Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. A mong the many challenges to health, infectious diseases stand out for their ability to have a profound impact on the human species. Great pandemics and local epidemics alike have influenced the course of wars, determined the fates of nations and empires, and affected the progress of civilization, making infections compelling actors in the drama ...

A growing research community is working towards employing drama management components in interactive story-based games. These components gently guide the story towards a narrative arc that improves the player’s experience. In this paper we present our Drama Management architecture for real-time interactive story games that has been connected to a real graphical interactive story based on the An...

THE TIMELINESS AND CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF AUSTRIAN BUSINESS CYCLE THEORY Careful study of the book under review is a rewarding experience. As Roger Garrison points out in the Foreword (pp. iii–vii), Austrian capital-based business cycle theory has lost nothing of its relevance and timeliness. The theory identifies monetary mismanagement as a major source of economywide distortions in the inter...

I have chosen the subject " Medicine and the I^rama," for two reasons : first, the drama seems to be a stepping-stone to the Presidency of this Society. As you know, the Medical Dramatic Club is the oldest surviving dramatic club in Bristol, and a large number ?f our presidents have passed through its ranks. Secondly, the drama is the one subject outside our professional interests that can clai...

This article looks at drama as a means for women to reflect on the construction of identity and considers how parameters for exploring meaning can be developed within the drama. Consideration is given to the historical silencing and marginalisation of women in language, discourse, society and culture. Drama, with its emphasis on embodiment provides an appropriate space (locus) for women to beco...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how the mentally ill are depicted in prime-time television dramas. METHOD Fourteen television dramas that included at least one character with a mental illness, shown in prime-time during a 1-year period, were systematically viewed and analysed. RESULTS Fifteen of the 20 mentally ill characters were depicted as physically violent toward self ...

Two hundred and fifteen ninth grade students were surveyed to examine the relationship between television use and gender role attitudes and behavior in dating situations. Findings indicate the existence of a relationship between watching "romantic" television programming and having more traditional gender role attitudes in dating situations. However, watching non-romantic television dramas and ...

Often, video game designers must choose between creating a linear experience, and designing an open world with many different story lines that fail to form a tightly crafted narrative arc. A drama manager (DM) can provide a solution to this dilemma. A DM monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author’s e...

Actor agents in a virtual reality and interactive drama must deliver a believable performance. This is challenging and many issues need to be resolved. One prominent problem is that the goals of a character in an emergent interactive drama may conflict with demands for coherency in the drama’s progress. We propose an approach to resolve this that uses Object Oriented Bayesian networks and intel...

In recent years, there has been an influx of Korean popular culture throughout the world, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Korean popular culture, also known as the “Korean Wave” (Hallyu in Korean) ranges from television dramas, movies, popular music (K-pop), dance (B-boys), video game, food, fashion, tourism, and language (Hangul). The main focus of this paper is ...