People are more likely to volunteer when it takes less time to do so and when a person who is more likely to be encountered in the future makes the request. The effect of efficacy is in line with the hypothesis that psychological incentives for contributions to collective goods Conclusion ...
Ann Flinders had died the year before. That same year, at the age of 40, her daughter Anne married an engineer,William Petrie. Like her mother, she had one child, a son, born at an age – 41 – when childbirth was very dangerous for older women. She named him William after his fat...
Technology is simply a lazy person’s answer to her dreams of infinite powers. I would rather continue to use limited and limiting devices (computers, cell phones, microchips, free energy machines) than become who I really am: an omniscient, omnipotent, invincible, immortal, all-loving being!
Ironically, someone got the bright idea to declare that the Ice Age had ended when the Holocene began. That would have been nice, but here’s where we need the reality check. What does Ice Age mean? In science, we need to be precise with our terms and this is one area where most e...
In terms of media consumption and frequency of usage, results suggest that young adults in Portugal have similar media consumption behaviours to other geographical environments where mobile phones, laptop computers, and TV with a box are the primary media to which young people have access. However,...
Consistent condom use tends to be limited in youth, which makes this group especially vulnerable for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancies. It is known that sexual risk may vary as a function of behavioral intentions (e.g., condom use intention or having sex under the...
The journals Computers and Geosciences and Ecological Informatics share the largest number of authors from the same country (6.87% each), considering that each one is represented in the studied sample by a scientific paper. The authors who published in the first journal were located in Germany (...
Similar to others, we found AT to be vital for participation for persons with disabilities, but our study makes an additional contribution by highlighting the need for AT for citizenship participation. Access to AT was exceptionally low, and of poor quality, and we detected no evidence of a ...