The encounter of amateur science with synthetic biology has led to the formation of several amateur/do-it-yourself biology (DIYBio) groups worldwide. Although media outlets covered DIYBio events, most seemed only to highlight the hope, hype, and horror of what DIYBio would do in the future. Here, we analyze the European amateur biology movement to find out who they are, what they aim for and ho...

We address the issue of sustainability of practice, which we regard as crucial for the sustainability of the community at large. In the absence of material reward, sustaining a specialized activity such as programming is not trivial especially when members move often in and out of the community. Our case is the group of voluntary, amateur student programmers from a European-wide student organiz...

Existing methods for white balancing photographs tend to rely on skilled interaction from the user, which is prohibitive for most amateur photographers. We propose a minimal interaction system for white balancing photographs that contain humans. Many of the pictures taken by amateur photographers fall into this category. Our system matches a user-selected patch of skin in a photograph to an ent...

Since its emergence as a respectable scientific discipline nearly a half century ago, the electromagnetic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been dominated by three classes of practitioners: government agencies, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations surviving on a combination of private contributions and research grants. Recent technological advances have brought ...

translating and translation are transformed with information and communication technology (ict). within three decades, a new work environment is shaking up the translator’s world. new types of translators are emerging. the balance between supply and demand is changing. however, we need adequate tools and methods to investigate the new hierarchy which has become established between translators, ...

In 2005, Germany introduced a new Amateur Radio Ordinance prohibiting encrypted radio traffic at home. Crypto-bans can be circumvented using steganography. However, present steganographic methods are not eligible because the embedded message will not survive the usual distortions in a radio transmission. Robust as current watermarking methods are, they leave clearly detectable traces and have a...

BACKGROUND Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is predominant in young male athletes, but not much is known about gait differences in cases of increased hip alpha angles. In our study, the hip alpha angle of Nötzli of soccer players was quantified on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with axial oblique sequences. The aim of the current study was to compare the rearfoot motion and pla...

This essay is in two parts. The first part specifically about colonial era amateur film, a large amount of which I had worked on as my research for the Colonial Film: Moving Images British Empire project.11 www.colonialfilm.org.uk second attempts to think some fundamental properties film such, and indicate problems that arise from consideration or private material. During Film project, came be ...