anatomy of a video game

... as a Trang 7mediating force If the participant experiences a form of narrative engagement then a connection with the material has already been established and cannot be “un es-tablished” via a ... was used This scale returns a three-item scale of emotional response to the experience Relia-bility analysis of this scale returned a Chronbach’s alpha of 93, also indicating an adequate scale ... structures and attitudes De Graaf et al (2009) state that the outcomes of a nar-rative experience may lead to an acceptance of the beliefs implied in the story Vivid imagery within a story may leave

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2023, 12:13

... required position may only take a rotation at the waist or an extension of the arm The same task can be carried out in this manner at a great savings in energy The control software can decide which ... this feature, we can take advantage of it in the following way. Because higher voltages can charge up capacitances in the logic chips faster, the computer can run faster at higher voltages. If ... erly and all is well. In the mean time, a great deal of energy will be saved. To take advantage of this feature, the power supply must be under software control. It must initialize to a suitable

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... real While you are a passenger, just imagine you are driving and pay-ing attention to the road Drive down the street past a long row of parked cars At a con-stant speed, pass one parked car each ... conservation and the con-servation of momentum Just as the human brain must act to turn a awkward person into a graceful athlete, so too a robot’s control system must run algorithms capable of streamlining ... Theorem We cannot capture the essence of a digitized signal without sampling it at a frequency twice that of the signal Stated another way, we must sample a signal twice as fast as the highest-frequency

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... the D/A generates an output stream of analog values. The D/A only outputs a series of analog values that look like a rectangular staircase of constant voltages. Thus, the D/A inherently alters ... when sampled data is already available, but the data rate does not match the rate needed in a specific application A specific example might be a digital video signal coming in at a full ... low-pass filter, the calculations are simpler. The gain is flat at a value of 1 and then drops off completely (in the ideal math equation). Taking advantage of the simplified filter shape, and

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... and ran a pirate radio sta-tion out of a private house We broadcast as WRFI for about two years, playing the music we felt like playing and rebroadcasting the BBC as our newscast I was a DJ and ... involve a modification of one or more of these three parameters One or more of the parameters (A, v, or u) may take on one or more values based on the data As the data input, I, takes on one of n ... Data is recorded as pulses on tape and is read back at a later time A sequence of pulses can be constructed in many different ways Engineers have nat-urally come up with dozens of different ways

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... unexpanded data as an input The state Trang 8machine creates the output data The state machine changes states depending on the flow of input data bits Each one and zero from the unexpanded data ... accumulated back a few cycles ■ Outputs data As the decoder state machine changes states, it triggers an exam-ination of the historical state change data If the historical data all makes sense, ... generally means that an extra amount of redundant data will be sent in one form or another Since extra data will be sent over the channel, and since the channel’s Eb/No value is already marginal,

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES) DES has won the backing of the government and is present in many commercial trans-actions today The calculation methods are fairly straightforward and chipsets are ... originally designed as a one-way system, many of the cable systems now have reverse channels capable of taking information from the homes back to the cable company The standard that most cable ... URLs Many computer soft-ware libraries contain subroutines to support secure communications If the data stream moves too fast for software encryption, hardware chips are available that can encrypt

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... one small example of a trick that may help Consider a three-part robot with parts A, B, and C Also, assume all fasteners have some play that increases over time Let’s call the typical play T millimeters; ... shape and extrapolate the parame-ters Here’s one example. Suppose you want to know the compression strength of an L-shaped beam made of a specific type of plastic If the manufacturer has already ... to a fixed speed? Let’s assume the following: The bike chassis, without the wheels, has a mass of W1 Each wheel has a mass of W2 and has a radius of R The bike will accelerate to a speed of V

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC): National Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing; 1999 Vandelanotte ... Institute for Health and Social Science Research Vandelanotte was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (#519778) and National Heart Foundation of Australia (#PH 07B ... Queensland, Australia 2Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, W1-34 Van Vliet Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Authors’ contributions CV was involved in conceptualization,

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... has a lifetime of one trading day Throughoutthe trading day market participants are trading an asset that onlyexchanges hands after trading ceases Since a one day repo today isnot the same asset ... day 234 (Dec 1) Statistical analysis of the dataand newspaper accounts of the crisis indicate that the buildup to the crisisstarts a few days earlier Effectively, we observe a structural break ... happens in a blink of an eye The 2000 Turkish crisisplayed out in the financial markets Arguably, individual trading strate-gies, and not macroeconomic fundamentals were the main direct cause of

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 11:24

... amount of video game play is negatively related to academic performance, namely grades, and (2) amount of video game play is not associated with aggressive behaviors Because parental limits have ... video games habits of adolescents and the level of parental monitoring of adolescent video game use The second goal was to examine associations among violent video game exposure, hostility, arguments ... years, a number of studies have looked at the effects of video games on children and adolescents A majority of this research has examined associations between video game use and aggressive behavior,

