Make Do and Mend: Exploring Gene Regulation and CRISPR through a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) Residency with the MRG-Grammar Project

Leonardo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dumitriu ◽  
Sarah Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Gene Regulation ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Control

This article documents the artistic research the author undertook for FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) residency. It describes her collaboration with the MRG-Grammar consortium and the creation of an artwork that involved editing the genome of a bacterium using CRISPR to reflect on issues related to antimicrobial resistance, biohacking and control. The article explores the author’s methodology and describes the benefits of long-term embedded residencies to create artworks that are deeply engaged with emerging technologies with a view to enable the public to access the concepts and implications of cutting-edge technologies and scientific research through an artistic lens.

scholarly journals The object of art in science: science communication via art installation

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Rios ◽  
Aquiles Negrete
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Scientific Facts

Science is part of our everyday live; so is art. Some art installations that link the two require the active presence of the spectator. Thereby they help to raise the awareness, promote understanding, and generate an emotional response from the public. This project rests on the public participation model that seeks to explore the connection between art installations and science communication through experiential learning. In order to test the effectiveness of an art installation communicating science two groups were contrasted. The first was exposed to a list of scientific facts; the second participated in the creation of an art installation. The results of this research suggest that art installations do promote long-term fact retention. Therefore, the use of art installations can be considered an interesting method of conveying science in an attractive, reliable, and memorable way.

Algorithms Versus Hive Minds

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Rick Searle
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Control

From the time of its emergence onto the public scene the Internet has been understood in light of both its dystopian potential for total surveillance and control and its utopian possibilities to enable enhanced forms of freedom. This paper argues that these two potentials are deeply interconnected and that the both the field of Technoethics and long term sustainability of democracy itself requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the Infosphere.

Algorithms vs. Hive Minds

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Rick Searle
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
And Control

From the time of its emergence onto the public scene, the internet has been understood in light of both its dystopian potential for total surveillance and control and its utopian possibilities to enable enhanced forms of freedom. The reality has proven far more complicated with the internet having both helped to weaken institutions and strengthened new forms of authoritarian populism. This chapter argues that these two potentials are deeply interconnected and that the long-term sustainability of democracy requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the internet's future.

scholarly journals Epidemiology of COVID-19 and public health restrictions during the first wave of the pandemic in Ireland in 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Conway ◽  
David M Kelly ◽  
Paul Mullane ◽  
Cliodhna Ni Bhuachalla ◽  
Lois O’Connor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Suppression ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Epidemiological Trends ◽  
And Control ◽  
Close Contacts

Abstract Background We describe the epidemiological trends and report and review the public health restrictions implemented during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Methods The study reviewed confirmed cases of COVID-19 notified from 1 March to 18 July 2020. Data were obtained from the national COVID-19 Data Hub, the National Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the National Contact Management Programme and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Results A total of 25 617 cases were notified during the study period. Weekly cases and deaths peaked in mid-April 2020 at 5701 and 316, respectively. Mean number of close contacts per case was lowest at 0.7 in April, rising to 6.6 by July. Outbreak settings shifted from travel and workplace in March, to healthcare in April. Restrictions implemented on 12 March extended to full lockdown on 27 March. Phased relaxation of restrictions commenced 18 May. Effective suppression of community transmission of COVID-19 was achieved by June 2020. Conclusion Lockdown is a crude population-level restriction effective in controlling COVID-19. Phased relaxation of restrictions in Ireland, however, led to an immediate increase in mean number of contacts per case, which facilitates viral transmission unless individual-level restrictions are adhered to. This demonstrates a limitation of lockdown as a long-term mechanism of pandemic control.

Algorithms vs. Hive Minds

2018 ◽  
pp. 275-288
Author(s):  
Rick Searle
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
And Control

From the time of its emergence onto the public scene, the internet has been understood in light of both its dystopian potential for total surveillance and control and its utopian possibilities to enable enhanced forms of freedom. The reality has proven far more complicated with the internet having both helped to weaken institutions and strengthened new forms of authoritarian populism. This chapter argues that these two potentials are deeply interconnected and that the long-term sustainability of democracy requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the internet's future.

scholarly journals Application and development of financial management and control exemplified by the Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Jožef Kabok ◽  
Slobodan Radišić ◽  
Karolina Lendák-Kabók
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
And Control

The system of financial management and control implies a set of controls, which do not only refer to the area of funding, but also to all operational and strategic units, aimed at achieving the defined goals of public sector entities. Successful implementation of the system of financial management and control will enable the compliance of operations of the public funds beneficiaries with positive legal regulations. For the purpose of effective and efficient achievement of objectives of work and activities, the paper analyses the application and development of the system of financial management and control in the Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research. The purpose of this study is to consider the efficiency and effectiveness of the established system of financial management and control, indicating the possibility for improvement of the said system. The study results show that efficient and relevant application of financial management and control is needed in this Provincial administration authority, for the purpose of improving the achievement of objectives of its work and activities, as well as control of legal and specific purpose expenditure of public funds, intended for higher education and scientific research in AP Vojvodina.

