Branching story games have gained popularity for creating unique playing experiences by adapting story content in response to user actions. Research in interactive narrative (IN) uses automated planning to generate story plans for a given story problem. However, a story planner can generate multiple story plan solutions, all of which equally-satisfy the story problem definition but contain diff...

For decades, heat treatments have been known to reduce or eliminate decay-causing agents and slow the physiological deterioration of freshly harvested fruits vegetables. years, fungicides pesticides used control fungi on However, these chemicals can contaminate environment be hazardous those who consume fresh produce. Therefore, treatments, lasting only minutes up several days, developed insect...

The front cover shows ABB serving the cement manufacturing industry, which it has done since 1961 with turnkey installations, electrical equipment and automation systems. In 1990, ABB recognised the MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) business area as a natural extension to its technology portfolio. Since then, ABB has provided added value solutions that are independent from the installed pro...

Do people spontaneously form visual mental images when understanding language, and if so, how truly visual are these representations? We test whether processing linguistic descriptions of motion produces sufficiently vivid mental images to cause direction-selective motion adaptation in the visual system (i.e., cause a motion aftereffect illusion). We tested for motion aftereffects (MAEs) follow...

A story is a narrative structure with a high cause and effect context which enables the story to make an enduring impression on people. For this purpose, many language learning environments use storytelling as foundation to increase degree of understanding and learning interest. However, most current storytelling systems in language learning have little flexibility in the connection between the...

Removal of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is an effective surgical treatment for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy but carries a risk of language and verbal memory deficits. Preoperative localization of functional zones in the ATL might help reduce these risks, yet fMRI protocols in current widespread use produce very little activation in this region. Based on recent evidence suggesting a ro...

(1986). The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian preschool children. ABSTRACT In deciding whether to use a definite or indefinite referring expression a speaker must apply a pragmatic rule: the definite article is usually appropriate if the listener is already familiar with the referent, and the indefinite article if not. Several studies have investigated at what age this rule...

OBJECTIVES To elaborate the desired qualities, traits, and styles of physician's leadership with a deep insight into the recommended measures to inculcate leadership skills in physicians.   METHODS The databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library were searched for the full-text English-language articles published during the period 2000-2015. Further search, including manual ...

Our concepts of story and storytelling have popularly been represented through linear mediums such as books and films. Only in traditions such as theater and oral storytelling, where an author has direct, instant feedback from the audience, has story been able to achieve a more malleable form. The present is pivotal because the evolution of interactive media technology has created new forms of ...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Adolescents from urban, socioeconomically disadvantaged communities of color encounter high rates of adverse childhood experiences. To address the resulting multidimensional problems, we developed an innovative approach, Experiential Participatory and Interactive Knowledge Elicitation (EPIKE), using remote experiential needs elicitation methods to generate design and content ...