Economics is only the beginning of the puzzle for successful international expansion by food-service firms. As depicted in the accompanying case study, Outback Korea seems to have considered such other factors as local culture and proper entry strategy.

2. Unlike the US, the USSR appears to favor intercept of IBMs and ICBM6at altitudes above ' 130,000 feet, possibly for protection of the ground area against full scale detonation of the target warhead. I At least one popular Soviet book has also indicated such an intercept altitude. This concept ignores the advantages of "atmospheric sorting" as an aid to deccy discrimination; there Is no.indic...

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In the setting of outcome oriented decision taking (OODT), decisions are scarce events occurring in between of many other events which are not decisions. Activities of and agency by an agent may occur without any decisions being taken by that agent, with choice and action determination as the only mechanisms for actively resolving uncertainty about future behavior. Such behaviour will be referr...

1. The enclosed Intelligence information Special Report is part of a series now in preparation based on the SECRET USSR Ministry of Defense publication Collection of Articles of the •ournal "Military Thouzht". At the beginning of the article the author discusses the dangerous effects of radioactive contamination on the human body from a nuclear burst and the importance of detecting this contami...

CONDITION: In Universe A, is it possible for a person to be fully morally responsible for their actions? YES NO Only 14% of subjects in the abstract condition thought that it would be possible for an agent to be fully morally responsible in Universe A, while 72% in the concrete condition thought that Bill was fully morally responsible for his action. Judging from these results, different ways o...

The articles in this special issue provide a rich and thoughtful perspective on the brain as an inference machine. They illuminate key aspects of the internal or generative models the brain might use for perception. Furthermore, they explore the implications for a sense of agency and the nature of false inference in neuropsychiatric syndromes. In this review, I try to gather together some of th...

The origins of treating agency as a modal concept go back at least to the 11th century when Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, provided a modal explication of the Latin facere ‘to do’, which can be formalized within the context of modern modal logic and neighborhood semantics. The agentive logic induced by his conception satisfies the traditional square of opposition, but also has some unique pr...

The sense of agency has been defined as the sense that I am the author of my own actions. This sense, however, is usually not reflected upon but instead pre-reflectively experienced. Experimental approaches usually measure the sense of agency by judgments or verbal reports, despite evidence that the sense of agency is not sufficiently assessed on such a reflective level. Here we sought to ident...