814 When the Bush Administration was preparing to invade Iraq in March 2003, many archaeologists had a personal stake in trying to avert the conflict. They feared for the safety of their Iraqi colleagues and worried about the impact of modern warfare on the innumerable ancient sites that dot Mesopotamia’s landscape. The subsequent looting 1 year ago of cultural institutions such as the Iraq Mus...

introduction: over the past hundred years, human activity has significantly altered the atmosphere and increase of concentration of greenhouse gases lead to warm the earth's surface. this global warming leads to change of climatic extreme index and increases the intensity and frequency of occurrence of extreme climate events. investigation of extreme values for planning and policy for the agric...

Cardiovascular and thermophysiological changes accompany the decision to fall asleep. A relationship between core body temperature and heart rate variability (HRV) especially during the sleep onset episode is suggested, but only few data are available, investigating a relationship between skin temperature and HRV at this time span. This study was aimed to elucidate the pattern of body temperatu...

The effect of moonlight and temperature on activity of slow lorises was previously little known and this knowledge might be useful for understanding many aspects of their behavioural ecology, and developing strategies to monitor and protect populations. In this study we aimed to determine if the activity of the pygmy loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) is affected by ambient temperature and/or moonligh...

This demonstration describes the generation of ambient and latent NPC behavior scripts using generative behavior patterns with ScriptEase. Our behavior model supports behavior roles, a powerful mechanism that allows an NPC to change behavior sets during the story. Our motivation model for selecting ambient behaviors generates more realistic NPC behaviors and our novel collaboration protocol sim...

Due to climate change, the temperature is increasing; however, its spatial and temporal distribution trend are lessunderstood. To fill this research gap, study examines nature of rise in Queensland State Australia. Based on daily maximum minimum data 17 weather stations covering 1969-2018, geographical patterns as well variations hot days heatwaves over state examined. The Mann-Kendall test sim...

In this study, eight extreme temperature event indices were calculated based on daily maximum, minimum, and mean data recorded at 699 National Reference Stations in China during 1961–2020. The yearly change of the magnitude, frequency, duration events six zones evaluated. All had a trend an increase (rate: 2.1–3.3 °C per 10 years), warming was more significant warm temperate zone Qinghai–Tibet ...

Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) are complex socio-technical distributed systems. In these environments, a huge amount of players interact to have fun and develop their characters. Looting systems have been developed to help allocating valuable in-game objects, gained after finishing quests, as fairly as possible among the ...