What are the exact aspects of the videogame medium, the precise features or combinations of features that lend themselves to expressing ideas and meaning? To chart this out, I begin with an American legal case that serves as a foundation for the basic issues involved and then move on to show how this relates to some of the broader attitudes the world of videogame discourse. Based on this, I bre...

Hughlings Jackson's neurological ideas are scientifically valid and practically useful. He began by emphasizing the focal lesion as the key to analysing patients' symptoms. He proclaimed that 'Epilepsy is the name for occasional, sudden, excessive, rapid, and local discharge of grey matter.' He eliminated any need for a direct appeal to metaphysical agents by asserting that the nervous system i...

Reward system can be considered the center of our body-mind equilibrium: we have medial reward, leading life, reproduction, needs, and willings; if this is not adequatly satisfied, dopamine is converted by dopa-beta-hydroxilase into catecolamines, and habenula regulates the balance so that lateral reward risk to become prevalent, with activation of HPA axis (hypothalamus-pituitary gland-adrenal...

This paper concludes the work on my fopra: “Learning Progress” page of the Learner Model of ActiveMath, that allows to give the learners an overview of ActiveMath’s opinion on their learning progress. However, after having finished the project and having read some articles, I realized that learners may prefer to participate in a discussion about their problems rather than being given a quick, i...

A workshop for NIME 2013 is proposed on haptic interaction design for musical applications. The focus lies primarily on using physical models for programming haptic force feedback. During the workshop, participants will program the FireFader haptic device using the Synth-A-Modeler physical modeling framework, which combines elements from digital waveguide, mass-interaction, and modal synthesis....

Objective: To determine prevalence of depression in elderly and identify predictors of depression in elderly. Patients & Methods: This cross‐sectional study was conducted at Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi from October 2013 to December 2013 among elderly coming to outdoor patient department. Patients and their attendants of age 64 or above were included in the study. Two hundred and nine males ...

This paper discusses ITand information security challenges for wearable computing encountered during the WearIT@work project. The following novel ideas are introduced in this paper: authorization by proximity using dynamic context information to enable transfer of authorization from one party to another, a wearable pairing mechanism to use devices on other wearables, and a more intelligent mana...

the study has investigated the missionaries' attitude towards the function of weblog and sms, and also the amount of using them. the fields of sending sms and also the aim of creating the weblog have been studied too. for this purpose, the concept of religious media has been used for the meaning of using media to achieve religious goals and ideals. these two media have been chosen for thei...