The WHO's International Studies of Schizophrenia conclude that schizophrenia may have a more benign course in "developing" societies than in the West. The authors focus on this finding's most common corollary: cultural schemata are shaped by the transition from agrarian to industrial society. Developing societies are viewed as traditional, gemeinschaft cultures lacking the stigmatizing beliefs ...

I distinguish between two kinds of nostalgia in retro game design – restorative and reflective. The former manifests itself in ‘total restoration of monuments of the past’, while the latter ‘lingers in the dreams of another place and another time’. Restorative nostalgia is visible in the retrogaming practices, such as creation of emulators, appreciation of classic titles and remaking them for n...

This paper continues the investigation of the rst author begun in part one. The hereditary properties of n-homomorphism amenability for Banach algebras are investigated and the relations between n-homomorphism amenability of a Banach algebra and its ideals are found. Analogous to the character amenability, it is shown that the tensor product of two unital Banach algebras is n-homomorphism amena...

In the interactive model considered herein, a user can be made to feel that the virtual world exists as tangibly as the real world does. Once “Friendly Process of Human-Computer Interaction” launches, a user can wait to see what happens before he or she takes action. Even if a user does nothing, the program still runs. A PC user is an audience. The computer program performs for its user audienc...

Education is in a state of rapid change. The influx of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) lead us to question: “How do we find the balance between continuity and discontinuity whilst critically renewing our educational traditions?” The paper develops a philosophical understanding that transcends utopian and dystopian claims that IT is either “becoming education” or “destroyin...

The subject of this paper is an analysis Jean Ott’s theater play Les Trois Aveugles de Compiègne. In his adaptation a 13th-century famed “fabliau” Ott (1878–1935), lesser-known French author, offers its receiver interesting intertextual play. manner that both parodic and nostalgic he appeals to the courtly topoi, treating it as signpost defines development action semantic scope work.

Through metaphor, we are able to characterize very different domains with the same words, relying on the language of our shared physical experiences to help ground more abstract, less intuitive concepts. Prior research suggests that our shared ways of talking about the concrete and the abstract can produce priming effects that bridge modalities. Here, we examine this phenomena in the domains of...

From the late 1980s until now, scholars, educators and social workers have criticised the diminution of interest in the structural level of social problems. In this lament, former social work is beguiled, while critiques are targeted at the new generation of social workers. These critiques forewarn of important issues and problems, but at the same time they portray social work in a devolutionar...

Historically, cultural accounts and descriptions of blood banking in Britain have been associated with notions of altruism, national solidarity and imagined community. While these ideals have continued to be influential, the business of procuring and supplying blood has become increasingly complex. Drawing on interview data with donors in one blood centre in England, this article reports that t...