The paper will address an opportunity for mixed-reality learning in Second Life by discussing the training needs and restrictions for humanitarian and development workers as met by the Open University course TUXR873: Working with conflict: tools, skills and dialogue. The paper will map these needs to the affordances of Second Life, in a context of realistic, practical and sustainable course dev...

BACKGROUND Under aerobic conditions, acetic acid is the major byproduct produced by E. coli during the fermentation. And acetic acid is detrimental to cell growth as it destroys transmembrane pH gradients. Hence, how to reduce the production of acetic acid and how to utilize it as a feedstock are of intriguing interest. In this study, we provided an evidence to produce β-caryophyllene by the en...

Material And Methods: 109 consecutive patients listed for routine cataract surgery were operated under topical anaethesia. Patients received four doses of 0.5% proparacaine eye drops. A 10 point visual analogue pain scoring system was used to score pain just after instillation of drops and pain score during operation was recorded just after completion of surgery. Intraoperative/ postopearive co...

As new standards for technology specifications related to XML are unveiled, and stable tools to implement them become available, the widespread usage of XML as an universal format for data exchange between heterogeneous systems (using the Internet), will increasingly become a reality. Therefore, in order to deal efficiently with the large amounts of XML data that will be generated in the near f...

In this paper we sketch the outlines of an account of the kind of social cognition involved in simple action coordination that is based on direct social perception (DSP) rather than recursive mindreading. While we recognize the viability of a mindreading-based account such as e.g. Michael Tomasello's, we present an alternative DSP account that (i) explains simple action coordination in a less c...