Research in cultural evolution has focused on the spread of intuitive or minimally counterintuitive beliefs. However, some very counterintuitive beliefs can also spread successfully, at least in some communities-scientific theories being the most prominent example. We suggest that argumentation could be an important factor in the spread of some very counterintuitive beliefs. A first experiment ...

Article history: Received 17 September 2009 Received in revised form 22 April 2010 Accepted 8 June 2010

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

The target article argues that whole groups can act as interactors in an evolutionary process. We believe that Smaldino's discussion would be advanced by a more thorough analysis of the appropriate replicators and lineages for this model. We show that cultural evolution is necessarily a separate process from cultural group selection, and we also illustrate that the two processes may influence e...

Information system organizations frequently offer complex IT applications and services to its users. These organizations would want the users of these systems to imbue positive “intentions to use” toward the systems. According to the literature, the construct “intention to use” is influenced by the “perceived satisfaction” derived by the particular user when using or consuming a particular prod...

The article considers the problem of introduction resource-based learning students in practice educational process higher education institutions that provide training under program «Fitness and Recreation». aim study is to clarify place RBL system cross-cultural fitness recreation professionals. involved 233 Ukraine. Research methods: theoretical, empirical methods mathematical data processing....

Users of Voice over IP (VoIP) applications are sensitive to the quality of an ongoing call. We hypothesize that the quality of a VoIP session can be estimated from the first few seconds of the session and this can be generalized to other VoIP calls. Our approach is an in-band probing mechanism and does not require any external monitoring schemes or network support. We show by post processing Vo...