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detectRUNS is a R package for the detection of runs of homozygosity (ROH/ROHom) and of heterozygosity (ROHet, a.k.a. “heterozygosity-rich regions”) in diploid genomes. ROH/ROHom were first studied in humans (e.g. McQuillan et al. 2008) and rapidly found applications not only in human genetics abut also in animal genetics (e.g. Ferencakovic et al., 2011, in Bos taurus). More recently, the idea of looking also at “runs of heterozygosity” (ROHet or, more appropriately, “heterozygosity-rich regions”) has been proposed (Wiliams et al. 2016).

Issue 21 of The Interpreters’ Newsletter is dedicated to the history of interpreting, a field of Interpreting Studies gaining increasing attention in recent years, testifying a renewed interest in how interpreting developed, in the role it played in the past and the contribution interpreters gave to the evolution of intercultural encounters and exchanges. The positive and sometimes negative role interpreters played in historic circumstances may induce a more comprehensive reflection on the role interpreters may play nowadays. The volume is composed by seven papers dealing with interpreters and their acitivities in different times and regions. Baigorri-Jalon’s contribution opens the paper collection and centers on Georges Rabinovitch’s, UN chief interpreter since 1947 using different sources for his research: conventional history records, digital or physical, personal interviews and photographic image-analysis; conference interpreting in Estonia at the time of the Soviet occupation is examined by Sibul. Kieslich’s contribution is a microhistory case study investigating the assignment and working conditions of professional interpreters at the Eleventh International Penal and Penitentiary Congress held in Berlin in August 1935. The paper by Garry Mullender deals with interpreters and interpreting during the Portuguese voyages of discovery and in Portuguese India. The roles of interpreters in the relations among Indians and English-speaking European-Americans in nineteenth century, with special reference to interpreting during negotiations with the Sioux is the object of Brambilla’s contribution. Anne Leahy’s contribution centers on signed language interpreting in a legal setting. The author analyses the proceedings of the so called “Ruston’s case” which took place in the London Central Criminal Court in 1786. Sign language interpreting is also the object of Jane Kellett’s paper. The author develops the relationship between sign language and education highlighting the beginning of the use of sign language in the education of deaf pupils.

he present issue of the Working Papers series of the Dipartimento di Economia Politica at Milano- Bicocca reproduces the contributions presented at the mid-year ESHET Conference which took place at the Universities of Pavia and Milano-Bicocca on 16 and 17 November 2001. The program was arranged jointly by Gianni Vaggi and Pier Luigi Porta and the Conference was jointly organised by ESHET with the Department of Political Economy and Quantitative Methods of the University of Pavia and the Department of Political Economy of the University of Milano-Bicocca. The idea around which the Conference was built referred basically to Luigi Pasinetti’s conception of structural change and structural dynamics in a history-of-thought perspective. Luigi Pasinetti, Eshet’s first President, opened the Conference at the University of Pavia. The program included two sessions taking half a day each: the opening session was in Pavia on 16 November 2001 and the final session in Milan the 17 November. Luigi Pasinetti chaired the session held at the University of Pavia and Andrew Skinner was the chairman in Milan.