disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. it is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized effi...

Spatial prepositions work as pointers to localize objects in space. For instance “The book is over the table” indicates that the located object (LO) is somewhere “over” the reference object (RO). To understand where the LO is people need to assign direction to space (selecting a reference frame). Three experiments are reported which investigated the reference frame conflict between LO and RO. W...

How is mindreading affected by social context? It is often implicitly assumed that there is one single way to understand others, whatever the situation or the identity of the person. In contrast, I emphasize the duality of functions of mindreading depending on the context (social interaction and social observation), as well as the duality of social frames of reference (egocentric and allocentri...

We propose a covariant protocol for transmitting reference frames encoded on N spins, achieving sensitivity N-2 without the need of a preestablished reference frame and without using entanglement between sender and receiver. The protocol exploits the use of equivalent representations that were overlooked in the previous literature.

Interventions using either contests or norms can promote environmental behavioral change. Yet research on the implications of contest-based and norm-based interventions is lacking. Based on Goal-framing theory, we suggest that a contest-based intervention frames a gain goal promoting intensive but instrumental behavioral engagement. In contrast, the norm-based intervention was expected to frame...

Visible persistence was measured using a two-frame temporal integration paradigm. Most such studies match the brightness of the two frames, and find that equal increases in the brightness of the frames impairs performance on the task. This suggests that increases in frame brightness decrease the duration of visible persistence. Little is known about what happens when the frames differ in bright...

We have performed off-axis heterodyne holography with very weak illumination by recording holograms of the object with and without object illumination in the same acquisition run. We have experimentally studied how the reconstructed image signal (with illumination) and noise background (without) scale with the holographic acquisition and reconstruction parameters that are the number of frames a...

Rubinstein and Tversky (1993), Rubinstein, Tversky, and Heller (1996), and Rubinstein (1999) reported experiments that elicited initial responses to coordination, discoordination, and hide and seek games with non-neutral decision labelings, in which behavior responded to labeling. Crawford and Iriberri (2007ab) proposed a level-k model to account for the results for hide and seek games. Heap, R...