Negative Cultural Policy: Tools, Elements and Analytical Potential

An Analytical Framework for Classifying Software Tools and Systems Dealing with Cultural Heritage Spatio-Temporal Information

Abstract This paper presents an analytical framework for classifying software tools and systems dealing with spatio-temporal information developed for applications in the cultural heritage field. These can be numerous and quite different from one another, depending for the purpose they were developed for. In order to assess if one of the already existing software tools and systems can be used o...

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Sharpening the Health Policy Analytical Rapier; Comment on “The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy”

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Analytical tools for cell research.

The first publication on the subject of this special issue appeared in 1926 [1]. This report described the analysis of halides in ∼1 mL of sap taken from Nitella plant cells. While useful for giant plant cells, the technologies available at that time were not adequate for investigating non-plant cells, including mammalian cells. It was not until 1952, when immortal cell lines became available, ...

Analytical Tools for Natural Algorithms

We introduce an analytical tool to study the convergence of bidirectional multiagent agreement systems and use it to sharpen the analysis of various natural algorithms, including flocking, opinion consensus, and synchronization systems. We also improve classic bounds about colored random walks and discuss the usefulness of algorithmic proofs.