560 research outputs found
Breaking Points ― A Continuously Developing Interactive Digital Narrative
No full textBreaking Points is an interactive digital narrative (IDN) that puts the user in the position of a young woman who feels trapped in a daily routine she would like to escape from. The narrative design connects more important decisions with seemingly trivial ones and presents the user with immediate and delayed consequence in the form of narrative feedback, for a complex and more life-like experience. By aligning the experience of a single walkthrough with a day in the life of the heroine, the project invites replay. The project is also a study of authorial challenges and opportunities offered by different authoring modes, namely the switch from coding from scratch to the ASAPS environment. As the project is prepared for release on touch-based tablets, the paper focuses on how changes in the underlying technology have afforded continuous reshaping of the narrative
Towards mapping the evolving space of interactive digital narrative
No full textThis workshop explores future research directions towards a better categorization and comparison of IDN works, with the objective of a more adequate understanding of this evolving field. In such a multidisciplinary area, an effort is necessary to establish a shared space across different analytical perspectives and practical approaches. As a complement to a position paper presented at ICIDS 2013, the authors wish to demonstrate, discuss and improve multidimensional spatial mappings considering well-known IDN examples as well as novel cases from the periphery of the field
Interactive Digital Storytelling:Practice, Impact and Aesthetics
No full textThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on theory and aesthetics; authoring tools and applications; evaluation and user experience reports; virtual characters and agents; new storytelling modes; workshops
Mapping the Evolving Space of Interactive Digital Narrative - From Artifacts to Categorizations
No full textCategorizing Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) works is challenging because artistic and technological approaches constantly evolve. At the same time, a range of theoretical approaches from neo-Aristotelian perspectives to applications of post-classical narratology have applied many markedly different analytical perspectives, making an overall comparison difficult. This position paper expresses the need for novel, dynamic and multidimensional mappings and explores an early selection of categorizations for IDN works across different approaches
The Holodeck is All Around Us: Interface Dispositifs in Interactive Digital Storytelling
No full textSultanov T.I. Historiography of the Ethnic and Political History of the Jochid and Chaghataid Uluses
No full textObjective: The article is dedicated to basic stages of ethnic and political development of two heirs of the Mongol Empire – uluses of Jochi (Golden Horde) and Chaghatai (in Central Asia) and their own successors in the 13th–18th cc.
Research materials: The sources mainly used in this study are historical works of contemporary Islamic authors: Jamal Qarshi, Rashid al-Din, Wassaf (turn of the 13th–14th cc.), al-Omari and Hamdallah Qazwini (14th c.), Mirza Muhammad Haydar, Seyfi Çelebi, Amin b. Ahmad Razi (16th c.), Abu-l-Ghazi, Mahmud b. Wali, Hajji Khalifa (17th c.) and others. Also opinions of leading Soviet and post-Soviet as well as foreign specialists on ethnical and political history of Central Asia (V. Barthold, A. Samoilovich, S. Ibragimov, A. Mokeev, B. Karmysheva, Sh. Ando, B.F. Manz, etc.) have been taken into consideration in this study.
Results and novelty of the research: The “reference point” of this article is epoch of Mongol invasions and establishment of the Mongol Empire. During this time earlier political and ethnical realities were crushed. Disintegration of the Empire and creation of independent Chinggisid states initiated new turn of ethno- and politogenesis continued until the fall of these states at the beginning of the 16th c.
Thus, ethnical and political development of the Central Eurasia was a long-term process, and firstly the terms, which are used as ethnonyms today, reflected political and social but not a national characteristics of their holders. Only after disintegration of Chinggisid uluses of imperial type and appearance of new states (Kazakh khanate, Shibanid states on the territory of Chaghataid ulus, Moghulistan and Moghulia-Kashgaria in the Eastern Turkestan) we could talk about formation of ethnical formations, which became a basis for the modern peoples of the Central Asia.
