Abstract Esports offer a unique opportunity to conduct human performance studies, as they use modern hardware and software an operation platform. Insights on gameplay underlying processes may push the development of new optimal practice methods. The aim this study was investigate indicators from in-game data predict outcome matches in StarCraft II: Legacy Void. Data 6509 games (game records) pr...

We investigate asymmetry in corpus-derived and human word associations. Most prior work has studied paradigmatic relations, either derived from free association norms or from large corpora using measures of statistical association and semantic relatedness. By contrast, we investigate the syntagmatic relation between words in adjective-noun and noun-noun combinations and present a new experiment...

China’s military planners like to claim that in overall terms, the PLA is technologically inferior if compared with its potential adversaries. Such inferiority will continue in the foreseeable future, even though the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has made some progress in modernizing its weaponry in recent years. On the other hand, the strategic principles of the PLA have undergone a major shi...

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The naturally occurring tendency to compete with other rats for territorial space has been used to study individual behavior characteristics and blood pressure reactivity to social stimuli in adult male TMD-S3 rats. The competitive characteristics of the individual rats are consistent in two different social situations (victory and defeat). Blood pressure responses during the victory of home te...

The margin of victory is easy to compute for many election schemes but difficult for Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). This is important because arguments about the correctness of an election outcome usually rely on the size of the electoral margin. For example, risk-limiting audits require a knowledge of the margin of victory in order to determine how much auditing is necessary. This paper presents...

This article addresses the misleading nature of the rewrite of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war as portrayed in Moroccan Mubarak Rabl''s 1976 novel Rifqat al-Silah ...wa-l-Qamar (Comrades in Arms... and the Moon). Papers partially burned by are treating Moroccan officer lure the 'enemy' into attacking a fortified position, thus leading to an Arab victory. The fantastical nature of the war narr...

There has been a terrifying ‘logic’ to the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka which came to its very sad conclusion in the third week of May 2009. It is easy to understand why people living in Colombo and the south-western part of Sri Lanka felt very relieved and even enthused by the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tiger after twenty-six years of insecurity and conflict. However, any sense of victo...