Why and how do digital games make us play with them? What are their argumentative strategies of make-believe like, shaped as they are by possibilities and necessities? How do games induce constant cooperation and persuade us to play, and keep playing1? Finally, what signifies the relationship between game design(er), gameplay, and player? Let us sidestep typical answers to these questions and i...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the extent of patient centrality within integrated chronic back pain management services and compare policy rhetoric with practice reality. CONTEXT Integrated chronic back pain management services. DATA SOURCES We have drawn on theories of integration and context specific journals related to integration and pain management between 1...

was formatively dependent upon the theory of oral rhetoric of the ancient world, some reflections of which are still apparent today. Three oral rhetoric precepts were applied by letter writers: inventio, locating material for three kinds of letters; dispositio, organizing letters into an introduction, body, and conclusion; and style, applying ornateness along with clarity and correctness to pro...

Although little is currently known of distance education in China, especially in Western educational circles, there is a long-standing wellestablished instructional television system of distance education that has flourished in China since the 1960s (Howells, 1989). In fact, one of the world’s largest education systems is the Dianda system in China, a combined radiotelevision university system ...

terms. Tuttle v. Atlantic City Railroad Co. 60 and Mauney v. Gulf Refining Co. 6 involve the foreseeability of a plaintiff's frightened response to a defendant's negligence. In Tuttle, one of defendant railroad's cars 60 66 N.J.L. 327, 49 A. 450 (1901). 61 193 Miss. 421, 9 So. 2d 780 (1942). 1990]

We demo a chat bot with the focus on complex, multi-sentence questions that enforce what we call rhetoric agreement of answers with questions. Chat bot finds answers which are not only relevant by topic but also match the question by style, argumentation patterns, communication means, experience level and other attributes. The system achieves rhetoric agreement by learning pairs of discourse tr...