From game trees to a narrative game: prototype

The game theory started as a mathematical exploration of human behaviours. The term has expanded to cover this mathematical exploration of the decision-making not only of humans but also of animals and computers. Through this project, we will be able to study how can we integrate the mathematical aspect of a specific topic from game theory into a development of a game. Furthermore, what advantages or inconveniences can we find on our way to integrating this field into game development? First, we must focus on learning key concepts about game theory topics, specifically Game Trees and subgame perfect equilibrium. These concepts will help us create a game tree and calculate the decision-making values, so later, it becomes easier to mix with other concepts once we accomplish the research. When we look at a game tree, we can easily relate some similarities with another well-known video game system. These systems are narrative trees or decision trees. So the main focus of this project is to create a game prototype where a player has to make decisions like in a narrative game. However, instead of a standard decision tree, we will investigate making this tree with the concepts learned through game theory. The key to success will be learning how to create a game tree and combining this with some psychology so players can feel that their decisions have some value, as we would see in a game tree. All these challenges will illustrate through the development part of the project

Mindfulness Creativity: Transforming stimulation methodology concept advertising process conception of the XXI Century

Nuestra investigación se encuentra focalizada en los efectos de un estudio experimental que examina en profundidad el descubrimiento de un nuevo paradigma metodológico de estimulación conceptual del siglo XXI: Mindfulness. Los procesos analíticos convencionales de los estadios secuenciales para alcanzar los objetivos de creatividad primarios en un individuo siempre han sido tangencialmente materializados a través de un enfoque racional; creatividad racional. Una perspectiva focalizada por variables de estudios absolutamente racionales permitió, como era previsible detectar, que existieran evidentes carencias en el proceso de producción, y surgiera la innovadora visualización del proceso creativo desde una perspectiva emocional; creatividad emocional. El nuevo paradigma de desarrollo del individuo y proyección en su irrepetible entorno del siglo XXI, estimula una inspiradora reformulación de una consciente y transformadora etapa en el proceso de creación. Creatividad Mindfulness. Se configura como una nueva metodología de estimulación de crecimiento personal que transforma los axiomas básicos de producción creativa. Atención plena (mindfulness) se posiciona como un sofisticado método que permitirá encontrar la forma de serenar y rescatar el potencial y valor de las creaciones publicitarias. Una vez superadas las vitales y secuenciales etapas de creatividad racional y emocional, nos encontramos con una renovadora etapa de conciencia de creación orientada plenamente sobre el presente. Eliminar los automatismos creativos de las conductas aumentando la conciencia de estimulación creativa. Vaciar los prejuicios y juicios de valor, evitando que se interpongan en la capacidad productiva y potencial de eficacia creativa. Abrir y estar disponibles en las nuevas perspectivas creativas. Resiliencia creativa como elemento potencial de estimular la capacidad que posee el individuo para afrontar las adversidades de entornos de creación publicitaria. El objetivo de la ponencia está posicionado en el desarrollo de las principales inferencias y conclusiones cualitativas y cuantitativas en un transformador método de creatividad consciente vinculada sobre la atención plena, que pasa por la búsqueda de un silencio en la mente del creativo, que le permita poder alcanzar una potencial capacidad para escuchar con nitidez la intuición publicitaria necesaria en el nuevo paradigma educativo del siglo XXI.Our research is focused on the effects of an experimental study that examines in depth the discovery of a new stimulation paradigm conceptual methodological XXI Century: Mindfulness. The conventional analytical processes sequential stages to achieve the objectives of an individual primary creativity has always been tangentially materialized through a rational, rational creativity. A perspective study focused by perfectly rational variables allowed, predictably detect obvious deficiencies existed in the production process, and display the innovative emergence of the creative process from an emotional perspective, emotional creativity. The new paradigm of human development and its unique projection century environment, stimulates a conscious reformulation inspiring and transformative stage in the process of creation. Mindfulness Creativity. It is configured as a new methodology of personal growth stimulation transforms the basic axioms of creative production. Mindfulness is positioned as a sophisticated method that will find a way to calm and rescue the potential and value of advertising creations. Having overcome the sequential stages of life and creativity and empathy, we find a renewal stage fully oriented awareness creation on the present. Remove the automatic creative behaviors by increasing awareness of creative stimulation. Empty prejudices and value judgments, avoiding that stand in the productive capacity and potential for creative effectiveness. Open and available in new creative perspectives. Resilience creative and stimulating potential element that has the individual capacity to face adversity advertising creation environments. The aim of the paper is positioned to develop inferences and conclusions major qualitative and quantitative method in a transformer linked to conscious creativity mindfulness, which passes through the pursuit of a silence in the mind of creative, enabling it to reach a potential ability to hear clearly advertising intuition needed in the new educational paradigm century

