Chen, Andrew H. Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260–1610: Ritual and Experience

1 Play , Art and Ritual on Irc ( Internet Relay Chat )

one of the world's most popular online chat modes. 1 Usually, IRC participants communicate via typed words. In contrast, this group communicates in real time mainly via the display of brilliantly colored visual images created from letters and other typographic symbols on the computer keyboard. Participants gather in a channel (chat room) called #mirc_rainbow, or " rainbow " for short. 2 While a...

Andrew H . Fagg

One of the elusive goals of artificial intelligence is to build machines that can work in symbiotic collaboration with humans. To do so, the machines must learn to perform new skills and to refine old ones from their interaction with humans and with the surrounding environment. My research centers around these symbiotic relationships between humans and machines. Specifically, I study machines a...

Regional Incentives and Patient Cross-Border Mobility: Evidence from the Italian Experience

Background In recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the Tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. We examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Ritual, Symbol, and Experience: Understanding Catholic Worker House Masses

Experience and Experiment in Art