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Coventry University
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About: Coventry University is a education organization based out in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 4964 authors who have published 12700 publications receiving 255898 citations. The organization is also known as: Lanchester Polytechnic & Coventry Polytechnic.
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TL;DR: Application of frozen peas produced mean skin temperatures adequate to induce localized skin analgesia, to reduce nerve conduction velocity, and to reduce metabolic enzyme activity to clinically relevant levels.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The chapter aims to set out the key conceptual territory for serious game design and bring together the main theoretical areas under consideration for future development of effective serious game content.
Abstract: This chapter explores the context for the new paradigm of learning emerging in education, in relation to key critical concepts that centre around gamification, immersion, interface and social interactivity. The chapter provides an extensive literature review as part of the context for the paradigm shift, including considering serious games and gamification, and social learning as key constructs for considering the changes to educational practices and infrastructure faced by educationalists and instructors over the coming years. The chapter also provides an historical background section and highlights some of the conceptual work that has been done already to frame the changes, firstly in relation to the notion of ‘gamification’ through the lens of an historical overview of serious games and secondly in a section exploring the need for an overall model for serious game design based upon four models and frameworks developed in past research work including the four dimensional framework, exploratory learning model, multimodal interface architecture model and the game-based learning framework. The chapter aims to set out the key conceptual territory for serious game design and bring together the main theoretical areas under consideration for future development of effective serious game content.
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Hokusei Gakuen University1, Hokkaido University2, University of Chicago3, College of William & Mary4, Meiji Gakuin University5, Bielefeld University6, University of Osnabrück7, University of Toulouse8, The Chinese University of Hong Kong9, Sungkyunkwan University10, University of Castilla–La Mancha11, Hungarian Academy of Sciences12, Eötvös Loránd University13, University of Kent14, University of Tartu15, University of Oxford16, Coventry University17, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart18, Jagiellonian University19, Victoria University of Wellington20, University of Porto21, Leiden University22, University of Navarra23, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi24, VU University Amsterdam25
TL;DR: It is found that relationships are more stable and hard to form in east Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, while they are more fluid in the West and Latin America, and results show that relationally mobile cultures tend to have higher interpersonal trust and intimacy.
Abstract: Biologists and social scientists have long tried to understand why some societies have more fluid and open interpersonal relationships and how those differences influence culture. This study measures relational mobility, a socioecological variable quantifying voluntary (high relational mobility) vs. fixed (low relational mobility) interpersonal relationships. We measure relational mobility in 39 societies and test whether it predicts social behavior. People in societies with higher relational mobility report more proactive interpersonal behaviors (e.g., self-disclosure and social support) and psychological tendencies that help them build and retain relationships (e.g., general trust, intimacy, self-esteem). Finally, we explore ecological factors that could explain relational mobility differences across societies. Relational mobility was lower in societies that practiced settled, interdependent subsistence styles, such as rice farming, and in societies that had stronger ecological and historical threats.
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TL;DR: This paper draws on diverse writings in empowerment, social justice, critical obesity literature, feminism and stress biology to challenge the appropriateness of the continued reliance on a reductionist metaphor of ‘energy balance’ in understanding fatness.
Abstract: Does promoting weight loss improve health? This paper draws on diverse writings in empowerment, social justice, critical obesity literature, feminism and stress biology to challenge the appropriateness of the continued reliance on a reductionist metaphor of ‘energy balance’ in understanding fatness. It examines some of the scientific and philosophical premises underlying mainstream UK dietary anti-obesity guidelines and argues that the evidence supporting a link between promoting weight-loss and improving health is, at best, contentious. A central theme is that the current weight-loss schema helps to naturalise a fatness discourse that not only represents large people in offensively stereotyped ways but also fails to integrate people's lived experience as gendered, situated bodies in an inequitable world.
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01 Jan 2001TL;DR: The authors provide a comprehensive overview of the meaning of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship in the history of Western political thought, and in the evolution of international politics since 1500, and discuss recent developments in international politics and transnational protest.
Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the meaning of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship in the history of Western political thought, and in the evolution of international politics since 1500 Providing an invaluable overview of earlier political thought, recent theoretical literature and current debates, this book also discusses recent developments in international politics and transnational protest It will be of great interest to those specialising in political theory, International Relations and peace/conflict studies It will also interest those already acting as global citizens
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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| Xiang Zhang | 154 | 1733 | 117576 |
| Zidong Wang | 122 | 914 | 50717 |
| Stephen Joseph | 95 | 485 | 45357 |
| Andrew Smith | 87 | 1025 | 34127 |
| John F. Allen | 79 | 401 | 23214 |
| Craig E. Banks | 77 | 569 | 27520 |
| Philip L. Smith | 75 | 291 | 24842 |
| Tim H. Sparks | 69 | 315 | 19997 |
| Nadine E. Foster | 68 | 320 | 18475 |
| Michael G. Burton | 66 | 519 | 16736 |
| Sarah E Lamb | 65 | 395 | 28825 |
| Michael Gleeson | 65 | 234 | 17603 |
| David Alexander | 65 | 520 | 16504 |
| Timothy J. Mason | 65 | 225 | 15810 |
| David S.G. Thomas | 63 | 228 | 14796 |