... What percentage of all loans eventually becomes overdue? What is the average length of a loan? What are the library’s peak hours for loans? Appendix A: Library Database CaseStudy Library Database ... Appendix A: Library Database CaseStudy Loan Information The reservation, loan, and loanhist tables contain the library’s loan information The reservation table tracks current reservations for each ... the card’s expiration date Ideally, cards that have expired or are about to expire will be highlighted Appendix A: Library Database CaseStudy The screen also displays information about a member’s...
... the learning task For example I was learning about cancer and Hiv & Aids and I like the game because it teaches about aids, cancer and malaria that those things killers and that shows us that our ... that drives the game narrative, fosters reflection during game play 818 Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010, 26(6) and leads to game resolution The game provided a realistically ... trivial games that support a learning from position Learning from games In a recent analysis of computer games as learning tools Ke (200 8a) summarised previous meta-analyses and reviews, and qualitatively...
... arterial lesions and myocardial infarcts Mitral valve prolapse in Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: A review and casestudy in the dog; A pathological and microangiographic study Acta Vet Scand (Suppl) ... Dorsoventral (A) and lateral (B) thoracic radiographs In a dorsoventral view, the cardiac shadow was enlarged In a lateral view of thoracic radiograph, it is obvious that left atrial and left ... caudal vena cava and the thoracic aorta was distended Pulmonary vein was wider than pulmonary artery due to pulmonary overcirculation (Fig 2A) In a dorsoventral view, the cardiac shadow was enlarged...
... commented on draft manuscript AA assisted in thematic content analysis of the qualitative data and MP facilitated the quantitative analysis and triangulation aspects of data MB and GT critically reviewed ... revisited-the balanced scorecard and dynamic management reporting Industrial Management and Data Systems 1996, 96:24-30 44 Onetti A: Applying a managerial approach to day surgery International Journal of ... F, Jafri W, Abbas F, Pappas G, Jahan F, Syed NA, Syed IA, Brommels M, Tomson G: Culture and quality care perceptions in a Pakistani hospital International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance...
... to address Others raised these same issues but saw the information as an advantage because data could be aggregated at a regional level for analysis and addressed as part of broader policy and ... 1Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and 2Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia Received: 28 July 2009 Accepted: 13 March ... in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand The Lancet 2007, 9527(367):2029-2031 31 Anderson I: Recent developments in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health strategy Australia and New...
... Collaborative Care program elaborated in a workbook for patients and nurses and in a separate manual for nurses More detailed information about the content of the CC Program is available (see Additional ... outcomes of the CCP or CAU will be gathered and analysed Within a comparative multiple case study, data are analyzed at the individual case level, group level, as well as between groups level ... elucidated The Collaborative Care Program is Participants are recruited from two comparable community mental health care (CMHC) teams of a large mental health organisation in the Netherlands One...
... due to all my lab mates and co-workers, Yi Bo, Kuang Xiaole, Zhang Haimo, Rubaiat, Yang Xin, Zhou Shaoping, Melissa Wong, Shi Xiaoming, Yang Xingdong, Grant Partridge, Khalad Hasan, Matthew Lount, ... channel and become a standard hardware component of many small formfactor devices, such as digital pen, digital cameras, and smart phone Researchers have explored the capability of tilt input and ... input streams Same as Dwell, finding an appropriate threshold is an issue Though each of these strategies has its advantage and drawback, multiplex the same input channel can be desirable because...
... RoboCups, and from reading the available technical reports, it became clear that a fast walk is an essential part of any RoboCup team The walk is perhaps the most feasible component to borrow from another ... (see Appendix A. 9 for details on transforms from local to global coordinates and vice versa) Variance estimates for both the x and the y positions are obtained based on the calculated distance and ... the distance and the bearing Suppose the distance and angle estimates for a beacon are d and θ Then the variances in the distance and bearing estimates are estimated as varianced = where bp bp...
... used again cardface 94 Chapter 3: Basic Game Framework: A Matching Game NOTE Although we usually need to declare and define variables, we can also add dynamic properties such as cardface to an ... firstCard.gotoAndStop(thisCard.cardface+2); } } to the new card, and show its 100 Chapter 3: Basic Game Framework: A Matching Game That’s actually it for the basic game You can test out MatchingGame5.fla and ... additional graphics or even animation here, too Later in this chapter, we look at how to add a Play Again button to this frame Encapsulating the Game At this point, we have agame that runs as...
