There is an increasing gap between web services and web applications. While web services communicate via typed interfaces (e.g., using WSDL and SOAP), many web applications still rely on untyped, manually programmed forms in the restricted HTML widget set. These limitations cause developers to resort to HTML with client-side scripting, resulting in applications that can be hard to maintain. The...

Traditionally, visualization design assumes that the e↵ectiveness of visualizations is based on how much, and how clearly, data are presented. We argue that visualization requires a more nuanced perspective. Data are not ends in themselves, but means to an end (such as generating knowledge or assisting in decision-making). Focusing on the presentation of data per se can result in situations whe...

This is a short arrangement of notes on D–branes, offered as an embellishment of five lectures which were presented at the 1998 Trieste Spring School entitled “Non–Perturbative Aspects of String Theory and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory”. There is a good number of collections of pedagogical notes on D–branes in the literature, and since space here is limited, no attempt will be made to cover all o...

A popular cultural trend developed in late 18thand 19th-century American mortuary practices. Called “the beautification of death,” this Romantic movement idealized death and heaven through ideological, behavioral, and material transformations. The appearance of mass-produced coffin hardware in archaeological contexts throughout North America may be linked with this popular movement. Archaeologi...

Sandwich beams comprising identical face sheets and a square honeycomb core were manufactured from carbon fiber composite sheets. Analytical expressions were derived for four competing collapse mechanisms of simply supported and clamped sandwich beams in three-point bending: core shear, face microbuckling, face wrinkling, and indentation. Selected geometries of sandwich beams were tested to ill...

Abstract A remarkable feature of the Birgittine monastic Order is its daily use tropes for embellishment an exclusively monophonic liturgy. Ferial were sung in both Mass and Office their purpose was to highlight Marian devotion that central Order’s spirituality. In sisters’ ferial liturgy, so-called Cantus sororum, Benedicamus Domino a notable location provision tropes, which performed at Lauds...