In this paper, we introduce the theory of trait Emotional Intelligence (‘trait EI’) as a personality theory that could assist in exemplifying the gamers’ profile and contribute to the design of player-center game experiences. Data from two studies (a game-specific and a game-general one) led to a number of playercentered playability principles that could inform the design of adaptable games and...

We employ time reversal for deep subwavelength focusing in plasmonic periodic nanostructures. The strong anisotropy enables propagating modes with very large transverse wave vector and moderate propagation constant, facilitating transformation of diffraction-limited plane waves to high-K Bloch waves in the plasmonic nanostructure. Time reversal is used to excite the waves in the nanostructure a...

This paper aims to evaluate the driving behaviour of young drivers few years after licensure. The evaluation is based on two kinds of data: In Vehicle Data Recorders (IVDR) and Self-Reports (SR). The results show that young drivers clearly perceived themselves as safer drivers than they are according to IVDR. The results also suggest, based on the two approaches, that young driver improved thei...

The field of Software Product Lines (SPL) emphasizes building a family of software products from which concrete products can be derived rapidly. This helps to reduce time-to-market, costs, etc., and can result in improved software quality and safety. Current Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are concerned with developing a single Multiagent System. The main contribution o...

Subjectivity and sentiment analysis (SSA) is an area that has been witnessing a flurry of novel research. However, only few attempts have been made to build SSA systems for morphologically-rich languages (MRL). In the current study, we report efforts to partially bridge this gap. We present a newly labeled corpus of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) from the news domain manually annotated for subjec...

Many generating functions for partitions of numbers are strongly related to modular functions. This article introduces such connections using the Rogers-Ramanujan functions as key players. After exemplifying basic notions of partition theory and modular functions in tutorial manner, relations of modular functions to q-holonomic functions and sequences are discussed. Special emphasis is put on s...

This data is related to our paper "Small molecules preventing GAPDH aggregation are therapeutically applicable in cell and rat models of oxidative stress" (Lazarev et al. [1]) where we explore therapeutic properties of small molecules preventing GAPDH aggregation in cell and rat models of oxidative stress. The present article demonstrates a few of additional properties of the chemicals shown to...

In this document, we first elaborate on some aspects mentioned during the discussion offered in the paper (Sec. 1). Subsequently, we discuss how shape trees are realized in our prototype and what effects the various actions have on such a tree (Sec. 2). A concise reference for CGA++ is then presented in Sec. 3, covering many details omitted in the paper. Finally, definitions for some functions ...

We begin by summarizing the relevance and importance of inductive analytics based on the geometry and topology of data and information. Contemporary issues are then discussed. These include how sampling data for representativity is increasingly to be questioned. While we can always avail of analytics from a “bag of tools and techniques”, in the application of machine learning and predictive ana...

This work shows how Excel can be leveraged to tackle configuration problems. We demonstrate this by presenting the full development cycle of a PC-configurator prototype. We articulate our demonstration by exemplifying several important points. First, Excel can be used to import raw products and services data. Second, these data can be used by a constraint modelling to correctly instantiate a se...