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Marta Andersson

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Marta Moita

classic game, Pacman, in which little pacman creatures move around in a maze eating small pellets while being chased by ghosts. The role reversal of predator and prey questions the concept of fear and the illusory triangle emphasises the role of context in the perception of a threat. Drawing by Alexandre Estrela to illustrate Marta Moita’s PhD thesis dissertation ‘Putting fear in its place’. Ma...

Catherine Collins

An integrative review of 121 recent studies on collecting and utilising local ecological knowledge (LEK) for fisheries science and management suggests that insufficient attention is given either to conceptualising LEK or to the critical issue of how LEK is defined. Elements from knowledge management guided the analysis. Résumé : Une revue intégrant 121 études récentes traitant de la collecte et...

Agents That Buy and Sell Pattie Maes

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM March 1999/Vol. 42, No. 3 81 However, the potential of the Internet for transforming commerce is largely unrealized. Electronic purchases are still largely nonautomated. While information about products and vendors is more easily accessible, and orders and payments are dealt with electronically, humans are still in the loop in all stages of the buying process, adding t...

Bruno Zeller