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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Crossword"”.
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Moderation of age-related cognitive decline in older adults
… 50 and older with no prior experience working crossword puzzles worked crossword puzzles for 4 hours per week for 8 weeks. The Constant Group worked easy puzzles for the whole 8 weeks while the Dynamic Group worked easy puzzles for 2 weeks, intermediate puzzles for 3 weeks, and hard puzzles for …
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An investigation into the solution to, and evaluation of, Kakuro puzzles
… puzzles, are similar in structure to standard Crossword puzzles. They consist of grids, containing overlapping continuous runs that are exclusively<br/>either horizontal or vertical, with “clues” to the completion of numerical “words”. The numerical clues take the form of specified run-totals, …
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The Computational Complexity of Some Games and Puzzles With Theoretical Applications
… players are trying to </p> <p>form words in a crossword fashion by placing letter tiles on a grid board. We prove </p> <p>that a generalized version of Scrabble is PSPACE-hard, answering a question posed </p> <p>by Demaine and Hearn in 2008. </p>
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Cryptographic Simulation Techniques with Applications to Quantum Zero-Knowledge and Copy-Protection
Bob is stuck doing a crossword puzzle and is starting to think that the puzzle is impossible to complete. Alice assures Bob that the puzzle can be solved, but she wants to prove it without revealing a single entry of the puzzle. Their cryptographer friend, Eve, tells them that Alice can prove it by …
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
… of it as they do in completing the Sunday paper crossword puzzle, or in participating in a treasure hunt.</p> <p>The necessity of breaking through these artificial barriers in order to approach the text anew is obvious. It would, however, be unforgivably naive simply to ignore what has already …
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USING MINDFULNESS TO INCREASE DIRECTED ATTENTION, SELF-CONTROL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY IN CHILDREN
… Go-No/Go Task, Visual Cancellation Task, and Crossword Puzzle Task) at the beginning of the study. After completion of the tasks, the Mindfulness Group participated in mindfulness activities and the Control Group continued with treatment as usual (their standard after school/summer …