C.S. Jenkins and Daniel Nolan Introduction A lot of our ordinary theorizing about the world is suffused with disposition talk, broadly construed. We classify things as fragile, explosive, poisonous, and so on. We talk freely of the capacities and abilities of things and people, and indeed we talk explicitly about dispositions (particularly of people) in everyday discourse. We will describe some...

THERE ARE MOMENTS when experience tells you to be less earnest and direct, and a little more Delphic in style. At these times, half ideas can be useful and a little lack of clarity can be effective.

Microscopy images are important in the Life Sciences. These images not only vary in scale but also in modality, making it hard to do image registration. Ontology annotation helps us to link the images, but not all researchers in the Life Sciences are familiar with ontologies. The Cyttron Scientific Image Database for Exchange (CSIDx) presents different tools to help users annotate their images....

Motivation: There exists no way to directly measure the similarity between the content of images. Without the ability to measure similarity, it is impossible to treat images as queryable, searchable, or sortable data. As a result queries for images are typically satisfied by manually searching through all images in the entire image database. To automate this process, new techniques are needed t...