Virtual gardening: Identifying problems and potential directions for ‘ecological awareness’ through soil management and plant recognition gaming

Gardening and farming are relatively common themes for videogames. Farmville (Zynga, 2009), Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe, 2016) and Caesar III (Impressions Games, 1998) are examples of successful games with a strong concern for (prominent theme of?) nature. From farming and life simulators to survival games to management games, a large variety of games about nature are available to players. Nevertheless, it is extremely rare that video games would take an approach that could be (is?) beneficial for environmental education. As noted by Alenda Chang, video games “exert an important influence on how millions of players conceptualize country life, food production, and right relations (Is this phrase in the original quote?) between humans, animals, and the environment. Contemporary farm games represent an array of missed opportunities to model more meaningful game ecologies” (Chang 2012: 251)

B.1 A 3-D Variational Method For Single-Doppler Velocity Retrieval

this paper, that method is improved and tested using data from the May 11, 1981 Oklahoma supercell storm for which dual Doppler observations are availabl

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8 (1996) 1123--1133. Printed in the UK

The substitution of carbon in bulk silicon is investigated at the Hartree--Fock level using a cluster model, and the results compared directly with periodic `supercell' calculations based on the same Hamiltonian, basis set and computational scheme. To study variations in calculated properties with cluster size, hydrogen-saturated clusters containing five, thirty-five and eighty-seven Si atoms are considered, with relaxation of up to the second shell of neighbours surrounding carbon impurities. The calculated atomic relaxations and charge distributions in supercells and large clusters are reasonably similar. In relaxed clusters however, boundary effects lead to appreciable differences in calculated defect formation energies