Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...

This book is about persons. Given what most of us think about when we hear the word “psychology,” it is surprising that so much disciplinary psychology over the past 100 to 150 years has had relatively little to say about persons and their lives. Fortunately, this state of affairs has begun to change very rapidly. The purpose of this book is to introduce the seemingly new, yet in some ways long...

Astrobiology is a scientific discipline that studies life in the Universe. We call it a discipline and not a science because some authors have cast doubts over its epistemological status by calling it “a science without an object of study”. As with astrophysics, the scientific nature of astrobiology is related to historical-narrative sciences and nomothetic sciences. This discipline also integr...

Video games can provide immersive experiences in fantasy stories of good and evil. as players become agents in their complex narrative arcs, they develop skills of moral perception and decision-making. more importantly, they may experience what J. r. r. Tolkien calls " eucatastrophe. " S hould we treat video games—at least some of them—as objects of art worthy of serious study? We tend to dismi...

Abstract Scholars have called for “queering aging futures” beyond normative assumptions or scripts (Sandberg & Marshall, 2019), which is well-aligned with queer theory’s Cruising Utopia suggests “cruising ahead” toward a utopian future that not yet possible (Muñoz, 2009). Due to emphasis on form rather than content, narrative analyses enable the reimagining of futures bound by material real...

The tale of the apocalypse is considered a current subject debate that has captivated attention postmodern writers. Similarly, in atmosphere, Etel Adnan’s masterpiece, Master Eclipse (2009), problematises traditional apocalyptic narrative. Thus, this study sheds light on deconstructive aspect literary text, involving how author challenges narrative by foregrounding subjects. This last includes ...

Introduction: One of the most prominent features of Mars is the global south to north slope of ~0.036° [1] discovered by analysis of data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) aboard Mars Global Surveyor. In contrast, Isidis Planitia, the floor of Isidis basin, slopes southwest at an angle of ~0.02° [2]. It has been suggested [3] that deflection of the lithosphere under a load located in...