Though magnifiers, drawing machines, and cameras have been used in making works of art for a long time, their connection with technique and style has received only passing mention. Yet devices that affect the way we see are bound to affect style in art, since style both reflects and conditions ways of seeing. Everybody's seeing is constantly changing. The hat 1/ that startled at Easter looks no...

We are addressing the problem of creating empathic robot tutors to support school students studying geography topics on a multitouch table. A multi-role serious game Enercities-2 has been developed from an earlier single-user version in which a Mayor, Economist and Environmentalist have control over differing resources. The game explores the tension between individual and collaborative success....

Location based social or geosocial networks (GSNs) have recently emerged as a natural combination of location based services with online social networks: users register their location and activities, share it with friends and achieve special status (e.g., “mayorship” badges) based on aggregate location predicates. Boasting millions of users and tens of daily check-ins, such services pose signif...

The son of a Lithuanian artist, Antanas Mockus was the president of the National University in Colombia before he became mayor of Bogotá in 1995. As mayor, he transformed the city into a huge classroom, not only bringing to his administration a new view of governing but also transforming the way people exercised their citizenship. Mockus resorted to a creative communicative and pedagogical effo...

A meeting in support of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association was held on January 31, at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding. The Association is appealing for ?250,000 to extend the cure for leprosy which is believed to have been found, and also to continue research work. The speakers were Lord Chelmsford, Chairman of the Association, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir Humphrey Rollest...

Actualmente el estudiante de medicina tiene mayor acceso a información por Internet, a la que acude con fines científico-académicos (2), para esto hace uso de recursos disponibles como Pubmed, SciELO, HINARI, LILACS, entre otros; en este estudio se encontró una baja frecuencia del uso de estos recursos y consideran el dominio del inglés como posible factor limitante, respecto a esto, los autore...

The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor term-limit as an instrument...

The small town of Williamson, West Virginia, the "Heart of the Billion Dollar Coal Field" according to the road sign that welcomes incoming visitors was in disarray on a warm, 30°C day in July, 1987. Why? Because a known "AIDS" victim had been swimming in the town pool. The pool manager, a high school teacher, immediately alerted the mayor of Williamson, whom also serves as the town pharmacist....