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Prologue -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 History of Communication and Technological Advances -- 1.1.1 From Nonverbal to Digital -- 1.2 Modern Communication -- 1.2.1 Means of Communicating and the Need to Communicate -- 1.3 What Is Hyperconnectivity? -- 1.3.1 Applications of Hyperconnectivity in Society -- 1.3.2 Promises of Hyperconnectivity -- 1.3.3 Future of Hyperconnectivity -- References -- 2 Modeling Literary Culture Through Interactive Digital Media -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 Related Research -- 2.4 Framework of Modeling Literature -- 2.4.1 Literature Regeneration -- 2.4.2 Pervasive Experience -- 2.4.3 Mass Accessibility -- 2.4.4 Social Connectivity -- 2.5 Poetry Mix-Up -- 2.5.1 System Overview -- 2.5.2 Detailed System Description -- 2.6 System Evaluation -- 2.6.1 Design of the Evaluation -- 2.6.2 Results of the Evaluation -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Electric and Magnetic User Interfaces for Digital Smell and Taste -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Literature Review of Previous Digital Interfaces for Foods -- 3.2.1 Electrical Interfaces -- 3.2.2 Magnetic Interfaces -- 3.3 Current and Work in Progress Prototypes -- 3.3.1 Electrical Interfaces -- 3.3.1.1 Electric Taste Interface -- 3.3.1.2 Electric Smell Interface -- 3.3.2 Magnetic Interfaces -- 3.3.2.1 Magnetic Table and Magnetic Foods -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Love and Sex with Robots -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The First Crude Sex Robot -- 4.3 Lovotics -- 4.4 The Formulation of Love -- 4.5 The Probability of Love -- 4.6 The Artificial Endocrine System -- 4.7 The Affective State Transmission System -- 4.8 The Kissenger -- 4.8.1 Design Features -- 4.8.2 Design Flow -- 4.8.2.1 Input Kiss Sensing

Discussed literature: . "auf den Geschmack gekommen. Sechs Monate Streik bei Gate Gourmet," (Getting the taste of it. Six months on strike at Gate Gourmet), by Flying Pickets. The Gate Gourmet strike at Dusseldorf airport has been particular in the following ways: it has been the longest in German history; over half of the striking persons concerned were of foreign origin; and the "power to the people" concept that was magnified in a Just-in-Time context. O. van Zijl

This article analyzes the importance and advantages of essays in teaching English in a specialty, teaching speaking skills, and is important for the student's language learning. This article also discusses the educational value of articles and the benefits of using them. Russian and English translations of articles on a specific topic in Uzbek are given and analyzed. The use of these proverbs serves to shape the spirituality of the youth.

Potboilers looks at the recent re-evaluation of popular forms within literature, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarises two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the way commercial strategies and generic conventions have influenced these forms and explores issues of taste, narrative and gender with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcom. Distinctions between high' and low' culture have relegated many popular forms to the trashcan of great' literature. This book takes stock of the methods and concepts used to analyse popular culture and argues for a non-elitist approach to the study of literature, film and television

Imperial commodities have been the subject of both popular and scholarly histories in recent years. A considerable amount of literature has been published on commodities such as tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate, tobacco, and spices such as pepper and cloves. Those commodity histories reveal the lure of exotics for Europeans, importantly the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and British, who engaged at various times in commercial imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, slave labour, commodity democratisation, changing diets and changing food habits. This paper presents a literature review on selected popular histories that examined commodities, for instance, Sidney W. Mintz's Sweetness and Power (1986), Roy Moxham's Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire (2004) and James Walvin's Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800 (1997). This literature review will help us to understand commodity histories literature in a broader perspective.

This three-volume set contains over seventy valuable references written by economists, psychologists and social scientists that examine the field of new behavioural economics. The articles demonstrate how new behavioural economics and decision sciences deal with different issues with almost the same response - to include a new taste in utility function. In his original introduction Professor Khalil investigates the strengths and weaknesses of the literature and provides an essential insight into this field of study

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to t

Purpose
Beverage serving affects consumers' taste and price perceptions. Therefore, the correct selection of the presentation cues is essential when a consumer evaluates a product. This study aims to determine how haptic (weight) and visual (colour) cues of drinking vessels affect the taste and price perception of coffee.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors created three different experimental designs. Given that coffee is a popular drink among the younger population, the authors invited undergraduate students in the 18–24 age group into this study. The participants tasted the same coffee from cups differ in weight (heavy and normal) and colour (congruent, incongruent and neutral), after which their opinions about the taste and price were recorded.


Findings
According to the results, increasing the weight of the cup creates a more positive perception of the smell and density of the coffee. Moreover, coffee served in a heavy cup was perceived to be more expensive than in other cups. The authors also found that incongruent cups received a lower score in all evaluations regarding taste perception. In the final experiment, the authors used the weight and colour manipulations together. According to the participants, the most fragrant coffee was perceived from a heavy and congruent cup.


Research limitations/implications
Small sample is one of the limitations of this study. Future studies could be conducted with bigger and more diverse sample using different kinds of coffee beans.


Practical implications
It will be appropriate for coffee producers to design the cups in light of the said results.


Originality/value
The paucity in the existing literature of sensory marketing studies using hot drinks is remarkable, especially takeaway coffee, which is becoming more popular with an increasing number of coffee chains, and needs to be examined in detail.