scholarly journals Integrating Governance with Benchmarking to Evaluate Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-379
Author(s):  
Antsar Saber Al-Jubouri ◽  
Alaa Waddah Thabet
Keyword(s):  
Management Control ◽  
First Century ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Organizational Reality

Perhaps the most prominent legacy of the twenty-first century of the main topics that emerged from the last century and raised the interest of various companies, researchers and business professionals from the development of the concept of quality from the concept of quality of the final product to the concept of quality for the company as a whole, there is no stage of preparation or delivery of services, The companies in the competition market have to work to improve the level of their performance of market openness and the need for high degrees of efficiency and quality to obtain and achieve satisfaction to companies and review the organizational reality as soon as possible and achieve the acceptable level of performance and to help the Companies in achieving the overall objective of the units in the survival, growth and continuity and maximize the profitability and value of shares of units in the long term, they must raise the level of performance compared with competitors and to identify the gap between performance and performance of companies to identify strengths and weaknesses, and work to improve, Of the rules and behaviors that govern the management of companies achieve a good model of corporate governance aimed at maintaining a balance between owners and management on the one hand and performance and commitment on the other hand away companies from bankruptcy. The reciprocal and complementary relationship between the reference comparison and governance, which includes identifying aspects of focus in all areas and attention at each point, which results in integration among them methods and methods that help management control and control within the set of rules and laws and standards governing the work of companies and achieve the public interest of owners and owners Other interests.

scholarly journals The Hospitaller Background of the Teutonic Order

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 351-375
Author(s):  
Anthony Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Field Hospital ◽  
Compound A ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Senior Officers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Santa Maria

This article examines the foundation in 1190/1191 of a German field hospital outside the walls of Acre during its siege by the Christians studied against a background of Hospitaller affairs in Jerusalem before its loss in 1187. The article relies on contemporary texts rather than the myths which rapidly appeared, while documents issued by the papal chancery suggest misunderstandings of the situation in Syria. The field hospital was the creation of Germans arriving at Acre by sea and overland but its later development inside the walls was, at least partly, conditioned by the long-term mistrust and strife between Romance-speaking and Germanic parties in Jerusalem where the Germans established, at some distance from the main Hospitaller compound, a separate church and hospital dedicated to Santa Maria Alamannorum.  In 1143 the pope adjudicated that the Germans were to be subject to the Hospital but were to be administered by Germans speaking German to those for whom they cared. By 1187 there were Hospitaller brethren and possessions in German lands but Santa Maria Alamannorum seems not to have had its own members or properties there. Those Germans at Acre in 1190/1191 would have known about their Jerusalem hospital but would not have sought an institutional link with it because that would have recognized Hospitaller claims to control them. In 1187 the Hospitaller Master and many brethren were killed and their Jerusalem headquarters was lost; no new Master was elected for some time and control passed to a succession of evidently disoriented senior officers. A new Master Garnier de Nablus reached Acre in June 1191 but by then the Hospitallers' rift with the Germans had hardened. and the Teutonic foundation in Acre successfully maintained its independence. How far the Hospitallers’ mismanagement of the situation eventually limited or impoverished their own order's future in German lands remains incalculable.

Suppressed, but Not Forgotten

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Meier ◽  
Anja König ◽  
Samuel Parak ◽  
Katharina Henke
Keyword(s):  
Memory Trace ◽  
Thought Suppression ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Indirect Test ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Test Experiment ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cue Words ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of thought suppression over a 1-week interval. In two experiments with 80 university students each, we used the think/no-think paradigm in which participants initially learn a list of word pairs (cue-target associations). Then they were presented with some of the cue words again and should either respond with the target word or avoid thinking about it. In the final test phase, their memory for the initially learned cue-target pairs was tested. In Experiment 1, type of memory test was manipulated (i.e., direct vs. indirect). In Experiment 2, type of no-think instructions was manipulated (i.e., suppress vs. substitute). Overall, our results showed poorer memory for no-think and control items compared to think items across all experiments and conditions. Critically, however, more no-think than control items were remembered after the 1-week interval in the direct, but not in the indirect test (Experiment 1) and with thought suppression, but not thought substitution instructions (Experiment 2). We suggest that during thought suppression a brief reactivation of the learned association may lead to reconsolidation of the memory trace and hence to better retrieval of suppressed than control items in the long term.

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