The Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT) has had a relatively good show. Due to its considerable frontal armor protection it has been able to effectively spearhead many tactical maneuvers. But it has weaknesses: a vulnerability to RPG fire from the rear and, more importantly, serious shortcomings in operational and strategic mobility, because this exceptionally heavy vehicle is driven by a very thirst...

Meaningful choice has often been identified as a key component in a player’s engagement with an interactive narrative, but branching stories require tremendous amounts of hand-authored content, in amounts that increase exponentially rather than linearly as more choice points are added. Previous approaches to reducing authorial burden for computer RPGs have relied on creating better tools to man...

Role-playing games (RPG’s) use a variety of methods for rolling dice to add randomness to the game. In the simplest form, a small number of identical dice are rolled and added, but more advanced forms involve cumulative re-rolling of 6’s, doubling the value of doubles, removing the lowest or highest result or counting the number of dice that are below a threshold, and many other weird and wonde...

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study that explores player game experience by implementing the ERiSA Framework in games. A study with Action Role-Playing Game (RPG) was designed to evaluate player interactions with game companions, who were imbued with social and emotional skill by the ERiSA Framework. Players had to complete a quest in the Skyrim game, in which players had to ...

ÐThis paper reports on an empirical research based on two software products. The research goal is to ascertain the impact of the adoption of a reuse policy on customer satisfaction. The results show that when a systematic reuse policy is implemented, such as the adoption of a domain specific library, 1) reuse is significantly positively correlated with customer satisfaction and 2) there is a si...

Don Hoi Lord, a coastal wetland in the upper gulf of Thailand, is famous for the razor clam (Solen regularis), which is a source of food and income for local fishermen. However, the razor clam population is significantly decreasing so the aim of this study was to analyze the razor clam fishery and develop a management plan engaging the different stakeholders in collective discussions. A partici...

A role-playing game (RPG) is a video genre in which players assume the roles of characters fictional setting. This study examined possibility applying an RPG task to human associative learning. Specifically, it latent inhibition and context-specific using task. In task, conditioned unconditioned stimuli were monster treasure obtained battling monster, respectively. Conditioning was conducted by...

BACKGROUND We investigated the species distribution and amphotericin B (AMB) susceptibility of Korean clinical Aspergillus isolates by using two Etests and the CLSI broth microdilution method. METHODS A total of 136 Aspergillus isolates obtained from 11 university hospitals were identified by sequencing the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and β-tubulin genomic regions. Minimal inhibitory co...

Arterial stiffness is recognized as a marker of arterial damage and an indicator of cardiovascular risk. This observational study was conducted to examine the synergistic effect of raised blood pressure (RBP; > or =130/85 mm Hg) and raised plasma glucose (RPG; > or =110 mg/dL) even at levels below those conventionally used to define hypertension and diabetes on the rate of increase of the pulse...