Virtual environments allow individuals to dramatically alter their self-representation. More important, studies have shown that people infer their expected behaviors and attitudes from observing their avatar’s appearance, a phenomenon known as the Proteus effect. For example, users given taller avatars negotiated more aggressively than users given shorter avatars. Two studies are reported here ...

BACKGROUND Blended learning environments - involving both face-to-face and remote interactions - make it easier to adapt learning programs to constraints such as residents' location and low teacher-student ratio. Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook®, while not originally intended to be used as learning environments, may be adapted for the distance-learning part of training programs. ...

By preparation and characterization of a series of pesudorotaxanes based on DB24C8 and paraquat derivatives, it was found that these complexes were stabilized by N⋅⋅⋅O interactions, C-H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonding, and face-to-face π-stacking interactions. Because methyl protons of paraquat are involved in hydrogen bonding to the host, the substitution of any methyl hydrogen on paraquat causes apparen...

Abstract This work describes a method to vectorize and Machine‐Learn, ML, non‐covalent interactions responsible for scaffold‐directed reactions important in synthetic chemistry. Models trained on this representation predict correct face of approach ca. 90 % Michael additions or Diels–Alder cycloadditions. These accuracies are significantly higher than those based traditional ML descriptors, ene...

Common nursing functions, previously done in face-to-face interactions, are beginning to be done using computer interactions, thus changing the work environment of nurses. This paper reports experiences from a series of projects +bout the potential impact of electronic care delivery systems on nurses’ work systems. Nurses’ attitudes towards technology, values central to nursing practice and nur...

This research study focuses on the discourse of a community of student teachers and a peer tutor in an English language teaching teacher education programme. The chief aims of this study are (1) to examine the features of the discourse in online and face-to-face modes of communication, (2) to investigate the community practices, and extrapolate how the student teachers and the peer tutor build ...

The planar molecules of 6-hydroxy-1,3-benzoxathiol-2-one, C(7)H(4)O(3)S, are linked by extensive O-H.O and C-H.O hydrogen bonding and are further stablilized by face-to-face pi-pi interactions.