the objective of this session is to identify that how films, movies and tv series can affect on anxiety level of the audiences. in this session, actors, directors, and psychologists are going to discuss about the role of tv series, films and their contents on decreasing or increasing of anxiety and the importance of “identification” between audiences and actors or actresses.

members of the 67th world health assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide world health organization (who) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of who reform kick-started in 2011. according to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (ngos), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

BACKGROUND This paper presents qualitative findings from an assessment of the acceptability of using economic evaluation among policy actors in Thailand. Using cost-utility data from two economic analyses a hypothetical case scenario was created in which policy actors had to choose between two competing interventions to include in a public health benefit package. The two competing interventions...

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) refer to a group of sensors and actors linked by wireless medium to perform distributed sensing and acting tasks. In such a network, sensors gather information about the physical world, while actors take decisions and then perform appropriate actions upon the environment, which allows a user to effectively sense and act at a distance. In order to provi...

Since a few years, the terms of virtual, synthetic or digital actors have been extensively used in order to describe very different kinds of entities. The term “actor” is well-known in the world of cinema and everybody knows it. A Hollywood-like actor is first a human personality. In the context of software, an actor as introduced by Hewitt [1] in 1971 is essentially an object that can send or ...

Actor coordination armoured with a suitable protocol description language has been a pressing problem in the actors community. We study the applicability of multiparty session type (MPST) protocols for verification of actor programs. We incorporate sessions to actors by introducing minimum additions to the model such as the notion of actor roles and protocol mailboxes. The framework uses Scribb...

We introduce an actor language following a “process algebra” style. The idea is to define a formalism that enjoys a clean formal definition allowing the reuse of the rich algebraic theory typical of the process algebras in a context where an high level object oriented programming style is preserved. We provide an operational semantics based on a labelled transition system which allows to discus...