Less talk, more action

Equity in active living for people with disabilities: Less talk and more action.

People with intellectual, developmental, physical, psychiatric and sensory disabilities are often on the fringe of society that disposes them to pockets of isolation living with family members, in supported living facilities funded by local, state and federal agencies, or in low resource communities where access to active living opportunities is limited or nonexistent. In the aggregate, people ...

Medical malpractice: a time for more talk and less rhetoric.

Adaptive Management: From More Talk to Real Action

The challenges currently facing resource managers are large-scale and complex, and demand new approaches to balance development and conservation goals. One approach that shows considerable promise for addressing these challenges is adaptive management, which by now is broadly seen as a natural, intuitive, and potentially effective way to address decision-making in the face of uncertainties. Yet...

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

A Little Less Cogitation, A Little More Action Please

This chapter considers action-oriented processing from a model-oriented standpoint. Possible relationships between action and cognition are reviewed in abstract or conceptual terms. We then turn to models of their interrelationships and role in mediating cognitively enriched behaviors. Examples of theories or models inspired by the actionoriented paradigm are briefl y surveyed, with a particula...