All the high-resolution monitors and video effects, devoted to themes ranging from deep-sea-fishing expeditions to Spider-Man to the unsubtlest visions of cash washing over lucky winners, are only the most obvious signs of technology's move onto the casino floor.
One heroic shock survivor, Leonard Frank, spent decades re-educating himself and learning to live with long-term harmful effects, devoting himself to reform in psychiatry, and even to writing one of the best scientific critiques of ECT (Frank, 1990).
In The Nurture Effect I devote a chapter to how we can build caring relationships with others and how fundamental doing so is to evolving a more nurturing society.
Zimbardo, the psychologist who conducted the famous, or infamous, Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, and subsequently wrote a book called The Lucifer Effect, has devoted his career to studying the systemic nature of human violence and the corrupting effect of power, especially anonymous power, over others.
And, long before Five for Fighting explored Superman emo to great effect, Laurie Anderson devoted one of her finest, spookiest songs to the concept.
A great deal of "The Butterfly Effect" is devoted to bespoke videos crafted for specific individual customers, known as "customs".
Subsequent research on the economic effects of education would devote significant attention to these interactions, namely to the possible correlation between IQ levels and educational demand and the impact of ability in explaining the level of and the change in the return to schooling (see for instance, Griliches and Mason [1972]; Ashenfelter and Rouse [1998]; Heckman and Vytlacil [2001]).
Much effect has been devoted over the past decade to analyze the gene expression data.
This implies that part of the financing behind the Affordable Care Act has in effect already been devoted to something else.
