I have been asked by the Editors to give some thoughts about the future of &complex systems approaches' and nonlinearist methodology in Economic Science. Since this will be an essay that will attempt to stimulate the readers into making up their own thoughts, projections, and guesstimates, this essay shall be written in &English'. This tack is taken here because the writing down of a particular...

In a previous paper (Wolfe, Schreiner, Rehder, Laham, Foltz, Landauer, & Kintsch, this issue) we have shown how Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) can be used to assess student knowledge how essays can be graded by LSA and how LSA can match students with appropriate instructional texts. We did this by comparing an essay written by a student with one or more target instructional texts in terms of th...

In this paper we discuss a simple but comprehensive form of feedback to essay authors, based on a thesaurus and computer graphics, which enables the essay authors to see where essay content is inadequate in terms of the discussion of the essay topic. Concepts which are inadequately covered are displayed for the information of the author so that the essay can be improved. The feedback is automat...

Alternative reproduction has become the new frontier in the continuing culture wars over the family. Commentators with longstanding anxieties over non-traditional kinship have turned their regulatory gaze to it, as have more progressive scholars who support non-traditional family formation but nevertheless favor proposals to regulate the “new kinship” and the “new reproduction.” Excavating Ober...

This visual essay presents drawings related to a research project that sought develop language communicates the precarity of clothing items have emerged from alpine glaciers in Europe. These artworks achieve poetic effect recalls tensions and challenges preserving these artifacts glacial archaeology. focuses on selected footwear exhibition Emergency! at Drawing Projects UK (November 10, 2022–Fe...

The abusive drug use has been object of increasing concern in public health and is commonly issued in the Brazilian press. Amongst medicines, those that are abuse substances and cause physical and/or psychic dependence, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, opioid analgesics and amphetamines are included. Analgesics, antipyretics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, even not making part of this ...

We do not know the symmetries underlying string theory. Furthermore, there must exist an inherently quantum, and spacetime independent, formulation of this theory. Independent of string theory, there should exist a description of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a classical spacetime manifold. We propose such a formulation of quantum mechanics, based on noncommutative geometry. This de...