service oriented enterprises (soes) are subject to constant change and variation. in this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. we construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

A year after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to action, public health experts say indigenous health won’t improve without major system change. Last June, the commission issued a comprehensive treatment plan for healing the trauma inflicted on indigenous communities under Canada’s residential schools system — but not much has happened. Eight of the commission’s 94 recommendations ...

The structure of many marine ecosystems has changed substantially during recent decades, as a result of overexploitation, climate change and eutrophication. Despite of the apparent ecological and economical importance of coastal areas and communities, this aspect has received relatively little attention in coastal systems. Here we assess the temporal development of zoobenthos communities in two...

Early experiments on iconic memory suggested that people initially experience a detailed visual image but can report only a few cued items. We hypothesized that strong top down predictions would allow for visual experience of only task relevant information. In a change detection task we manipulated the appearance of visual stimuli in the critical part of the experiment by removing up to 70