january 16, 2010 vol xlv no 3 EPW Economic & Political Weekly 66 Shelley Feldman ([email protected]) is a sociologist associated with both Cornell University and Binghamton University, United States; Stephen Biggs ([email protected]) is at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; and Rajeswari Raina (rajeswari_raina@ yahoo.com) is with the Centre for Policy Research, New...

The public’s financial security is vital to economic stability, with policy and practice efforts focused on developing literacy reduce vulnerability. However, this approach fails fully consider the emotional factors that influence decision-making process. This study examines how emotions shape these decisions, drawing concept of ‘muddling through’ understand complex process be navigated. Data a...

We respond to the call for more research into entanglement between multiple (including non-visual and non-verbal) modes of communication within organizations by exploring relationships rhetoric materiality. draw on archival sources concerning Founder’s Building at Royal Holloway College (1874–1897). discuss building as a multimodal material object, inherently multiple, fluid messy: is open enco...

In recent years, trait-based research on plankton has gained interest because of its potential to uncover general roles in ecology. While trait categories for phytoplankton and crustaceans have been posited, rotifer assessment lagged behind. Here, we reviewed the literature assess traits key their life histories provided a data matrix 138 valid genera phylum Rotifera. We considered seven traits...

A novel approach to obtaining a tight linkage between genes in a genetic algorithm is described, and a new system based on that approach, LINKGAUGE, is proposed. Experiments presented draw a comparison between the standard messy genetic algorithm and LINKGAUGE, and show that the latter avoids deceptive traps and early convergence, with minimal computational cost. The scalability potential of th...