This paper presents comparat ive fun experiments in the innovat ive playground ‘Playware’ which is a combinat ion of physical and virtual components for act ivat ing physical and social children’s play. For this purpose, a quant itat ive approach to entertainment modeling based on psychological studies in the field of computer games is int roduced. The paper invest igates quant itat ively how t...

In this study, we present a composite spatial manipulation framework for the redirected walking technique. The proposed focuses on utilizing two different approaches simultaneously to manipulate user’s position and orientation in physical space, aiming substantially improve their redirection confined space reduce special requirements RDW Each approach utilizes perceptual processes. first is dis...

This study expands the literature on high impact practices by assessing effect of global experiences, including international virtual exchange (IVE) and abroad, student success, measured as GPA, first-year retention, graduation rate. Our dataset tracks over 47,000 students 10 years at a large U.S. university. fixed effects models show that IVE studying abroad increase average GPA. Using logit m...

There once was a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo called the Discourse and Narrative Research Group. Contrary to what the prototypical story opening to this review suggests, this group still exists, proof of which is their publishing a book of more than 500 pages (!) on deixis in narrative, studied from the perspective of cognitive science. The book is a colle...

Information about influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) is important for vaccine strain selection and immunization policy decisions. The test-negative design (TND) case-control study is commonly used to obtain IVE estimates. However, the definition of the control patients may influence IVE estimates. We have conducted a TND study using the Dutch Sentinel Practices of NIVEL Primary Care Database...

در این پژوهش سعی می‌­شود مدلی برای شبیه‌­سازی چرخه عمر صنعت برق با استفاده از شبیه‌سازی عامل­بنیان ارائه شود، مدل، 5 عامل استخراج شد و شبیه­‌سازی به کمک نرم‌افزار Anylogic صورت پذیرفت. بهینه‌­سازی مدل چهار سناریو نظر خبرگان شد. سناریوی نخست، جذابیت نیروگاه گازی سیکل ترکیبی کاهش یافت بر دو دیگر افزوده نتیجه افزایش تولید آبی است که توجه کمبود منابع کشور به‌صرفه نیست. دوم ورود یک فناوری جدید میزان...

IVe present a. coiiiputatioiial niodel of liuiiian testure segiiieiit+ tioii ancl asgne for its utility in niachine vision. Major tlieories due to dnlesz and Beck attribute preattent,ive texture segmentation to differences in first-order statistics of stininlus features such as oriciitat.ion, size and briglitliess of constituent eleiiients. An dternat,ive ayproa.ch seeks to esploi t psycliopliy...

In this paper we propose preferential matrix semantics for nonmonotonic inference systems and show how this algebraic framework can be used in methodological studies of cumulative inference operations.