Hybrid games have been shown to be an effective tool for cognitive-behavioral therapy. We developed the hybrid therapy game Invasion of the Wrong Planet and conducted two consecutive studies both with children with and without autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The studies contrast the design principle of "Encouraged Collaboration" (ECC) with the design principle of "Enforced Collaboration" (EF...

The Right Frontier Constraint (RFC), as a constraint on the attachment of new constituents to an existing discourse structure, has important implications for the interpretation of anaphoric elements in discourse and for Machine Learning (ML) approaches to learning discourse structures. In this paper we provide strong empirical support for SDRT’s version of RFC. The analysis of about 100 doubly ...

With Volume 2 of eCAM, we begin to intensify the inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)-related natural products derived from plants and from animals (1). There will be an attempt to focus on products from animals, since we know that the literature tends to be ‘glutted’ with products derived from plants (1,2). In either case, both sources of natural products provide a veritab...

The goal of my graduate research has been finding architectural solutions to key technological challenges facing processor design that impact reliability, power, and performance of multicores. The rapidly shrinking feature sizes provided by the Moore’s Law with each successive technology generation make the devices on a chip increasingly susceptible to soft errors, hard errors, process variatio...

The frontier between the two States in the area where the two plots in dispute are situated presents certain unusual features. Whilst the frontier in general is a linear one, in the area north of the Belgian town of Turnhout there are a number of enclaves formed by the Belgian commune of BaerleDuc and the Netherlands commune of Baarle-Nassau. The territory of the Belgian commune of Baerle-Duc i...

in this article, we have used 36 electricity distribution companies of iran and by using input-oriented dea, we analysis the companies technical efficiency with respect to group frontier and metafrontier following restructuring, then we investigate the factors affecting efficiency. the companies decomposed to two groups in terms of high and low circuit density. for discussing the impact of stru...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a technique based on mathematical programming for evaluating the efficiency of homogeneous decision making units (dmus). in this technique, inefficient dmus are projected onto the frontier, which was constructed by the best performers. centralized resource allocation (cra) is a method in which all dmus are projected onto the efficient frontier through solving ...