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Rules and mechanics
No full textSo far in this book, we have seen a large number of methods for generating content for existing games. So, if you have a game already, you could now generate many things for it: maps, levels, terrain, vegetation, weapons, dungeons, racing tracks. But what if you don’t already have a game, and want to generate the game itself? What would you generate, and how? At the heart of any game are its rules. This chapter will discuss representations for game rules of different kinds, along with methods to generate them, and evaluation functions and constraints that help us judge complete games rather than just isolated content artefacts.\ud
Our main focus here will be on methods for generating interesting, fun, and/or balanced game rules. However, an important perspective that will permeate the chapter is that game rule encodings and evaluation functions can encode game design expertise and style, and thus help us understand game design. By formalising aspects of the game rules, we define a space of possible rules more precisely than could be done through writing about rules in qualitative terms; and by choosing which aspects of the rules to formalise, we define what aspects of the game are interesting to explore and introduce variation in. In this way, each game generator can be thought of an executable micro-theory of game design, though often a simplified,\ud
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Well-measuring programs
No full text© Copyright 2006 IEEEAny program that measures quantities from its physical environment must compute using correct and consistent units of measurement. Such a program is described as well-measuring. In many systems, particularly embedded control software, paying inadequate attention to units of measurement can result in catastrophe. Unfortunately, current programming languages and tools provide little aid to the programmer attempting to establish or verify the well-measuring property. We present a program analysis technique for inferring and checking the units used within a program. The technique combines traditional Hindley-Milner-style type inference with the use of static single assignment (SSA) form to enable analysis of imperative programs.Phil Cook, Colin Fidge, and David Heme
Morris Cook
No full textMorris Cook is the son of Mark N. and Amy Cook and stepson of Ada Rasmussen Cook
Morris Cook
No full textMorris Cook is pictured his senior year at Uintah High School. He is the son of Mark N. and Amy Cook, and stepmother Ada Rasmussen Cook
Supplemental Material, Appendix_B - Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Their Neuroprotective Role After an Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of Animal Models
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix_B for Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Their Neuroprotective Role After an Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of Animal Models by Mark J. Lambrechts and James L. Cook in Global Spine Journal</p
Supplemental Material, Appendix_A - Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Their Neuroprotective Role After an Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of Animal Models
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix_A for Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Their Neuroprotective Role After an Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of Animal Models by Mark J. Lambrechts and James L. Cook in Global Spine Journal</p
A chart of part of the south coast of Newfoundland [cartographic material] : includingthe islands St. Peters and Miquelon, from an actual survey /
No full textDetailed chart of part of the Newfoundland, Canadian coast with relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings.; "Scale to the general chart English and French leagues 20 to a degree"; Accompanied by booklet: Directions for navigating on part of the south coast of Newfoundland, with a chart thereof, including the islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon ... / by James Cook. London : Printed for the author, and sold by J.Mount and T. Page on Tower-Hill, 1766. 32 p. : 24 cm.; Insets: Harbours of St. Laurence; Harbour [of] Briton.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm423
Leah Cook
No full textLeah Cook is pictured her junior year of Uintah High School. She is the daughter of Mark N. and Ada Cook
M-199, Bedrock Geology of the Mark Lake Quadrangle, Cook County, Minnesota
No full textMap showing the bedrock geology of the Mark Lake Quadrangle, Minnesota with descriptions of geologic units.Portrays the bedrock geology of the Mark Lake quadrangle which prior to this effort was largely unmapped. The map shows the distribution of the various rock types, locations of bedrock outcrops, and structural attributes of the bedrock. Mapped outcrops were used to constrain the geology for the most part, but mapping was augmented by the use of geophysical maps, and lidar imagery. Lidar was especially useful in locating bedrock outcrops during field work, and also for delineating the various bedrock units during the map compilation stage following fieldwork.THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AS PART OF THE 2017 STATE GEOLOGIC MAPPING PROGRAM ELEMENT (STATEMAP)
OF THE NATIONAL COOPERATIVE GEOLOGIC MAPPING PROGRAMBoerboom, Terrence J; Green, John C. (2018). M-199, Bedrock Geology of the Mark Lake Quadrangle, Cook County, Minnesota. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200350
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
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