Your guide to the ever-shrinking solitude on Planet Earth

Mission to planet Earth.

Anthraquinones are the largest group of the naturally occurring quinones. Both natural and synthetic anthraquinones are widely used in medical preparations, colourants in foods, hair dyes and others. Chrysazin (1, 8-dihydroxy-9, 10-anthracenedione; Figure 1) is a synthetic anthraquinone with 1, 8-dihydroxy groups like other natural anthraquinones such as emodin and chrysophanol which have been ...

Well-Being on Planet Earth

The Gallup World Poll allows a look at how humanity is flourishing, based on the answers of survey respondents sampled from across the globe. Several conclusions are clear. First, how people are doing depends enormously on the society in which they live, and nations vary from doing very well to extremely poorly. In terms of subjective well-being, nations vary greatly, in both judgments of overa...

An Educational Guide to Planet Earth: Adaptation and Personalization in Immersive Educational Games

Using computer games for educational purposes is a fascinating and popular idea. An important goal of research is an increased personalization and adaptation. In the present work we introduce the work of the 80Days project which primarily focuses on non-invasive in-game assessment and adaptation on the basis of psycho-pedagogical models. Moreover, we present the manifestation of research effort...

Distributed Earth Science Validation Centers for Mission to Planet Earth

Causal understanding in reasoning about the world p. 13 How to make intelligent digital libraries p. 27 Some methodology and representation problems for the semantics of prosaic application domains p. 39 Recognizing credible experts in inaccurate databases p. 46 Fuzzy logic or Lukasiewicz logic: a clarification p. 56 Logic systems for approximate reasoning: via rough sets and topology p. 65 Sig...

Portfolio Planning for Planet Earth