The seriesconstitute'ideas in progress,' after the notion described byI.J. Good in 'The Scientist Speculates.' Good also describes ideas about ideas as 'partly baked ideas' believing that " ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right. " While the p apers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may ...

Abstract An essential tenet of social capital is that it a reciprocal process: networks produce desirable outcomes, and the resulting outcomes can then feed back into influencing networks. The current study among first to examine dynamic, process capital, using within-person measures from 2,065 reports offline online daily interactions 66 participants over 1-week period. Results show interactio...

This paper examines the Chechen Black Widows and how they carry symbolic terrorist attacks against Russian targets – authors’ newly created concept of feminevil. By large, feminevil is a growing phenomenon girl-militancy in human violence. The theory used this Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT). Developed by Bormann (1972), SCT posits that group can unite to form collective culture so as achieve...

The recent discovery by brain scientists of the reconsolidation of memory circuits (see research bibliography below) overturned the almost century-old tenet that emotional learnings and acquired responses maintained in long-term implicit memory are indelible—unerasable and permanent for the lifetime of the individual. Reconsolidation, induced endogenously through behavioral procedures, has been...

The newborn and infant periods of early life are associated with heightened vulnerability to infection. Limited antigen exposure and distinct adaptive immune function compared to the adult places a greater burden on innate immunity for host defense to microbial challenge during this time. Trained immunity describes the phenomenon of augmented innate immune function following a stimulus that is ...

The series constitute ‘ideas in progress,’ after the notion described by I.J. Good in ‘The Scientist Speculates.’ Good also describes ideas about ideas as ‘partly baked ideas’ believing that “ ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right.” While the papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may...

Contrary to common belief, the standard tenet of Brans–Dicke theory reducing to general relativity in the ω → ∞ limit is false when the trace of the matter energy–momentum tensor vanishes. The issue is clarified in a new approach using conformal transformations. The otherwise unaccountable limiting behavior of Brans–Dicke gravity is easily understood in terms of the conformal invariance of the ...

Until recently the guiding tenet in human-computer interaction was that any interface must be easy to learn and use. However, it has been increasingly recognized that the appeal of the interface to the user and their enjoyment of it is also important. The aim of the current study was to examine the nature of the relationships between icon characteristics, user performance, and aesthetic appeal....

Placebo fascinates and mystifies. Even with today's medical science we still do not know how and if it works. The use of placebo both in therapy and in research evokes ethical problems that are not easily resolved either. Placebo is intrinsically linked to deception, while veracity is a basic tenet in today's thinking of a doctor-patient relationship. In research ethics placebo, though consider...

Design science research (DSR) is a relatively new approach in information systems research. A fundamental tenet of DSR is that understanding comes from creating information technology artifacts. However, with an increasingly connected and globalized world, designing IT artifacts for a multicultural world is a challenge. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to propose extending the DSR metho...