In its most basic form, empathy refers to the ability to understand another person's feelings and emotions, representing an essential component of human social interaction. Owing to an increase in the use of mass media, which is used to distribute high levels of empathy-inducing content, media plays a key role in individual and social empathy induction. We investigated empathy induction in cart...

According to the 2016 Mckinsey report, global construction industry is one of least productive (The Construction Productivity Imperative, McKinsey Report, 2016), which can be attributed a minimal implementation digital and automation technology (Berger Digtization in industry—Building Europe's road "Construction 4.0 THINK/ACT—BEYOND MAINSTREAM, 2015). This research argues that this relates skil...

Molecular visualisation algorithms present simplified views of molecules, which allow chemists to gain insight into their structure and function. Many such algorithms are currently in use, including the ribbon diagrams by Richardson [12], which were developed specifically for viewing proteins. None are customised to the visualisation of carbohydrates – in particular, the rings of atoms formed w...

When designers begin a product design, they create their ideas and expand them. This process is performed on paper, and designers’ hand-drawn lines are called sketches. If the designers’ hand-drawn sketches can be realized as real curves, it would be effective in shortening the design period. We have developed a method to extract five degree Bézier curves based on a hand-drawn sketch. The basic...

The three teachers in this study selected many types of humor to exemplify their points. To avoid predictability, they varied their humor presentation styles and frequency by using simple cartoons projected on a screen, jokes and stories, and songs and dance routines. All three teachers engaged in a continuous search for new material to further expand their repertoire. Careful not to overuse hu...

The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of demonizing in the two major media that young children use (television and movies). Two content analyses were conducted using the animated feature films (n = 34) of the Walt Disney Company and after-school cartoons (n = 41). Each was coded for the modeling of the use of "evil" words when referring to a person, e.g., monster, devil, demon,...