This paper provides a high level overview of a game called ORIENT which aims at cultural and emotional learning by engaging adolescents in a role-play with virtual characters in a virtual world. The paper focuses on defining and explaining the learning objectives, and gives an overview of how we intend to achieve these objectives using narrative concepts, affective characters, and innovative te...

in this study, geometrical, gravimetrical and frictional properties of four common varieties of iranian canola seeds (namely: slm, hyola, okapi, orient), containing the mean moisture value of 6.5% (w.b.) were investigated. geometrical and gravimetrical properties included length, diameter, geometric mean diameter, sphericity, thousand seed mass, volume, true density, bulk density and porosity. ...

Rodents, such as rats and mice, are strongly tactile animals who explore the environment with their long mobile facial whiskers, or macrovibrissae, and orient to explore objects further with their shorter, more densely packed, microvibrissae. Although whisker motion (whisking) has been extensively studied, less is known about how rodents orient their vibrissal system to investigate unexpected s...

We present a demonstration of the intelligent agent-based system ORIENT (Overcoming Refugee Integration with Empathic Novel Technology). We summarise the application domain: education for inter-cultural empathy; the technology used and the innovations this involves; and finally interaction with ORIENT.

This paper aims to explore the evolution and portrayal of modern Orients in Pakistani fiction attempts determine causes, factors impact this shift from simple orient New Orient. is a discourse being popularized by west under influence Islamophobia generate specific type violent whose main job spread terrorism therefore dangerous. The similar discourses are followed writers non-western areas wor...