Throughout A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume seems to suggest that some perceptions of the mind have the capability to represent, but he is not completely explicit regarding which perceptions are capable of representing. His account of impressions and ideas leaves some room to speculate about which perceptions can represent, and which possess intentional content: ideas are considered to re...

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...

In language systems that support separate compilation, we often observe that header files are internalized over and over again when the source files that depend on them are compiled. Making a compiler a long-lived server eliminates such redundant processing of header files, thus reducing the compilation time. The paper first describes compilation servers for C-family languages in general, and t...

Intentionally looking bad at work is a type of impression management in which employees purposefully attempt to convey unfavorable impressions. Drawing on the employment experiences of 162 individuals, we documented five forms of such behavior: decreasing performance, not working to potential, withdrawal, displaying a bad attitude, and broadcasting limitations. Motives for managing poor impress...

A range of chemical techniques were utilised for the enhancement of footwear impressions deposited on a variety of fabric types of different colours with urine as a contaminant. A semi-automated stamping device was used to deliver test impressions at a set force to minimise the variability between impressions; multiple impressions were produced and enhanced by each reagent to determine the repe...