David Carrier. Review of "Video Art" by Michael Rush.

Video Art, Liminality, Mysticism

Liminality is a concept introduced by Victor Turner in the field of anthropology. According to him, myths can be designated as liminal phenomena which are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between. Bill Viola is a video artist who has represented universal and pivotal dualities in his work, in a symbolic manner. The questions that this study tries to answer are as follows: What is th...

Ana Cardoso , David Jolley , Ann Regan , Michael Tapley .

Sir, The recent report on ‘Acute appendicitis and Schistosomiasis’ is very interesting.1 Figueiredo et al noted for ‘possibility of finding more patients with concurrent appendicitis and schistosomiasis’.1 In fact, the parasitic acute appendicitis is not an uncommon problem in the tropical world. According to the recent report by Jada et al, it was reported that ‘among 100 specimens, 48 faecoli...

A State-of-the-art Review on Multimodal Video Indexing

Efficient and effective handling of video documents depends on the availability of indexes. Manual indexing is unfeasible for large video collections. Effective indexing requires a multimodal approach in which either the most appropriate modality is selected or the different modalities are used in collaborative fashion. In this paper we focus on the similarities and differences between the moda...

Change Through Persuasion by David A . Garvin and Michael A . Roberto

Review of "Electrical Impedance Tomography" Edited by David S. Holder

As implied by its name, electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is to reconstruct an impedance distribution in an object of interest from electrical measurement on the boundary of the object. Because of its non-invasiveness, portability and practical utilities, EIT has been actively studied since 1970s and led to many useful and inspiring results. There are already two books on this subject. One ...