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...

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

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...

Providing engaging interpretation resources for museum and gallery visitors may have a great impact on the overall museum visiting experience all by assisting museums maintain long-term relationships with their public. This paper focuses on the ways through which AR can be employed in museum and gallery settings as an interpretation medium. It also introduces a new generation of multimedia guid...

Following some museum related papers presented at the conference, the panel discussed the challenges of IT museum projects in different Nordic countries. The panel provided examples on individual museum projects as well as university based models and IT related exhibitions in regional museum institution. The panel focused on questions on preserving and presenting hardware and software as well a...

Past years have seen the exploitation of multimedia techniques and lately the introduction of virtual reality methods to create new forms of presentation for museums' exhibitions. Virtual Reality can offer a number of advantages to museums, offering a way to overcome some common problems like the lack of space or the need of visitors to interact with the exhibits. A broad categorisation of virt...

† The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom ‡ Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria § National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria | Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands ¶ Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutionsund Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany # Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France †† Chica...

The museum offers a starting point from which to examine the fundamental nature of collaborative work and interdisciplinary scholarship. This article examines the socio-technological impact of introducing advanced information technology into the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It addresses the implementation of such methodologies as computer...