Context: Technical debt is a software engineering metaphor, referring to the eventual financial consequences of trade-offs between shrinking product time to market and poorly specifying, or implementing a software product, throughout all development phases. Based on its inter-disciplinary nature, i.e. software engineering and economics, research on managing technical debt should be balanced bet...

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to go beyond literal meanings of utterances to infer speakers’ intended meanings, a feat that remains elusive to the most advanced artificial systems. Figurative language such as metaphor, in particular, provides a striking case where complex meanings arise that cannot be derived from the literal semantics alone. For example, My lawyer i...

Memory theorizing is going nowhere. The reason is that it is rooted in mediationism, the doctrine that memory is mediated by some sort of memory trace. Mediationism is the basic tenet of those who seek the substrate of memory; for students of memory per se it is merely a metaphor, and moreover an unfruitful one, for it cannot be penetrated by the methods of psychology. The rejection of mediatio...

Tripartite systems are currently common to several theories concerned with distinguishing different spatial frames of reference (Levinson, 1996, 2003; Levelt, 1996; Tversky, 1996). The notion that such a 3-part spatial model (e.g. intrinsic, deictic, extrinsic) can be extended to temporal models is at least theoretically plausible (Levinson, 2003). The current study reviews three basic spatial ...

examines the function of planning in a democracy and establishes a context for analysis. The second portrays planning in Halifax by specifically focusing on two land use dispute case studies. The third examines the governmental, cultural, and ethical variables that manifest themselves in the case studies. The fourth asks how this greater understanding informs our theories of democracy and plann...

In this paper we propose an emotion assimilation function of sleep and dreaming. We offer explanations both for the mechanisms by which waking-life memories are initially selected for processing during sleep, and for the mechanisms by which those memories are subsequently transformed during sleep. We propose that emotions act as a marker for information to be selectively processed during sleep,...

Song 4:12–15 depicts the body of bride as a ‘locked garden’ filled with fruits, exotic and medicinal plants abundant freshwater. These luxuries are said to be plentiful appealing but carry them threat spoiling. In this way, garden is ready for enjoyment, forbidden (locked) at same time. The geo-metaphor fits perfectly ancient belief Mother Earth resists dominion drive Anthropocene. Dominance al...

Haptics provides powerful cues about forces but cannot easily be integrated in all relevant applications, such as education. Pseudohaptic cues, visual information that simulate haptic sensations, have been raised as an alternative. It is, however, largely unknown how (or even if) pseudo-haptic cues are perceived by the haptic sensory modality. In this paper we present an approach that applies t...

The article focuses on Renaissance emblematics and its privileged relationship with metaphor, considered in the light of contemporary theories as an inherently tensional form, steeped interchange transition heavily relying a basically conflictual dynamic. Though often dismissed academic, antiquarian form figurality or pleasing symbolical monologic stability, was fact conceived brand-new hybrid ...

If co-evolutionary theory is to combine both intentionality and environmental effects, then it must also acknowledge that managers are able to perceive and respond to changes in their organizations’ environments. In other words, co-evolutionary theory must acknowledge and account for co-evolutionary mental models. By examining a new organizational form in which models of organizational formatio...