This article raises issues concerning popular representations of science, and in particular of scientific controversy, through a caw-study of the treatmnt of food poisoning controversy in a museum exhibition. It is argued that the science that is created for the public is shaped not only by the overt intentions of the exhibition makers but also by constraints inherent in structural aspects of t...

results higher levels of stress were due to the fear of being infected by hiv and hepatitis patients with mean of 3.2 and 58%; and lack of weekends with mean of 3 and 44%. the lowest levels of stress were related to inadequate skills with mean of 2.18 and 32%, and environment light with mean of 2.14 and 34.7%. stress was significantly related to job status, conflict of doctors and nurses as wel...

The activities described here form part of an extensive programme in place in the Região Arqueológica de Central, state of Bahia, Brazil. After malacological and socio-environmental surveys in the area, a strategy comprising formal and non-formal education with an emphasis on schistosomiasis prevention was developed, introduced, and evaluated. Interviews were conducted of 142 students and 11 te...

Most cultural heritage exhibitions, both indoor and outdoor, could benefit from context-aware and personalized museum guides. Although, technological advancements in digitization, digital storage, visualisation and interaction have evolved rapidly, the current generation of museum exhibition and mobile guides offer systems with restricted capabilities and content, for example user selected audi...

There has a been a good deal of debate about the possible use of exhibitions in disseminating research, as an alternative to conventional text papers where artefacts have a significant role in the research The European Academy of Design has been a pioneer in this area but, so far, there has been little documentation of this practice or constructive reflection to support future development. The ...

The present paper attempts to discuss the practices of virtual exhibitions covering topics that were not taken into account a decade ago. Topics such as the effort involved in creating an online exhibition, which also affects the time, costs and human resources that are not always available in memory institutions of middle and small size. The best online exhibitions that enjoy international awa...

In this paper, we propose an augmented reality application for museum exhibitions using natural features instead of calibrated fiducials to recognize paintings and recover their pose. The proposed system utilizes an adapted Multiple View Kernel Projection (MVKP), which combines a multiple view training stage for geometric invariance and kernel projection based on Walsh-Hadamard kernels for feat...