In general, the aim of this manuscript is to investigate the impact of modernism in tourism practices in detail and provide a sound critique based on the change of mentality with the post-modernist Age. the paper will start with a body of literature on the modernist utopias specifically in the context of tourism, and then it will provide a post-modernist point of view in order to critically evaluate the modernist practices taking place in contemporary tourism sector. the methodology will be literature review and critical evaluation of the findings on the possible impacts of modernism on tourism sector and motivation of stakeholders, local governments and states in tourism activity. In conclusion, the study aims to find that modernist ideals have a significant impact on touristic activities, especially those which take uniform tastes of individuals for granted and fail to capture the fact that different people may have different tastes, and therefore, search for a different and privatized experience for themselves, which they can evaluate based on the closeness to their self-images. Furthermore, the paper will argue that current applications in tourism are also subject to change as well. Therefore policies targeted to develop the effectiveness of tourism must be adjustable for possible changes in the future; otherwise they will perish soon given the rapidly changing technological and global settings in the world.

This article has partly been elaborated in the framework of the project A Computational Dynamic Analysis of Public Debates on Politics, Aesthetics and Taste, No 3180096 of FONDECYT postdoctoral competition 2018, funded by CONICYT/FONDECYT/POSTDOCTORADO/No Proyecto 3180096. I am grateful to two anonymous referees for their invaluable comments, and to the audiences of the Seminario de Filosofia y Matematicas (Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile) and the GLiF Seminars (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain), where I presented previous versions of this work. ; According to Cappelen (2012), analytic philosophers have traditionally used two arguments to defend the role of intuitions in philosophy. On the one hand, The Argument from Philosophical Practice claims that analytic philosophers rely on intuitions when defending their theories. On the other hand, The Argument from Intuition Talk contends that intuitions must play a prominent role in analytic philosophy because analytic philosophers use intuition talk profusely. Cappelen (2012) identifies three questions to be considered when assessing the Argument from Intuition Talk: a quantitative question, a centrality question, and an interpretative question. The available studies have mainly focused on the quantitative and interpretative questions. In this paper, I examine the centrality question, taking as a case study the literature on taste disagreements — a topic that has received significant attention in the philosophy of language in the last fifteen years. To this end, I first build a corpus with the most relevant works in the area and then examine the centrality of intuition talk. The results show that the use of intuition talk is central in the literature on taste disagreements, and that intuitions are taken as evidence in favor of a given theory if the theory can account for them. ; Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT 3180096

Abstract
The article focuses on the role of Western goods and cultural influences in the Estonian SSR during late socialism, aiming to analyze "conspicuous" consumption practices, behaviors, and attitudes. Situated in the context of Soviet modernization and the economy of shortages, the article moves beyond the dominant discourse of scarcity and contributes to a growing body of literature that has uncovered the Soviet consumer as a modern shopper with distinctive tastes, demands, and sensibilities that were formed at the interplay between the socialist "good taste" and the imagined, yet incredibly tangible manifestations of Western material objects. The article argues that younger, urban, and largely female consumers in Soviet Estonia were susceptible to the enticement of materiality and status-oriented consumption that could be explained by the rise of "new" Soviet consumer's consciousness, Western-imitating do-it-yourself practices, and acquisition of Western goods that were regarded as a sign of knowledge, prestige, and social standing.

AbstractOne of the most important and consistent findings in the social networks literature is that individuals are socially connected to people who resemble themselves. This finding extends to preferences for consumer culture. Whereas network theorists previously had presumed that social networks generated this outcome through a process of social influence, this traditional conception of the relationship between culture and social networks has been challenged by new theoretical perspectives and novel methodological techniques that enable researchers to empirically test the causal direction of the relationship. In this article, I first discuss how theorists have adjudicated between competing explanations of the relationship of taste preferences and social network structure. Second, I discuss how sociologists have theorized that tastes contribute to variation in network structure. Third, I examine survey and ethnographic research that discusses interactional mechanisms by which people actively mobilize culture to form social relationships. Fourth and finally, I discuss research that explores how consumer culture constitutes the meaning of social relationships and how relationship category affects theorizing of network formation.

ABSTRACT- Cuba, specially through its narrative literature, demostrates always a very keen interest in the «guajiro». Glorified by the the creóle writers during the 19 th century as an ideal Cuban, the figure of this little white peasant has never ceased to arouse many a writer's fad ever since. Beyond the convergence of aesthetic tastes, the recurrence of this image actually reveals identitary intentions meant to maintain, even today, a national identity built around the representative of the creóle community.

Oliveira-Maia was supported by grants from the BIAL Foundation (176/10), and from Fundaçao ˜ para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) through a Junior Research and Career Development Award from the Harvard Medical School Portugal Program (HMSP/ICJ/0020/2011) and grant PTDC/MED-NEU/31331/2017; and is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950357). Ribeiro was funded by doctoral fellowships from Universidade de Lisboa (BD/2015Call) and FCT (SFRH/BD/128783/2017). ; For more than 50 years, there has been evidence for greater consumption of sweet- foods in overweight humans and animals, relative to those that have a normal weight. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that energy deficit resulting from dieting, while moving the individual from a higher weight set point, would result in heightened susceptibility to palatable tastants, namely to sweet tastants. This was the motivation behind the first studies comparing sweet taste perception between individuals with obesity and those of a normal weight. These studies, using direct measures of taste, have been characterized by significant methodological heterogeneity, contributing towards variability in results and conclusions. Nevertheless, some of these findings have been used to support the theory that patients with obesity have decreased taste perception, particularly for sweet tastants. A similar hypothesis has been proposed regarding evidence for reduced brain dopamine receptors in obesity and, in both cases, it is proposed that increased food consumption, and associated weight gain, result from the need to increase sensory and brain stimulation. However, the available literature is not conclusive on the association between obesity and reduced sweet taste perception, with both negative and contradictory findings in comparisons between individuals with obesity and normal weight control subjects, as well as within-subject comparisons before and after ...