What makes it so attractive to economists to be granted the rank of scientists? What role did political ideologies play in the scientification of economics? How could formal reasoning function so prominently in establishing scientific authority? And how is it that economists today hold considerable power in shaping social discourse although inside the profession the complaints about its irrelev...

The aim of a Software Transactional Memory (STM) is to discharge the programmers from the management of synchronization in multiprocess programs that access concurrent objects. To that end, a STM system provides the programmer with the concept of a transaction. The job of the programmer is to decompose each sequential process the application is made up of into transactions. A transaction is a p...

Recent studies have shed light on the masculine nature of doxa that underpins field photography. Other explored patterns inequity faced by local-foreign photographers in Global South who straddle a transnational photography within which actors from North and collaborate but residual economic symbolic power remain with agents institutions centred North. This study draws upon extends both these l...

Binocular rivalry arises when incompatible images are presented to the two eyes. If the two eyes' conflicting features are invisible, leading to identical perceptual interpretations, does rivalry competition still occur? Here we investigated whether binocular rivalry can be induced from conflicting but invisible spatial patterns. A chromatic grating counterphase flickering at 30 Hz appeared uni...

Perceiving faces is critical for social interaction. Evidence suggests that different neural pathways may be responsible for processing face identity and expression information. By using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we measured brain responses when observers viewed neutral, fearful, and scrambled faces, either visible or rendered invisible through interocular suppression. The r...

Parentheses are included in their host sentences, but at the same time they show unintegrated behavior. This article studies this Janus-faced phenomenon from a syntactic point of view. There are two main parts. The first introduces the term Invisibility for syntactic independence based on the absence of c-command relations, which is a particular way of defining structural independence. A number...

The topic of this conference is Visual languages, but I want to discuss computer programming using a technique where there is no apparent language at all; the language is (mostly) invisible. Here, the user sees the results of the program aecution and the data the program is operating on, but the program itself is not shown. The program is specifcd by demonstrating the operations that should be ...

Surface materials are commonly described by attributes stored in textures (for instance, color, normal, or displacement). Interpolation during texture lookup provides a continuous value field everywhere on the surface, except at the chart boundaries where visible discontinuities appear. We propose a solution to make these seams invisible, while still outputting a standard texture atlas. Our met...

Physical disabled access is something that most cultural institutions such as museums consider very seriously. Indeed, there are normally legal requirements to do so. However, online disabled access is still a relatively novel and developing field. Many cultural organizations have not yet considered the issues in depth and web developers are not necessarily experts either. The interface for web...