Storytelling Mindfulness: Storytelling Program for Meditations

Our chapter aims to design an empirical program for the best use of storytelling for construction, verbalization, meditations with different objectives: mindfulness and the art of storytelling. Why storytelling mindfulness? Storytelling is dynamic, imaginative, and interactive. It has a way of reaching a part of the mind and body that integrates us and helps us feel whole. It deepens our understanding of who we are and the skills we already have inside. I truly believe that at our core we are playful, imaginative beings and that this part of ourselves is what allows us to transform, grow and heal

Effect of Pre-Treatments on The Kinetics of Subsequent aerobic and Anaerobic Biodegradation of Polylactic Acid (PLA)

Evalúa el efecto de pretratamientos como hidrólisis ácida, hidrólisis básica, irradiación gamma, irradiación por haz de electrónica y sometimiento a presión de vapor para reducir el tiempo de biodegradación de envases termoformados a base de ácido poliláctico. El propósito de este trabajo fue evaluar tratamientos que aumentan la velocidad de biodegradación del ácido poliláctico (PLA) durante el compostaje y la digestión anaeróbica. Los tratamientos fueron elegidos pensando en reducir el peso molecular y afectar la integridad estructural del polímero. Este trabajo está subdividido en cinco secciones: (a) encontrar el tratamiento más eficaz para reducir el peso molecular del PLA, (b) determinar la cinética involucrada en el tratamiento seleccionado, (c) desarrollar un método simple para evaluar la biodegradación aeróbica del PLA en el compost, (d) evaluar los efectos de los pretratamientos en la digestión anaeróbica posterior, y (e) evaluar los efectos de los pretratamientos en posteriores procesos de compostaje. Se investigaron cinco tratamientos potenciales: irradiación gamma, irradiación con haz de electrones, inmersión en medios alcalinos, inmersión en medios ácidos y exposición al vapor. Se encontró que la exposición al vapor fue el tratamiento más eficaz con hasta un 94 % de reducción del peso molecular, usando vapor a 120 ° C durante 4 horas. Para determinar la cinética de la reducción del peso molecular del PLA después de la exposición al vapor, se propuso un modelo de reacción de primer orden invertido.The purpose of this work was to evaluate treatments that increase polylactic acid (PLA) biodegradation during composting and anaerobic digestion. Treatments were chosen on the potential to reduce molecular weight and affect structural integrity of the polymer. Five potential treatments were investigate, and it was found that steam exposure was the most effective treatment with up to 94% molecular weight reduction with 120°C steam for 4 hours. To determine kinetics of PLA molecular weight reduction after exposure to steam, a first-order reaction model was proposed. It was found that the model, which is time and temperature dependent, fits experimental data well, with activation energy, Ea, of 52.3 KJ/mol. In addition, it was demonstrated that steam treatments hydrolyze polymer molecules, resulting in de-polymerization to lactic acid. At 120°C, weight loss of PLA was 84.7% after 24 hours, indicating significant conversion to lactic acid. To develop a simple method to evaluate PLA aerobic biodegradation in compost, the fundamentals of conversion were examined, and three approaches were designed and assessed. These methods are referred to as methods of “flexible bags”, “rigid containers with plastic lids” and “perforated jars”. It was found that the method of perforated jars was most reliable, simple and consistent to apply. To evaluate effects of treatment in subsequent anaerobic digestion, weight loss and biochemical methane potential (BMP) of treated samples were investigated under mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic conditions. Untreated PLA did not degrade under mesophilic conditions. However, degradation did occur under thermophilic conditions, producing 187 ccCH4/g at 58°C after 56 days. The best scenario evaluated, was steam-treated PLA at 120°C for 3 hours subjected to anaerobic thermophilic conditions, where the yield of methane was 225 ccCH4/g after 56 days. While untreated PLA biodegrades more slowly than common organic feedstock, steam-treated PLA biodegraded faster. Results of this investigation show that treatment of PLA with steam at 120°C for 3 hours reached 60% degradation in 14 days. Compost was not altered by PLA conversion.Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA). Laspa

Stress 0.0. Experimental Program of Meditations for Stress Reduction

Welcome to the 0.0 Stress program. A practical trip integrator to reduce stress to its minimum expression. In this chapter, we will deepen our transpersonal experiential program, which can be very useful for anyone who experiences any signs or symptoms of stress such as anxiety, irritability, muscular tension, burnout, apathy, restlessness, headache, fatigue, digestive problems, concentration difficulties, worry, overwork, substance abuse, smoking, eating disorders, sleep disturbances, or simply feeling overwhelmed by events. The Stress 0.0 program can also help you deploy your potentials and cope with the stress associated with living with the disease, chronic pain, and ailments such as arthritis, asthma, cancer, fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular problems, hypertension, and migraine among others many

