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Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts
No full textThe book highlights several challenges and opportunities in the field of software engineering for serious games. It covers a wide range of topics from game design principles to software architecture, testing, and deployment and is structured into two parts. While Part I delves into various aspects of designing, maintaining, adapting, and evaluating games in serious contexts; Part II focuses on the experiences of realizing and using games in serious contexts.
One of the primary challenges is to develop effective methods for evaluating serious games and measuring their impact and outcomes. Another challenge is to design serious games that are both engaging and effective, which requires a deep understanding of game design principles and instructional design. The book also emphasizes the need to develop effective software engineering practices for serious game development and the importance of gamification in improving user engagement and motivation. The potential of seriousgames for addressing societal challenges such as cybersecurity and healthcare is also highlighted. Despite these challenges, the book also identifies several opportunities for the field, including the potential of serious games to provide new and innovative approaches to learning and the potential of serious games to address real-world problems in new and effective ways.
This book is intended for software engineers, game developers, educators, and anyone interested in how games in serious contexts can be effectively created. Overall, the chapters in the book provide a valuable snapshot of the current state of the field and offer insights into where it may be headed in the future
Law Offices of C.M. Cooper, Chas. P. & J.J.G. Cooper - Mrs. Rosa Holmes Walker, May 29, 1923
No full textCorrespondence Letter from C.M. Cooper, Law Offices of C.M. Cooper, Chas. P. & J.J.G. Cooper, Jacksonville Florida, requesting payment from Rosa Holmes Walker on $1500.00 payable to Rosa L. Cooper. Payment to be made to Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville
Marriage record of Cooper, Henry L. and Adams, Nellie May
No full textMarriage license for Henry L. Cooper and Nellie May Adams. Franklin M. Sprague was the officiant
Observation of cooper pair splitting and andreev bound states in carbon nanotubes
No full textIn this thesis, we investigate Cooper pair splitting in double quantum dot devices made from carbon nanotubes. We present transport measurements in which the controlled splitting of Cooper pairs dominates the current through such a device, reaching unprecedented splitting efficiencies of up to 90%.
In another experiment we use Cooper pair splitting (and a related non-local transport processes) as a tool to investigate Andreev bound states. Andreev bound states are a key concept in mesoscopic superconductivity. They can form due to the penetration of Cooper pairs into a quantum dot, leading to a new type of energy level that differs drastically from conventional particle-in-a-box states
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Clothing longevity perspectives: exploring consumer expectations, consumption and use
No full textThe production, distribution, use and end-of-life phases of the clothing lifecycle all have significant environmental impacts, but complete lifecycle assessment has identified that extending the active life of garments through design, use and re-use is the single most effective intervention in reducing the overall impact of the clothing industry (WRAP, 2011). In response, Government funded clothing longevity research seeks to develop and test industry-led design strategies to influence and enable consumers to keep garments in active use for longer (Cooper et al., 2014). While recent UK research has indicated significant potential to influence more sustainable consumer behaviour (Langley et al., 2013; YouGov, 2012), up-to-date qualitative research is required to discover how consumer attitudes, expectations and behaviours in relation to clothing lifetimes affects garment care and clothing use. This will help to inform industry-led strategies by understanding where effective changes can be made that will potentially have most impact. This paper presents preliminary findings from a Defra funded action based research project, ‘Strategies to improve design and testing for clothing longevity’. Qualitative research methods are used to explore consumer attitudes, expectations and behaviours at purchase, use and disposal stages of garment lifetimes, and gather data on practices of garment wash, wear, care and maintenance in everyday life. The research findings are discussed in relation to industry-led strategies aimed at extending the life of clothes
Stress in teaching:a study of occupational stress and its' determinants among Italian schoolteachers
No full textThis paper presents the findings of an investigation into stress among Italian teachers conducted by means of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire elaborated by Travers and Cooper. The questionnaire was submitted to 320 southern Italy teachers drawn from a cross-section of school types. Data were discussed in order to highlight some features of teacher stress peculiar to the Italian sample with respect to those that emerged in the British validation of the questionnaire. In this perspective a comparison was drawn between the intensity and quality of mental ill-health, the sources of job pressure, the intensity and quality of job satisfaction and the coping strategies adopted by teachers as emerged in this study and in the British study; and between the most predictive dimensions of mental ill-health highlighted from the present study with respect to the British study. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Re-sequencing of a virulent strain of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168 reveals potential virulence factors.
No full textIn vitro passage of Campylobacter jejuni strains results in phenotypic changes and a general loss of virulence, as is the case with the genome-sequenced strain C. jejuni NCTC11168. Re-sequencing of a virulent strain of NCTC11168 identified 41 SNPs or indels involving 20 genes, four intergenic regions and three pseudogenes. The genes include six motility genes, two chemotaxis genes, three hypothetical genes and a capsule biosynthesis gene, which might have a critical role in C. jejuni virulence. Additionally, we found an insertion in both Cj0676 and Cj1470c, pseudogenes in avirulent NCTC11168, but functional proteins in virulent NCTC11168
Author Correction: Considerations in the search for epistasis
No full textBalvert M, Cooper-Knock J, Stamp J, et al. Author Correction: Considerations in the search for epistasis. Genome Biology . 2025;26(1): 12
Pycnomerus lordi Bukejs & Alekseev & Cooper & King & Mckellar 2019, nom. nov.
No full textPycnomerus lordi Bukejs, Alekseev & McKellar nom. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 558AF768-1865-4DD1-B370-26A45EA3F8BA Pycnomerus sulcicollis LeConte, 1863, nomen praeoccupatum, non Pycnomerus sulcicollis (Germar, 1824) Etymology. Patronymic. This species is named after Dr. Nathan P. Lord (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.) in honour of his valuable contributions to the study of Zopheridae. Distribution. The species occurs in eastern U.S.A., from New Jersey to Florida, and extends westward to reach eastern Oklahoma (Stephan 1989). Biology. The beetles live under bark and in rotting, moist wood of oak, hickory, and other hardwoods; they also occur rarely on pine (Stephan 1989).Published as part of Bukejs, Andris, Alekseev, Vitalii I., Cooper, David M. L., King, Gavin A. & Mckellar, Ryan C., 2019, A new fossil species of Pycnomerus Erichson (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) from Baltic amber, and a replacement name for a Recent North American congener, pp. 565-572 in Zootaxa 4550 (4) on page 571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/262567
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