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Improvements in Atmosphere Sintering of Transparent PLZT Ceramics: Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 56, No. 9. (1973), pp. 479-480.An improved atmosphere sintering process was developed for fabricating large transparent PLZT plates for electrooptic applications. Cold-pressed 9/85/35 PLZT slugs were sintered in O2 in Pt crucibles for ~45 min at 1180oC and were then heat-treated in air for 60 h at 1200oC in Al2O3 crucibles containing PbZrO3 atmosphere powder. Transparent plates as large as 8.4 cm in diameter and I cm thick were thus fabricated. A mechanism is proposed which qualitatively accounts for the success of this process.

Source: Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 56, No. 9. (1973), pp. 479-480.
Highly dynamic behaviour adaptability through prototypes with subjective multimethods: (2007), pp. 77-88.

Source: (2007), pp. 77-88.
Pet Ownership in the UAE: Its Effect on Allergy and Respiratory Symptoms: Journal of Asthma, Vol. 32, No. 2. (1995), pp. 117-124.The aim of this paper was to study the effect of pets and other domestic animals on bronchial asthma among United Arab Emirates (UAE) schoolchildren aged 6-14 years. A cross-sectiona l study of 850 schoolchildren living in both urban and rural areas (average age 9.36 ± 2.11 years, 46.8% boys and 53.2% girls) was conducted using self-administe red questionnaires between October 1992 and May 1993. Prevalence rate for asthma, rhinitis, wheeze, cough, and eczema in children from families with and without animals were investigated. A total of 40.7% of families studied were found to keep animals in their homes. Children from families with animals were found to have a significantly higher prevalence rate of respiratory symptoms than those without. The prevalence rate for asthma in children with animals was found to be twice that of children without (RR: 2.03; 95% CI: 1.402.95). The risk of having chronic cough (RR: 1.93; 95% CI: 1.213.10), breathlessness /chest tightness (RR: 2.53; 95% CI: 1.594.02), chronic wheeze (RR: 2.10; 95% CI: 1.203.67), allergic rhinitis (RR: 1.53; 95% CI: 1.172.00) was significantly higher in children with animals than in children without. Similarly, the risk of having eczema (RR: 2.55; 95%, CI: 1.743.75) was significantly higher among children with animals than among those without. Overall, there was a highly statistically significant difference in the prevalence of asthma, wheeze, nocturnal cough, eczema, and rhinitis between children in families with animals and those without (p < 0.0001). It is concluded that unlike what is alleged to be known, a large proportion of the national population (40.7%) kept animals at home, and that was an important aggravating factor, which should be considered in the management of asthma in the UAE.

Source: Journal of Asthma, Vol. 32, No. 2. (1995), pp. 117-124.
Attentive display: paintings as attentive user interfaces: (2004), pp. 1127-1130.

Source: (2004), pp. 1127-1130.
Between aesthetics and utility: designing ambient information visualizations: Information Visualization, 2003. INFOVIS 2003. IEEE Symposium on (2003), pp. 233-240.Unlike traditional information visualization, ambient information visualizations reside in the environment of the user rather than on the screen of a desktop computer. Currently, most dynamic information that is displayed in public places consists of text and numbers. We argue that information visualization can be employed to make such dynamic data more useful and appealing. However, visualizations intended for non-desktop spaces will have to both provide valuable information and present an attractive addition to the environment - they must strike a balance between aesthetical appeal and usefulness. To explore this, we designed a real-time visualization of bus departure times and deployed it in a public space, with about 300 potential users. To make the presentation more visually appealing, we took inspiration from a modern abstract artist. The visualization was designed in two passes. First, we did a preliminary version that was presented to and discussed with prospective users. Based on their input, we did a final design. We discuss the lessons learned in designing this and previous ambient information visualizations , including how visual art can be used as a design constraint, and how the choice of information and the placement of the display affect the visualization.

Source: Information Visualization, 2003. INFOVIS 2003. IEEE Symposium on (2003), pp. 233-240.
Perception without attention: results of a new method.: Cognit Psychol, Vol. 24, No. 4. (October 1992), pp. 502-534.Having found by the use of a new method for examining perception without attention that grouping and texture segregation do not seem to occur (see Mack, Tang, Tuma, Kahn, & Rock (1992) Cognitive Psychology, 24, we go on to ask what is perceived without attention using this new method. Our subjects receive only one inattention trial in a sequence of trials involving a visual distraction task. In addition to the distraction task in the inattention trial, subjects received a stimulus of which they had no prior knowledge or expectation and were questioned or tested directly afterward for their perception of that stimulus. Two subsequent trials containing test stimuli serve as within-subject controls. The results of a series of experiments indicate that the presence of one or more stimulus objects and their locations are preattentively perceived, as is their color, but shape is not. Because individual items are detected without attention, we conclude that perceptual organization is initially based on a principle in which connected regions of uniform stimulation are inferred to be discrete units (the principle of uniform connectedness) . One striking, unexpected finding is that without attention many subjects have no awareness at all of the stimulus object, an effect we call inattentional blindness.

Source: Cognit Psychol, Vol. 24, No. 4. (October 1992), pp. 502-534.
Tradeoffs in displaying peripheral information: (2000), pp. 241-248.

Source: (2000), pp. 241-248.
The InfoCanvas: information conveyance through personalized, expressive art: (2001), pp. 305-306.

Source: (2001), pp. 305-306.
ambientROOM: integrating ambient media with architectural space: (1998), pp. 173-174.

Source: (1998), pp. 173-174.
Perception without awareness: perspectives from cognitive psychology.: Cognition, Vol. 79, No. 1-2. (April 2001), pp. 115-134.Four basic approaches that have been used to demonstrate perception without awareness are described. Each approach reflects one of two types of experimental logic and one of two possible methods for controlling awareness. The experimental logic has been either to demonstrate a dissociation between a measure of perception with awareness and a measure that is sensitive to perception without awareness or to demonstrate a qualitative difference between the consequences of perception with and without awareness. Awareness has been controlled either by manipulating the stimulus conditions or by instructing observers on how to distribute their attention. The experimental findings based on all four approaches lead to the same conclusion; namely, stimuli are perceived even when observers are unaware of the stimuli. This conclusion is supported by results of studies in which awareness has been assessed with either objective measures of forced-choice discrimination s or measures based on verbalizations of subjective conscious experiences. Given this solid empirical support for the concept of perception without awareness, a direction for future research studies is to assess the functions of information perceived without awareness in determining what is perceived with awareness. The available evidence suggests that information perceived without awareness both biases what stimuli are perceived with awareness and influences how stimuli perceived with awareness are consciously experienced.

Source: Cognition, Vol. 79, No. 1-2. (April 2001), pp. 115-134.

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