... auctioning gameA firm and a union negotiating next year’s wage are playing a bargaining game When opposing candidates choose their platform in an election, they are playing a political game The ... Ballantyne ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes ART HISTORY Dana Arnold ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Michael Allingham Beth Williamson CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson CLASSICAL ... Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE Anthony Wright BUDDHA Michael Carrithers BUDDHISM Damien Keown BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CAPITALISM James...
... is a knight trapped in a castle and that he carries an axe Based on this and the game components we have already described, we can create a list of actions the player needs to be capable of, as ... basically another term for an image that is mapped onto a shape drawn using OpenGL ES Just as a sprite sheet contains many sprite images, a texture atlas is an image that contains many smaller ... The Game Loop MAXIMUM_FRAME_RATE 120 MINIMUM_FRAME_RATE 30 UPDATE_INTERVAL (1.0 / MAXIMUM_FRAME_RATE) MAX_CYCLES_PER_FRAME (MAXIMUM_FRAME_RATE / MINIMUM_FRAME_RATE) - (void)gameLoop { static static...
... they’re able to learn a ton more from some excellent coaches—and that only makes them better Great examples are Pete Carroll of USC and Nick Saban at Alabama— they’ve been around both and have a distinct ... years, and I am a big believer in him as a coach One of his greatest assets is his ability to market and sell a program Here’s a coach who was a walk-on QB at UCLA and worked his way to a starting ... football happened in 2007 Little old Appalachian State visited the Big House and beat Michigan It was a combination of good coaching, the spread offense, and a bunch of Appalachian State players...
... help on playing the game Make the game goals easy to understand Show game status clearly Mobile users typically play games in short sessions Players need to easily pause and resume a game, and the ... four attributes: A goal: Games clearly define a goal for the players to achieve It’s important that the goals be challenging, yet achievable Ideally, players are always playing at the leading ... can enable your game to Summary This chapter was all about introductions We covered the basics that we’ll need to talk about games and the fundamental concepts that are part of all mobile games:...
... with fresh talent just dying to make better characters and better games! (Not to say anything bad about games today—except that the characters in them are really flat and boring and derivative clichés ... one another Players the same with game characters Knowing how and why the social surface works can help designers make wise choices about the physical appearance and early game behavior of characters ... that stuff is boring And after all was said and done, I’m still no better at that stupid game Maybe that is why I am, to this very day, a little uncomfortable around academics when they are talking...
... with fresh talent just dying to make better characters and better games! (Not to say anything bad about games today—except that the characters in them are really flat and boring and derivative clichés ... AUTHOR Katherine Isbister is an associate of the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory and an associate professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Communication at the Rensselaer ... that stuff is boring And after all was said and done, I’m still no better at that stupid game Maybe that is why I am, to this very day, a little uncomfortable around academics when they are talking...
... one another Players the same with game characters Knowing how and why the social surface works can help designers make wise choices about the physical appearance and early game behavior of characters ... additional markers of masculine attractiveness It is important in this game that the player identifies with Jak, as he is the player character, and that the player finds Kira attractive, as she is Jak’s ... leveraging social surface effects in character design 1.3.1 Make (Almost) Everyone Attractive In most games, every character, even the villain, has attractive features Agame like Twisted Metal:...
... create a globally appealing game Designs that address basic human issues and qualities can be appealing even when the details of the characters’ appearance and behavior come from an unfamiliar subculture ... typical Japanese a generation ago may not be true today It is also clear that people as individuals and as groups can get more familiar with, adjust to, and appropriate one another’s forms and ... that a character uses Narrow use of sex appeal and gender-based assumptions can inadvertently skew agame toward a male-only audience 45 O921-Ch03.qxd 5/10/06 10:33 AM Page 46 Non-player characters...
... Incidentally, there are a lot of game characters that are created in Japan but are popular all over the world Are there any characters that were created overseas and are popular in Japan as well? Hasegawa: ... the Jean Reno character of Onimusha (CAPCOM 2004) when I say this Tsurumi: That character is relatively popular In Japan Hasegawa: That is because there was already an image of the Jean Reno actor ... way a symbol adds meaning to a character in a game, like Ratchet’s bushy eyebrows, for example His eyebrows signify an animated personality to Japanese people Hasegawa: That’s right Q: A character...
... didn’t pay attention to Aladdin Hasegawa: Mickey Mouse was a great game, too, but Aladdin was better That is why Aladdin is still held in high regard as a great game Q: Just to backtrack a little, ... the game s appeal is that you can manage and rearrange the social relationships among your characters and watch and interpret their actions toward one another, building elaborate back stories Fans ... the game Hasegawa: But GTA has some violent scenes, so in Japan it never became a mainstream game It’s agame for hard-core gamers, and normally fathers with children won’t buy it Q: There is a...