The transparent citizen – the transparent state

The "Transparent Citizen" in Web 2.0 - Challenges of the "Virtual Striptease"

The wave of indignation at the threat of a “security peepshow” was great when at the beginning of this year the discussion on upgrading airports with body scanners came up again. In many cases, such a commanded exposure was considered to be an unacceptable violation of human dignity. Drawing the attention away from the real to the virtual world, the U.S. market researcher Hitwise reported in Ma...

The importance of being transparent.

In recent years, questions have been raised regarding the failure of some preclinical work to translate to clinical benefit and the inability to reproduce some high-profile studies. While myriad factors contribute to these problems, an important step in improving the integrity of published work is for journals to enforce rigorous reporting of methods and results.

The Transparent Dead Leaves Model

This paper introduces the transparent dead leaves (TDL) random field, a new germ-grain model in which the grains are combined according to a transparency principle. Informally, this model may be seen as the superposition of infinitely many semi-transparent objects. It is therefore of interest in view of the modeling of natural images. Properties of this new model are established and a simulatio...

Transparent Replication

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Transparent animals.