On October 5, 2007, a group of antitrust scholars convened on Chicago’s near northside to discuss monopolization law. In the course of their freewheeling but fascinating conversation, a number of broad themes emerged. Those themes can best be understood in contrast to a body of antitrust scholarship that was born six miles to the south, at the University of Chicago. Most notably, the northside ...

This intra-view follows a round-table discussion that took place during the New Materialist Informatics conference on 25 March 2021. The discussants – Indigenous researcher and game designer Outi Laiti, artists researchers Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Femke Snelting Caroline Ward start with their own artistic, academic, creative practices discuss how these relate to otherwise-worldings in computi...

The article is engaged with the question of how viewers Czech reality television programmes negotiate social status low-income participants in online discussions. analysis triggered by an enquiry into practices stigmatisation and processes drawing, maintaining, shifting boundaries between normalised, well-ordered “self” poverty-stricken, socially unacceptable “other”. public judgement people la...

I appreciate very much the comments of the four discussants, as well as those of numerous other individuals who made verbal comments about the paper. The discussants represent a variety of viewpoints in their attitude to Bayesian and frequentist statistics, and in the extent to which they accept decision theory as an appropriate framework for the assessment of statistical procedures. I believe ...

Contrary to Negroponte (1995), we posit the development of a software technology to facilitate the construction of a “Daily Not Me,” i.e., a semi-automated clipping service that, when given a topic (e.g., abortion), will return a range of diverse opinions about the topic (e.g., pro-choice and pro-life) that contradict one’s personal views. In this paper we present some preliminary results towar...

Under the title "Poverty and Public Policy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?" the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held their third national conference to evaluate public policy efforts to address poverty and its concomitants.' The conference, which took place on May 28-...

The panel discussants will present on the outcomes of four recent pragmatic trials covering the spectrum of Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, and meditation as therapeutic approaches for both acute and chronic conditions. The presenters will discuss: (1) a pilot study of a whole-systems Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy intervention for obesity; (2) a comparative effectiveness randomized controlled trial of ha...

Although panel discussants disagreed whether the biodiversity crisis constitutes a mass extinction event, all agreed that current extinction rates are 50-500 times background and are increasing and that the consequences for the future evolution of life are serious. In response to the on-going rapid decline of biomes and homogenization of biotas, the panelists predicted changes in species geogra...

INTRODUCTION This paper follows presentation and publication of the Hoff and Christopher 2009 Critical Review1 and represents an integration of discussants’ views of their paper. The discussants’ comments are organized beginning with a note on the history of satellite sensing, followed with a brief discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of satellite observations relative to air quality mana...