Ruth Mandel, Cosmopolitan Anxieties

Deployment anxieties

Going off to war may stir up a wide range of intense feelings, including anxiety, excitement, depression, pride, and anticipation of what is to come. While a certain amount of anxiety is expected for most people, in some cases, anxiety can become overwhelming and interfere with your ability to function. Fortunately, there are various resources for members of the armed forces and a variety of po...

Arias, anxieties and epidemics.

Lins-mandel Crystai~lizations

By An (resp. Nn) we will denote the set {0, 1 , . . . , n} (resp. An-{0}). If X is an arbitrary set, # X means the cardinality of X. All spaces and maps will be in the PL (piecewise-linear) category in the sense of [9] or [15]. The prefix PL will always be omitted. All the spaces that we consider will be compact. For basic graph theory see [8], [6]. The term graph will always be used instead of...

4 June 2001 − Ruth

STYLES OF RATIONALITY Ruth

By whatever general principles and mechanisms animal behavior is governed, human behavior control rides piggyback on top of the same or very similar mechanisms. We have reflexes. We can be conditioned. The movements that make up our smaller actions are mostly caught up in perception-action cycles following perceived Gibsonian affordances. Still, without doubt there are levels of behavior contro...