This paper outlines the concept of agency in interactive narratives and focuses on the video game Silent Hill 2 as an example that defies the very concept. In what ways agency was deemed as an essential part in interactive narratives and narrative video games are summarized. Then the method of agency in Silent Hill 2 is proposed as an alternative to our familiar understanding of the concept age...

Background: Cocaine poisoning is known for causing severe clinical effects such as tachycardia, hypertension, agitation and confusion. Absence of clinical manifestations in cocaine poisoning is unusual. Case report: A 26-year old man, known to be a cocaine addict, declared that he was forced by cocaine dealers to swallow many tablets of cocaine, six hours prior to admission to emergency departm...

typology solution in architecture science seeks classifying constructions and spaces in terms of join features. typology studies can be infrastructure of design in micro and minor levels. therefore being oblivious of it in architecture and city planning can lead to state of chaos in urban aspect and makes heterogeneous urban textures. current paper seeks to find factors influencing on formation...

objective: an increasing number of studies have reported on shifts in timing and length of the growing season, based on phonological, satellite and climatologically studies. changes in the timing and length of the growing season (gsl) may not only have far reaching consequences for plant and animal ecosystems, but persistent increases in gsl may lead to long-term increases in carbon storage and...

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This study attempted to determine the effect of background music while silent reading on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The participants were 57 Iranian EFL learners between the ages of 14 and 16 in two 3rd grade high schoolclasses at pre-intermediate proficiency level. Before treatment,both experimental and control groups took a reading comprehension pretest. In the experimental ...

today climate change is one of the most important human concerns this fact affected human life in different ways .  one of the most important impacts of climate change is on crops yield so that change in temperature  regime  particularly maximum and minimum  temperatures  is noticeably change plants production . in this research , is considered to  impact of climate change on water requirement ...

objectives: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety climate as an important part of macroergonomics domains and to determine the importance of each safety climate factor in an iranian company. methods: for data gathering, the researchers used macroergonomic organizational questionnaire survey (moqs) method. for conducting this method we applied safety climate questionnaire which h...