Post-conflict third-party affiliation has been reported to have different functional meanings, one of them being consolation. Here, we tested the main hypotheses that have been put forth to explain the presence of this phenomenon at a functional level in the bonobo: Self-Protection Hypothesis, Victim-Protection Hypothesis, Relationship-Repair or Substitute for Reconciliation Hypothesis, and Con...

We describe our early experience in applying our console log mining techniques [19, 20] to logs from production Google systems with thousands of nodes. This data set is five orders of magnitude in size and contains almost 20 times as many messages types as the Hadoop data set we used in [19]. It also has many properties that are unique to large scale production deployments (e.g., the system sta...

We present the concept of paraplay: playful activities that take place within the context of an interactive game or other play activity, but outside the activity itself. By critically examining work related to gaming and play goals and motivations we argue that the concept of playfulness should have a stronger role in our understanding of gaming sessions, and particularly social gaming sessions...

In the Slavic languages, the title of this paper cannot be rendered with a phrasal comparative; a clausal comparative must be used instead. I evaluate three types of theories of phrasal comparatives and conclude that only one – the small clause analysis – can accommodate the new observation. I then offer an explanation of the observation in terms of a universal and inviolable anti-locality cons...

Retention of implant-supported facial prostheses presents challenges in design that may lead to use of freestanding abutments. This is particularly so in the midface and orbit. Individual implant success rates are lower in these regions, and bone remodeling capacity may be compromised by combined modality cancer therapy. The present study was undertaken to determine the variations in load deliv...

MRI pulse sequence consoles typically employ closed proprietary hardware, software, and interfaces, making difficult any adaptation for innovative experimental technology. Yet MRI systems research is trending to higher channel count receivers, transmitters, gradient/shims, and unique interfaces for interventional applications. Customized console designs are now feasible for researchers with mod...

Obesity is a serious health problem globally and it is on the increase. Half of the adult US population is expected to be obese by 2025 if current trends continue. A major cause of obesity is inactivity and it has also been linked to playing computer games. As a result, fitness games and peripherals for games consoles are becoming increasingly popular as a method of exercise and as a way to hel...

As the use of opioids and polysubstance by pregnant women has increased over years, there also been a sharp increase in cases neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Classically, infants affected NAS have cared for intensive care units resulting an healthcare expenditure resource utilization as well separation from families. Consequently, Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) tool was developed promoted novel ...