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Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
, 2000
"... We are quickly passing through the historical moment when people work in front of a single computer, dominated by a small CRT and focused on tasks involving only local information. Networked computers are becoming ubiquitous and are playing increasingly significant roles in our lives and in the basi ..."
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. Distributed cognition provides a radical reorientation of how to think about designing and supporting human-computer interaction. As a theory it is specifically tailored to understanding interactions among people and technologies. In this article we propose distributed cognition as a new foundation for human
The Reorientation Process Following Deregulation in Some Finnish Companies
"... During the last two decades the proc- ess of deregulation has been both widespread and swift in Europe and North America. There have been major regulatory changes affecting airlines, financial services, public transport, telecommunications, to mention just a few. In Europe the United Kingdom has bee ..."
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increases and the operating environment becomes more complex. Change also becomes a constant feature and is less predictable. But how have companies managed the transformation from a monopoly position to free competition? Background Greiner & Bhambri (1989) argue strongly that radical changes ought
AT ISSUE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, RADICAL FEMINISM, AND SOCIALIST LIBERALISM
"... Feminist analysis and activism against the new reproductive technologies burgeoned in the early 1980s. Recognizing that technological developments were rapidly escalating on an international scale, women from 20 countries, both first and third world, came together in 1984 to share information and sh ..."
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and shape analysis and response. At this time, few of the criticisms, whether coming from conservative or radical circles, had opposed these technologies because of their harm to women. The challenge to this gathering of international feminists was to reorient the ethical and political discussion to a woman
Economic development and social policies in Mexico
"... Since the mid-1980s Mexico has implemented a radical reorientation of its development strategy away from state-led industrialization and trade protection. This reform has drastically reduced the role of the state in the economy in favour of market mechanisms, and changed the orientation of social po ..."
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Since the mid-1980s Mexico has implemented a radical reorientation of its development strategy away from state-led industrialization and trade protection. This reform has drastically reduced the role of the state in the economy in favour of market mechanisms, and changed the orientation of social
GENDER AND HEALTH
"... argue that to improve men’s and women’s health, individuals, researchers, and policymakers must understand the social and bio-logical sources of the perplexing gender differences in illness and longevity. Although individuals are increasingly aware of what they should do to improve health, competing ..."
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and women’s health-related opportunities. Understanding the cumulative impact of their choices can inform individuals at each of these levels how to better integrate health implications into their everyday decisions and actions. Their platform for prevention calls for a radical reorientation of health
State, market, and space
"... Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities are playing an import ant role in China's overall economic development. The creation of housing and land markets is rapidly changing the face of Chinese eities, and they present the landscapes of both the First and Third Worlds. Yet, radi ..."
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Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities are playing an import ant role in China's overall economic development. The creation of housing and land markets is rapidly changing the face of Chinese eities, and they present the landscapes of both the First and Third Worlds. Yet
SOCIOCYBERNETICS- THE PATH TO A SCIENCE OF BECOMING.
"... The problem of consciousness cannot simply be approached from a third person’s perspective – the classical approach is bound to fail. A science that cannot account for human feelings will leave out the most important factor affecting human decisions. Cross-disciplinary approaches can provide a bette ..."
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better understanding and sociocybernetics is the name of the combined efforts of cybernetics and the social sciences- that will provide a basis for the understanding of both the nature of the mind and of human communication. Cybernetics has already s foreshadowed a radical reorientation of human thinking
Azafullerene C59N, a stable free radical substituent in crystalline
, 2000
"... Solid solutions of C59N azafullerene in C60 with concentrations of 10 ÿ5 to 10ÿ4 were produced in large quantities in an electric gas discharge tube. C59N is a stable monomeric substituent molecule in crystalline C60. The isotropic 14N and 13C hyperfine coupling constants measured by electron spin r ..."
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resonance (ESR) are characteristic of the extent of delo-calization of the charge over the cage and are a sensitive test of electronic structure calculations. The C59N reorien-tational activation energy measured below the face centered cubic (fcc) to simple cubic (sc) transition is 2300 K. This value
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, 2009
"... The immense social, economic, and cultural changes that have occurred in the modern era present religions with serious concerns about how well their traditions address adherents ’ needs in a radically altered spiritual climate. Thomas Merton, a twentieth-century Cistercian monk, minces no words in h ..."
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to this goal must be modified to accommodate the uniquely modern obstacles that hinder attainment of the radical reorientation that the mystic seeks. For Merton, these obstacles are twofold: first, a
Why Isaac Newton Rejected Astrology: A Prelimi- nary Reconstruction or "Newton's Comets and the Transformation of Astrology": 20 Years Later
"... What was Isaac Newton's relationship to astrology? Unlike with bis study and practice of alchemy, there is very little evidence on which to base a well-establisbed answer. In this pre-liminary investigation, largue that Newton rejected astrology for both personal and ideo-logical reasons. This ..."
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previously astrology had been used to sup-port God's Providence, Newton's rejection of astrology and revision of cometology radically reoriented this centuries long tradition. ¿Cuál era la relación de Newton con la astrologla? A diferencia de su estudio y práctica de la alquimia, existe poca
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