Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

A live interactive narrative (LIN) is an experience where multiple players take on fictional roles and interact with realworld objects and actors to participate in a pre-authored narrative. Temporal properties of LINs are important to its viability and aesthetic quality and hence deserve special design consideration. In this paper, we tackle the largely overlooked problem of scheduling a multip...

My name is Joshua Fox and I am 18 years old and come from Halifax. I play the Euphonium in Elland Silver Youth Band, National Champions of Great Britain 2010 amongst many other titles. I attend Bethel Methodist Chapel Shelf and I have attended Boy’s Brigade from the age of five. In year 11, I passed my Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award and achieved my Silver Award Summer 2010. I was nominated as a...

Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...

This paper presents a visual editor which supports authors to define the narrative macrostructure of non-linear interactive dramas. This authoring tool was used to represent Propp’s narrative macrostructure of Russian fairy tales in non-linear plot graphs. Moreover, Propp’s thorough characterization of basic narrative constituents by explanations, discussions and examples of their different rea...

Problem—Contemporary physics offers no underlying reason for the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass. Approach—The is examined from new provided by cordus theory, being a non-local hidden-variable (NLHV) theory. Mathematical formalisms are derived masses observers in different fabric densities. Findings—A disjointed predicted, whereby equivalent any one situation, but holds when dens...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

The novels by Benedicto Monteiro Verde vagomundo (1972), O minosauro (1975) and A terceira margem (1983), written published in the context of Brazilian military dictatorship, employ their compositions technique montage fragmentation, common to other from 1970’s (Franco, 1998), they appear us non-conforming feature as disjointed fractals self-moving trees (Pacheco, 2020). Mobilizing diverse disc...