This analytic essay calls attention to challenging needs and stimulating opportunities for disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research on spirituality, a topic that cuts across and is relevant to all of the world’s religious faiths. Organized under eleven categories of the current state of the art, it provides a platform for future studies. Its provocative suggestions, predi...

From the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child (1989) to the Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures strategy (Department of health (Dh) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) 2009), there is overwhelming support for the involvement of children and young people in any decisions that may affect them. the requirement to take account of their views and experiences whenever...

Building a robust and effective human-agent team is difficult, as teams can fail for many reasons. In this study, we investigated the performance of human-agent teams with divisional and functional team structure under different level of task load uncertainty. Divisional teams show robustness against uncertainly but can lead to poorer performance. Three reasons related to team coordination were...

We derive prices and hedging strategies for some contingent claims which were treated by Jamshidian [12]. For this we discuss price functionals and the technique of “change of numéraire” in a general semimartingale framework. These tools allow us to develop a unified method based on the explicit computation of the price processes via the multiplicative Doob-Meyer decomposition and the assumptio...

Policy-makers seek a more rigorous method of selecting potentially successful technologies to fulfil the requirements of different stakeholders. Patent analysis should be able to assist policy-makers in (1) understanding the development trajectory of technologies and monitoring the status of technological development to gain a dynamic view of the current competition situation; (2) applying the ...

In the 21st Century, due to development of transportation and communication technology, people are living in a more globalized world than ever before. International migration, with changing dynamics, is achieved at high speed and on a large scale. As new media are gaining popularity, the authors are curious about the way immigrants behave in the cyberspace and the consequences their cyber behav...

How does one start an avant-garde movement? First one needs a group of people ready to subsume their differences in the name of a common cause. Second, this cause must aspire to a fundamental, revolutionary change, a new departure, a utopian promise. And third, the new movement must be inaugurated in some form of public event and through the distribution of a collective statement, usually writt...

Recent research has shown that agreements centered on the adoption of breakthrough technologies can break the deadlock in international climate negotiations if the mitigation technology exhibits a network externality that transforms full cooperation into a self-enforcing outcome. This paper shows that the same externality also increases strategic uncertainty about future technology adoption, wh...

The term socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) has recently gained currency in conservation circles because of a recognized need to look beyond protected areas to the management of human-influenced landscapes and ecosystems. We have drawn on a variety of case studies from Asia and other parts of the world to understand the underlying driving forces that have led to the need for greater...