Expansive personal space: Distance between personal belongings reflects the interpersonal distance of their owners

Children’s Personal Distance and Their Empathy: Indices of Interpersonal Closeness

Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr Janet Strayer, Psychology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. Email: strayer6sfu.ca This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We would like to express our thanks to the parents, teachers, children, and best friends whose participation made this project possible.

Mobile phones carry the personal microbiome of their owners

Most people on the planet own mobile phones, and these devices are increasingly being utilized to gather data relevant to our personal health, behavior, and environment. During an educational workshop, we investigated the utility of mobile phones to gather data about the personal microbiome - the collection of microorganisms associated with the personal effects of an individual. We characterize...

Destroyal of the personal belongings of the deceased

Personal Agents in Distance Learning Systems

Personal agents are proactive and adaptable intelligent agents that meet the demands of individuals. This kind of agents develops a user's profile and, basing on that profile, performs tasks instead of the user. The usage of personal agents can be a high quality solution for solving the problem of heterogeneity of information systems users and for avoiding information overload, and hence offers...

Scheduled service versus personal transportation: The role of distance

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: L13 L2 L93 Keywords: Short-haul routes Long-haul routes Flight frequency Distance This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between frequency of scheduled transportation services and their substitutability with personal transportation (using distance as a proxy). We study the interaction between a monopoly firm providi...