The continuing expansion of the visible domain, increasingly including and giving force (and reality) to the creations of our imagination and to formerly inaccessible places and dimensions of our unfolding universe, has produced a radical shift of the shared concepts of time and space. Suddenly, the statement « you are here » has a very different meaning. Thanks to the proliferation and increas...

Class III Semaphorins (SEMA3) comprise a family of chemokines that have been implicated as negative regulators of axonal guidance, angiogenesis and tumor progression. It has been demonstrated previously that one SEMA3, SEMA3F, may have therapeutic potential in the treatment of cancer. When transfected with SEMA3F, the highly metastatic human melanoma cell line A375SM was found to exhibit a high...

The main product of MM for use in the registration activity is the Database (DB) on the artefacts of the museum collections, combining text, images, and graphics. The quality of the images must be appropriate at least to current television standards. The application of such technology will allow the display of images and descriptions on any specific artwork or group of artworks, such as is usua...

We present Museum Detective, a handheld guide designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object displayed within the museum space. Initial analysis revealed that students exhibited a higher level of focused attention and short-term and longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. However, we propose that the Museu...

The project of the Digital Science & Technology Museum of China is constructed by the China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which the objective is to integrate the high quality digital science popularization resources in China to construct an Internet-based national science popularization resources sharing platform. This project ...

Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that has deleterious effect in some autoimmune diseases, which led to the use of anti-TNF drugs in some of these diseases. However, some rare patients treated with these drugs paradoxically develop an aggravation of their disease or new onset autoimmunity, revealing an immunosuppressive facet of TNF. A possible mechanism of thi...

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Hideaki Iida1,∗), Takumi Doi2, Noriyoshi Ishii3, Hideo Suganuma4 and Kyosuke Tsumura5 1YITP, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 2 Dept. of Phys. & Astr., University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506, USA 3CCS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 5Analysis Technology Center, Fujifilm Corporation,...

Innerhalb der Bildungsinstitution Museum entstehen durch den Einsatz von Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) neue Möglichkeiten der Informationsvermittlung. Im Blended Museum wird versucht, virtuelle und reale Präsentationsformen miteinander zu vermischen. Dies ermöglicht hybride Vermittlungsstrategien, die neue und vor allem vielfältigere Besuchererfahrungen erlauben, als dies mit...