World Upside-Down: The Carnivalesque Studio in Entre visillos

The World Turned Upside Down: IS Research in Difficult Terrain

British troops surrendering at Yorktown, Virginia in October of 1781 reportedly marched to the 17th century English song “The World Turned Upside Down.”2 Government embodied in the United States and built on the tradition of English Common Law changed the world over subsequent generations. The deceptively simple Enlightenment notion of the “consent of the governed” required majority rule, but t...

Turning The Partial-Closed World Assumption Upside Down

The partial-closed world setting provides an intermediate ground between open-world and closed-world settings. Previous work on the partial-closed world assumption assumes that incompleteness is the default, i.e., that databases in general can be incomplete, and are only definitely complete in specified parts. In this work we turn this assumption around, and study databases where completeness i...

Ecology: The Upside-Down World of Coral Reef Predators

Examination of a large aggregation of sharks demonstrates that trophic pyramids with greater amounts of high-level predators than prey can occur on coral reefs. This is possible because the high-level predators obtain food from sources outside their home location.

Turning the World Upside Down to Understand Perceived Transparency

Specular surfaces and refractive media are difficult to distinguish from each other because they both generate distorted images of the surrounding lighting environment. Whereas convex refractive objects invert the orientation of the horizon so the sky appears beneath the ground plane, convex specular surfaces preserve the orientation of the horizon so the sky appears above the ground. Here, we ...

Management of suicidal behaviour: is the world upside down?