Building credible Non-Playing Characters (NPCs) in games requires not only to enhance the graphic animation but also the behavioral model. This paper tackles the problem of the dynamics of NPCs social relations depending on their emotional interactions. First, we discuss the need for a dynamic model of social relations. Then, we present our model of social relations for NPCs and we give a quali...

Three experiments investigated the frame of reference used in memory to represent vertical spatial layouts perceivable from a single viewpoint. We tested for the selection of three different reference systems: the body orientation, the visual vertical of the surrounding room, and the direction of gravity. Participants learned and retrieved differently colored objects on a vertical board with bo...

to study art, sociologists have so far related it either to the economic base of the artistic product or to the artist's ideology or world-view or the class structure of the audience and art consumers. the importance of none of these factors could be denied; however, what is more important is the relation between these factors, the complex network of political, economic and social relations tha...

This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science and that there was both more opposition to positivism and more ...

the international relations course was basically under the dominion of positivistic realistic (and in its newest form, the neorealistic) tendencies, and accordingly provided some concepts as a basis for analyzing the international relation and global policies. but since 1980s and under the influence of the changes caused by the emerge of post structuralist and post modernist approaches in the a...

Abstract In our previous paper (Kor and Bennett, 2003), we have shown how the nine tiles in the projection-based model for cardinal directions can be partitioned into sets based on horizontal and vertical constraints (called Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model). In order to come up with an expressive hybrid model for direction relations between two-dimensional single-piece regions (withou...

In our previous papers [Kor and Bennett, 2003; 2010], we have shown how the nine tiles in the projection-based model for cardinal directions can be partitioned into sets based on horizontal and vertical constraints (called Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model). In order to come up with an expressive hybrid model for direction relations between two-dimensional singlepiece regions (without h...

objective: this research aimed to investigate the relationship of family affective climate, self-effectiveness, and personal-social adjustment variables with academic achievement of university students in islamic azad university, ahvaz branch, ahvaz, iran.  methods: the research sample included 300 individuals (150 females and 150 males) who were selected through random stratified sampling meth...