Communication is often conceived of in basically the fol lowing terms. A person has some idea which he or she wants to communicate to a second person. The first person translates that idea into some symbol system which is t ransmit ted through some medium to the receiver. The receiver receives the transmission and translates it into some internal idea. Communication, in this view, is considered...

Online privacy and security notices are rather ineffective: Very few people read them, and those who do find them difficult to understand and remember. How can we create privacy and security notices that are inviting, engaging, comprehensible, and memorable, even for users with dyslexia or a lower literacy level? In this paper, we propose to investigate the use of comics for privacy and securit...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a radically new user interface paradigm, which aims to amplify a user’s sensory perception directly by supplementing computer generated, mostly visual information. Computer graphics elements are superimposed in the user’s field of view. This approach is particularly powerful when trying to aid human users in their everyday activities, and in combination with mobile com...

Dies ist eine Internet-Sonderausgabe des Aufsatzes „Sanskrit as a Medium of Maldivian Buddhism“ von Jost Gippert (2003). Sie sollte nicht zitiert werden. Zitate sind der Originalausgabe in Indische Kultur im Kontext. Rituale, Texte und Ideen aus Indien und der Welt. Festschrift für Klaus Mylius. Hrsg. von Lars Göhler, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005 (Beiträge zur Indologie, 40), 213-220 / 487-488 ...

A technique is described by which a medium composed of fibrinogen suspension, serum, and embryo juice may be made. Fibroblasts grew in this medium about as well as in plasma and embryo juice. A strain of connective tissue in this medium remained practically as active as the control for several passages.

Lead can be an ideal medium for the detection and study of neutrinos. Such a detector may be realized through the use of a lead perchlorate (Pb(ClO4)2 ) solution as a Cerenkov radiator. The basic physical properties of lead perchlorate solution are given and preparation of the solution for use in a Cerenkov detector is described. Results from investigations of light transmission in lead perchlo...