The following paper is part of a larger analytical study of various contexts of computer games. Here, I elaborate on the method on which I base my study of the semiotic process constituted by playing a computer game. This method is derived from a critique of earlier approaches to the fi eld from the perspective of literary and media studies. While most of these approaches employ a twolevel mode...

1: The Food, Water, Energy Nexus 2: The Politics of Nexus-Related Research 3: Origins, Aims and Questions 4: Multi-, Interand Transdisciplinarity 5: Methods, Methodologies and Functions 6: Context, Complexity and Uncertainty 7: Risk, Evidence and Sound Science 8: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Framing 9: Critical Reflection and Reflexivity 10: Inductive, Deductive and Abductive Methods in Nexus-...

I know of no word more complex than "Phantasmagoria." The term has a vivid and dramatic historical origin, but, for a variety of reasons, "phantasmagoria," the name of a form of popular entertainment that premiered at the end of the eighteenth century, became in the nineteenth (and twentieth) century a key term of intellectual and aesthetic discussion. A term in tension, phantasmagoria takes on...

The aim of this study is to propose a new target recognition method for the multi-sensor with multiple characteristics indexes. Coefficient of variation is used to determine the weights of characteristic indexes. The conceptions of ideal optimal and negative ideal vectors are given first and then normalized relative ratio is used to comprehensive evaluation value. Hence the rule of target recog...

Aiming at the target recognition problem of multi-sensor with multiple characteristic indexes, a new fusion method is proposed. The method firstly substitutes the distance of confidence for the ordinary attribute values, and the weights of attributes are derived by solving the optimal programming of maximizing the total square deviation of the confidence distance for all attributes. Then accord...

Affective Cartography is currently being explored by cartographers. Different artistic outcomes are demonstrating how contemporary, new media art and design projects can be used for investigating the relationship between people and space in order to discover new realities, perceptions and emotions that possibly could remain unknown under the objectivity of the conventional map representations. ...