The article offers an overview of the main approaches to the media and introduces the reader to the most influential media theories. It deals with the historical development of the relationship of media, culture, society, and the public. It traces the development of different notions of culture, their impacts on the media, and their relationships to various conceptions of “the public”. It draws...

Linear regression methods have been applied for decades and are well known and understood (Millionis, A.E. and T.D. Davies, 1994; Robeson, S.M. and D.G. Steyn, 1990; Ryan, W.F. 1995; Shi, J. P. and R.M. Harrison, 1997). However, there are numerous environmental processes that exhibit significant non-linear behaviour. Advances in the field of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in the late 1980s po...

Membranes flex with changes in transmembrane potential as a result of changes in interfacial tension, the Lippman effect. We studied the membrane electromotility of Shaker K(+)-transfected HEK-293 cells in real time by using combined patch-clamp atomic force microscopy. In the voltage range where the channels were closed, Shaker expression had little effect on electromotility relative to wild-t...

A ̄rm's resources are di±cult to identify and imitate. Firms learn about their resources by undertaking real investments and observing the outcomes. The types of real investments a ̄rm will make depends on what the ̄rm is expected to learn from the outcomes of these investments and the real options that are available for it to exploit in the future. We predict that ̄rms will follow a life-cycle...

Head and neck cancer is a disease arising in various organs, including oral cavity, tongue, pharynx, and larynx. Oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common form of head and neck cancer and is the major cause of death among all forms of head and neck cancer globally (Lippman et al., 2005; Parkin et al., 2005; Sudbo and Reith, 2005). In this study, we focused on OSCC, which is ...

CoSync is an on-device software framework for coordinating proximal consumer electronic devices in order to create a synchronized, opportunistic and collaborative device ecology. The CoSync device ecology combines multiple stand-alone devices and controls them opportunistically as if they were one distributed, or diffuse, device at the user’s fingertips. CoSync interconnects these devices witho...

In this thesis, I designed and implemented a program which simulates a television receiver on a workstation. The television receiver is connected to a network called the Media Bank. The Media Bank is a distributed database which is being developed at the MIT Media Laboratory. The program is written in C and runs on the OSF3.2 UNIX operating system. This software package simulates a future telev...

The problem studied in this paper is ultrasound image reconstruction from frequency-domain measurements of the scattered field from an object with contrast in attenuation and sound speed. The case where the object has uniform but unknown contrast in these properties relative to the background is considered. Background clutter is taken into account in a physically realistic manner by considering...

* Contribution No. 1442. t This work was aided by a research grant from the National Heart Institute, of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lippman is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 'Landsteiner, K., The Specificity of Serologial Reactions, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1947. 2 Niven, J. S. F., "The Action of a Cytotoxic Antiserum on Tissue Cultures," J....

We consider some well-known families of two-player zero-sum perfect-information stochastic games played on finite directed graphs. Generalizing and unifying results of Liggett and Lippman, Zwick and Paterson, and Chatterjee and Henzinger, we show that the following tasks are polynomial-time (Turing) equivalent. – Solving stochastic parity games, – Solving simple stochastic games, – Solving stoc...