In this paper, a cognitive map-based methodology is suggested as a tool to analyze different strategic thoughts in a corporation. In order to test its validity, the proposed framework is applied to a private company. The methodology provides a framework for the identification of all the ideas relevant for the future of the company, the categorization of the ideas, the specification of their rel...

In this paper, I shall explore a determiner in natural language which is ambivalent as to whether it should be classified as quantificational or object-denoting: the determiner both. Both in many ways appears to be a paradigmatic quantifier; and yet, I shall argue, it can be interpreted as having an individual—an object—as semantic value. To show the significance of this, I shall discuss two wa...

collapse of the christian church in the west is the beginning of enlightenment era in which western theorists constituted a new base in theoretical and practical thoughts with dominance of positivist thoughts and with disregard to metaphysical principles. meanwhile, when these new schools of thought became unable to lay a solid foundation to give meaning to the world and human life and when the...

To bridge the related but separate areas of research on mind-wandering and Involuntary Autobiographical Memory (IAM), the frequency and temporal focus of task unrelated thoughts about past, present, and future was compared in 19 dysphoric and 21 non-dysphoric participants, using a modified laboratory method for studying IAMs. Participants were stopped 11 times during a 15-minute vigilance task ...

I describe initial thoughts towards an ideological analysis of HCI, based on identifying the central role of modernist ideology in HCI research practice.

This paper introduces some early thoughts of the authors on how to humanly design an artificial brain containing 10,000 evolved cellular automata-based neural network modules.

In his commentary, David Galin raises several important issues that deserve to be addressed. In this response, I do three things. First, I briefly discuss the relation between the present work and the metaphoric theories of thought developed by cognitive lin- guists such as Lakoff and Johnson (1998). Second, I address some of the confusions that seem to have arisen about my use of the terms "su...

This paper presents some thoughts about the role of participatory design, now and in the future, based on the Beck (2002). My main proposal is that research-based participatory design is needed to question technology and propose alternatives.

Suicide rates in Mexico have been rising steadily for several decades. This study examined the relationship of depressed mood and antisocial behavior problems with thoughts of death, suicide plans and attempts. Data from 22,966 individuals who participated in a population-based nationally-representative survey in Mexico were analyzed. After adjusting for covariates, all odds ratios for thoughts...