In the emerging world of networked and distributed digital libraries, the Web services framework will be a key to facilitating simple inter-application communication between them. Yet, despite the popularity of Web services in the business sector and their seemingly obvious applicability to the digital library domain, and to MIR in particular, the adoption of these new protocols has not been wi...

The advent of photography and computer graphics has not replaced artists. Imagery generated by artists provides information about objects that may not be readily apparent in photographs or real life. The same goal should apply to computer-generated images. This is the driving force behind non-photorealistic rendering. The term non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is applied to imagery that looks ...

In this paper we reflect on a project called 'Synthetic Aesthetics', which brought together synthetic biologists with artists and designers in paired exchanges. We - the STS researchers on the project - were quickly struck by the similarities between our objectives and those of the artists and designers. We shared interests in forging new collaborations with synthetic biologists, 'opening up' t...

My analysis of nine prints from the collection considers the "crowd" as participants in, as well as witnesses to, the major events of the French Revolution. Descriptions of the revolutionary "crowd" in the images from this selection demonstrate the crowd's capacity to endorse or discredit prevailing political forces. That is, artists portray members of the crowd as either the instigators of pol...

In two sessions with free scanning and memory instructions, eye-movement patterns from nine artists were compared with those of nine artistically untrained participants viewing 16 pictures representing a selection of categories from ordinary scenes to abstraction: 12 pictures were made to accommodate an object-oriented viewing mode (selection of recognisable objects), and a pictorial viewing mo...

I measured preference for paintings (Renoir vs. Picasso or Kandinsky vs. Mondrian) in mice. In general mice did not display a painting preference except for two mice: one preferred Renoir to Picasso, and the other preferred Kandinsky to Mondrian. Thereafter, I examined discrimination of paintings with new mice. When exposure to paintings of one artist was associated with an injection of morphin...

Increased attention is being given to interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, which has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, patient safety, healthcare processes, and health outcomes. As the arts and artists are being more widely incorporated into healthcare settings throughout the world, professional artists are contributing to interprofessional care teams. A secondary directed c...

Professionals can be rewarded in different ways. The most common type of reward is provided by the market, that is, by successfully selling one’s products or services to consumers. In professional fields dealing with the production of knowledge, art, et cetera, market success is usually just one type of reward for professionals and not necessarily the most important one. Especially recognition ...