In this paper, we present a hero recommendation engine for the popular computer game Dota 2. We detail previous efforts at hero recommendation, building on these to provide a more complete exploration of machine learning algorithms applied to this problem. In addition to discussing the details behind the machine learning algorithms we use, we also provide insight into our method of data collect...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of ProFile, GT, ProTaper, Race and K3 rotary instruments compared with hand K-files for removal of gutta-percha during retreatment. Sixty mandibular premolars were instrumented with GT rotary files and filled by thermomechanical compaction of gutta-percha and AH Plus sealer. The teeth are randomly divided into 6 groups of 10 specimens eac...

The idea behind the YouHero was two-fold: First, to make an expressive instrument out of the computer game toy guitar controller from the famous game GuitarHero. With its limited amount of control parameters, this was a challenge. Second, we wanted to provide an alternative to the view that you become a hero by perfect imitation of your idols. Instead, play yourself. You are the hero. In this p...

The current study explores the roles offenders see themselves playing during an offence and their relationship to different crime types. One hundred and twenty incarcerated offenders indicated the narrative roles they acted out whilst committing a specific crime they remembered well. The data were subjected to Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and four themes were identified: Hero, Professional, Re...

Criticism of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has maintained that its popularity stems from a well-marketed, repetitive and simple structure. However, this essay considers that this success derives from recognizable mythological heroic structures. The essay traces the protagonist’s development from the perspective of two different theories that contrast and complement each other in various wa...

The Secret Behind the Door. (Featuring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave. 8,865 ft. 99 mins.) Psychiatrists, presumably, are used to strange tales from their patients. Sometimes they may be inclined to think that nothing about human beings will surprise them. There, however, they underestimate the film-writer's imagination, for in The Secret Behind the Door there is portrayed a hero whose parti...