Author pays attention to hypothetical nature of many conclusions of specialist in the ethnical history of Eurasia although they based on careful study of medieval sources. This gives an opportunity to continue researches of this subject
Use of the Genealogical Sorting Index (GSI) to delineate species boundaries in the Neofusicoccum parvum-Neofusicoccum ribis species complex
Full text linkNeofusicoccum is a recently described genus of common endophytes and pathogens of woody hosts, previously placed in the genus Botryosphaeria. Many morphological characteristics routinely used to describe species overlap in Neofusicoccum, and prior to the use of molecular phylogenetics, isolates from different hosts and locations were often misidentified. Two cryptic species Neofusicoccum ribis and Neofusicoccum parvum were initially described from different continents and recently another four species within this complex were described using fixed nucleotide polymorphisms for differentiation. In a survey of eucalypt cankers in eastern Australia, a collection of morphologically similar Neofusicoccum isolates were obtained. This collection was analysed within the framework of the morphological (MSRC), ecological (ESRC) and phylogenetic (PSRC) species recognition concepts. Morphological data based on spore measurements (MSRC), together with pathogenicity trials (ESRC) were considered alongside molecular analysis (PSRC), which included multiple gene phylogenies constructed from four nuclear gene regions. We also used the Genealogical Sorting Index method to provide objective evidence for the status of terminal taxa in the phylogenetic analysis. The isolates examined exhibited overlapping morphological and culture characteristics, similar pathogenicity to excised stems and shared hosts within the same locations. Phylogenetic analysis separated isolates into 8 clades corresponding to six described species: N. ribis, N. parvum, Neofusicoccum kwambonambiense, Neofusicoccum cordaticola, Neofusicoccum umdonicola, Neofusicoccum batangarum, and two new species. GSI support indicated combined phylogenetic data were monophyletic for all clades and all p-values were significant allowing us to reject the null hypothesis that all groups were from a single mixed group. Consequently the description of Neofusicoccum occulatum is presented
Fatigue Analysis of the Column-Pontoon Connection in a Semi-Submersible Floating Wind Turbine
No full textMotivated by the exciting potential of the new floating offshore wind concepts, this thesis aims to analyze the fatigue behavior of a novel semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine, developed at CeSOS, NTNU, which consists of four cylindrical columns with one central column supporting the 5 MW NREL wind turbine. The geometry was proposed by the author, based on logic, mathematical derivations, as well as information from the literature. The SESAM package provided by DNV was used for this thesis, including GeniE, Sestra, Submod, SESAM Manager and Xtract. The geometry was developed in the FEM software GeniE, which uses Sestra as solver, while the rest of the tools were utilized for the sub-modeling technique. Two different geometries of the column-pontoon connection were designed and their performances under different loads were analyzed and compared. The model which appeared to be more reliable regarding fatigue was further investigated and optimized in order to reduce the SCF, which are of great importance for fatigue predictions. One crucial hot spot underwent a detailed stress analysis, using the sub-modeling technique, i.e. cutting the structure at a specified location and refining the mesh. The stress assessment at the location of interest was performed in Xtract, and for further extrapolation of the stress results in order to compute the hot spot stresses and the SCFs, an Excel spreadsheet was used. Using the load time series from the dynamic analysis of the global model, and combining them with the hot spot stresses, the stress time series were output for a certain sea state. The actual fatigue calculations were performed in Matlab, using the freely available WAFO package. First, the well-established uni-axial fatigue case was performed, utilizing the rainflow counting method, a proper S-N curve and the Miner's rule. A number of 13 sea states with 10 seeds each, with aligned wind and wave were considered. The fatigue assessment was performed for four different sea headings with respect to the pontoon's direction, i.e. 0, 30, 60 and 90 degrees. Next, an approach for considering multi-axial effects in fatigue analysis was proposed, combining two recently developed methods, Equilibrium Equivalent Structural Stress and the Path-Dependent Maximum Range. Considerations on the importance of multi-axial effects on the analyzed structure were further made, followed by conclusions and recommendations for future work.EWEM European Wind Energy Master - Offshore Engineering trackOffshore and DredgingMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Multirate multi-user detectors for wideband code division multiple access
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Quasi-steady modelling and asymptotic analysis of aeroelastic oscillators
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