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Physical Vacuum is a Special Superfluid Medium

"The Medium" Is the Message

It is our position (following Plaice and Kropf [4]) that mathematics and software engineering do not provide a very good basis for understanding communities. These formalisms are necessarily influenced by a mechanical, atomistic outlook which sees collections as arbitrary assemblages of self-sufficient individuals communicating point to point in a vacuum. I suggest instead that ideas of Marshal...

Colour is a Medium as well as a Message

My research is in “physics-based” vision (Wolff et al. 1992; Healey and Jain 1994). Physicsbased vision takes seriously radiometric, as well as geometric, constraints in image analysis. The approach has led to new computational methods to determine scene parameters from images including photometric stereo (Woodham 1980; Woodham 1981) and multiple light source optical flow (Woodham 1990). The id...

What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium

Meredith L. McGill, ‘‘What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium’’ (pp. 156–175) In this essay I show how definitions of the ballad shift as critics take into account not only the place of ballads within the genre system but also the mediation of nineteenthcentury ballads across the full range of popular and elite print formats. Arguing that the ballad is a genre that flourishes wi...

Hypothesis: the epidermal permeability barrier is a porous medium.

The stratum corneum is a complex biological material characterized by very low permeability to water and most other molecules. This material may be thought of as a 'porous medium' composed of impermeable and permeable regions. Intercellular lipid membranes in the stratum corneum are postulated to exist in a mixture of two phases: solid (i.e. impermeable) and liquid crystalline (permeable). The ...