This paper reviews the achievements of Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921), an American painter and naturalist whose pioneering writings on animal camouflage addressed shared concerns among artists, zoologists and military tacticians. It discusses his beliefs about camouflage (both natural and military) in the context of his training as an artist, with particular emphasis on three of his major ...

In the emerging world of networked and distributed digital libraries, the Web services framework will be a key to facilitating simple inter-application communication between them. Yet, despite the popularity of Web services in the business sector and their seemingly obvious applicability to the digital library domain, and to MIR in particular, the adoption of these new protocols has not been wi...

An interpretative theory of mind enables young children to grasp that people fulfill varying intentions when making pictures. We tested the hypothesis that in middle childhood a unifunctional conception of artists' intention to produce a picture widens to include artists' intention to display their pictures to others. Children aged between 5 and 10 years viewed a brief video of an artist delibe...

The Honoured Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Kalytko is a citizen small town Kosiv and representative the realistic school painting. painter creates pictures different genres but landscapes prevail among them. This article an attempt to investigate depiction architecture in Kalytko’s landscapes. emphasis made on artistic ethnographical value paintings. General scientific art-based methods investigat...

To maintain a healthy balanced loyalty, whether to art or society, posits a debatable issue. The artist is always on the look out for the potential tension between those two realms. Therefore, one of the most painful dilemmas the artist finds is how to function in a society without sacrificing the aesthetic values of his/her work. In other words, the life-long awareness of failure which derives...

THE CULTURE OF VERTEBRATE EMBRYOS. By D. A. T. New. New York and London, Academic Press, 1966. 245 pp. $14.00. The purpose of this book, as set forth in the introduction, is to describe available methods for the culture of vertebrate embryos and to note some experiments that have been performed on such embryos. It is intended to benefit both the research scientist and the biology teacher; the u...

Cell-cell communication in bacteria is accomplished through the exchange of chemical signal molecules called autoinducers. This process, called quorum sensing, allows bacteria to monitor their environment for the presence of other bacteria and to respond to fluctuations in the number and/or species present by altering particular behaviors. Most quorum-sensing systems are species- or group-speci...

This article focuses on the work Seven Private Skies (initiated in 2009) by Israeli artist, Tsipy Amos Goldstein. is a series of large panels which artist has been painting and embroidering for fourteen years as her main occupation. The aim study was to establish meanings inherent work, kind multi-layered cryptograph, while characterizing it terms creativity. research method combined visual-int...

The artist M.C. Escher was the first artist to create patterns in the hyperbolic plane. He used both the Poincaré disk model and the Poincaré half-plane model of hyperbolic geometry. We discuss some of the theory of hyperbolic patterns and show Escher-inspired designs in both of these models.