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A general theory of domain identification is used to describe achievement barriers still faced by women in advanced quantitative areas and by African Americans in school. The theory assumes that sustained school success requires identification with school and its subdomains; that societal pressures

Iznik is an Anatolian settlement which assumed significant roles in the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods. Although part of the city has been completely destroyed, the city will gain an identity which can be handed over to the coming generations if its accumulated heritage can

In a cell or microorganism the processes that generate mass, energy, information transfer, and cell fate specification are seamlessly integrated through a complex network of various cellular constituents and reactions. However, despite the key role these networks play in sustaining various cellular

In this paper we explore sustainability in interaction design by reframing concepts of user identity and use. Building on our work on everyday design, we discuss design-in-use: the creative and sustainable ways people appropriate and adapt designed artifacts. We claim that reframing the user as a

Plant responses to salt and water stress have much in com-mon. Salinity reduces the ability of plants to take up water, and this quickly causes reductions in growth rate, along with a suite of metabolic changes identical to those caused by water stress. The initial reduction in shoot growth

In this paper we explore sustainability in interaction design by reframing concepts of user identity and use in a domestic setting. Building on our own work on everyday design and Blevis’s Sustainable Interaction Design principles, we present examples from an ethnographic study of families

The Project “Significance of Matter in Design ” (SMD) is about the “world ” of Matter (material resources) in Design and its relation with the aspects of Cultural Identity, Innovation and Sustainability. The Project SMD is integrated in the context of applied research in Design and has as goal

social cost in making the spread of reputations optional. We prove that no equilibrium can sustain significantly more cooperation than the dues-paying equilibrium in a repeated random matching game with a large number of players in which players have finite lives and the ability to change

Socio/Environmental Monographs and an active member of the International Associ-ation for People-Environment Studies. He has carried out research and published ex-tensively in the field of environmental psychology. His research interests include symbolism, appropriation of space, identity