gameplay metrics in game user research examples from the trenches

... responsibilities In many cases, accountants and financial staff are leading the way in changing their internal roles Accountants find themselves managing new business practices, such as outsourcing, focusing ... less volatile The study further defines the domain of management accounting research as articles fitting the above topics that were published in the following English-language research journals: ... between users and/or business units within the firm?” What is the impact of displaying financial information on a web site on the firm’s business risk? Firms now distribute financial accounting information...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... geometry in the rod growth by EFG method Here, pm is the pressure in the meniscus melt; pg is the pressure in the gas; H is the melt column height between the horizontal crucible melt level and the ... 2.1 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Proof The existence of r1 and the inequality r1 ≥ r0 /n follow from Theorem 2.5 The inequality r1 ≤ r0 /n follows from Theorem 2.1 Theorem 2.7 A concave ... There exists r ∈ r1 , r0 such that α r γ/r · sin α r Since α r < αc and r > r1 , the following inequalities hold p g·ρ·z r γ/r · sin α r ≤ γ/r1 · sin αc and z r ≤ r0 · tan αc Using these inequalities,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... testing day widget, and the “9 and a half minutes” widget Nine and a Half Minutes is a campaign to raise awareness that every and a half minutes, someone in the U.S is infected with HIV Through the ... social networking sites also have internal email, chat room, and instant messaging functions that allow users to communicate with each other Together with texting, social networking sites have ... created, the user is part of a large searchable network that includes every user of the networking service Users can communicate with all members of their personal network through bulletins, blogs,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... aids, the assembly of other proteins, but is not part of the final assembly Later, the focus of chaperone research shifted to the role in the folding of single protein chains and in protecting the ... nascent protein emerging from the ribosome encounters the same folding problems and follows the same basic folding rules in the cytosol and ER The chaperones that assist the nascent chains in these ... link the ‘monomers’ into ‘hexamers’ In the ‘monomer’, the heavy and light chains are coupled via an interchain disulfide bond between the two constant domains, and the two heavy chains are linked...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20

... Agonomist Engineer specializing in irrigation in 1981 from the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo, México, his M.Sc in Water Management in 1987 from the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, ... agroecology interpretations However, to understand the issue better, we must start from the beginning; the origins of agroecology Since the first use of the term ‘agroecology’ in the early twentieth ... practices beginning in the 1980s Agroecology – Interpretations, Approaches and Their Links to Nature Conservation In general, the basis for the agroecological movements was set in the environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 18:21

... capacity in sustainable ways Competing interests Pfizer Corporation provided 50% of the funding for the study The research was also supported by federal funding through the United States Agency for International ... scientific research and clinical care facility Creation of preventive maintenance schedules and routines, including budgets for necessary replacement parts Training in research methods, design of clinical ... selection, training, and matching of Fellows to Organizations Other problems generally contributing to the lack of success in achieving Fellowship goals included: ▪ The Fellow did not have the skill...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... fall in capacity as the battery was cycled with the decrease in the conductance of the active mass, but that there was no correlation with the conductance of the interphase between the grid and the ... overcome by putting the active material under sufficient constraint to prevent it from swelling during deep-discharge cycling In the plane of the battery plate it is the creep resistance of the grid ... vehicles and for other applications In other words, the ALABC is an open resource the research results are disseminated freely to the members and thus benefit the industry as a whole In this respect,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 20:21

... processed using the TMA Multistain Imaging Module for the nestin stained brain tissue microarrays slides The TMAs were processed using the TMA specific imaging assay, TMA Multistain This allows the software ... distinguish positive tumor areas within individual cores of the TMA slide Both staining intensity and its relative area within a specimen were quantified Staining intensity was acquired in a ... important, these findings are only relevant to the pretemozolomide era As the standard of care has since shifted, it would be of value to revisit these studies in this context Along these lines, defining...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... role in pain transmission Results from in vitro studies and animal models of OA support the dominant role of IL-1β early in the disease process Moreover, intra-articular delivery of anakinra ... anakinra treatment compared to placebo at the main endpoint (month 1) A tendency for improvement was noticed in the 150 mg group at day (in keeping with the short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting ... Res Ther 2005, 7:R732-R745 Le Maitre CL, Hoyland JA, Freemont AJ: A preliminary in vitro study into the use of IL-1Ra gene therapy for the inhibition of intervertebral disc degeneration Int J...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... observed in health survey data since the mid 1990s [44] Our finding of an independent association between obesity and internalising (emotional) difficulties is echoed by findings from a smaller, mainly ... certain psychological problems [55] Directions for Future Research The conflicting findings from previously published research suggest that further datasets containing relevant measures of wellbeing ... the writing of the report HJM contributed to appraising the content and the writing of the report CDS contributed to the supervision and conceptualisation of the project and the writing of the report...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... inactivity during the balance of the day Indeed, inactive men and women engaged in about three hours of total activity per day from all domains and hence spent most of the day inactive Had these individuals ... performed Definitions of levels of intensity (1=inactive (mainly sitting); 2=light (mainly standing); 3=moderate (slight increase in heart rate and some light sweating); and 4=heavy (substantial increase ... sample The remaining excluded participants did not meet eligibility criteria to participate in the cohort Ethical approval for baseline data collection in the Tomorrow Project was obtained from the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... scheduling and release planning www.it-ebooks.info • Chapter About the Project In addition to the customer, there was an on-site user in the building with the development teams The on-site users ... it Their real problem was that they had been doing Scrum too much “by the book” instead of inspecting and adapting it to their context More on that in my other book Kanban and Scrum: Making the ... I’ll join you in an hour or so My team is finishing a logging feature After that, they can probably without me for the rest of the day At the same time, the requirements analysts are having their...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20

