Zajonc and I differ greatly in our conceptualization of emotion and its relations with cognition, as well as in our evaluation of the evidence. My reply is in two parts. First, I discuss the boundaries of emotion as a phenomenon and whether sensory preferences can be regarded as emotions; second, I make an analysis of the evidence Zajonc regards as supporting his claims for the independence of ...

The actions of the anticonvulsant gabapentin [1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexaneacetic acid, Neurontin] have been somewhat enigmatic until recently, when it was claimed to be a -aminobutyric acid-B (GABAB) receptor agonist acting exclusively at a heterodimeric complex containing the GABAB(1a) splice variant (Mol Pharmacol 2001;59:144–152). In this study, we have investigated the effects of gabapentin o...

Sometime during the last decade, the cell phone became ordinary. We now take for granted that we can call anyone, anytime and anywhere, and have moved on to ask whether such a call would be safe while driving, or socially acceptable in public places. The technology arena has also moved on-from voice to wireless information. Yet the cellular revolution is less than 20 years old, and the entire h...

Free-text interactive fiction allows players to narrate the actions of protagonists via natural language input, which are automatically directed to appropriate storyline outcomes using natural language processing techniques. We describe an authoring platform called the Data-driven Interactive Narrative Engine (DINE), which supports free-text interactive fiction by connecting player input to aut...

This paper provides a critical perspective on the attempts to promote the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching and learning in England. It describes the rationale given for the introduction of ICT in terms of its potential to impact on educational standards to contribute to developing a curriculum which has more vocational/social significance and, more generally, to...

By the late nineteenth century, the United States had emerged as a major industrial nation and an increasingly important force in world politics. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, books set in countries outside the United States proliferated. In particular, books as part of a series, both fiction and nonfiction, were selected for inclusion in public library collections. It is ...

State intervention inevitably fails due to the inherent flaws as highlighted by Austrian political economy. Interventionism distorts prices, disrupts the competitive discovery process, and is socially harmful. Disintervention is posed as a solution, yet typical disintervention is often a centrally planned solution to the problems inherent to central planning. In many ways intervention and disin...

ness of cycle closure advantage may constitute a conceptual barrier. The work has helped underline that a fundamental difficulty of instigating changes such as material cycle closure lies in the abstractness of the concept to general audiences. As Connelly and Koshland (1997) argue, when referring to IE practitioners, the understanding of loop closure versus open loop cycling, is a key issue fo...