For mainstream theories, memory is a skull-bound activity consisting of encoding, storing and retrieving representations. Conversely, unorthodox perspectives proposed that an extended process includes material resources. This article explains why neither representationalist nor classical stances do justice to the active constitutive role culture for cognition. From Material Engagement Theory, w...

In 1996, billing integrity generated a great deal of debate and litigation in the health care arena. Significantly, the federal government views a violation of the Anti-Kickback Act as a basis for a False Claims Act action. While federal courts are split on the issue, the author strongly contends that using the False Claims Act to do what the Anti-Kickback Act was intended to do is inappropriat...

Rawluk, A., R. Beilin, and S. Lavau. 2021. Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance. Ecology Society 26(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12368-260218

We recently demonstrated, by mining observational data, that forest-living orangutans can communicate using gestures that qualify as pantomime.1 Pantomimes, like other iconic gestures, physically resemble their referents.2,3 More elaborately, pantomimes involve enacting their referents.4 Holding thumb and finger together at the lips and blowing between them to mean "balloon" is one example.5 He...

This chapter discusses the existing use of and future potential use of robotics technology in mental health care. Robotics technology primarily refers to robots, which are physically embodied systems capable of enacting physical change in the world. Robots enact this change with effectors that either move the robot itself (locomotion), or move objects in the environment (manipulation), and ofte...