Animals and Political Community: Preliminary Reflections Prompted by Bill C-10

Community Resilience Engineering: Reflections and Preliminary Contributions

An important challenge for human societies is that of mastering the complexity of Community Resilience, namely “the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations”. The above concise definition puts the accent on an important requirement: a community’s ability to make use in an intelligent way of the available resour...

Reflections on political involvement.

Reflections on Companion Animals

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Reflections on the Design Challenges Prompted by Affect-Aware Socially Assistive Robots

The rising interest in socially assistive robotics is, at least in part, stemmed by the aging population around the world. A lot of research and interest has gone into insuring the safety of these robots. However, little has been done to consider the necessary role of emotion in these robots and the potential ethical implications of having affect-aware socially assistive robots. In this chapter...

The Great Divide: Political Polarization and the U.S. Farm Bill

Scholars have long noted the trend toward increased political polarization in the U.S. Congress. This paper examines the U.S. Farm Bill in connection with polarization theories. Polarization due to changing ideologies of individual congressmen, the reshaping of districts, and the reorientation of the public affects business in Washington. This paper also discusses the impact of polarization on ...