The article revisits and examines in detail the so-called Ebert debate: an exchange of polemic voices between Roger Ebert, his opponents supporters, on issue relationship – both actual potential games works art. Initiated by Ebert’s famous remarks that can never be art, debate offers a variety views nature role experience art games, possibility artistic expression autonomy main point is not so ...

Always-on media spaces broadcast video between collaborators to provide mutual awareness and to encourage casual interaction. This video can be easily recorded on the fly as a video trace. Ostensibly, people can review this video history to gain a better idea of the activities and availability of their collaborators. Such systems are obviously highly contentious, as they raise significant priva...

Policymaking is both an art and a science. It is a long process of research, debate and consensus (where possible). The elaboration of the Framework for Responsible Sharing of Genomic and Health-Related Data serves as an illustration of this process.

1.0 INTRODUCTION The existence of a universal aesthetic preference has long been a topic of debate. Several years ago, thinking about generative art, I realised that it would be possible to evolve pictures according to the viewer’s personal preference. I also realised that the resulting pictures, if taken from a wide variety of people, might indicate some kind of universal aesthetic preference....

Supporting a proud tradition of excellence in humanities scholarship and teaching, Johns Hopkins University offers students a diverse range of resources and opportunities for the study of art history. Courses are taught by an international faculty of respected research scholars, covering many aspects of the Classical and European tradition from the ancient world into the modern era, as well as ...

To be an entrepreneurial university nowadays seems to be an attractive, convincing, modern vision for many higher education institutions and their leaders. The article goes through reflections on who will say what to whom when using the expression “entrepreneurial university” and it will show that there are at least four debates about entrepreneurial challenges to universities. The first deb...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recent WHO guidelines recommend immediate initiation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) in all children below 5 years, irrespective of immune/clinical status, to improve access to paediatric ART. Interim trial results provide strong evidence for immediate ART during infancy because of high short-term risk of mortality and disease progression, but there is wider debate re...

The author presents the view of science and art as functionally interdependent. Science relies on the imagination of art for new hypotheses; art relies on the critical reasoning of science to awaken the imagination into activity. The author proposes a 'black box' mechanism for the interaction of science and art in the preconscious minds of individuals. The conscious minds of individual scientis...

BACKGROUND In cost-effectiveness analyses in healthcare, Quality-Adjusted Life Years are often used as outcome measure of effectiveness. However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the appropriateness of its use for decision-making in palliative care. AIM To systematically map pros and cons of using the Quality-Adjusted Life Year to inform decisions on resource allocation among palliative ...