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Mind the Gap: From Desktop to App
In this article we present a new mobile game, edugames4all MicrobeQuest!, that covers core learning objectives from the European curriculum on microbe transmission, food and hand hygiene, and responsible antibiotic use. The game is aimed at 9 to 12 year olds and it is based on the desktop version of the edugames4all platform games. We discuss the challenges and lessons learned transitioning from a desktop based game to a mobile app. We also present the seamless evaluation obtained by integrating the assessment of educa- tional impact of the game into the game mechanics
A hydro-elastic model of hydrocephalus
We combine elements of poroelasticity and of fluid mechanics to construct a mathematical model of the human brain and ventricular system. The model is used to study hydrocephalus, a pathological condition in which the normal flow of the cerebrospinal fluid is disturbed, causing the brain to become deformed. Our model extends recent work in this area by including flow through the aqueduct, by incorporating boundary conditions which we believe more accurately represent the anatomy of the brain and by including time dependence. This enables us to construct a quantitative model of the onset, development and treatment of this condition. We formulate and solve the governing equations and boundary conditions for this model and give results which are relevant to clinical observations
A User Satisfaction Study of the London Congestion Charging e-Service
This research seeks to measure citizen satisfaction with the electronic London Congestion Charging (LCC)
payment system offered by Transport For London (TFL) in the United Kingdom (UK). The paper reports
on the findings of a survey of 500 users of the TFL LCC online payment system. Satisfaction is measured
using the four dimensions from the COBRA framework 0that comprise the cost, opportunity, benefits and
risk assessment constructs. The results show that most citizens using the LCC electronic service are
satisfied with the service and that the service meets their essential needs. The paper also presents the
results of qualitative feedback obtained from the participants that can be used to determine the areas that
need further improvement in the current electronic LCC electronic-service (e-service) system and
potential influences on user satisfaction
ATTITUDES TOWARD GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF A NATIONAL SURVEY
This study reports results from a nationwide survey of public attitudes toward agriculture. The study focuses on attitudes toward government involvement in agriculture across regions of the county and residential categories.Political Economy,
Flavor ordering of elliptic flows at high transverse momentum
Based on the quark coalescence model for the parton-to-hadron phase
transition in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, we relate the elliptic
flow () of high \pt hadrons to that of high \pt quarks. For high \pt
hadrons produced from an isospin symmetric and quark-antiquark symmetric
partonic matter, magnitudes of their elliptic flows follow a flavor ordering as
if strange quarks have a
smaller elliptic flow than light quarks. The elliptic flows of high \pt
hadrons further follow a simple quark counting rule if strange quarks and light
quarks have same high \pt spectrum and coalescence probability.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, revte
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