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Vivian Imbriotis, Adam Ranson, William M Connelly
The development of new high throughput approaches for neuroscience such as high-density silicon probes and 2-photon imaging have led to a renaissance in visual neuroscience. However, generating the stimuli needed to evoke activity in the visual system still represents a non-negligible difficulty for experimentalists.…
Niklas Lauffer, Ameesh Shah, Micah Carroll, Sanjit A. Seshia + 2 more
Adversarial optimization algorithms that explicitly search for flaws in agents' policies have been successfully applied to finding robust and diverse policies in multi-agent settings. However, the success of adversarial optimization has been largely limited to zero-sum settings because its naive application in…
Victor Henrique Oyamada Otani, Rafael A. C. B. Novaes, Julia Pedron, Pedro Chen Nabhan + 5 more
'Pedro Chen Nabhan' 'Thaísa Malbar Rodrigues' 'Ryo Chiba' 'João Vitor Cardoso Guedes' 'Lucas Murrins Marques' 'João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci'] Gamified interventions are an emerging approach in mental health treatment and prevention. Their positive effects on managing various clinical conditions stem from enhancing…
Risky Armansyah, Dian Pratiwi
Nowadays Games become an entertainment alternative for various circles, industry and game development business is also a profitable industry. In Indonesia the amount of game consumption is very high, especially the console game type RPG (Role Playing Game). The task of this research is developing game software using…
Xiaolin Li, Miaoxia Liu, Min Cai, David Chiasson + 6 more
Symbiotic interactions between rhizobia and legumes result in the formation of root nodules, which fix nitrogen that can be used for plant growth. Rhizobia usually invade legume roots through a plant-made tunnel-like structure called an infection thread (IT). Rhizobium-directed polar growth (RPG) encodes a coiled-coil…
Victor Henrique Oyamada Otani, Rafael Condoretti Novaes, Julia Pedron, Pedro Chen Nabhan + 7 more
The present study aimed to assess the viability of Social Skills Training through RPGs during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, employing qualitative discourse analysis of residents. Focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of psychiatry residents who volunteered to participate in the RPG-based training. Eleven…
Alessandro Maisto
Automatically-Generated Role-Playing Game Sessions Authors: ['Alessandro Maisto'] Role-playing games (RPG) are games in which players interact with one another to create narratives. The role of players in the RPG is largely based on the interaction between players and their characters. This emerging form of shared…
Hai Zhong, Xun Wang, Zhuoran Li, Longbo Huang
Reparameterization policy gradient (RPG) is promising for improving sample efficiency by leveraging differentiable dynamics. However, a critical barrier is its training instability, where high-variance gradients can destabilize the learning process. To address this, we draw inspiration from Proximal Policy Optimization…
Xiaolin Li, Miaoxia Liu, Min Cai, David Chiasson + 7 more
'Anne B. Heckmann' 'Trevor L. Wang' 'Martin Parniske' 'J. Allan Downie' 'Fang Xie' 'Tiancong Qi'] Symbiotic interactions between rhizobia and legumes result in the formation of root nodules, which fix nitrogen that can be used for plant growth. Rhizobia usually invade legume roots through a plant-made tunnel-like…
Timo Lorenz, Leonie Hagitte, Melvin Brandt
The so-called geek-culture becomes increasingly more mainstream, and its social and economic impact is growing. In contrast, there is very little quantitative psychological research on this subculture and the people immersed in it. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there are differences in the Big Five…
Souza, Maria Rita Vasconcelos Brandão, Luiz Felipe Mota Freitas, Silva + 3 more
Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta para a exploração do uso de Role Playing Games (RPG) como metodologia ativa no ensino de Física Moderna, com foco em um jogo chamado A Vingança de Newton. O jogo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de engajar os estudantes em processos de aprendizado colaborativo e investigativo…
Zhenggang Tang, Chao Yu, Boyuan Chen, Huazhe Xu + 5 more
'Fei Fang' 'Simon S. Du' 'Yu Wang' 'Yi Wu'] We propose a simple, general and effective technique, Reward Randomization for discovering diverse strategic policies in complex multi-agent games. Combining reward randomization and policy gradient, we derive a new algorithm, Reward-Randomized Policy Gradient (RPG). RPG is…
Zoe Thomas, Abby Dunn, Aislinn D. Gomez Bergin, Cassie M. Hazell + 2 more
Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a collaborative roleplaying game that is associated with social and emotional benefits for young adults (YAs). Research has not addressed how YAs’ understanding of identity and mental health is explored through D&D. This research explored the impact that playing D&D has on YAs’…
Matthew Guzdial, Devi Prasad Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael B. Cook + 3 more
'Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari' 'Antonios Liapis' 'Anne Sullivan'] Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and procedural content generators can both be understood as systems of rules for producing content. In this paper, we argue that TTRPG design can usefully be viewed as procedural content generator design. We present…
Xiaolu Zhang, Mahmoud Ali Eladawi, William George Ryan, Xiaoming Fan + 8 more
The underlying biological mechanisms that contribute to the heterogeneity of major depressive disorder (MDD) presentation remain poorly understood, highlighting the need for a conceptual framework that can explain this variability and bridge the gap between animal models and clinical endpoints. Here, we hypothesize…
Jeremy M. Berg
Communication of the likelihood that a grant proposal is funded is important for individual researchers and academic institutions. For research project grants (RPGs) funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), this is measured by the success rate, the fraction of grants reviewed in a given fiscal year that…
Michael Lauer, Joy Wang, Deepshikha Roychowdhury
We analyzed changes in total costs for National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Research Project Grants issued from 1998 to 2003. The NIH uses a data-driven price index – the Biomedical Research and Development Price Index (BRDPI) – to account for inflation based increases in grant costs. The BRDPI was higher than…
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The reliability of the random phase approximation (RPA) and σ-functional methods in conjunction with the mixed Gaussian and plane wave (GPW) basis set scheme as implemented in the CP2K package is investigated. First, based on results for thermochemical properties of molecules and structural properties of crystalline…
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Digital learning and gamification make studying chemistry more exciting and engaging. Interactive digital tools allow students to understand fundamental concepts of chemistry more easily. However, application of this knowledge is hampered by the lack of user-friendly chemistry simulators, in which students could apply…