Despite its lack of 3-D reality presence, the Web has some particular capabilities which make it of great interest to the museum world. It is both a temporal and a spatial medium. It provides the opportunity to meld imagery, text and interactivity. And it provides for both individual as well as group (albeit distributed) experience. These attributes are similar to those offered by the museum ex...

In the frame of a large project to digitize the plate archives of the Italian and Vatican Astronomical Observatories, we have already performed the digitization of all available plates of the field of the quasar 3C345. The plates, approximately 100, were taken with the three telescopes of the Asiago Observatory (122 cm, 182 cm, 67/90 cm Schmidt Telescope) in the period from 1967 to 1990. We pre...

Current approach to the management of World Heritage sites and associated tourism is not always effective. Indeed, operators Chteau de Versailles, Alhambra, Vatican Palace trade-off visitors’ revenues against damage these sites. We study effective dynamic behavior a firm managing heritage site. In an optimal control model, operator sets pricing conservation policies. benefit from spending on bu...

Following eleven years' work, in 1998 a high-level Vatican commission instituted by Pope John Paul II offered what has become the official position of the Roman Catholic Church denying any responsibility for fomenting the kind of demonization of the Jews that made the Holocaust possible. In a 2001 book, The popes against the Jews, I demonstrated that in fact the church played a major role in le...

This book by a philosophy professor examines the moral, legal, psychological, and sociological impact of reproductive technologies from an orthodox Roman Catholic perspective. Definitions of and positions on marriage and parenthood, procreation, the family, specific assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), and surrogate motherhood are based primarily on teachings and principles contained in t...

It is a great honour to be invited again to a Study Workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the beautiful Casina Pio IV in the Vatican gardens. The first time I was here was in October 1988, participating in the Study Week on the ‘Principles of Design and Operation of the Brain’, organized by the late Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate (cf. Eccles & Creutzfeldt (eds.), Scripta Varia No. ...

Most research on structuration or the appropriation of ICT in organizations has put aside the problem of dyschronies. It has not taken into account the differences in nature, speed, and temporality of changes that co-exist within an organization. To address this limitation, the author of this paper suggests a model based on the theory of practice and neo-institutionalist perspectives, so as to ...