West African Artists at the Venice Biennale

More than just Death in Venice: Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Critical Interventions into Canonical Spaces: Augmented Reality at the 2011 Venice and Istanbul Biennials

In 2011, using the recently developed mobile technology of geolocated augmented reality (AR), the author was the primary organizer of two interventions into art biennials: in Venice together with Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek for our cyberartist group Manifest.AR (Manifest.AR blog 2013) and in Istanbul in collaboration with the Istanbul design team (PATTU 2013). With geolocated AR artists can...

Evaluation of the morphological features of the uterine tubes during postnatal development in West African Dwarf goats (Capra hircus)

The objective of this study was to highlight the postnatal development of the uterine tubes of the West African Dwarf goat from birth to 28 weeks of age by gross examination and light microscopy. There was a caudal migration of the paired uterine tubes from behind the paired kidneys at birth to the pelvic inlet at week 8 of age. Each uterine tube exhibited three segments namely; infundibulum, a...

Science and culture: data visualization nurtures an artistic movement.

In recent years, new ways of visualizing data and networks have had an enormous influence on many areas of research, allowing, for example, thousands of data points to depict clear trends in science citations or genomic patterns. But the impact of these methods has extended beyond areas of scientific inquiry: their aesthetic has also caught the attention of artists, whose work is characterized ...

Prominent Signs of Oestrusin the West African Dwarf Goat

In order to study the signs of œstrus in the West African Dwarf goat, 28 non pregnant females younger than 24 months of age were used. Most of them (94.7%) had waggled the tail during heat. The frequency of micturition was higher in the presence of the male. The swelling of the vulva was observed in 68.4% of goats in heat. The cervico-vaginal mucus was significantly (P≤0.05) abundant and elasti...