The Pataphysic Institute (PI) is a research prototype multiplayer game world. In PI, the personalities of the inhabitants are the base for the game mechanics. When interacting with other characters the potential emotional reactions depend upon avatars’ current mood and personality. PI is built with inspiration from personality psychology and affect theory in an attempt to mimic possible emotion...

BACKGROUND There is relatively little research on affective influences on physician behaviour, especially on prescribing and referrals. Affects include transitory moods and lasting emotions. OBJECTIVES We explored physician perceptions of the impact of four mood states on perceived rates of five behaviours: talking with patients, prescribing medications and referrals for laboratory tests, dia...

Rhetoric of da'wah will determine the success or failure a "persuade" conveyed by preachers. The use rhetorical sentences gives an impression "falseness" was actually used Prophet Abraham and Joseph Peace Upon Them when preaching.This article proves to present one models spoken Them. research method in this is library study method. This chosen because researchers are more able explore related t...

based on some important factors such as abstraction of imagination and also the power of soul on creation external imagery, molla sadra utters his claim about bodily resurrection and creation of eternal body by soul. and also he clarifies the way of creation and its quality. examining and understanding the dominant system on the world and resurrection, leads us to this point that in the world c...

Improvisation is being appreciated by the management literature because of its key role in a variety of contingencies: emergencies, markets and work organizations. Improvisation is described as a form of extemporaneous, situated action. In the literature, the study of these two phenomena has been mainly cognitive. This exposes it to the critique according to which the situated action paradigm w...