Computer game authoring offers young people the opportunity to create their own interactive digital stories. This activity has strong educational potential, but authoring tools have provided little to no interface representational support for the storytelling aspect of the task until now. Narrative Threads, a suite of tools which provides this support, is presented here, including a description...

This paper describes characteristic behaviors of my father, B. F. Skinner, using family documents and my own recollections. Early contingencies in his upbringing strengthened his love of building things and his independence in discovering how the world works. Those skills, combined with a lack of supervision in graduate school, set the stage for his discovery of the operant. He did not stop wit...

An increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine. The terms used indicate a mode of coping with the disease aims to understand its meaning in an overall, systematic, broader and more respectful of the patient. The Narrative Based Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, ...

Label-free detection of the interaction between hexahistidine-tagged human κ-opioid receptor membrane protein and anti-His antibody is demonstrated in liquid by an optical microelectromechanical system utilizing electromagnetically actuated microresonators. Shift in resonance frequency due to accretion of mass on the sensitive surface of microresonators is monitored via an integrated optical re...

Claude Vigée in the mirror of Scripture(s) According to Paul Ricœur, « The text is medium through which one understands oneself ». (1921-2020), as a Jewish writer, tries receive, embrace and perpetuate identity conveyed by Holy Scriptures into his own writing, while also relating it life. Asserting part vaster destiny or History; developing better self-knowledge light shared relation world; fin...

In studying the extended writings of the 19 century Cuban thinker José Martí, scholars in Latin American modernity have identified a number of cultural urban narratives. The most important of these narratives is the result of his almost fifteen years of residing in New York. This narrative embedded in his journalism, scrap notes, literature, political speeches, etc.), has also been identified a...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes series, yet only two are told from the narrative perspective of Holmes himself. I attempted to compare and contrast Holmes’ narration in The Blanched Soldier and The Lion’s Mane with Watson’s narration in A Study in Scarlet. I explored narratological theories and previous research done on Watson’s narration in order to find an...

We evaluate the ability of hexahistidine (His6) tags on peptide and protein substrates to recruit deoxyribozymes for modifying those substrates. For two different deoxyribozymes, one that creates tyrosine-RNA nucleopeptides and another that phosphorylates tyrosine side chains, we find substantial improvements in yield, kobs, and Km for peptide substrates due to recruiting by His6/Cu(2+). Howeve...

There is a growing interest in the role art museums might play enriching lives of persons with dementia. The literature has started incorporating views dementia knowledge production, but in-depth explorations their experiences are still rare literature. This article adds to research case study man Alzheimer’s who regularly takes part dementia-friendly guided tours at his local museum. examines ...

In preparing for tonight’s talk, I was impressed upon reading that part of the Cosmos and Creation Mission Statement that acknowledged that scientists often “develop their own cosmology a cosmology that ... is in touch with the feel of contemporary science”. I see that as truly what should be our task in science – each to develop his/her own cosmology, contingent upon one’s own personal experie...