In our daily lives we assist to an exponential growth of mobile and fixed devices that surround us, though many of them having limited resources, and not even providing an interface screen. In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and...

of ours, there immediately springs up a mushroom crop of theorists, who would account, each after his own fashion, for the phenomenon. First come the supernaturalists, who assign the event to the wrath of some offended God or Gods, on account of sins, real or imagined. The " sins of outrulers" is the most favorite formula in India. Next come the transcendentalist s, who attribute the circumstan...

In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes, the women of all Greece, deprived of sexual pleasure because their husbands are fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War, determine to end the war. To secure their own sensuous good, they agree on a sex-strike against their husbands and the seizing of the Athenian acropolis. The seizing of the Acropolis, however, leads to a deepening of heir goals. Opposed...

The Sanskrit campū Nīlakaṇṭhavijaya is arguably the most popular literary work of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita. It narrates mythical story churning Ocean Milk, with an emphasis on part played by Dīkṣita’s personal god—Śiva. A close reading reveals that this text preoccupied themes agency and subjectivity. multiple characters are not conventional archetypes. Rather, they inhabit shared worlds come across ...

Evolutionary theories of religion frequently assume that the presence moralizing gods is positively associated with social complexity. An influential source evidence for this assumption comes from researchers using Standard Cross-Cultural Sample’s high variable as a proxy measure their outcome interest (the gods). In paper, we critically assess common are complex societies. We first discuss god...

In this chapter we examine variation in the contents of supernatural minds across cultures and the social correlates of this variation. We first provide a sketch of how humans are capable of representing supernatural minds and emphasize the significance of the types of knowledge attributed to supernatural agents. We then argue that the contents of supernatural minds as represented cross-cultura...