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Introduction
With the increased forms of PC games such as Pong, league of legends and online games, computer games have turned to be the most influential and profitable kind of business and entertainment today. However, following a recent finding, computer games have turned out to be one of the most addictive games for both youths and parents as many are played Universities and homes hence the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. According to Nieborg and de Kloet (2016) claim that the computer games market has developed and kept on growing at a phenomenal speed in the Scandinavian regions, not forgetting Sweden at large as it is so admired leisure activity among children, adolescents, and some parents.
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This research aims to find out the disadvantages of computer gaming among children and adolescents. Furthermore, it tries to explain why children and adolescents turned out to be addicted while examining the social norms as well as the day-to-day habits of the addicts.
The research Questions
a) How did children and adolescents turn out to be addicted to computer games?
b) What are the disadvantages of computer games?
Preliminary Findings/ideas and approaches
Through the employment of qualitative research, which is a kind of social science research that gathers and performs well with non-numerical data as well as helps to interpret significance from these data that assist us to comprehend social life conduct through the research of targeted populations or areas. We, therefore, assess ethical concerns, trustworthiness and the legitimacy of the research
The findings showed that children and adolescents play computer games compulsively, isolating themselves from social contact and focusing almost entirely on in-game achievements instead of out-game life events like playing soccer, athletics, as well as socializing with relatives and friends. Also, the computer game addicts tend to value so much the indoor computer game compared to out-door field and track events. According to Grüsser and colleagues (2006) pinpoint that individuals having computer gaming addiction may be suffering from a real mental health disorder that may be problematic due to compulsive utilize of the computer.
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Introduction
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The research Questions
a) How did children and adolescents turn out to be addicted to computer games?
b) What are the disadvantages of computer games?
Preliminary Findings/ideas and approaches
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Fifth,
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## Send to the Discussion Forum five things you think are common sense concepts, e.g., common sense tells us it?s foolish to cross the street when the light is green. ##
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Fifth,
the choice of a research method is critical. Some methods will not work as well or at all when you are collecting data. Surveys, questionnaires, etc., all have to be specifically written and administered to obtain ?scientific? results. The way .
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Deep Software Variability and Frictionless ReproducibilityUniversity of Rennes, INSA Rennes, Inria/IRISA, CNRS
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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Orion Air Quality Monitoring Systems - CWS
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As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
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The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptx
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
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In this book, we use conservation of energy techniques on a fluid element to derive the Modified Bernoulli equation of flow with viscous or friction effects. We derive the general equation of flow/ velocity and then from this we derive the Pouiselle flow equation, the transition flow equation and the turbulent flow equation. In the situations where there are no viscous effects , the equation reduces to the Bernoulli equation. From experimental results, we are able to include other terms in the Bernoulli equation. We also look at cases where pressure gradients exist. We use the Modified Bernoulli equation to derive equations of flow rate for pipes of different cross sectional areas connected together. We also extend our techniques of energy conservation to a sphere falling in a viscous medium under the effect of gravity. We demonstrate Stokes equation of terminal velocity and turbulent flow equation. We look at a way of calculating the time taken for a body to fall in a viscous medium. We also look at the general equation of terminal velocity.
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With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
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Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
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Nucleophilic addition is the most important reaction of carbonyls. Not just aldehydes and ketones, but also carboxylic acid derivatives in general.
Carbonyls undergo addition reactions with a large range of nucleophiles.
Comparing the relative basicity of the nucleophile and the product is extremely helpful in determining how reversible the addition reaction is. Reactions with Grignards and hydrides are irreversible. Reactions with weak bases like halides and carboxylates generally don’t happen.
Electronic effects (inductive effects, electron donation) have a large impact on reactivity.
Large groups adjacent to the carbonyl will slow the rate of reaction.
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- 2. Lifting the Eyes from the Individual: Problematic Gaming in Social Context Patrick Prax, Juho Karvinen patrick.prax@im.uu.se juho.karvinen@gmail.com 2
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- 5. Game Studies and Power • Thorsten Quandt, chair of the ECREA temporary working group “Digital Games Research” • “computer gaming addiction are not yet part of the standard diagnostic manual in medicine and psychology.”(Domahidi and Quandt, 2014:202) 5
- 6. “Game studies might want to consider having a voice in the policy discussion particularly about the negative effects of games.”(ICA 2013, Game Studies Business Meeting Minutes:5) 6
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- 8. “Estimates vary, but it has been proposed that as much as 86 per cent of what is labelled ‘Internet addiction cases’ have some other diagnosis present (Block, 2008)[…] Richard Wood(2008) concluded that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that so-called computer- based ‘addictions’ exist as a singular, primary disorder, and suggests that it is symptomatic of other primary disorders, like depression, or, for instance, the result of poor time management skills.” (Karlsen, 2013, p.95) 8
- 9. Practice of Treatment “It may be worth considering treatment approaches to problematic gaming, to see whether treatments that focus on these symptoms are superior or inferior to treatment approaches that do not focus on gaming as a primary problem.”(Fergusson et.al. 2011:1577) 9
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- 13. Trauma Interviewee (I): (The boy’s) father died. Researcher (R): But that had nothing to do with the motor bike? I: In a way. They (father and son) were not on the tournament but in their buss. The oxygen disappeared. There was something wrong with the gas heater. It took up oxygen instead of releasing it. It was a carbon monoxide poisoning. R: In the bus? I: In the bus. It was (the boy) and his father. (The boy) survived. He lay with a respirator for a while. He was on the edge. But he made it, incredibly enough. But he wanted to continue with the motor bike racing. He was eight years old. 13
- 14. Parents’ Knowledge I: With games I feel really handicapped because I have no idea what they are about. R: Have you done anything about that? I: No, I have not done anything about that. 14
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- 17. In a sense, the uncomfortable co-existence of (largely quantitative) psychological research in the media effects tradition and (largely qualitative) media/ cultural studies research emphasizing an active audience (Egenfeldt- Nielsen, Heide Smith & Tosca, 2012, pp. 255- 280) (Sebastian Deterding, paper for this seminar) 17
- 18. How to go on from here? • Continuation of 1. research project (method) and 2. the political work • Publication advice and venues 18
- 19. “Game studies might want to consider having a voice in the policy discussion particularly about the negative effects of games.”(ICA 2013, Game Studies Business Meeting Minutes:5) 19
- 21. Lifting the Eyes from the Individual: Problematic Gaming in Social Context Patrick Prax, Juho Karvinen patrick.prax@im.uu.se juho.karvinen@gmail.com 21