The purpose of this paper is to promote a discussion about different theories of rationality and models of individual decision making, as well as the role of thresholds in the valuation of environmental management and policy issues. The intent of this paper is to provide some conceptual distinctions between models and theories in order to develop experiments that empirically test one or more of...

A recommendation from Understanding Agriculture (1988) states that, “Beginning in kindergarten and continuing through twelfth grade, all students should receive some systematic instruction about agriculture” (p. 2). The intent of this recommendation was to aid our society in becoming more literate about agriculture. Agricultural literacy suggests that a person understands the food and fiber sys...

This project reconceives part of an ongoing project, comforTABLE, investigating the use of environmental sensing, inference, machine intelligence and distributed robotics to extend the independence and speed the rehabilitation of those maligned by shortand long-term cognitive and physical impairments. comforTABLE asks, how can the environment help you to help yourself? We were charged with reth...

Congress implemented the children’s component of the 551 program in 1974 in recognition that disabled children who live in low-income households are among the most disadvantaged of all Americans and therefore deserve special assistance. The cost of caring for a child with special needs is an especially heavy burden for families with limited resources. The intent of the 551 program is to reduce ...

Context: Software supporting an enterprise’s business, also known as a business support system, needs to support the correlation of activities between actors as well as influence the activities based on knowledge about the value networks in which the enterprise acts. This can be supported with the help of intent-driven systems. The aim of intent-driven systems is to capture stakeholders’ intent...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to global public health campaigns enacting strict orders slow the spread of disease. initiatives were communicated broadly through diverse news sources and social media channels, spreading both factual information misinformation about environmental benefits related shelter-in-place orders. This quantitative study United States residents ( N = 1,048), guided by selectiv...

In this paper we introduce e-Alliance, a software infrastructure we are defining for supporting negotiation activities in concurrent inter-organisational alliances. e-Alliance main intent is to preserve autonomy of organisations within an alliance while enabling concurrency of their activities, flexibility of their negotiations and dynamism/evolution of their environment. The IT infrastructure ...

Most cancer patients are treated with some combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Despite recent advances in local therapy with curative intent, chemotherapeutic treatments for metastatic disease often remain unsatisfying due to severe side effects and incomplete long-term remission. Therefore, the evaluation of novel therapeutic options is of great interest. Conventional, along w...