Technology enhanced learning environments are characterized by socio-technical interactions. Socio-technical interactions involve individuals interacting with (a) technologies, and (b) other individuals. These two critical aspects of socio-technical interactions in technology enhanced learning environments are theoretically conceived as (a) appropriation of sociotechnical affordances and (b) st...

Recently several authors have suggested that affordances are not mere possibilities for action but can also invite behavior. This reconceptualization of affordances asks for a reconsideration of the ecological approach to agency. After a portrayal of the role of agency in ecological psychology, we draw upon phenomenology to reveal what it means for an agent to be invited by affordances. We sket...

The robust asymptotic stability problem of genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into two subintervals, and then the convexity property of the matrix inequality and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. By using a Lyapunov functional approach...

The robust asymptotic stability problem of genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into two subintervals, and then the convexity property of the matrix inequality and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. By using a Lyapunov functional approach...

This study investigates how federal, state, and private corporate forest owners in a fire-prone landscape of southcentral Oregon manage their forests to reduce wildfire hazard and loss to high-severity wildfire. We evaluate the implications of our findings for concepts of social–ecological resilience. Using interview data, we found a high degree of "response diversity" (variation in forest mana...

Purpose The plethora of contributions to social learning has resulted in a wide range interpretations, meanings and applications learning, both within across disciplines. However, advancing the concept using methods tools areas like disaster-shocks requires interdisciplinary consolidation understandings. In this context, primary focus paper is on disaster risk reduction (DRR). Design/methodolog...

The issues addressed in philosophical papers on quotation generally concern only a particular type of quotation, which I call ‘closed quotation’. The other main type, ‘open quotation’, is ignored, and this neglect leads to bad theorizing. Not only is a general theory of quotation out of reach: the specific phenomenon of closed quotation itself cannot be properly understood if it is not appropri...

agricultural sustainability refers to the ability of a cropping system to produce, without causing irreversible damage tothe ecosystem. there is an increasing need to view cropping systems and identify management practices in a holisticindicator-based impact assessment. the main objective of this study was to compare and rank the cropping systems of themarvdasht plain in fars province; in order...