When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

There is a potential inconsistency between the experience of story and the process of interaction. Many interactive narratives ask the interactor to switch between an immersive state of immediacy and a hypermediated awareness of process. The paper examines the interactive CDRom Ceremony of Innocence and identifies two design strategies that are used to suture any potential disjuncture. One is t...

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...

Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant brew from the Amazon basin used as part of healing ceremonies by the local indigenous people of the region for centuries, is now being consumed by growing numbers of people throughout the world. Anecdotal evidence and previous research suggest that there are spiritual effects experienced among participants who take part in ayahuasca ceremonies. The current stud...

Chair: Horacio Garda Session: Intracellular Lipid Trafficking Kentaro HANADA (11:30‐12:00) Phosphoregulation of lipid‐transfer proteins: a lesson from the ceramide transfer protein CERT. Antonella DE MATTEIS (12:00‐12:30) The phosphoinositides and the Golgi complex. Enrique POLITI (12:30‐12:50) Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and sphingosine‐1‐phosphate (S1P) promote survival and spatial reorganizat...

Note from Anna B. Reisman, Co-Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System: This issue inaugurates a new feature: selected writings from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghes...

We investigate known security flaws in the context of security ceremonies to gain an understanding of the ceremony analysis process. The term security ceremonies is used to describe a system of protocols and humans which interact for a specific purpose. Security ceremonies and ceremony analysis is an area of research in its infancy, and we explore the basic principles involved to better underst...

Phishing uses both social engineering and technical means to carry out attacks. Therefore, human factors incorrect human trust decisions play an important role in phishing. Many online authentication techniques place a disproportional burden on human abilities. Assumptions made about human-protocol behaviour are often flawed. In our approach we use the concept of a ceremony to analyse and impro...

Human-induced environmental change can affect the evolutionary trajectory of populations. In Mexico, indigenous Zoque people annually introduce barbasco, a fish toxicant, into the Cueva del Azufre to harvest fish during a religious ceremony. Here, we investigated tolerance to barbasco in fish from sites exposed and unexposed to the ritual. We found that barbasco tolerance increases with body si...

OBJECTIVE To survey the use of declarations of ethical commitment made by graduating medical students in Australia and New Zealand. METHODS Information, obtained by email and telephone, from faculty officers of all faculties of medicine (or medicine and health sciences) in Australia and New Zealand. RESULTS Declarations are made by graduating medical students at seven of 12 Australasian fac...