The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate relationship between global financial markets, everyday life and human labour. Taking seriously the materiality of mortgage contracts as a means of forging new embodied practices of financialisation, we urge f...

Adjustable rate mortgages and the downturn in the California housing market caused a 300% increase in notices of delinquency in Bakersfield, Kern County. This led to large numbers of neglected swimming pools, which were associated with a 276% increase in the number of human West Nile virus cases during the summer of 2007.

This paper aims at showing how well-known ideas in the fields of fuzzy arithmetic and heuristic search have been combined in an educational software in nutrition in order to provide not only a better mathematical modeling, but also significant functional improvements for end-users, comparing to other nutrition programs. This software, called Nutri-Expert, helps patients to improve their nutriti...