Effective Strategy Implementation: Why Partnership Interconnectivity Matters

Background Music Matters: Why Strategy Video Game Increased Cognitive Control

For decades, the precise influence of video games on players has been acutely argued. During that time, researchers have also been unable to agree on the effects that video games have on cognitive control. Some researchers found that video games are detrimental to sustaining one’s attention span, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Meanwhile, some other researchers have claimed that vide...

Japan's strategy for global health diplomacy: why it matters.

Global health is standing at a crossroads. The past decade has been a glorious period for global health because aid to the health sector has surged, and newly formed public–private partnerships have increased the effectiveness of development assistance. Japan has played a significant part, for example by leading discussions at the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in 2000 and by helping in the establish...

Why emotion matters

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Why Ecology Matters

Why Functional Programming Matters

As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we sh...