GTH 2021: simply online … worth experiencing

Worth A Thousand Words — Online Ethnography By Jerry

Traditional ethnography, as applied to marketing research, involves the analyst spending time observing the consumer in her natural lair, so to speak, as she goes about buying and using a product or service. But ethnography doesn’t stop there. The observation of target consumers is almost always accompanied by depth interviews, during or after the observation phase. So, ethnography is actually ...

What Is Not Available Online Is Not Worth Reading?

This short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists...

A Parallel Implementation of theBlock - GTH algorithm

The GTH algorithm is a very accurate direct method for nding the stationary distribution of a nite-state, discrete time, irreducible Markov chain. O'Leary and Wu developed the block-GTH algorithm and successfully demonstrated the eeciency of the algorithm on vector pipeline machines and on workstations with cache memory. In this paper, we discuss the parallel implementation of the block-GTH alg...

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

Experiencing God

Some philosophers claim that it is not possible for God, if God exists, to figure in the phenomenological content of experience. W.T. Stace was one such philosopher committed to this claim, but he offered nothing in the way of an argument for it. William Forgie, however, has argued that on the assumption of two putatively plausible theses about the phenomenology of experience, phenomenologicall...