The Industrial Revolution-a Useful Abstraction In the past years, there have been more and more voices that claim, to rephrase Coleman (1983), that the Industrial Revolution is "a concept too many." 2 The feeling is that the term is either too vague to be of any use at all or that it produces false connotations of abrupt change comparable in its suddenness to the French Revolution. The main int...

A revolution is underway in health education and support for patients with, or at risk for, diabetes. This chapter will present examples of technology-enabled behavior change interventions that have the potential to lead this revolution in healthcare transformation. The seeds of the coming revolution have already been sown, though most of us can only see the emerging sprouts of these changes. T...

The 1950s represent a foundational decade in Nepal's constitutional history. In the wake of decolonization British India, “year 7 revolution” (1950–51) grew out alliance between King Tribhuvan Shah and democratic political parties created India against Rana autocratic regime Kathmandu. Eventually pro-democracy forces prevailed, crucial transition began. Two constitutions were promulgated, 1951 ...

As we approach the next century, the software industry landscape is undergoing massive technology and business changes. The client/server revolution has barely reached its half-life and it is already being eclipsed by the Internet revolution. Software development is moving away from the direction of being labour-intensive. Customers are buying more pre-packaged software solutions or software co...

The first part of this paper finds Craver’s (2007) mutual manipulability theory (MM) of constitution inadequate, as it definitionally ties constitution to the feasibility of idealized experiments, which, however, are unrealizable in principle. As an alternative, the second part develops an abductive theory of constitution (NDC), which exploits the fact that phenomena and their constituents are ...

Philosophical accounts of the constitution relation have been explicated in terms of synchronic relations between higherand lower-level entities. Such accounts, I argue, are temporally austere or impoverished, and are consequently unable to make sense of the diachronic and dynamic character of constitution in dynamical systems generally and dynamically extended cognitive processes in particular...