Realizing the ideal of democracy requires political inclusion for citizens. A legitimate democracy must give citizens the opportunity to express their attitudes about the relative attractions of different policies, and access to political mechanisms through which they can be counted and heard. The most influential expression of these objectives derives from the political philosophy underlying d...

This article examines the relationship between idiosyncratic deals and organizational commitment. In particular, it examines how two individual differences which reflect self-worth (core self-evaluations and age) moderate that relationship. We predicted that employees with feelings of high self-worth will expect and will feel entitled to these deals, but employees with feelings of low self-wort...

We propose a reversible self-assembly model in which the glue strength between two juxtaposed tiles is a function of the time they have been in neighboring positions. We then present an implementation of our model using strand displacement reactions on DNA tiles. Under our model, we can for the first time demonstrate and study catalysis and self-replication in the tile assembly rigorously. We t...

Self-dual structures whose dual counterparts are themselves possess unique hidden symmetry, beyond the description of classical spatial symmetry groups. Here we propose a strategy based on nematic monolayer attractive half-cylindrical colloids to self-assemble these exotic structures. This system can be seen as 2D semidisks. By using Monte Carlo simulations, discover two isostatic self-dual cry...

Robot swarms provide interesting and potentially very useful examples of self-organizing systems. This chapter focuses on a specific approach, dubbed “active self-assembly”, for constructing arbitrary shapeswith swarms of identical and identically programmed robots. Important, open issues are identified in the specific context of active self-assembly, but they are of more general applicability....

Abstract. We study the problem of how a “living” system complex in structure can respond perfectly to local changes in the environment. Such a system is assumed to consist of a distributed “living” medium and a hierarchical “supplying” network that provides this medium with “nutritious” products. Because of the hierarchical organization each element of the supplying network has to behave in a s...

In the present study, aims were (1) to determine gender differences in self-compassion, selfefficacy, and control belief for learning and (2) to examine the relationships between selfcompassion, self-efficacy, and control belief for learning. Participants were 390 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Self-Compassion Scale, the Self-Efficacy Scale, and the ...