In present paper, I will argue that Japanese dating simulation video games can be considered as serious games. Prior to advancing my main argument, I will introduce the popular dating sim LovePlus and relate it to the historization of the concept of „techno-intimacy‟ within the Japanese society. For further contextualization of the field, I will theorize the audience at which dating sims are ai...

Understanding the effect of a heuristic on the time complexity of the well-known A∗ search algorithm has been a subject of a large research body in AI. Among those researches is Korf et al.’s analysis (Korf & Reid, 1998; Korf et al., 2001; Korf, 2000a; Korf, 2000b), which concluded that the effect of a heuristic is to reduce the effective depth rather than effective branching factor. Since this...

In this paper we present a novel approach to the formal semantics of the French tense system. More precisely, we give a synopsis of the computational theory of meaning developed in [13], [12] and the forthcoming book [14], and apply it to two French tenses, Passé Simple and Imparfait. Much work has been done on French tenses within the framework of DRT or extensions thereof such as SDRT. The la...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A previously well 13-year-old boy presented with a 3-month history of right-sided hip pain responding to simple analgesia. Physical examination and blood tests were unremarkable. A pelvic x-ray ( fi gure 1 ) revealed multiple sclerotic lesions in both femora, worse on the asymptomatic left side ( fi gure 2 ) with further lesions in the pelvis. Review of a previous x-ray taken...

Hey Alice, I am a 19-year-old male and I am on the worst end of sugar intake. On normal days, I have found myself to consume upwards of 500 grams of sugar, and I have no idea how much I eat on special occasions where candy and other sweets are bountiful. I am a lanky kid with a family history of excessively high metabolisms. When I reach for a snack, I grab an entire box of cookies ? mostly van...

649 The move to make testing more routinely available, or even to require that physicians offer it to patients, has encountered little opposition. But there is resistance to the elimination of pretest counseling and specific written consent, as well as to the adoption of an opt-out standard. Although Frieden rejects mandatory HIV testing, many fear that without a requirement for written consent...

Neuroscience as well as computer gaming have rapidly advanced in the last decades. Yet, the combination of both fields is still in its infancy. One example of an emerging alliance is neurofeedback, where participants are required to learn controlling their own brain activity. So far, this kind of training is mostly applied in therapeutic settings, for example improving symptoms in epilepsy, att...

In November, 2008, an arrest call was made for a 69-yearold woman after a syncopal episode in a rural hospital. The patient had had an elective right total hip replacement a day earlier. The syncope occurred when she mobilised with a physiotherapist. She regained full consciousness within seconds, but her blood pressure was unrecordable. She denied chest pain or discomfort, palpitation, dizzine...