Practical Directions for making Lantern Transparencies

Making a Magic Lantern, Horror Vacui Data Projector

This paper describes the creative process behind an artwork that combines and projects data in sculptural ways. This projection comes in the form of a reimagined magic lantern device called the Magic Lantern Horror Vacui Data Projector. This device is the result of collaborative glass art and electronic art techniques. Central to the projection system are re-envisaged glass magic lantern slides...

Directions for Class Work in Practical Physiology

Making Practical Markets for Vaccines

This is the fi rst of two articles in the October 2005 issue on ways to create practical markets for vaccines. " I n the time it takes you to read this preface, 100 people will die of diseases that can already be prevented with vaccines, and 150 more will die of malaria, HIV or tuberculosis [1]. " So begins Making Markets for Vaccines, a report from the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Wa...

“Budget Impact Analyses”: a practical policy making tool for drug reimbursement decisions

Increasing accessibility and affordability of healthcare services has been considered as an important policy objective since the beginning of 1980s in Iran. However, current 60- 70% health care out-of-pocket payments create a barrier to an equal access to quality health services, especially in terms of new medicines which affects equity issues and "health" in Iran. Currently, health insurance o...

Accuracy of color scission for spectral transparencies.

When surfaces are overlaid by a transparent filter, color scission refers to the perceptual separation of the colors of the image into the colors of the underlying surface and the color of the overlaying layer. We used filter matching to measure the accuracy of color scission for simulated physical filters and materials. Standard filters were placed on various sets of chromatic materials and ma...