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Critical Gameplay: Software Studies in Computer Gameplay
(2010-10-12)The computer game software with which we interact on a daily basis not only entertains us, it trains us into specific patterns. Critical Gameplay is a design practice which endeavors to expose and redesign the patterns to ... -
The “Crossing Borders” Program: Increasing Intercultural Competency Via Structured Social Interactions
(2013-04-04)Increasing diversity in American college classrooms and recent trends toward globalization require professors to teach more creatively in order to encourage students’ face-to-face intercultural interactions and resulting ... -
Cryobiology of the freeze-tolerant gall fly Eurosta solidaginis: Overwintering energetics and heat shock proteins.
The goldenrod gall fly Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tehritidae) ranges from the southern U.S. northward into Canada. The larvae overwinters with a ball gall on the stem of goldenrod Solidago spa. The galls often extend ... -
Cryobiology of the freeze-tolerent gall fly Eurosta solidaginis: overwintering energetics and heat shock proteins
The goldenrod gall fly E urosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae) ranges from the southern us. northward into Canada. The larva overwinters within a ball gall on the stem of goldenrod Solidago spp. The galls often extend ... -
Cryoprotectants and Extreme Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog
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Cryoprotectants and extreme freeze tolerance in a subarctic population of the wood frog.
Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) exhibit marked geographic variation in freeze tolerance, with subarctic populations tolerating experimental freezing to temperatures at least 10-13 degrees Celsius below the lethal limits for ... -
Dare to compare: fact-based versus simulation-based comparison in daily life
(2011-02-07)We examined the relative frequency of social, counter factual, past-temporal, and future-temporal comparison in daily life using an experience-sampling method, in which participants were randomly prompted to record thought ... -
Degree-constrained Minimum Latency Trees are APX-Hard
(2008-03-25)When transmitting data from a single source to many recipients, it is often desirable to use some recipients of the stream to re-broadcast the stream to other users. In such multicast systems each client may be used as a ... -
A Demonstration of Computer Assisted Instruction Using Authorware Professional to Teach Basic Theology
(1996-12-01)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate principles which are basic to Computer Assisted Instruction and how Authorware Professional is able to make use of these principles. A computer assisted instruction module will ... -
Design and Implementation of a Hypertext-based Information Retrieval System
(1992-08-01)Information Retrieval (IR), which is also known as text or document retrieval, is the process of locating and retrieving documents that are relevant to the user queries. In hypertext environments, document databases are ... -
Design and Implementation of Export Shipping System with a Study of the Requirements and Life-Cycle
(1992-07-01)The Export Shipping System is focused primarily on upgrading the manual system currently used for tracking export orders and inventory in the shipping department at Square D Company. It consists of a group of program modules ... -
Designing a Publish-Substrate for Privacy/Security in Pervasive Environments
(2006-04-01)The emergence of a multitude of technologies for tracking locations is leading to the design of pervasive location-tracking environments. In order to explore issues in the design of such environments, the University of ... -
Development of an Object-Oriented High-Level Language and Construction of an Associated Object-Oriented Compiler
(1992-12-01)Computerized automation has long past been in practice, and engineers are developing ways and means of improving strategies to achieve better performance. Related search is concentrated on developing methords to diversify ... -
Development of the Advanced Bi-Lingual Reading Assistant (ABRA) And Authorizing System (ABRA-AS)
(1995-12-01)Two programs were created to fulfill a contract with the German, Russian, and East Asian Language Department at Miami University. These programs, Advanced Bilingual Reading Assistant (ABRA) and Advanced Bi-lingual Reading ... -
The Development of the New Feeder System: Applying the System Development Life Cycle Methodology
(1997-07-01)My graduate project proposal is the development of the new Feeder system. The new Feeder system is comprised of five individual feeders, which are the Hourly Payroll, Salary Payroll, Stores, Job Labor and Accounts Payable ... -
Discomfort Design: Critical Reflection through Uncomfortable Play
(2014-02-05)Consider that uncomfortable moment in life when people discover a playful experience ceases to be worth playing. Just as an arm is broken on the playground, or a relationship can no longer be mended, there are explicit ... -
Do bot flies, Cuterebra (Diptera: Cuterebridae), emasculate their hosts?
Asa Fitch, in his description of a new species of Cuterebra that he named, "emasculator," was the first to suggest that bot flies castrated their mammalian hosts. In recent years several major review papers and parasitology ...