The Problems of Localization in Videogames Based on «Uncharted» Game Series

This article describes the difficulties of the specific type of video game adaptation called localization and such aspects involved into this process as the game title, the wordplay, characters' addressing, context dependence, slangs and cultural features. We regard the examples based on the game «Uncharted» and offer the recommendations

Boost operators in Coulomb-gauge QCD: the pion form factor and Fock expansions in phi radiative decays

In this article we rederive the Boost operators in Coulomb-Gauge Yang-Mills theory employing the path-integral formalism and write down the complete operators for QCD. We immediately apply them to note that what are usually called the pion square, quartic... charge radii, defined from derivatives of the pion form factor at zero squared momentum transfer, are completely blurred out by relativistic and interaction corrections, so that it is not clear at all how to interpret these quantities in terms of the pion charge distribution. The form factor therefore measures matrix elements of powers of the QCD boost and Moeller operators, weighted by the charge density in the target's rest frame. In addition we remark that the decomposition of the eta' wavefunction in quarkonium, gluonium, ... components attempted by the KLOE collaboration combining data from phi radiative decays, requires corrections due to the velocity of the final state meson recoiling against a photon. This will be especially important if such decompositions are to be attempted with data from J/psi decays.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure

Zur Struktur des Yang-Mills-Vakuums in der Coulomb-Eichung

SIGLETIB Hannover: RO 8543(8903) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Endocrine disrupting compounds and other emerging contaminants in the environment: a survey on new monitoring strategies and occurrence data

14 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables.-- PMID: 12955281 [PubMed].-- Available online Sep 2, 2003.An overview of Toxicity Identification and Evaluation (TIE) procedures, used for the effect-based analysis of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in environmental samples, is presented. Future trends in advanced chemical analysis of EDCs and some emerging contaminants are outlined. The review also gives an overview of concentration levels found in environmental samples and discusses the correlation of calculated estrogenicity (based on chemical analysis of target EDCs) with that measured by various bioassays.This work has been supported by the EU Program Copernicus (EXPRESS-IMMUNOTECH) contract Number ICA2-CT-2001-10007, and the Spanish MCyT (PPQ2000-3007-CE).Peer reviewe