This technical paper describes the design and implementation of a game engine for historical massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). We explore the game and system design space with a focus on historical accuracy and provide a detailed discussion of key design goals for the support of a large-scale, distributed and scalable MMORPG. The JominiEngine is a modular and extensible s...

Many medical centers have modified their facility design to provide a safer environment for patients. From an infection control perspective, the primary objective of hospital design is to place the patient at no risk for infection while hospitalized. We describe historical landmarks about hospital design, modern facility design, and specific designs to prevent acquisition and spread of infectio...

This paper suggests that historical ontology, as one form of reflexive critique, is an instructive research design for making sense of the political and historical constitution of the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) educator in Australian higher education. The ALL educator in this paper refers to those practitioners in the field of ALL, whose ethical agency has largely been taken for grant...

Historical reference' is the ability to refer to information in prior states of a program's computation history. We use program transformation to achieve reasonably efficient implementations of specifications making use of historical reference. These implementations remember sufficient information as they execute, and use conventional queries of this remembered information in place of the histo...

The term ‘design innovation,’ while not having a universally agreed upon definition, is increasingly used in the academic and professional design discourse, e.g. popular design magazines, academic journals, etc. for the last 10-15 years. Although the modern theory of innovation in economics has begun to refer to the practical relationship between design and innovation, and to emphasize the role...

Little has been explored with regard to introducing historical aspects in the undergraduate statistics classroom in engineering studies. This paper focuses on the design, implementation and assessment of a specific activity concerning the introduction of the normal probability curve and related aspects from a historical dimension. Following a teaching-learning approach inspired by history, this...

Disaster, which has been a great danger to humanity throughout history, become priority issue for urban planning due the loss of life or property in cities. From proclamation republic 2000s, cities have intervened with various decisions. In apart from these decisions, new era entered fight against disasters renewal interventions that started be included legislation. particular, law no 6306 ‘Law...