Verify your progress by letting dierent versions of your program (with and without the improvements) play against each other in a selection of games. Record the results of the comparisons for at least 5 dierent games and send me an email with the results no later than Sunday, Feb 1st 2009 with a short descriptions of the changes between the versions of your program you compared.

Background and aims The aim for this study was to assess the construct validity and reliability of the Health Dialogue Questionnaire (HDQ©) for eleventh grade in school through comparison of the HDQ© with Paediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL™), Local monitoring of youth policy questionnaire (LUPP®), Health behaviour in Swedish school-aged children (HBSC©), Equal health (EH©) and The Swe...

We experimentally explore the effects and interactions of three variables considered important when bargaining over a jointly produced surplus: performance information, production uncertainties when translating performance into output, and subjective entitlements derived from the production process. We find that without performance information subjective entitlements are mostly mutually consist...

Purpose: We propose in this paper to analyze what are the factors that influence knowledge transfer both intra and intergenerational in family firms. The main objective is to establish a framework that can be used later in empirical research, although we maintain a completely theoretical approach in this paper Design/methodology/approach: This study, which is a comprehensive framework character...

A functional approach for the study of the random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) is proposed. Under fairly general assumptions on the random walk and on the random scenery, functional limit theorems are proved. The method allows to study separately the convergence of the walk and of the scenery: on the one hand, a general criterion for the convergence of the local time of the walk is provided...

This article describes a practice research project investigating how the of meditation may be integrated into playing shakuhachi, an instrument utilised during Edo period (1603–1867) as tool for spiritual by monks Fuke sect and later becoming part hōgaku (Japanese traditional music) world stage instrument. Although we cannot know were trained to use shakuhachi in meditation, I have combined my ...