... sense of owner ship 20 CPC& Beware the pitfalls • • • • • • • Rhetoric not matching reality Pushing too hard Not listening Not managing expectations Not framing discussions properly Poor moderation ... Government use of social media © 2015 CPC & Associates Ltd All rights reserved 11 CPC& principles for online engagement Listen, listen, listen Focus on those that matter Forge long-term relationships ... © 2015 CPC & Associates Ltd All rights reserved 12 CPC& INSIGHTS & IDEAS #1 – Listen, listen, listen RELATIONSHIPS & DIALOGUE RISKS & INCIDENTS 13 #2 – Focus on those that mater CPC& Source:...

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2015, 10:42

... slope from the active tank battery, the injection well/pit, and the old tank battery to the lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts of the site The upper part of the site ... impacts from produced water The most saline sample, outside the brine pits, was obtained in December 2001 from a well located about 15 m down gradient and to the east from the large brine pit, ... showing the salinity of water and the relative concentrations (in equivalent units) of major cations and anions from the main brine pit and Geoprobe wells located to the southeast of this pit; the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... processing - generating and maintaining health-promoting quality Reverse thinking of the food chain - from the plate to the farm – also impacts on applied technologies in food processing Different ... satisfaction from food products The basic idea behind the reversed food chain thinking is the analysis of the interaction between the consumer and each individual phase of the food chain Recent ... emphasise the need for increased research in these areas 24 Priorities in the area of consumer science The overriding theme of the project is the need to focus on the end consumer as the most...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... with the active site lying at its base Domain contains the residues involved in substrate binding, catalysis, and coordination of the active-site zinc Domain consists of a dinucleotide-binding ... elimination of the hydrogen bonds formed by the amino acids involved in the binding of NADP+ The position of the NADP+ in the mutant is the same as it is in the native enzyme The loop formed ... and unwinds the labeled strand If a Tus-Ter complex is present in a blocking orientation, the sliding DnaB is arrested, thereby preventing the unwinding of the blue strand; a Ter site in the permissive...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... with the active site lying at its base Domain contains the residues involved in substrate binding, catalysis, and coordination of the active-site zinc Domain consists of a dinucleotide-binding ... elimination of the hydrogen bonds formed by the amino acids involved in the binding of NADP+ The position of the NADP+ in the mutant is the same as it is in the native enzyme The loop formed ... and unwinds the labeled strand If a Tus-Ter complex is present in a blocking orientation, the sliding DnaB is arrested, thereby preventing the unwinding of the blue strand; a Ter site in the permissive...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:20

... pathways in Melanoma, Biomarkers, Clinical Trials and New Molecules and Strategies Introduction Before reporting the interesting data that emerged from the debate [1,2] there is merit in mentioning ... high-dose Interferon-a Because of results from the anti-CTLA-4 trials, there is growing interest in developing other antibodies targeting T-cell co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory molecules One of these, ... human interleukin-2 The next challenge for melanoma therapy will be, from the gene signature, to optimize the treatment of individual patient using these active agents sequentially or in combination...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... coefficients of these channels Using the statistics of the CCI, a coordinated user- scheduling criterion is designed with the use of eigen-beamforming to minimize the CCI in an average sense The transmit ... Concept of the Proposed Coordinated EigenBeamforming From Theorem 1, we can deduce the design concept of the interference mitigation to minimize the CCI in a statistical manner when the BS’s users ... transmits the signal to the relay during the first time slot, and the relay decodes/re-encodes and transmits it to user i during the second time slot We refer this link to the relay link Simultaneously,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... Advances in Signal Processing as unidirectional, namely, flowing in the downlink from the multiantenna transmitter to the single-antenna receiver (the MISO-case) Furthermore, the asymptotic analysis in ... downlink, uplink, and feedback such that the overall system performance in terms of the sum of the throughputs of the downlink and the uplink is maximized In this way, we can also maintain a ... SNRDL is the receive SNR in the downlink Since the obtainable beamforming gain depends on the quantization resolution, RDL is a function of the number b of feedback bits per antenna The original...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20