Con‡ict and appropriation are costly activities that are economically signi…cant, yet the assumption of perfect and costless enforcement of property rights in much of economic research has limited their systematic study. Con‡ict follows directly from the methodological principle of self-interest and taking it into account in modeling leads to very di¤erent …ndings than in its absence: in straig...

The ability of RNA polymerase (RNAP) to select the right promoter sequence at the right time is fundamental to the control of gene expression in all organisms. However, there is only one crystallized structure of a complete activator/RNAP/DNA complex. In a process called σ appropriation, bacteriophage T4 activates a class of phage promoters using an activator (MotA) and a co-activator (AsiA), w...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the acceptance and the appropriation of videoconferencingmediated training during real training situations in a French company. The authors compare the acceptance and appropriation by 60 employees of two videoconferencing-mediated training systems: the virtual class (desktop videoconferencing) and the remote class (where learners are gathered together in ...

What is cultural ‘appropriation’? ‘appreciation’? Whatever the complex answer to this question, appropriation commonly defined as ‘the taking of something produced by members one culture another’ (Young 2005: 136), whilst appreciation typically understood mere ‘exploration’: ‘Appreciation explores whatever there’. (Gracyk 2007: 112). These provisional definitions suggest that there an in-princi...

The “Create” research program proposes a holistic model for learning environments that draws from experiences based on technologically saturated environments. This paper presents the first pilot experience of the research program, which implemented a one-to-one computer infrastructure in a small rural community in Costa Rica. While the majority of experiences have been done in developed countri...

This paper demonstrates that the introduction of imperfect competition into the labor market can solve the problem isolated by Jones and Manuelli (Journal of Economic Theory, 1992, 58, 171-197), and Boldrin (Journal of Economic Theory, 1992, 58, 198-218), that in economies with convex technologies and finitely lived agents, real wages may not grow fast enough for unbounded growth to be sustaine...

This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices — as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them — as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use, in everyday life and formal education. The article analyses the interrelationship of users of mobile devices with the structures, agency and practices of, and in relation to wh...

this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

This paper explores the capacity of yoga narratives and practices to contribute relate ideas about health. It adds theoretically existing literature on by introducing concept ‘health imaginary’ as an analytic lens for considering discourses in late modern times, where personal health care spiritual ambitions are once again becoming blurred. With this perspective, provides a thorough analysis ho...