In this essay, I argue that human play is fundamentally selfish. Characteristics of individual and selfish play are observed and described within pve and pvp contexts of the MMORPG City of Heroes/Villains (Cryptic Studios). Analysis of player behaviors demonstrates the degree to which groups within MMORPGs attempt to restrict and transform individual and selfish play. In general, social play wi...

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted an abrupt adoption of online learning worldwide challenging students’ scholastic engagement and their ability to self-regulate learning. Under these unexpected conditions, adaptability (one’s capacity adjust thoughts, behaviors, emotions in new uncertain situations) might have sustained students maintain high find solutions. Students with also interpret COVID-19-r...

PURPOSE Serum/glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) has recently emerged as a critical regulator of inflammatory diseases. In this study, we examined SGK1 expression and its possible pathogenic roles in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). METHODS Immunohistochemistry, western blotting, Bio-Plex assay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction were perform...

The joint effect of (a) level of satiation with social stimuli (relative satiation) and (b) attitude of the child toward the reinforcing agent (valence) on social reinforcer effectiveness was investigated. The experiment was conducted in two parts. In Session 1, the valence manipulation, which consisted in showing subjects a film that depicted Experimenter 1 as nice or mean, was performed by Ex...

The immune system, an exquisitely regulated physiological utilizes a wide spectrum of soluble factors and multiple cell populations subpopulations at diverse states maturation to monitor protect the organism against foreign organisms. Immune surveillance is ensured by distinguishing self-antigens from self-associated with non-self (e.g., viral) peptides presented major histocompatibility comple...

Achiever and Explorer player types are well known in MMOs and educational games. Players who enjoy being a winner but dislike hard challenges (“Self-Validators”) are a heretofore ignored but commonly occurring player type. Self-Validators worry about and are distressed by failing. They can simply avoid playing overly difficult games for entertainment. But in a required learning game, Self-Valid...

We analyse the predictive power of learning strategies for engineering students’ performance in mathematics. Learning play an important role self-regulated learning. Based on a new strategy questionnaire that takes into account specifics mathematical at universities, we investigated what were correlate with and predict future performance. present data longitudinal study N = 361 students regress...