Is it better for you to own a corkscrew or not? If asked, you as a human being would likely say " yes " , but more importantly, you are somehow able to make this decision. You are able to decide this, even if your current acute problems or task do not include opening a wine bottle. Similarly, it is also unlikely that you evaluated several possible trajectories your life could take and looked at...

We present initial results from ACCME, A Co-operative Co-evolutionary Metroidvania Engine, which uses co-operative co-evolution to automatically evolve simple platform games. We describe the system in detail and justify the use of co-operative co-evolution. We then address two fundamental questions about the use of this method in automated game design, both in terms of its ability to maximise f...

Lessons Learned One of this study’s principal goals was to identify and describe the key elements that make up a successful e-learning initiative. This list includes not only institutions’ strategies, tactics, and practices but also the lessons they have distilled from experience. The following sections discuss the most important and broadly relevant lessons learned in the course of the study. ...

Kin selection theorists argue that evolution in social contexts will lead organisms to behave as if maximizing their inclusive, as opposed to personal, fitness. The inclusive fitness concept allows biologists to treat organisms as akin to rational agents seeking to maximize a utility function. Here we develop this idea and place it on a firm footing by employing a standard decision-theoretic me...

Physical activity is of inestimable value for health and the motoric development of young people. But in the course of late childhood and adolescence, it becomes less important compared to other leisure activities which do not contain any physical strain. The decrease of physical activity and the resulting decline of motor fitness are reflected in the outcomes of various studies. Hence, strateg...

purpose : the present study was designed to evaluate the effects of aerobic and strength training on cardiac variables such as blood pressure, heart rate (hr), and metabolic parameters like cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (hdl), triglycerides and anthropometric parameters of obese women of punjab .   methods: this study was performed as an experimental study, in which subjects were random...

There exist many smart phone applications allowing people to track their exercise sessions. However, most of them only show generic information like speed or estimated calories burned. Our thesis addresses heart rate evolution during exercise and proposes two heart rate models that can accurately predict the heart rate during a workout by only observing the values of speed, cadence, and grade. ...