Ecological communities are often shaped by competition between individuals for a shared limited resource (Rohde 2011). Competition may be between individuals of the same species (intraspecific competition) or between individuals of different species (interspecific competition). In forest communities, squirrels and other rodents rely on the same food sources and are still able to coexist. Gray s...

T his paper discusses complementarities and tensions between competition policies and consumer protection policies. The paper argues that markets will often supply adequate customer protection without the need for extra public intervention. Special areas where intervention might be needed are discussed , including the need to combat deceptive marketing and the need to provide additional market ...

This study is part of a doctoral thesis on the topic of Hyperfiction: Past, Present and Future of Storytelling through Hypertext. It explores in depth the impact of transmedia storytelling and the role of hypertext in the realm of the currently popular social media phenomenon Pokémon GO. Storytelling is a powerful method to engage and unite people. Moreover, the technology progress adds a whole...

In almost every science fiction movie you’ll see people conversing with machines. Of course, the rise of intelligent personal assistants means you probably do this yourself already. This posting asks: what’s the difference? Also, recent news on Facebook acquisitions, spoken language translation, and sentiment analysis. Science fiction fascinates us because it paints a picture of a world that is...

john gardner’s grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. along with a discovery of self with which grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...

la problématique de l’autofiction qui domine la sphère de la littérature française contemporaine vient d’une part de la difficulté des critiques de se mettre d’accord sur une définition et d’autre part de la divergence dans les pratiques des autofictionneurs. alors que serge doubrovsky exige un pacte référentiel, d’autres comme vincent colonna et gérard genette demandent un pacte de lecture fic...

Native American authors who are actively seeking to disrupt patriarchy and colonial narratives tend not to write in the literary genre of speculative fiction, which is a literary form that often serves to subvert Indigenous identities through colonial pedagogy of racial, sexual, and gendered clichés. I argue that the Native American voice, both male and female, is a form of active resistance to...

Disruption and disappointment: relationships of children and nostalgia in British interwar fiction." MA (Master of Arts) thesis,

Is there a role for fiction in explorations of ethics? Are words, as Conchis says, only for truth, for facts? Or is it perhaps the case that words can be used to help us reach a deeper truth—through fiction? This month the Journal of Medical Ethics features a form of publication rarely found in the pages of scholarly journals: the first instalment of a fictional “bioethics soap opera” designed ...