Savitz and Swenson Respond

Reply to Drs. Teppema, Berendsen, and Swenson.

TO THE EDITOR: We followed with great interest the recent exchanges between Drs. Teppema and Berendsen (4) on one hand and Dr. Swenson on the other hand regarding the mechanisms of effects of acetazolamide (AZ) in the prevention of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) (3). One of the essential questions raised by both parts is the action of AZ on central and peripheral chemosensitivity, respectively. ...

Spontaneous Order: Annals New York Academy Sciences (Swenson)

Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA ABSTRACT: Over its 4.6 billion year history, the time-dependent behavior of planet Earth, from the origin and emergence of life to the explosive globalization of human culture today, shows the progressive and accelerating production of increasingly more highly ...

Literacy Practices and Digital Literacies: A Commentary on Swenson, Rozema, Young, McGrail, and Whitin

The integration of digital tools and multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define literacy as multiple socially constructed practices. If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school literacy practices will become further distanced fro...

Nightingale and Indekeu respond.

Sense and Respond Systems

The term sense and respond systems has been widely used for some time; see for instance: [Haeckel93, Haeckel99]. A review of government, private and NGO (Non-Governmental Organizational) responses to natural and man-made disasters shows that success in responding to a changing environment depends much more on leadership, organization, and training than on information technology (IT). This paper...