positive psychology as a field focuses on identifying and supporting internal strengths and external resources to promote optimal functioning, flourishing, and resilience in individual, organizations, and communities. research and interventions from the field are helping people be happy, productive, and resilient. from this perspective, each person has a unique set of strengths, which when used...

Background: One of the most important issues that requires more attention is the role of philosophy in individual and social life. Although sciences such as psychology and sociology propose their theories based on philosophical foundations, the role of philosophy as a field which can be influential in solving humans’ problems is not paid due attention. One of the sciences where philosophy can h...

In today’s era social media is our window into creating contextual systems of advanced technology. These systems span a breadth of industries and domains. Whether it is contextual phone assistants like Siri and Crotana or search based advertisements, all of them rely deeply on user data to teach themselves human-like responsiveness. A major chunk of the data available at our disposal is lexical...

The extent to which a place feels like a home is related in part to the physical condition of the property and its surrounding environment. Tenants and local authorities have been provided with extensive legal powers to force landlords to remedy defects since the late 19th century. Yet housing conditions within rented property remain poor. Problems relating to the boundaries of legal remedies w...

Regarding the conflicting demands of demographic development, mobility desires and needs as well as an increasingly complex transport and traffic environment, the MOBIL 2030 research project investigates what impacts these changes will show on the mobility culture in general and on the individual mobility behavior of the “baby boomers” (who will be aged 65 and older in 2030) in particular. Base...

Requiring that a Hamiltonian be Hermitian is overly restrictive. A consistent physical theory of quantum mechanics can be built on a complex Hamiltonian that is not Hermitian but satisfies the less restrictive and more physical condition of space-time reflection symmetry (PT symmetry). One might expect a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian to lead to a violation of unitarity. However, if PT symmetry is n...