Professional golf is an area that is particularly attractive to study because it models a perfectly competitive economy where payoffs are directly related to individual productivity (Scully 2002). Since one‟s earnings on the PGA Tour are based on individual performance, different skill factors and other variables such as tour experience and the number of events entered can be compared to determ...

Virtual reconstruction of urban areas, which are lost due to natural or man-provoked disasters, is nowadays feasible through the usage of contemporary threedimensional technologies and virtual reality. With the aid of topography, architecture, history and archaeology, the once existed urban areas, or even whole cities, can be reconstructed as close as possible to the original. The work presente...

A closed knight’s tour of a chessboard uses legal moves of the knight to visit every square exactly once and return to its starting position. When the chessboard is translated into graph theoretic terms the question is transformed into the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle. There are two common tours to consider on the cube. One is to tour the six exterior n × n boards that form the cube. The ot...

Porto, the institutional repository of the Politecnico di Torino, is provided by the University Library and the IT-Services. The aim is to enable open access to all the world. Please share with us how this access benefits you. Your story matters. The introduction of new technologies to enhance the visiting museum experience is not a novelty. A large variety of interactive systems are nowadays a...

In previous publications, we reported that students learned about Egyptian architecture and society by playing an educational game based on a virtual representation of a temple. Students played the game in a digital dome or on standard desktop computer and (each) then recorded a video tour of the temple. Those who had used the dome recited more facts in their videos (P < 0.05). In this study, w...

We present an empirical study that investigates whether the first impressions that users form of a virtual agent have an impact on attitudes and subsequent relational behavior. Subjects experienced brief approaches to several embodied agent guides in an immersive 3D virtual museum environment. Each guide exhibited two levels (low vs. high) of extraversion and friendliness towards the subjects b...

Interactive maps provide unique ways to support community applications. In particular, they enable new collaborative activities. Map-based navigation supports a community environment as well as virtual tours. Interactive maps can also function as a tool in collecting historical information and discussing new spatial layouts. These examples indicate the numerous opportunities for interactive map...

The title of this book would suggest that the reader would need to be in London and have a strong pair of walking boots at the ready. However while the book does provide a walking guide, it also makes an excellent read in its own right. This is because the author provides a fascinating insight into the historical development of healthcare which is relevant not only in London but in the country ...

The title of this book would suggest that the reader would need to be in London and have a strong pair of walking boots at the ready. However while the book does provide a walking guide, it also makes an excellent read in its own right. This is because the author provides a fascinating insight into the historical development of healthcare which is relevant not only in London but in the country ...

A knight’s tour is a series of moves made by a knight visiting every square of an n x n chessboard exactly once. The knight’s tour problem is the problem of constructing such a tour, given n. A knight’s tour is called closed if the last square visited is also reachable from the first square by a knight’s move, and open otherwise. Define the knight’s graph for an n x n chessboard to be the graph...