This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the importance of innovative Science Fiction Prototyping systems in different sectors with focus on educational aspects and the support of virtual environments. Therefor we investigate the utility of Science Fiction Prototypes in different environments and introduce a design model to implement flexible setups in virtual world. We illustrate how config...

Images of cities and villages for which the consequences Chornobyl explosion became most tangible are outlined in Ukrainian artistic discourse with documentary authenticity. These descriptions exacerbate emotionality, tone tragedy, sometimes apocalyptic coloration. The general nominations city, village, as well names specific settlements that have suffered from Chоrnobyl accident, consistently ...

We quantify competition among traders by the Herfindahl Index. The index is widely used to assess market concentration and it is computed as the sum of the squared market shares. We study the market for liquidity provision. In an electronic limit order book, liquidity is provided by passive orders and a trader’s market share is the fraction of passive limit order volume that this trader provide...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

We present a quantitative analysis of 442 pieces of fiction published between 5 October 1992 and 17 September 2001 in the New Yorker magazine. We address two independent questions using the same data set. First, we examine whether changes in the Executive Editor or Fiction Editor are associated with significant changes in the type of fiction published at the New Yorker. Second, we examine wheth...

Abstract This article assesses our much-expanded view of the texts produced by early modern women in Ireland, surveying what is available to present-day researchers and considering emerging methodologies for analysis female voices. The range genres with which we now know engaged owes much feminist literary historians’ capacious approach defining literature, expanding beyond traditionally elite ...

Hegel's view of poetry clarifies the overall role of language in his system and allows him to makes sense of a difficult linguistic issue: how to distinguish between poetry and prose. For Hegel, this distinction is crucial because it illuminates the different ways poetry and prose allow us to understand ourselves as members of an ethical community. In this paper, I argue, using Hegel, that the ...

The designer of a sensor network protocol needs to address several low-level details such as message collisions, message losses, and resource limitations. Also, the designer needs to solve several high-level problems such as routing, leader election, and diffusing computation that are already considered in distributed systems and traditional networking. Therefore, to simplify the design of sens...