's "collaboration" with the scientist culminated in 1986 with the Nobel prize, for which Fidia seems to have corrupted at least one of the committee members with 8 million dollars [1], fact that came out during the Italian corruption trials in the first part of the Nineties.
It seems that Fidia's revenue jumped a 1000 folds thanks to Cronassial, apparently from 600 million Lire to 420 billion, with the drug representing 82% of the revenue, but I wasn't able to find a source for that.
It's quite unfortunate Levi-Montalcini never came clean of this scandal, refusing to comment on anything related to Cronassial and claiming ignorance of the facts.
Disappointing as all this might be, NGF is a great discovery which is well worth a Nobel prize and she seems to have been a very good scientist too.
1) Nilsson M.
Nobel committee refutes allegations of corruption.
Lancet 1995; 346: 763-4.
I have always thought the point of this kind of questions is that as a candidate you are supposed to provide the right answer which you are expected to provide despite all the ambiguities.
This, I guess, should measure some kind of broader intelligence which overthinkers might lack.
I tend to use document.forms['foo'].elements['bar'], here's why:
I use the elements collection because the behaviour of adding each input as a property to the parent form element is a mistake.
I use the bracket notation because it highlights the difference between the implementation symbols and the actual data which is being manipulated. What I mean is that I see a property specified with the dot notation on the same level as an identifier and as such its name is just to remind us humans of its purpose, whereas a property accessed using bracket notation is important both to us and to the program since it specifies a data point.
Yes, I probably wasn't very clear: what I meant is that a programmer writing a function somewhere in a program must have a complete knowledge of the scope where the function is and will be in the future, including changes in global variables exposed by the interpreter/browser.
In the end I would find me forced to add a prefix to all the variables in order to avoid collisions, just like I would be forced to do, if the language only had a single global scope.
This behaviour seems quite unreasonable to me, but I haven't been able to find explanations about it, other than it's expected behaviour.
I really don't understand why this isn't being fixed: doesn't global by default break encapsulation?
I'm probably missing something, but this is the main reason I haven't tried coffeescript yet.
After reading "A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves"[1] I am unable to see any malice in this sort of things.
The faith people on the other side of the Atlantic put in strangers astonishes me every time. Leaving the keys to your car inside the car, leaving the front door open go against the most basic sense of responsability I've been taught, to the point that I feel uneasy the whole travel when I have to leave the car unlocked while on a ferry boat.
L'occasione fa l'uomo ladro - Opportunity makes a thief
actually, the script doesn't make any sense because it would be executed as soon as the browser is idling, that is after it has rendered the dom completely, that is when the DOMContentLoaded event fires.
The right way to run a script right after an element has been created is to place the script right after the element closing tag.
You still can use it for setting late binding event handlers though.
It seems that Fidia's revenue jumped a 1000 folds thanks to Cronassial, apparently from 600 million Lire to 420 billion, with the drug representing 82% of the revenue, but I wasn't able to find a source for that.
It's quite unfortunate Levi-Montalcini never came clean of this scandal, refusing to comment on anything related to Cronassial and claiming ignorance of the facts.
Disappointing as all this might be, NGF is a great discovery which is well worth a Nobel prize and she seems to have been a very good scientist too.
1) Nilsson M. Nobel committee refutes allegations of corruption. Lancet 1995; 346: 763-4.