Serious games: Theory in anthropology since the 1980s

Serious Games - Theory and Reality

The following paper proposes a new two-step framework for the analysis of serious games, one that first looks at their use for personal and/or professional contexts. It then looks at the challenges serious game developers face in today’s entertainment driven environment. It suggests that societal and market challenges must be resolved to allow for the creation of serious games that can successf...

Successes and Failures of Development Experience since the 1980s Successes and Failures of Development Experience since the 1980s

This paper reviews the development experience since the 1980's and finds room for guarded optimism about what we can learn from it. Firstly, a global consensus is emerging on the need for macroeconomic stability through prudent fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies. However, at the micro or structural level, while governments need to decentralize their decision-making authority more fu...

Increases in use of methotrexate since the 1980s.

In this chapter, we review the use of DMARDs in several clinical RA cohorts and databases between the 1970s and the 2000s. The DMARD profile in the QUEST-RA database provides an overview of clinical use of MTX in recent years in 25 countries. The data show that (I) MTX is currently the most frequently used DMARD in RA, and (II) that this development has taken about 20 years to emerge.

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Austria: Persistent low fertility since the mid-1980s

This chapter offers an in-depth analysis of fertility in Austria, a country which has experienced a low and relatively stable fertility level and a gradual postponement of childbearing since the mid-1980s. We begin by summarising Austrian population trends in the post-World War II period and highlighting recent relatively high migration levels. We outline the long history of sub-replacement fer...