This paper contributes to feminist games studies, media and internet presenting findings from semi-structured interviews conducted with seven self-identified women who played videogames their romantic partners. It seeks develop a more multifaceted understanding of women’s gaming ‘lifeworlds’ struggles participate ‘stay in’ the male-dominant public. Specifically, this study observes how relation...

Multi-agent teamwork is a critical capability in a large number of applications. Yet, despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolution has remained largely unaddressed. This chapter presents a system called CONSA, to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. The key insight in CONSA(COllaborative Negotiation System based on ...

In this article we take an Optimality Theoretic approach to interpretation which integrates various factors into a set of typically conflicting constraints of varying strengths. The hypothesis that optimization is a leading principle in natural language interpretation strengthens the connection between linguistic theory and other cognitive disciplines. We will provide further support for this v...

In 2019, terrorism-related deaths decreased for the fifth consecutive year (by 15.5 %). However, decline in number of victims does not mean that there are no new, disturbing trends international system. Though, it is easy to grasp phenomenon terrorism regions where asymmetric security threats coexist. Often, local armed conflicts and violence interlock terrorist actions. The following article h...

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a novel and innovative form of public-private partnership financing social services performed by best-practice selected non-governmental third entity. In our paper we outline SIB theoretical model identifying government private investors' participation constraints discuss the conflicts interests that may arise among different actors involved in presence asymmetric...

conclusions our underlying hypothesis is that recapitulating the three-dimensional early embryonic structure, in order to reproduce better in vitro the three-dimensional morphogenetic-like re-arrangements, would improve cells differentiation, when in vivo transplanted; moreover, it could be used as a simplified cancer disease model and reliable drug evaluation method as well. results the proces...

conclusions the lack of difference between adma levels in patients with pa and eh suggests that endothelial dysfunction is more likely related to hypertension per se than to the specific etiology of elevated blood pressure. results patients with pa had significantly higher concentrations of adma than healthy controls (0.488 ± 0.085 vs. 0.433 ± 0.053 μmol/l, p = 0.027). no difference was found i...