Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, within a cross-cultural context, the psychometric properties of scores derived from the Perceived Locus of Causality Questionnaire (PLOCQ) and the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS). Both questionnaires are grounded in self-determination theory and are commonly employed in physical education research. Method: Secondary school students from...

The primary aim of this paper is to examine how three selected computer games respond to the preferences of girl players. In short, the paper explores whether these example games are suitable for girl players. Research concerns with three computer games: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001), Warcraft III: The Reign of Chaos (2002), and The Sims (1998). This paper aims to show that t...

1 Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering Laboratory for Chemometrics, Getreidemarkt 9/166, A-1060 Vienna, Austria [email protected], www.lcm.tuwien.ac.at 2 Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Probability Theory Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected], www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/public/filz 3 Max Pl...

First, he tracked basking sharks—filterfeeding leviathans that look like supersized great whites—in the coastal waters near Great Britain, and then Atlantic cod, leatherback turtles, Magellanic penguins, and bigeye tuna. He’s wrangled and tagged ocean sunfish, blue sharks, and shortfin mako sharks (and claims success by the fact that he still has all his fingers). Only after David Sims had exha...

Article history: Received 22 June 2009 Available online 19 February 2010 Submitted by B. Sims

The environment greatly influences acquirement of the behavior on the artificial life creature (AC) and artifact object (AO). However, the conventional studies like Karl Sims’ ones have not accurately considered in an environmental influence. Instead, these influences are considered by replacing them into a simple environment. In this study, we accurately model the under-water environmental inf...

It is well known that traditional educational techniques can be complemented by simulation to achieve a more effective learning experience. One would expect the same phenomenon to be true in software development. However, the simulation techniques used thus far have not been effective. This paper introduces a novel approach to simulation for software development education that is based on the a...

James Marion Sims [5] developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina [6] during labor, ruptures called vesico-vaginal fistulas, and he developed techniques and tools used to improve reproductive examinations and health care for women in the US during the nineteenth century. Sims's lateral examination position allowed doctors to better see the vaginal c...