Lee A. Dyer* and Deborah Letourneau Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Apex predators and plant resources are both critical for maintaining diversity in biotic communities, but the indirect ( cascad...

Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ wellbeing. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the presence of job resources might counteract its n...

Movie posters, a multimodal genre used to attract viewers, are complex form of communication that contains verbal and visual semiotic resources. The entertainment company Marvel has created cinematic universe where movie posters play an essential role in marketing. Despite Marvel’s global influence sociocultural practices, few studies investigate its posters. Hence, this study analyzes the stru...

Success in joint endeavors is often attributed to the knowledge-base resources that individuals uniquely bring to the collaborative situation. While individual resources are essential, recent research suggests that attention must also be paid to the ecology of relations that develops within interactions that make it possible (or not) for knowledge and other cognitive resources to be accessed an...

Juxtaposing symbolic interactionist and postmodern interpretations of cyberself-ing, I bring data to bear on the tensions between these two theoretical stances. I argue that postmodernist accounts are no longer tenable; such studies were based on multi-user domains (MUDs), but generalized to cyberspace. I examine the evolving internet population, which has reached a critical mass of the America...

Interactive robots, virtual environments and other computer based technologies are increasingly applied in rehabilitation therapy and education. The research presented in this thesis investigates the potential use of a humanoid robot as assistive technology for encouraging social interaction skills specifically in children with autism. The research focuses on ways in which the humanoid robot ca...

The present project is an interactive audiovisual creation, a sound and vision installation where the user interactively activates sound in its analog form. The sound is used to influence a physical medium (in this case a tank full of water) producing an image through the turbulences on its surface. This image, properly illuminated, is reflected and visualised in space. The installation is desi...