: Folklore Genres . Dan Ben-Amos.

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Genres in Action: Negotiating Genres in Practice

In this paper we present the initial findings of a genre based case study at a large Swedish company, with a record of early use of internal email (1982). The design of the particular email system was closely mapped to the organizational hierarchy. One of our informants kept one week of incoming email messages. We then asked questions about each message and how it related to the work of the inf...

Ben Scheres

that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...

Proof Labeling Schemes ∗ Amos Korman

This paper addresses the problem of locally verifying global properties. Several natural questions are studied, such as “how expensive is local verification?” and more specifically “how expensive is local verification compared to computation?” A suitable model is introduced in which these questions are studied in terms of the number of bits a node needs to communicate. In addition, approaches a...

Yang Dan

Yang Dan Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, Berkeley Yang Dan is a Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She grew up in Beijing and studied physics as an undergraduate student at Peking University. She conducted her PhD research in the lab of Mu-ming Poo a...