Sonic Signage: [murmur], the Refrain, and Territoriality

Altruism and self-refrain

We address the issue of altruism when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the other. In that case, the in uence of altruistic parents is not limited to the bequest they could leave; indeed, they direct the evolution of children's aspirations toward raising their utility by refraining their own consumption standard. We show that, even if there is no bequest, alt...

Traditional and Digital Signage

In this paper we explain how the content of traditional and digital signs heavily depends on the context in which the sign is seen. This is followed by a comparison of the properties of traditional and digital signs, in which we show that digital signs enable us to exploit many proporties that signs have, in particular context adaptivity and indexicality.

Testosterone, territoriality, and the 'home advantage'.

The consistently better performance seen by teams in various sporting contexts when playing at home is referred to as the 'home advantage'. Various explanations have been put forward to account for this robust phenomenon, though none has yet focussed on possible hormonal factors. In an initial study, we showed that salivary testosterone levels in soccer players were significantly higher before ...

Animal Interactions and the Emergence of Territoriality

Inferring the role of interactions in territorial animals relies upon accurate recordings of the behaviour of neighbouring individuals. Such accurate recordings are rarely available from field studies. As a result, quantification of the interaction mechanisms has often relied upon theoretical approaches, which hitherto have been limited to comparisons of macroscopic population-level predictions...

First Opinion: Signage and the City