"What About the Audience? What About Them?" : Spectatorship and Cinematic Pleasure

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

What can Hand Movements Tell us about Audience Engagement?

Conventional seated audiences have relatively restricted opportunities for response. Perhaps the most salient is applause but they use their hands to make other visible movements: to fix hair, adjust glasses, scratch ears. The question we address here is whether these apparently incidental movements may provide systematic clues about an audience’s level of engagement with a performance. We inve...

Post nuclear crisis: what about the mucocutaneous problem?

Health problems after a nuclear crisis are aninteresting issue in medicine. After the recentJapanese nuclear crisis, several health issuesunderwent monitoring. There are few considerationson mucocutaneous diseases. Indeed, there is nodoubt that the skin and mucocutaneous issues arethe main organs affected by leaked radiations. It isimportant to take care of mucocutaneous lesionsin acute radiati...

Bad equilibria (and what to do about them)

I begin by arguing that the notion of economic equilibrium is an important analytical tool with which to understand the behaviour of today’s networked computer systems. This is because the behaviours that such systems exhibit are in part a function of the preferences and desires of system participants; this gives such systems the flavour of an economic system. In economics, an equilibrium is a ...

Auditory hallucinations in the population: what do they mean and what should we do about them?

Auditory hallucinations in the population: what do they mean and what should we do about them? Citation Kelleher I. Auditory hallucinations in the population: what do they mean and what should we do about them? Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2016;134(1):3-5.