Loose lips

Loose Lips Sink Ships?: a Heuristic for Argumentation

While researchers have looked at many aspects of argumentation, an area often neglected is that of argumentation strategies. That is, given multiple possible arguments that an agent can put forth, which should be selected in what circumstances. In this paper, we propose a heuristic that implements one such strategy, namely revealing as little information as possible to other dialogue participan...

Loose Lips and Silver Tongues, or, Projecting Sexual Orientation Through Speech

The notion that an individual’s sexual orientation can be ascertained through distinctive speech patterns abounds in popular culture. This article reviews the small but growing body of literature examining whether sexual orientation is conveyed and perceived through speech. These studies show some individuals speak in a way that conveys their sexual orientation to naïve listeners. Contrary to m...

Lips and Lips

It has been nearly 15 years since the term ‘large igneous province’ was introduced by Mike Coffin and Olaf Eldholm (1991, 1994). An umbrella term to include continental flood basalt provinces, oceanic plateaus, volcanic rifted margins and aseismic ridges, it rapidly entered common parlance even though it was, and remains, loosely defined. The key aspect of large igneous provinces (LIPs) is that...

Loose Couplings

Loose Change

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 379–381. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.40 In this issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), we have a Special Section on I.S. in Interorganizational Networks and four more Opinion papers. The papers in I.S. in Interorganizational Networks were edited by Diederik W. van Liere, Peter H.M. Vervest, Benn Konsynski and Chris Holland. Than...