Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, however, the emergence of social tensions has only rarely been studied in the literature. In the present contribution a game-theoretic model highlights how reputation concerns and the structure of group cleavages matter for the emergenc...

This ethnographic study examines the organizational tensions of a community-based ecotourism in Cambodia by employing the theoretical framework of the hybrid structure of social enterprises. It elucidates the tensions between business and the local culture, between business and the natural environment, and between business and inclusive governance. It suggests that there need to be constant eff...

Recently, some authors have begun to raise questions about the potential unity of 4E (enactive, embedded, embodied, extended) cognition as a distinct research programme within cognitive science. Two tensions, in particular, have been raised: (i) that the body-centric claims embodied cognition militate against the distributed tendencies of extended cognition and (ii) that the body/environment di...

This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and ‘trilemmas’ raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers both the role and the limitations of civic technologies in mitigating these tensions and trile...

The specific goal of the study is to look how tensions, competing values and trade-offs manifest in the management of nuclear power plants. Second goal is to inspect how existing frameworks, such as Competing Values Framework, can be used to model the tensions. Empirical data consists of thirty interviews that were conducted as part of a NKS study on safety culture in the Nordic nuclear branch....

COBURN, R. F., F. PLOEGMAKERS, P. GONDRIE, AND R. ABBOUD. Myocardial myoglobin oxygen tension. Am. J. Physiol. 224(4): 870-876. 1973.-We have applied our method of estimating mean myoglobin oxygen tension from measurements of carbon monoxide binding to myoglobin to the in vivo canine myocardium. Carbon monoxide binding to myoglobin was determined with measurements of 14C0 in myocardial biopsy s...

Chronic pulmonary disease, particularly emphysema and fibrosis, may result in variable alterations in blood oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions, depending upon the severity of the disease. Changes in carbon dioxide and oxygen tensions have been shown to have a profound influence on cerebral circulation in acute experiments on normal subjects (1). Recently Patterson, Heyman, and Duke (2) demonstr...

In glucose-limited continuous-flow cultures of Aspergillus nidulans, the mean length of hyphalsegments and the degree of branching were independent of the dissolved oxygen tension. However, at dissolved oxygen tensions below 18 mmHg a few large isodiametric cells were observed, and at oxygen tensions below 3.5 mmHg free conidia appeared in the medium (although differentiated conidiophores were ...

Freeze-induced cell tensions were determined by cell water relations in leaves of broadleaf evergreen species and cell cultures of grapes (Vitis spp.) and apple (Malus domestica). Cell tensions increased in response to cold acclimation in leaves of broadleaf evergreen species during extracellular freezing, indicating a higher resistance to cell volume changes during freezing in cold-hardened le...