Young children often build various structures with wooden blocks; structures that are often used for pretend play, subtly improving children’s creativity and imagination. Based on a traditional Japanese wooden block toy, Tsumiki, we propose a novel interactive toy for children, named “TSU.MI.KI”, maintaining the physical assets of wooden blocks and enhancing them with automation. “TSU.MI.KI” co...

Toy Stars are gas masses where the compressibility is treated without approximations but gravity is replaced by a force which, for any pair of masses, is along their line of centres and proportional to their separation. They provide an invaluable resource for testing the suitability of numerical codes for astrophysical gas dynamics. In this paper, we derive the equations for both small-amplitud...

The anomalous dimensions of local single trace gauge invariant operators in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory can be computed by diagonalizing a long range integrable Hamiltonian by means of a perturbative asymptotic Bethe ansatz. This formalism breaks down when the number of fields of the composite operator is smaller than the range of the Hamiltonian which coincides with the order in per...

Children are drawn away from traditional toys and towards computer games at an ever younger age. Pervasive Computing may reverse that trend as it can bring similar levels of interactivity as available in computer games to traditional toys. In this a paper a storytelling environment is presented consisting of an audio replay engine and a tactile user interface based on a sensor network. The impl...

We discuss a toy model for adiabatic quantum computation which displays some phenomenological properties expected in more realistic implementations. This model has two free parameters: the adiabatic evolution parameter s and the α parameter which emulates many-variables constrains in the classical computational problem. The proposed model presents, in the s − α plane, a line of first order quan...

The paper aims at contributing to the professional development of toy design education programs. It draws from the practice of a children’s toy design course at Delft University of Technology. It identifies three major concepts that greatly influence toy quality and that students find difficult to understand and apply: aimlessness, empathy and play value. The paper describes how these concepts ...

Pax6 genes encode transcription factors with two DNA-binding domains that are highly conserved during evolution. In Drosophila, two Pax6 genes function in a pathway in which twin of eyeless (toy) directly regulates eyeless (ey), which is necessary for initiating the eye developmental pathway. To investigate the gene duplication of Pax6 that occurred in holometabolous insects like Drosophila and...

The use of Clickers as a tool for library instruction has been growing in popularity because library instructors view this technology as a mechanism to foster interactivity within library instruction sessions in order to increase overall student engagement. However, a newly emerging area of interest for library instructors is the use of Clickers as a tool for library instruction assessment. Thi...

Comparison of the effectiveness between Video and toy reinforcer types to motivate infants/toddlers for hearing tests. No significant differences were found between a age groups or gender. Toy reinforcers were found to produce on average 2 more threshold estimates compared to video reinforcers. Variety, color, and animation of animals may have attributed to this difference.