Power play

The power of play.

Although under attack from some goal-oriented politicians and parents and o(en considered super)uous by school administrators and teachers, free play remains vital to human health and creativity. Contrary to the notion that play should serve utilitarian ends or consist primarily of organized sports, the author makes a case for self-initiated physical play free of educational toys, computer game...

Impact of Power Play Overs on the Outcome of Twenty20 Cricket Match

This study attempts to find if better performance in power play leads a team to victory in a Twenty20 match. Based on the methodology devised to do so, the study tries to measure the performance of both the teams during power play overs in terms of batting and bowling. The developed measure is called ‘Prod’ which is a product of the difference of batting and bowling performance of t...

Mexican Speech Play: History and the Psychological Discourses of Power

Building Plug & Play Power Applications Using Abstract Object Modeling

This paper addresses the computer industry’s general inability to develop complex software applications in a manner that promotes easy integration, reusability and low maintenance. Most complex applications are built for a very specific environment and include far too many dependencies, making them difficult to maintain and expensive to integrate. A development methodology known as Abstract Obj...

On the Power of Play-Out for Scenario-Based Programs

We investigate the power of play-out, the execution mechanism associated with scenario-based programming, which was defined as the operational semantics of live sequence charts (LSC). We compare some of the play-out strategies and mechanisms suggested in the literature, and discuss their strengths and limitations. Specifically, we define a simple infinite hierarchy of LSC programs, and use it t...