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 23:19

... 978–0–230–61568–7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jarsulic, Marc. Anatomy of a financial crisis : a real estate bubble, runaway credit markets, and regulatory failure / Marc Jarsulic. ... Trang 4Anatomy of a Financial CrisisA Real Estate Bubble, Runaway Credit Markets, and Regulatory Failure Marc Jarsulic Trang 5All rights reserved First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® ... 13Data are copyright © 2009 Standard & Poor’s, a division of T he McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved STANDARD & POOR’S and S&P are registered trade-marks of Standard &

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:37

... Korean Mountain Ash is a n a r r o w , small tree t h a t produces a Japanese Tree Lilac h a s a pyramidal shape and produces a white flower Bald Cypress has a pyramidal shape a n d can g r o ... infrastructure adjacent to a repair area These seemingly random colored markings on streets are actually part of a sophisticated repair language: different colors and shapes are used to indicate either ... orderly than at any time in New York's history The earliest roads, clustered in lower Manhattan, were narrow affairs—easily choked with the traffic of the day As Manhattan expanded northward, roads

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2018, 11:44

... Korean Mountain Ash is a n a r r o w , small tree t h a t produces a Japanese Tree Lilac h a s a pyramidal shape and produces a white flower Bald Cypress has a pyramidal shape a n d can g r o ... infrastructure adjacent to a repair area These seemingly random colored markings on streets are actually part of a sophisticated repair language: different colors and shapes are used to indicate either ... orderly than at any time in New York's history The earliest roads, clustered in lower Manhattan, were narrow affairs—easily choked with the traffic of the day As Manhattan expanded northward, roads

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2018, 11:43

... Korean Mountain Ash is a n a r r o w , small tree t h a t produces a Japanese Tree Lilac h a s a pyramidal shape and produces a white flower Bald Cypress has a pyramidal shape a n d can g r o ... infrastructure adjacent to a repair area These seemingly random colored markings on streets are actually part of a sophisticated repair language: different colors and shapes are used to indicate either ... orderly than at any time in New York's history The earliest roads, clustered in lower Manhattan, were narrow affairs—easily choked with the traffic of the day As Manhattan expanded northward, roads

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2018, 09:09

... reel back to the last images he could recall—cold and dark—walking alone across the Harvard campus to a Saturday-night lecture series That was two days ago?! A sharper panic now gripped him as he ... reflection had disappeared, replaced by an illuminated skyline in the distance Amid a contour of spires and domes, a single regal facade dominated Langdon’s field of view The building was an imposing ... remember an accident Nothing A total blank Think. Only darkness A man in scrubs hurried in, apparently alerted by Langdon’s racing heart monitor He had a shaggy beard, bushy mustache, and gentle

Ngày tải lên: 09/11/2019, 10:24

... Facebook game that is learner-centered and self-directed so students can play and learn to achieve as much as they can anytime and anywhere as long as Internet access is available The Facebook game ... Herman, & Witty, 2010) Many studies have explored the educational usage of a Facebook group instead of a Facebook application (Manca & Ranieri, 2013) It has been evident that a Facebook ... which are a kind of Facebook application, has emerged to make the platform more enjoyable and, most importantly, facilitate interactions between friends Some of the social games available on Facebook

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 06:49

... situations rather than being the source of them [44] Importantly, there is a huge variety of video games, ranging from action / adventure games to strategy games and (social) multiplayer games that affect ... participant makes choices between a standard amount (3 NOK) that was probabilistic (35% chance of receiving) and delayed (0, 7, or 14 s) and an immediately guaranteed reward that was adjustable (starting ... their more important obligations [32,33] Advantages and disadvantages of playing video games With games becoming more widespread and readily procrastination alongside television and the internet

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 12:25

... third approach is that social media has had less of an impact on political beliefs in America than the other two approaches suggest, and that media and political elites still drive agenda setting ... explanation of transformations of political discourse Videos of police shootings of Black men and women shared through social media are the most powerful example of use of social media that transformed ... recirculate agendas and frames generated through mass media, and plays a secondary or supportive role We can call this the ​Mass Media Leads model There are obvious cases where the “Social Media Leads”

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2022, 12:54

... We will apply it to an extraordinarily detailed dataset of real-time best bid and offerquotes in the consolidated national options market, which allows a very close look at the behavior of the ... the Japanese market by Shiratsuka (2001) A number of papers that explicitly analyze the ability of index options to predict financialcrises As mentioned above, Bates (1991) finds that S&P ... that are away from the money However the NBBO is available and continuously updated at all points in time for all contracts that are currently being traded Indeed, a large proportion of the data

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 01:38