The Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection (MYSTIC) Program was a global, longitudinal antimicrobial resistance surveillance network of more than 100 medical centers worldwide monitoring the susceptibility of meropenem and selected other broad-spectrum comparator agents. In 1999, and from 2000 through 2008, a total of 10 or 15 United States (USA) medical centers each forwar...

The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Coy-B, a robot designed for a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the German artist share...

The paper provides an overview of literary studies focusing on the work Vasyl Stefanyk, in which reception short stories draws vocabulary from different visual arts. In their efforts to unravel secrets writer’s style, scholars often consciously or intuitively compare his artistic style other arts, using toolkit. Stepan Smal-Stotsky, Olha Kobylianska, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Bohdan Lepky, A...

In this article, author and artist Meena Murugesan analyzes their creative process research in the making of Dravidian Futurities, a multi-channel video installation with live performance. Methodologies auto-ethnography, visual aesthetics, embodied movement practices, Tamil historiographies, queer futurities, caste analysis, poetics are applied to treat issues at hand. Futurities draws connecti...

h, Jacopo, if you had my drawing and I had your color, I would defy the devil himself to enable Tit-ian, Raphael, and the rest to make any show beside us, " exclaimed Tintoretto as he discussed contemporary painting with his friend Jacopo da Ponte, known as Bassano for his hometown Bassano del Grappa, near Venice. At the foot of the Alps and surrounded by chestnut woods, this small town once on...

f this world lasts for a million years or two million years, or more, never can you exhaust the subject matter of humanity and nature, " said Charles Burchfi eld regarding his source of inspiration. " I don't know how much time I've got left, but I'd like to have at least another lifetime… to say what I want to say about nature. " This fascination began during the artist's childhood in Salem, O...

ion gets to work on a basis of primary intuitions, and with it a new categorial act-character emerges, in which a new style of objectivity becomes apparant, an objectivity which can only become apparent whether given as 'real' or as 'merely imagined' in just such a founded act. Naturally I do not here mean abstraction merely in the sense of setting-in-relief of some dependent moment in a sensib...

Despite a contemporary milieu that emphasises fluidities across gender boundaries and shifting roles, the 75 respondents in the study that informs this paper presented their food auto/biographies as a type of transformation narrative heavily influenced by the continued intersectionalities of gender and class. Respondents utilised ‘common vocabularies’ (Mills 1959) and conformed to cultural scri...

As Foundation Fieldbus becomes more widely used for the development of process control solutions, the limitations of having a standard, fixed vocabulary of function blocks will become more obvious to control system engineers. To help mitigate this problem, I intend to develop a way to safely specify arbitrary control logic within the dataflow based framework of the Foundation Fieldbus Function ...