Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace

An Overview of Challenges in Producing and Consuming Transgenic Products

The production and consumption of genetically modified (GM) products are highly controversial due to their environmental, health, and ethical impacts. Most of these disputes are caused by distrust of regulatory authorities, scientists, and technocratic decisions. Among all these concerns, health issues, allergenicity and antibiotic resistance are more important. Many of today's social developme...

Consuming and producing linked open data: the case of OpenCourseWare

Purpose The aim of this paper is to present an initiative of application of the Linked Data principles to promote data interoperability between heterogeneous OpenCourseWare (OCW) repositories and to enhance the search and discovery of contents created and shared by the universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a case study of how Linked Data technologies can be applied for the enh...

Occupational Exposure as a Painter

Paint is a suspension of finely divided pigment particles in a liquid composed of a binder (resin), a volatile solvent or water, and additives that impart special characteristics. The volatile components evaporate from the drying film after application, while the binder holds the pigment in the dry film, causing it to adhere to the substrate. Some high quality, hard gloss paints are referred to...

How a painter paints

Drawing from the seminal definition of the principles of abstract art posed by Wassily Kandinsky in the early years of the twentieth century, and contextualizing that knowledge in contemporary cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the study attempts to arrive at an understanding of how cognitive structure emerges in pragmatic self-observation during the artistic process. Through a...

Evolution: The Progress of a Painter