We describe a method and device ( 1.2 g) for recording, processing and storing data about activity and location of individuals of free-living songbirds throughout the annual cycle. Activity level was determined every five minutes from five 100 ms samples of accelerometer data with 5 s between the sampling events. Activity levels were stored on an hourly basis throughout the annual cycle, allow...

Our goal in this work has been to bring together the entertaining and flow characteristics of video game environments with proven learning theories to advance the state of the art in intelligent learning environments. We have designed and implemented an educational game, a river adventure. The adventure game design integrates the Neverwinter Nights game engine with our teachable agents system, ...

For a long time, the idea of the ghoul preoccupied the lives of many people from different cultures and religions. Though the ghoul has origins as old as the Mesopotamian civilization, Arabs were largely responsible for popularizing it. Because Islam incorporated this being in its doctrine, the ghoul remained a source of fear and mystery in the Arab culture. Peter M. Holt and Ann Katherine argu...

This is a genetic comparison study of Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) population at two different locations (A &B) based on nuclear microsatellite DNA markers. Arabian Oryx is listed as vulnerable and endanger by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Thirty microsatellite markers from bovine family were applied to investigate the genetic diversity of the Arabian Oryx and to set up a molecular inven...

To date, The Arabian Nights still create frames of reference outside its fictive core. article critically examined the adaptations and appropriation classic by Edgar Allan Poe how he invested his interest in Orient to advance career as a writer. More specifically, aim was study links between European Orientalism new version constructed United States. Various modes reading approaches were used i...

This paper provides a Jungian interpretation of the frame story 1001 Nights . Using psychodynamic approach, key characters in are considered as different pieces female psyche during journey individuation. reveals story's hidden content about inner enemies psyche, such tyrannical animus that feeds from an oppressive environment. With happy ending represents union ego and animus, highlights path ...