Historically in India, persons with disabilities enjoyed co-existence, though at different times, the treatment and attitudes were at variance. Out of all the types of disabilities, an intellectual disability poses greater challenges than the other types. The families of persons with intellectual disabilities do also have needs different from others, which cannot be segregated from the needs of...

The Prix Pictet is a photography prize focussing on sustainability. Anthropocentric in its world-view, the was endorsed and supported by Kofi Annan, who until 2006 Secretary-General of United Nations. This article argues three points. Firstly, that Pictet’s model sustainability anthropocentric produces framework which myriad inequalities human relationships become representable. as symptom cont...

Manufacturing modeling and simulation has historically been equipment-centric. This equipmentcentric view is an imperfect representation of a realworld factory where Operators’ decision-making processes drive manufacturing. This paper evaluates rudimentary enhancements to a simulation tool allowing for Operator-centric modeling. The results of these experiments indicate a significant improvemen...

Today, crowdsourcing is used to “taskify” any job ranging from simple receipt transcription to collaborative editing, fan-subbing, and citizen science. Existing work has mainly focused on improving the processes of task assignment and task completion in a requester-centric way by optimizing for outcome quality under budget constraints. In this paper, we advocate that accounting for workers’ cha...

Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, systems frameworks position as both precursor to, and product of, system sustainability. Yet, the degree which is being advanced through uncertain. We use case small-scale fisheries in Pacific Islands region explore proposition that different narratives: (1) ecolo...