Despite the increasing popularity in the academic and practical fields of digital gaming, little has been explored and documented about gaming experience, especially firsthand account. This study uses Bruno Latour's concept of the Thing while investigating digital gaming experience from frequent gamers' standpoint using focus groups methodology. Additionally in-depth interviews were conducted w...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag stellen wir das LArS-Modul C („Critical Incidents“) vor. Wir geben zunächst einen Überblick über den allgemeinen Aufbau und gehen auf die einzelnen Modulteile ein. Anschließend werden theoretische Hintergründe der Gestaltung diskutiert praktische Möglichkeiten zum Einsatz Videos Lehr-/Lernmaterialien aufgezeigt. Die Auswahl Unterrichtssituationen Aufgaben erfol...

Productivity measurement is considered in the context of incomplete output information. Only a value measure of output is assumed to be available, which is typical for many service industries. Input markets are assumed competitive while the output market is allowed to be non--competitive, potential markups being assumed to be either known or constant. It is shown that if production technologies...

1 The material presented here draws heavily upon the Bank's internal review of the 1991-1998 business cycle, and papers that have been prepared by the Bank for the Independent Review of the Operation of Monetary Policy in New Zealand, which is being conducted by Professor Lars Svensson at the current time. These papers may be obtained at Any remaining errors and omissions are the sole responsib...

In recent y ears there has been a revival of interest in the trade-growth nexus. A number of authors have suggested that regional economic integration and liberalization of international trade are likely to have positive eects not only on productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing industries, this paper exa...

We consider model selection and estimation for partial spline models and propose a new regularization method in the context of smoothing splines. The regularization method has a simple yet elegant form, consisting of roughness penalty on the nonparametric component and shrinkage penalty on the parametric components, which can achieve function smoothing and sparse estimation simultaneously. We e...

We study a dynamic principal-agent problem where social capital is an important part of the system of incentives. In each period the firm chooses an incentive intensity, and its employees allocate effort between individual and cooperative tasks. Cooperative tasks are within bounds more pro­ ductive than individual tasks, but employees are not monetarily rewarded for them. Rather, and consistent...

methylation changes and temperature adaptation Xia Shen1, Jennifer De Jonge2, Simon Forsberg1, Mats Pettersson1, Zheya Sheng1, Lars Hennig2 and Örjan Carlborg1* Affiliations: 1Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Box 7078, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. 2Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Biol...

Jörg Richter, Lars Erik Lauritz, Elizabeth du Preez, Nafisa Cassimjee, Mehdi Ghazinour Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Eastern and Southern Norway, Oslo, Norway Basic Training Program for Police Officers, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden Division of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, School of Psychology, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Department of ...