The Territories of Artists’ Periodicals

World Medical Periodicals

building which the Admiralty acknowledged: "Though science is much respected by their Lordships and your paper is much esteemed, it is too learned." Young was also appointed as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and Secretary of the Board of Longitude. In this he was unable to satisfy the demands both of the navigators and of the astronomers, incurring the displeasure of both. A bibliograph...

350 Years of Scientific Periodicals.

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...

Pinning Down the Artists ?

There is a wide variety of work being done by artists working both in conventional genres such as Music, Dance and Theatre as well as newly emergent hybrid and innovative forms such as real-time animation and physically distributed and telematic performance. I want to build up a picture both of what technical resources artists are employing – and to what effect technology is being used; what th...

Properties of Scientific Periodicals under Bibliometric Assessment

The methods of bibliometric research of scientific periodicals are studied much better than the properties of periodicals though the latter are the subject of the assessment. Since the properties in most cases are not being evaluated directly, the problem is to identify the intermediate that is DIRECTLY evaluated by a concrete method and to determine, which specific property of a scientific per...