The Physicians' Duel.

Patient-doctor relationship: duet or duel? A physicians' perspective.

FantasyA - The Duel of Emotions

FantasyA is a computer game where two characters face each other in a duel and emotions are used as the driving elements in the action decision of the characters. In playing the game, the user influences the emotional state of his or her semi-autonomous avatar using a tangible interface for affective input, the SenToy. In this paper we show how we approached the problem of modelling the emotion...

Noisy fighter-bomber duel

The classical duel is a zero-sum game of two players of the following type. The players have certain resources and use them during a given time interval with the goal of achieving success. Use of the resource γ at the moment t leads to success with the probability depending on the amount of resource γ and the time t only (it is usually assumed that the probability of success increases with time...

The muscle – fat duel or why obese children are taller?

BACKGROUND Obesity the epidemic of our times appears to be a problem that is easy to resolve: just eat less and move more. However, this very common condition has turned out to be extremely troublesome, and in some cases even irreversible. METHODS The interplay between less muscle and more fat tissue is discussed from physiological perspectives with an emphasis on the early years of childhood...

Kohlberg and Gilligan: duet or duel?

Most moral psychologists have come to accept two types of moral reasoning: Kohlberg’s justice and Gilligan’s care, but there still seem to be some unresolved issues. By analysing and comparing Kohlberg’s statement on some theoretical issues with some of Gilligan’s statements in an interview in April 2003, I will look at some key issues in the so-called ‘Kohlberg–Gilligan conflict’. Some of the ...