Where is my car? Examining wayfinding behavior in a parking lot

Car parking is a clinical quality issue.

I know of an NHS organisation with a large team overseeing clinical quality. In an office nearby, a medium sized team focuses on improving the “patient experience.” A small team over the road oversees “patient and public involvement.” It reminds me of Goldilocks and the three bears. More seriously, it reminds me of my mother. During her final 10 years, she had severe depression, deafness, and a...

Where is my URI?

One of the Semantic Web foundations is the possibility to dereference URIs to let applications negotiate their semantic content. However, this exploitation is often infeasible as the availability of such information depends on the reliability of networks, services, and human factors. Moreover, it has been shown that around 90% of the information published as Linked Open Data is available as dat...

Where is my mind?

Do our minds extend beyond our brains? In a series of publications, Mark Rowlands has argued that the correct answer to this question is an affirmative one. According to Rowlands, certain types of operations on bodily and worldly structures should be considered to be proper and literal parts of our cognitive and mental processes. In this article, I present and critically evaluate Rowlands' posi...

From Parking Lot to Paradise.

Reversible polydisperse parking lot model.

We use an improved reversible parking lot model to study the compaction of vibrated polydisperse media. The particle sizes are distributed according to a truncated power law. We introduce a self-consistent desorption mechanism with a hierarchical initialization of the system. In this way, we approach densities close to unity. The final density depends on the polydispersity of the system as well...