Games are an integral part of the human experience. Starting in our childhood and continuing through our lives they teach us about the world through the concepts of rules, strategies, and outcomes. They help prepare us for our future, provide entertainment, bring us together socially, and give us people to cheer for—making ordinary people heroes for a moment. Digital games build on centuries of...

This article develops an understanding of the governance of urban nightlife. The starting point is that a night out in the post-industrial, consumptionoriented city is as much about issues of economic development and creativity as it is about ‘law and order’ and ‘social control’. Further, a number of groups often with conflicting interests, such as the local state, police, licensing magistrates...

Entertainment computing is central to the leisure activities of many Americans, with a remarkable array of choices now available to the average person. Video and computer games, in particular violent games, are especially popular, even with relatively young children. With this popularity, concern has been raised about possible unintended consequences of participation in interactive violence. De...

Transcarpathia is the richest region of Ukraine in terms of natural sights, historical, and cultural places to visit, which can therefore due to its territorial endowments provide several opportunities for entertainment, leisure and recreation to its visitors. Only the Crimean region with its seashore can precede this territory but only in the summertime if comparing the number of foreigners vi...

Currently there are three categories of humanoid robots available: Professional humanoid robots developed by large companies with a huge amount of research resources. They are expensive and not available on the market. Research humanoid robots: The robots in this category are usually prototypes developed by scientists to implement and test new ideas. Humanoid “Toy” robots: There are a lot of hu...

Most people have certain acceptance of daily travel distance, which determines where they choose to live, to work, and to go for leisure. Such information is an important input for facility location-allocation, urban planning and transport management. Therefore, daily commuting distance has been adopted as an indicator to measure the distance acceptance, the rationality of land use structure, a...

the purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between rate of internet use and the type of its use with academic performance of the students in islamic azad university of zanjan. to reach this goal, in addition to theoretical studies and investigating research literature, data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. experts approved the validity of the questionnaire and t...