Player experience and deceptive expectations of difficulty adaptation in digital games [PDF]
Increasingly, digital games are including adaptive features that adjust the level of difficulty to match the skills of individual players. The intention is to improve and prolong the player experience by allowing the player to have the feeling of ...
Adams +35 more
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Health Diplomacy the Adaptation of Global Health Interventions to Local Needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand: Evaluating Findings from Project Accept (HPTN 043). [PDF]
Study-based global health interventions, especially those that are conducted on an international or multi-site basis, frequently require site-specific adaptations in order to (1) respond to socio-cultural differences in risk determinants, (2) to make ...
A Buvé +43 more
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Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot [PDF]
In their article "Final Words, Final Shots: Kurosawa, Bortko, and the Conclusion of Dostoevsky???s Idiot" Robert O. Efird and Saera Yoon discuss film adaptations of Dostoevsky???s novel.
Efird, Robert O., Yoon, Saera
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Due to the growth of the “urban shadow”, farming systems in metropolitan areas (MAs) are characterized by specific environmental, economic, and social pressures. Urbanization pressure and its related threats, as well as the opportunities resulting from a
Wojciech Sroka, Dariusz Żmija
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Do Farmers Adapt to Climate Change? A Macro Perspective
Greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change, and agriculture is the most vulnerable sector. Farmers do have some capability to adapt to changing weather and climate, but this capability is contingent on many factors, including geographical and ...
Shahzad Alvi +3 more
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Evolutionary biology studies on the Iris pumila clonal plant: Advantages of a good model system, main findings and directions for further research [PDF]
Evolutionary studies on the dwarf bearded iris, Iris pumila L., a perennial clonal monocot with hermaphroditic enthomophylous flowers, have been conducted during the last three decades on plants and populations from the Deliblato Sands in Serbia.
Tarasjev A. +2 more
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Old-Vlax Era from the Ivanjica district: Construction from the time of Jovan Cvijić and contemporary images [PDF]
The paper gives a brief account of the ethno-psychological research among Serbs, with a particular emphasis on Jovan Cvijić’s work on psychological characters among old-Vlax Eras.
Nikolić Desanka P.
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BES1 and BZR1 transcription factors are activated by the BRI1-BAK1 receptor complex during brassinosteroid signaling. Here the authors show that BES1-family members also act in anthers, downstream of another receptor-like kinase-mediated signaling ...
Weiyue Chen +8 more
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Ecophysiological and biochemical traits of three herbaceous plants growing on the disposed coal combustion fly ash of different weathering stage [PDF]
The ecophysiological and biochemical traits of Calamagrostis epigejos (Roth.) Festuca rubra L. and Oenothera biennis L. growing on two fly ash lagoons of different weathering stage (L1-3 years and L2-11 years) of the “Nikola Tesla- A ...
Gajić Gordana +6 more
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Mechanical adaptations of cleavers (Galium aparine) [PDF]
• Background and Aims Cleavers (Galium aparine) is a fast-growing herbaceous annual with a semi-self-supporting, scrambling-ascending growth habit. Mature plants often use upright species for support. It is common in hedgerows and on waste ground. This
Goodman, A. M.
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