Having seen the Wachowski brother’s film The Matrix over a dozen times, I constantly wonder about the potential of technology and its collision with our traditional notions of physical reality. The Matrix offers a preemptive view of the intersection (or collision) between human culture and digital technology. It introduces the idea of simulation space and our ability to learn and refine skill w...

background and aim : hearing impairment affects educational skills of hearing-impaired students, but its negative impact is far more on reading and writing skills. this study was per­formed to design and validate an educational software to improve writing skills. methods : in this study, the mixed-methods approach was used. in the first step, the qualitative method was used to design the educat...

While much research has investigated the association between personality and health, little research has done so using a bereaved sample. Additionally, little research has investigated how personality influences the frequency of negative social exchanges bereaved individuals receive. This study utilized a structural equation model to investigate the associations among age, gender, personality, ...

We extend the Bayesian skill rating system TrueSkill to infer entire time series of skills of players by smoothing through time instead of filtering. The skill of each participating player, say, every year is represented by a latent skill variable which is affected by the relevant game outcomes that year, and coupled with the skill variables of the previous and subsequent year. Inference in the...

Ancient Eastern thought posited the ontological integration of the "mind-body world". The body-mind syncretism was a foundational precept in Eastern philosophy in which "Gih" ("Qi") was considered the basic entity of the universe and the human being. This study attempts to build a meta-theory and to demonstrate empirical designs for Gih, discussing the problems of the mind and body, or the subj...

this study aimed to consider the dimensions and parameters of handling individual abilities in religious system and contemporary theories based on quran and hadith related to body training and physical skills in islam. as there are a large amount of evidence related to the fit body and relaxed mind, many case studies can be observed accordingly. besides a brief review of the history of islam, c...

Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ability measures (two representing the ability to learn and one the ability to earn), a rate of skill depreciation, and a time discount rate. In addition,...