Practice development unit - every person makes a difference

Size makes a difference.

OBJECTIVE To elucidate status and trends in portion size of foods rich in fat and/or added sugars during the past decades, and to bring portion size into perspective in its role in obesity and dietary guidelines in Denmark. DATA SOURCES Information about portion sizes of low-fat and full-fat food items was obtained from a 4-day weighed food record (Study 1). Trends in portion sizes of commerc...

Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

During the last two decades, critical enquiry into the nature of race has begun to enter the philosophical mainstream. The same period has also witnessed the emergence of an increasingly visible discourse about the nature of information within a diverse range of popular and academic settings. What is yet to emerge, however, is engagement at the interface of the two disciplines – critical race t...

The Difference All-Difference Makes

We perform a comprehensive theoretical and experimental analysis of the use of all-different constraints. We prove that generalized arc-consistency on such constraints lies between neighborhood inverse consistency and, under a simple restriction, path inverse consistency on the binary representation of the problem. By generalizing the arguments of Kondrak and van Beek, we prove that a search al...

Practice makes perfect: agent development through rehearsal

Like alife, theatre tries to illuminate life so that it can be better understood, through an exaggerated ‘simulation’ of life in front of an audience. Actors can be seen as collaborative agents working to maximize the enjoyment of the audience in a fairly (but not completely) well known world. The idea of using theatre as a metaphor for computing is not new [1], but recently researchers have ex...

The brain makes a difference