Mindfulness Based on the Perceptive Consciousness as Pedagogical Link Between Technology and Education

Our research is focused on the effects of an experimental study that examines in depth the discovery of a new methodological paradigm of teaching and esthetic-visual deconstruction, called Mindfulness Composition in Cervantes. Our research line is based, on the one hand, on the esthetic processes of contemporary art by Cervantes of persuasive graphic and visual communication. On the other hand, it is based on Mindfulness as a sophisticated method that allows us to find a way to calm and rescue the potential and maximize the value and effects of communicative and artistic compositions. Innovative analytical method of the communicative process of visual artistic communication establishes, and raises, in our chapter, a connection with sophisticated concepts of Mindfulness applied to visual and graphic composition, efficient, and its application to contemporary art in the theme of Cervantes

Neuroadvertising Graphics. Innovative Process Analytical Method Communicative Visual Advertising

Nuestra investigación se encuentra focalizada en los efectos de un estudio experimental en el que examina en profundidad la deconstrucción de la comunicación publicitaria visual (gráfica y digital) eficiente. Definición de la esencia constructiva de los mensajes comunicativos visuales. Para ello hemos desarrollado un método analítico de deconstrucción de la eficiencia comunicativa aplicada a los mensajes publicitarios gráficos. Una deconstrucción perceptiva donde las piezas fundamentales son: atención, memoria, percepción, comprensión, retórica y persuasión, lectura y área de condensación semántica. Son 7 pilares neurálgicos de nuestra deconstrucción analítica en el marco de la comunicación publicitaria gráfica y digital.Our research is focused on the effects of an experimental study that examines in depth deconstruction of visual advertising communication (graphic and digital) efficient. Constructive definition of the essence of visual communication messages. We have developed an analytical method of deconstruction of communicative efficiency applied to advertising graphics. A perceptive deconstruction where the building blocks are: attention, memory, perception, understanding, rhetoric and persuasion, reading and semantic condensation area. There are seven pillars of our analytical deconstruction nerve within the graphic and digital marketing communication

Cu-CHA material efficient in the SCR process in the presence of water and CO2

A reproducible method for the synthesis of SCR active Cu-CHA materials has been developed, which allows the incorporation of up to 4% of copper inside the cavities of the zeolite. These materials are highly efficient in the removal of NOx by reaction with ammonia, even in the presence of water and CO2 in the reaction atmosphere. Cu2+ species are the active species in the reaction and in contact with water and CO2, the hydrated-carbonate Cu2+ species placed in the 8-rings were identified as the responsible for the improvement in the activity.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Sistema de fácil análisis y almacenamiento de medidas con Arduino a través de protocolo de comunicación Xbee

Con el desarrollo tecnológico que ha venido impactando de manera significativa a la humanidad, en los últimos años se ha tomado conciencia de lo graves daños que el mal manejo de los recursos puede ocasionar al planeta, gracias a esto cada vez son más las fuentes de energía limpia que se implementan alrededor del mundo. De estas situaciones parte el concepto de Smart grid, o red eléctrica inteligente, un tema ligado de manera estrecha con el presente tema de investigación. Como se indica en [1] un concepto más estandarizado de lo que son las redes eléctricas inteligentes sería: una red que integra de manera inteligente las acciones de los usuarios que se encuentran conectado a ella, entre los que se encuentran generadores y consumidores, o los usuarios que hacen parte de las dos. Todo esto con el fin de lograr conseguir un suministro de energía eléctrica eficiente, eficaz y confiable, con altos estándares de calidad..

The massive stellar content in NGC604 and its evolutionary state

The ultraviolet resonance wind stellar lines, the nebular optical emission lines and the higher order terms of the Balmer series and HeI absorption lines detected in the spectra of NGC 604 are interpreted using evolutionary models optimized for young star forming regions. The evolutionary state and the massive stellar content of the region is derived in a self-consistent way. The three techniques applied suggest that the central ionizing cluster in NGC 604 is very young, 3 Myr old, and that the stars in the cluster were formed in an instantaneous burst following a Salpeter or flatter IMF, having stars more massive that 80 Msol. The stellar cluster is able to provide most of the ionizing photons needed to photoionize the whole nebula, and the wind power to form the central shell structure where the cluster core is located. The stellar cluster is affected by an extinction similar to the average extinction that affects the ionized gas. The estimated number of massive stars in the cluster is also in agreement with that derived from previous studies based on the detection of individual stars. The results that we present here support the use of these techniques for the interpretation of the integrated light of more distant star forming regionsComment: To be published in MNRAS. 17 pages and 17 figure