... organizes personal information according to its social context and PiccyChatty that uses social information to infer the relative importance of different information items (both exploit social context). Lastly the chapter discusses Starlight which automatically notifies the user when the deadline...

...The tenth and concluding chapter revisits the classic equation introduced in the first chapter, and wonders whether the terms in the equation could be further specified. Specifically, it asks whether the social context could be further specified. It argues that the brain is continuously evolving...

... Cultural and social context Political economy Economic dependence In 2013, the Chinese government publicly acknowledged the existence of “cancer villages” (clusters of high cancer incidence typically correlated with pollution), feeding a controversy that started in 2001 with the first appearance...

... how the two extreme ends of the treatment continuum, development and delivery, can be optimized to ensure enhanced outcomes. The final perspective is the whole person. This takes into consideration the social context in which these individuals are placed. Overall, the approach offered, with its...

... McKitrick J Affordances Pretense Play social context enactivism Pretending is often conceptualized as an imaginative or symbolic capacity, positing mental representations in its explanation. Traditional explanations hold that pretending is achieved by adding new meaning to the object...

...The seventh chapter argues for the importance of the social context in continuing to influence whether social cognition is engaged or not, and describes a version of the delayed sudden death virus outbreak thought experiment without the death and virus components, set in modern society...

... Income Spending patterns Divorce Saving Taxation Consumption in social context Consumption as pollution Expenditure cascades In a 1978 book, the economist Thomas Schelling posed a question about hockey players, who when left to their own devices almost never wore helmets: Why, in secret votes, did...

... form liquidity money real bills capital flow circular flows Robinson Crusoe economy Dubey P Sahi S G mechanisms rational expectations model enterprise economy determinants of clearinghouses Social context time scales memory evolution. This volume is devoted to the study of control...