Food webs describe who eats whom among species within a habitat, and these networks depicting food chains have long been a central paradigm for understanding simple and complex networks in many scientific and social arenas. The structure of the feeding links within diverse food webs typically generates highly complex and dense networks whose details are critical to the behavior of ecosystems. D...

A central process of virtual organization design relates to how newcomers are assimilated into organizational dynamics. Research on assimilation has traditionally investigated 'serious' contexts. Nonetheless, video games can offer insights such be effectively supported. In this article, I propose look at World Warcraft (WoW) understand individuals successfully integrated online organizations. T...

Due to the long-delayed release of ( ) second expansion in China, many Chinese WoW rush between tens of thousands of residents of Taiwan and China, two countries whose official relationship is marked by limited contact and political tension. Instead of having short-term political discussions on online forums, Chinese and Taiwanese players are now establishing long-term relationships in ongoing ...

Millions of people regularly play so-called massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs). Recently, it has been argued that MMORPG overuse is becoming a significant health problem worldwide. Symptoms such as tolerance, withdrawal, and craving have been described. Based on behavioral, resting state, and task-related neuroimaging data, we test whether frequent players of the MMORPG "...

Predicates of taste (e.g. fun), as well as interjections (e.g. wow), form a class of inherently subjective expression-types, consequently resisting straightforward treatment within truth-conditional semantics. While subjective expression-types semantically require an experiencer-argument, because that argument can potentially be set to anyone at all semanticists seem unable to explain how its v...

Purpose: This study aimed to establish the extent which Dubrovnik upscale hotels delight their guests and if such "wow effects" affect rates. Study design/methodology/approach: TripAdvisor pages of 15 were searched for guest attributes hotel rates, analysed with descriptive statistics, linlog regression Spearman correlation. Findings: provide solid services, but still lack “wow effect”. In this...