5 Adaptive traits are inherited with small mutations. They are sub6 ject to natural selection. An adaptive space is made of a set of adaptive 7 traits. Within this adaptive space live distributions of the density of 8 phenotypes. The dynamics of this density reflect evolution by natural 9 selection. We call these distributions Evolutionary Distributions (ED). 10 The adaptive space with its ED f...

Consciousness has a number of apparently disparate properties, some of which seem to be highly complex and even inaccessible to outside observation. To place these properties within a biological framework requires a theory based on a set of evolutionary and developmental principles. This paper describes such a theory, which aims to provide a unifying account of conscious phenomena.

For the nearly 18 million Americans suffering from compulsive buying (Bragg, 2009), the process of shopping and buying has caused their lives to go out of control (Magee, 1994; Black, 2007). In an era of social responsibility (Kerin et al., 2011), marketers should understand the negative outcomes of this disease and ensure that marketing practices are not contributing to this social and economi...

We develop a general theory of configuration and give a precise methodology for studying the phenomenon of configuration from a viewpoint which is independent of any knowledge representation formalism. One main result is that we show that the classical skeleton-oriented approach and the resource-oriented approach are in some sense equivalent. We formulate a number of typical configuration probl...

E-learning systems have witnessed a usage and research increase in the past decade. This article presents the elearning concepts ecosystem. It summarizes the various scopes on e-learning studies. Here we propose an elearning theoretical framework. This theory framework is based upon three principal dimensions: users, technology, and services related to e-learning. This article presents an in-de...

A theoretical framework is described to understand the results of plasmon holography experiments leading to insight in the meaning of the experimental results and pointing out directions for future experiments. The framework is based on the formalism of mutual intensity to describe how coherence is transferred through an optical system. For the inelastic interaction with the object, an expressi...

This paper presents a new model of nursing labour supply that reconciles key features the current state in NHS: large, persistent and potentially growing workforce gap; staff surveys show nurses gain great satisfaction from job they do, but feel don’t have enough colleagues to enable them do it well; large fraction working paid unpaid overtime; leaving citing as significant factors both workloa...