We present Museum Detective, a handheld guide designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object displayed within the museum space. Initial analysis revealed that students exhibited a higher level of focused attention and short-term and longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. However, we propose that the Museu...

The project of the Digital Science & Technology Museum of China is constructed by the China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which the objective is to integrate the high quality digital science popularization resources in China to construct an Internet-based national science popularization resources sharing platform. This project ...

Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that has deleterious effect in some autoimmune diseases, which led to the use of anti-TNF drugs in some of these diseases. However, some rare patients treated with these drugs paradoxically develop an aggravation of their disease or new onset autoimmunity, revealing an immunosuppressive facet of TNF. A possible mechanism of thi...

We report two functional MRI (fMRI) experiments showing sensitivity to human voice in a region of human left inferior prefrontal cortex, pars orbitalis. The voice-enhanced response was observed for speech as well as non-linguistic vocalizations and was stronger for emotional than neutral vocalizations. This region could constitute a human prefrontal auditory domain similar to the one recently i...

otters at the top of the food chain and feeding largely on fish are likely to be especially vulnerable to the effects of bioaccumulating pollutants. this research reports the first data on mercury levels found in hairs of river otters (lutra lutra) from iran. between june and december 2007, we collected museum and recent collections of river otter hair. these samples were collected from several...

The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art. of the Pontificia Universidad Ca Chile has proposed the challenge of developing a Chilean and Latin American Multimedia1 File of Works of Art and Architecture. This archive is a system composed of: Collections of primary information sources: blueprints, slides, documents, videos, and others. A virtual collection. A database which allows the access to re...

Natural history museums provide permanent storage for specimen collections, including non-native species. We extracted the records for specimens and photographs of exotic non-native fishes collected in Japan by experts and citizens at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Japan. The museum began operation in 1994. The records of alien species known to be established in Japan (FSAK...

Hideaki Iida1,∗), Takumi Doi2, Noriyoshi Ishii3, Hideo Suganuma4 and Kyosuke Tsumura5 1YITP, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 2 Dept. of Phys. & Astr., University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506, USA 3CCS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 5Analysis Technology Center, Fujifilm Corporation,...

Innerhalb der Bildungsinstitution Museum entstehen durch den Einsatz von Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) neue Möglichkeiten der Informationsvermittlung. Im Blended Museum wird versucht, virtuelle und reale Präsentationsformen miteinander zu vermischen. Dies ermöglicht hybride Vermittlungsstrategien, die neue und vor allem vielfältigere Besuchererfahrungen erlauben, als dies mit...