Abstract One way to silence the powerless, Langton has taught us, is pre-emptively disable their ability do things with words. In this paper I argue that speakers can be silenced in a different way. You let them speak, and obscure meaning of words afterwards. My aim investigate form silencing, call retroactive distortion . distortion, speaker distorted by effect subsequent speech act speaker. A...

Pablo Balenzuela, Holger Braun and Dante R. Chialvo ∗ Departamento de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Univers...

In the present article, we explore how sustainable development strategies and health promotion strategies can be bridged. The concept of the ‘duality of structure’ is taken as our starting point for understanding the linkages between health promotion and sustainable development, and for uncovering the structural properties or conditions which either enable or constrain sustainable public health...

A novel graph-based model for aggregating dichotomous preferences is introduced. The output opinion is viewed as a consensual situation, paving the way of using graph operations to describe properties of the aggregators. The outputs are also dichotomous preferences which could be useful in some applications. New axiomatic characterizations of aggregators corresponding to usual majority or appro...