Students in grades four through twelve from fourteen schools learned to build their own immersive virtual environments (VEs). This required them to decide on the theme of their VE, to determine what objects to place in it and what behaviors these objects would exhibit, to model their objects using CAD software, to specify the form and function of the VE for professional programmers to use as th...

The aim of our contribution is to introduce a database of linguistic forms and their functions built with the use of the multi-layer annotated corpora of Czech, the Prague Dependency Treebanks. The purpose of the Prague Database of Forms and Functions (ForFun) is to help the linguists to study the form-function relation, which we assume to be one of the principal tasks of both theoretical lingu...

Co-housing in Vienna forms an integral part of nearly every new suburban development. Experiments housing forms, material use and relationships between occupant’s lifestyles lead to a social identity. Simple built are linked by network staircases bridges encouraging interaction. The shared spaces intended be communal adaptive the resident's needs. All spaces: external internal visually not only...

Second language learners have a great difficulty in apprehending usage rules that are used by native speakers to express their intentions or communicative goals in a way appropriate to the situation at hand. In response to this difficulty, we have built a computer program to provide them with the relevant knowledge. The main goal of this paper is to show how our system prototype generates forms...

The article explores how organisations learn to manage their skill endowments. By capitalising on the resource-based theory of the firm, we investigated incentives and bargaining processes giving raise to different organisational forms and different pattern of rents appropriation. We built an agent-based model to simulate a market where employees, bearing skills, bargain their salaries with fir...

Propositional expert systems classify cases, and can be built in several different forms, including production rules, decision tables and decision trees. These forms are inter-translatable, but the translations are much larger than the originals, often unmanageably large. In this paper a method of controlling the size problem is demonstrated, based on induced partial functional dependencies, wh...

AMD is in two forms, a dry or atrophic form and a wet or neovascular form. However, these two forms were characterized in their common early form (also described in aged retina [1]) by the presence of deposits under the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), in Bruch's membrane (BM; [2]). The origin of drusen is not well established, and several hypothesis are built. Oxidative damage is considered a...

We propose a simple form for the superalgebra of M2 and M5-brane probes in arbitrary supersymmetric backgrounds of 11d supergravity, extending previous results in the literature. In particular, we identify the topological charges in the algebras and find BPS bounds for the energies. The charges are given by the integral over a brane’s spatial worldvolume of a certain closed form built out of th...

In this paper we propose a methodology for structured parallel programming using functional skeletons to compose and coordinate concurrent activities written in a standard imperative language. Skeletons are higher order functional forms with built-in parallel behaviour. We show how such forms can be used uniformly to abstract all aspects of a parallel program's behaviour including data partitio...