Virtual worlds are receiving increasing attention as a promising technology to engage students in learning. However, the use of these technologies for educational purposes is currently hampered by a lack of understanding of how better learning can be achieved in such environments. Thus motivated, this study uses the lenses of flow and social translucence of technology theories to model the indi...

In many cases, creating long-term solutions to sustainability issues requires not only innovative technology, but also largescale public adoption of the proposed solutions. Social simulations are a valuable but underutilized tool that can help public policy researchers understand when sustainable practices are likely to make the delicate transition from being an individual choice to becoming a ...

This paper represents a modified datapath merging technique to amortize the configuration latency of mapping datapaths on reconfigurable fabric in Run-Time Reconfigurable Systems (RTR). This method embeds together the different Data Flow Graphs (DFGs), corresponding to the loop kernels to create a single datapath (merged datapath) instead of multiple datapaths. The DFGs are merged in steps wher...

Realists about mental disorder have been hasty dismissing social explanations of how is constituted. However, many ontologies are realist ontologies. In order to create a meaningful distinction between realism and metaphysics disorder, I propose that best understood as Individual Trait Realism (ITR) them. For ITR, disorders exist in virtue traits. defend the view ITR compatible with metaphysics...