In this article, a multimodal framework is proposed to track the character development of female characters in the Bioshock franchise. The language part of the framework focuses on appraisal analysis. The appraisal framework is applied to understand the player’s interpretation of the linguistic resources found in the characters’ utterances. The nonlinguistic part of the framework utilizes Kress...

Simulated humans in computer interfaces are increasingly taking on roles that were once reserved for real humans. The presentation of simulated humans is affected by their appearance, motion quality, and interactivity. These presentational factors can influence the decisions of those who interact with them. This is of concern to interface designers and users alike, because these decisions often...

Major theories of sexual selection predict heritable variation in female preferences and male traits and a positive genetic correlation between preference and trait. Here we show that female Texas field crickets, Gryllus integer, have heritable genetic variation for the male calling song stimulus level that produces the greatest phonotactic response. Approximately 34% of the variation in female...

for a finite group G, we denote by p(G) the minimal degree of faithful permutation representations of G, and denote by c(G), the minimal degree of faithful representation of G by quasi-permutation matrices over the complex field C. In this paper we will assume that, G is a p-group of exponent p and class 2, where p is prime and cd(G) = {1, |G : Z(G)|^1/2}. Then we will s...

Children in the 2nd through 6th grade wrote reports about their favorite educational and informational television programs, and the reports were examined for the presence of gender stereotypes. Children’s written reports contained more male than female characters, more male than female pronouns, and more masculine than feminine behaviors. Effects were most pronounced for boys. Over time, preado...

When a black-spotted female platyfish (Platypoecilus maculatus) is mated to an unspotted (genetically recessive) male platyfish, one of three hereditary expressions may be expected. If the female is genetically pure (homozygous dominant) for the spotted factor, all of the young may be expected to be spotted. The genetic formula representing this situation is (W)Sp(Z)Sp, for the mother, where W ...

The tribe Proconiini is represented in Argentina by 18 genera and 44 species. Characters for the identification of most genera and species are from male specimens, while females are identified by association with males. In this contribution, the female terminalia of 20 species of Proconiini from Argentina are described and illustrated. The value of each character to genus or species identificat...