Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, vie...

This paper explores creative design, social interaction and perception. It proposes that creativity at a social level is not a result of many individuals trying to be creative at a personal level, but occurs naturally in the social interaction between comparatively simple minds embodied in a complex world. Particle swarm algorithms can model group interaction in shared spaces, but design space ...

Criminals have their activities described as 'a career crime', and Dr. R. D. Laing has spoken of 'madness j*s a career'. Large industries have been created around careers: police, prisons, mental hospitals, psychiatrists, welfare and so on. The productive aim of oese industries is rehabilitated persons?i.e. people jfl whom the tendency to mad or criminal behaviour been eliminated. The criterion...

Sensitivity to others' emotions is foundational for many aspects of human life, yet computational models do not currently approach the sensitivity and specificity of human emotion knowledge. Perception of isolated physical expressions largely supplies ambiguous, low-dimensional, and noisy information about others' emotional states. By contrast, observers attribute specific granular emotions to ...

The World-Wide-Mind (WWM) is an architecture that facilitates the construction of complex “minds” (software solutions) for virtual agents in online virtual environments (software problems). These complex minds are constructed by re-using third party sub-minds remotely through the world wide web by hosting both the mind and environment online. Until now there has been no successful language inde...

As commonsense would have it, dogs, cats, elephants, dolphins, chimps, and many other species of nonhuman animals are minded creatures: they can feel hunger, thirst, fatigue, agitation, pain and pleasure; they can try or want to do things; they can be startled, surprised, puzzled, or scared by this or that; they can have more or less specific interests, wants, and expectations; and, though lang...

This is the age of digital systems. Now a days, everything is being computerized. Peoples are using mobile phones, laptop, computer, camera, notebook, pdf reader etc digital systems too much than ever. Use of papers and pen, printed books are decreasing. Rather peoples are using digital means of communication, study, documentation. Optical character recognition is an application of these digita...

This is the age of digital systems. Now a days, everything is being computerized. Peoples are using mobile phones, laptop, computer, camera, notebook, pdf reader etc digital systems too much than ever. Use of papers and pen, printed books are decreasing. Rather peoples are using digital means of communication, study, documentation. Optical character recognition is an application of these digita...

the narratives permitting common reading of quran, despite differences in the readings of imams and those of common ones, allow people to read as common reading. some persons regard seven readings as the proof of their permissibility. others, based on periods, have considered them as permissible only in the imams era. and some jurists have regarded only hafs’ narrative as the proof of these tra...