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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Arcade"”.
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An Exaggerated Perspective Arcade
This thesis is an exaggerated perspective arcade. The exaggerated perspective has a vantage point that is placed across the street from the site and is differentiated from the sidewalk. Therefore, the position at which the arcade is optimally viewed is demarcated. Over its 100 feet in length, the …
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Creació d'un videojoc arcade: NeoTrooper
… publicació i proves d'un videojoc arcade realitzat per plataforma mòbil Android. Aquest és un treball de l'àrea de videojocs del Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
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Shopping arcade in Central Square, Cambridge, Mass.
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1976.
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
… Western culture. The music of Canadian rock band Arcade Fire, with its concern with ideas of emotion and authenticity, provides a vehicle for revealing the process of becoming an amorous subject, such as the courtly lover; the relationship between music, love and memory, forgetting and time; the …
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The shopping arcade : historic anachronism or modern retail prototype?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Autonomous Flight Arcade: Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft
In this paper, we present the Autonomous Flight Arcade (AFA), a suite of robust environments for end-to-end control of fixed-wing aircraft and quadcopter drones. These environments are playable by both humans and artificial agents, making them useful for varied tasks including reinforcement …
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Public scale : the arcade as an urban phenomenon, its urban implications, and how it can be used today
There is an urban phenomenon called an arcade. I will study it and show how it can be used today. I will investigate its autonomy in forming a public space, the external society, economy, climate, program, and geography, being auxiliary to its core essence. After representing the history and …
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Adapting existing games for education using speech recognition
Although memory exercises and arcade-style games are alike in their repetitive nature, memorization tasks like vocabulary drills tend to be mundane and tedious while arcade-style games are popular, intense and broadly addictive. The repetitive structure of arcade games suggests an opportunity to …
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Magnetic reconnection in small and large scales on the sun
… during energetic solar flares. Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) have been frequently observed during the gradual phase of flares near the limb. In coronal emission lines sensitive to flaring plasma, they appear as tadpole-like dark voids against the diffuse fan-shaped "haze" above the …
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The Public Library as Past Become Space
… Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism in The Arcades Project to critique contemporary notions related to the understanding of the public library as a place. My critical theoretical approach, grounded in historical research and Benjamin’s theories of modernity, highlights contemporary aspects …
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… ethnographic research conducted in video arcades. The evolution of coin-operated video games is also examined and the games themselves are analyzed as cultural texts which embody both traditional and emerging cultural themes. The major thrust of the dissertation involves the question of …
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A link between c. Elegans morphogenesis and mrna export
… We demonstrated that nxf-1(t2160) arcade cells failed to generate adherens junctions. Furthermore, we visualised pharyngeal morphogenesis using membrane and nuclear PHA-4::GFP reporters. Our analysis suggests that nxf-1 plays a role in pharynx attachment by affecting arcade …
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A SOCIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF JUVENILE FRUIT MACHINE GAMBLING IN A SEASIDE TOWN
… children attach to fruit machine gambling in an arcade. The first aim has been achieved by adapting a measure used to diagnose addiction to gambling in adults for use with children. The resulting DSM-IV-J criteria were tested using a questionnaire survey on a sample of 467 schoolchildren aged …
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The point of crossing: Intensifying place on Voortrekker Road
… is focused within a narrow strip, called Station Arcade, a pedestrian link from Voortrekker Road to the station. The area to the north of Voortrekker Road lacks the vibrant activity, generated within the commercial zone to the south. A reason for this is the strip of parking lots behind …
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Addressing stale gradients in asynchronous federated deep reinforcement learning
… for handling stale gradient updates in the Arcade Learning Environment. Experimental results from applying these methods to two Atari-2600 games demonstrate a relative speedup of up to 95\% compared to plain A3C in large and unstable federations.
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Sexual Segregation in White-Tailed Deer: Intersexual Divergence in Digestive Function, Morphology, and Behavior
… and fluid retention rates, and size of incisor arcades. I also monitored patterns of spatial segregation, group membership, and habitat selection of free-ranging white-tailed deer in Lincoln County, Minnesota USA. There was clear divergence in digestive function between reproductively active …
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Reinforcement Learning–Based Discrete Prompt Optimization for Neuro-Symbolic Structured Simplification of Complex Game Descriptions with Large Language Models
… of the resulting games. Experiments on diverse arcade-style game descriptions show that the proposed GC-Repair and sentence correction agents significantly improve grammar-constrained generation, robustness to noisy user input, and end-to-end code correctness compared to direct LLM rewriting …
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History and analysis of eSport systems
… games have increased in complexity from simple arcade machines to modern home consoles, the potential for skill development and competition have increased simultaneously. The result has been an eSport system that utilizes digital technology to provide gamers with a platform for intense …
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Environmental curriculum learning for efficiently achieving superhuman play in games
… to play games, including complex ones such as arcade game Pommerman and real-time strategy game StarCraft II. To allow agents to grasp the many concepts in these games, curriculum learning has been used to teach agents multiple skills over time. We present Environmental Curriculum Learning, a …
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A Comparative Study of the Psychological Values of Contemporary Game Players
… computer game play by contrasting those who play arcade and other types of computer games with those who play the more traditional sport and board games. Computer game players, may hold values that differ from those of other game players, values that are indicative of possible changes occurring in …
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