Ubiquitous computing technologies are defining an emerging cultural fabric that is becoming interwoven into everyday life and giving form to ‘digital culture’, through which human meaning and communication derives from the potentials of such technologies. As the pervasive and ambient computing agendas move forward, the possible augmentation of both physical space and the human body with small l...

The tradition of organized protection of cultural heritage has lasted for a century and a half in the territory of today’s Slovenia. The first laws, as well as in other republics of the former common state, were issued at the end of World War II and since then significant activity in this field began to develop. The first bill on the level of the Republic was passed in 1948, followed by the law...

The inability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to survive prolonged transit times and hostile ambient temperatures has made its detection at referral laboratories by cultural methods untenable. In this situation, reliance upon antigen detection systems is attractive but when these tests are performed on vaginal specimens from children, false positive results are a significant concern. Some of the diffi...

consumption of leaded gasoline in iran cause to emit lead compounds in ambient air of gasoline stations and is known to effect on workers health in these locations. the objectives of this study were assessment of ambient lead levels and blood lead levels of gasoline station workers in hamadan city, iran. for this purpose, 82 samples were obtained in ambient air of gasoline station locations. se...

A new method for multi-objective optimization of air quality monitoring systems based on satellite remote sensing of the troposphere is described in this work. The technique uses atmospheric turbidity as surrogate for air pollution loading. Through inverse chemical modeling and ancillary information the respective patterns of primary gaseous and particle pollutants are inferred. The optimizatio...

In this article, I develop an argument about a new type of mediated co-presence termed ‘ambient co-presence’, which is the peripheral, yet intense awareness of distant others made possible through the affordances of ubiquitous media environments. Drawing on a long-term ethnography of UK-based Filipino migrants and their communication practices with their transnational families, I observe the in...

Digital Songlines is an Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) project that is developing protocols, methodologies and toolkits to facilitate the collection, education and sharing of indigenous cultural heritage knowledge. The project explores the areas of effective recording, content management and virtual reality delivery capabilities that are culturally sensitive and involve the indi...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....