Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 by Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio, Jose Raimundo Sousa Ribeiro Junior

“…This article aims to present, cartographically and textually, aspects related to the Summer Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020), seen from a geographical and, to a certain extent, geopolitical perspective (see the participation of the "3 Chinas", which drew attention to economic, diplomatic and national disputes at stake).We highlight and problematize certain aspects that are subject to regional analysis and that go beyond the limits of sports and may easily go unnoticed by a large part of the public who attended the mega-event.The proposal aimed to give equal emphasis (equal weights) to the cartographic visual language and the textual analytical language. …”
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The Effect of Online Communication in a Social Dilemma: by Kaori Ando, Akihito Himuro, Akira Goto, Yuuji Sasaka, Naoya Ejima, Akiko Yasuhara

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Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…These encounters are often shaped by stories about the capabilities of machines and humans, while the interactions themselves go on to provoke new narratives. Although human– machine interaction can be theorized as ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’, this paper argues that adopting the idea of the ‘assemblage’ is a better way recognize the flexibility of bringing disparate humans and machines together, whether in relation to playing a game or playing music. …”
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Action Recognition for Support of Adaptive Gameplay: A Case Study of a First Person Shooter by S. Kazmi, I. J. Palmer

“…With games continuously and rapidly evolving to become more complex and sophisticated in their nature and implementation. …”
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Trajectoire d’un parti islamiste dans l’Algérie post-guerre civile. Le cas du Mouvement de la Société pour la Paix (MSP) by Claire Dupuy-Lorvin

“…The principle of musharaka (participation) justifies from the outset the participation of the MSP in the institutions in place, but its inclusion in the political game encourages it to adopt a moderate approach, which go as far as -from the middle of the 1990’s-advocating the concept of wasatiya (centrism). …”
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AI, big data, and robots for the evolution of biotechnology by Haseong Kim

“…Additionally, AlphaFold, a technology resembling the AI AlphaGo for the game Go, has surpassed the limit on protein folding predictions—the most challenging problems in the field of protein biology. …”
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Choix moraux, éthique et jeux vidéos by Antoine Rocipon

“…Jumping or kneeling ? Left or right ? Some games go further : they offer the player the possibility to make choices that will change the story, sometimes by the way of moral dilemnas : will my character kill or spare the criminal he has been tracking during all the game ? …”
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Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in the Chinese High-Tech Industry under Government Intervention by Yi Su, Wen Guo, Zaoli Yang

“…As its industrial economic strength grows, China’s high-tech industry is increasingly using cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A) as an important way to “go out.” To explore the rules governing the process and operation mechanism of reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) through the CBM&A of China’s high-tech industry under government intervention, a tripartite evolutionary game model of the government, the parent company, and the subsidiary as the main subjects is constructed in this paper. …”
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Punchdrunk’s Immersive Theatre: From the End to the Edge by Deborah Prudhon

“…of conventional narratives is replaced by the ‘where is he going?’ and ‘what’s in the next room?’” (Gareth White). …”
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Le retour des hommes sur la scène méditerranéenne by Jean-Robert Henry

“…Coming from Maghreb or sub-Saharan region, they established themselves as new actors of the regional game and showed to the European and national decision-makers the illusion of a closing of human borders of Europe. …”
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Virtuosité d’une sphère en mouvement by Stéphane Rennesson

“…The "ball in movement", this generator of actions, will require us to go towards physics and to try a slightly shifted form of game commentary. …”
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Le touriste malgré lui : John Edgar Wideman et la Martinique by Michel Feith

“…Moreover, in a striking mirroring of center and periphery, natives and French people from the Métropole envy each other, in a game of musical chairs that is also a fantasy of freedom. …”
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Analysis of the Mechanism of Political Cost in the Complex Environmental Governance System by Xintao Li, Tongshun Cheng, Zaisheng Zhang, Li Zhao

“…An equilibrium strategic analysis is then presented using an evolutionary game model in which the strategic behavioral choices of government, enterprises, and citizens are investigated by embedding political costs in the environmental governance system. …”
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Uniwersalizm grzechu i misja Ducha Świętego... w świetle encykliki św. Jana Pawła II Dominum et Vivificantem by Liubov Derdziak

“… Grzech i jego skutki wpisują się w gamę doświadczeń życiowych każdego człowieka. W świecie współczesnym obserwuje się jednak znaczący zanik świadomości grzechu, zarówno w jego wymiarze indywidualnym jak i społecznym. …”
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One university different modes of delivery: An analysis of lecturers’ teaching experiences in conducting ICT practical sessions at a rural Eastern Cape university during the COVID-... by Anthony Kambi Masha*, Munienge Mbodila, Khutso Senyatsi

“…The implications were that teaching ICT practical classes online could go on during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic is a game-changer that should compel higher education institution to adjust to the new normal such as migrating from the traditional face-to-face classroom to the remote modes of teaching and learning. …”
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Coopetition in Intermodal Freight Transport Services by Jian Liu, Yinzhen Li, Jun Li

“…Moreover, we analyze the complexity and evolution of coopetition by repeated pricing game with finitely and infinitely time horizon. In the finitely repeated pricing game, both firms have incentive to reach a tacit understanding to alternate choosing price cooperation and competition after setting suitable allocation scheme; the repeated periods t are then going to be an issue. …”
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Competitive strategies of internationalization, searching and creating markets by O. V. Mickhailov

“…The world market champions are highlighted by psychology superiority and intellectual leadership, implying desire to appoint the tendencies on the market not only go after them. The hidden champions became leaders, because they offered entire world their best and incessant improved products/services to all world clients. …”
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Effect of Visual Tracking Training combined with Six-character Formula on Motor Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Wanhong WANG, Hongyan BI, Zhengang QIU, Xihua LIU, He ZHUANG, Shijie HAO, Xin ZHANG, Wenyu SUN

“…Objective:To observe the effects of visual tracking training combined with six-character formula on motor function and quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease.Methods:A total of 42 patients with Parkinson's disease treated in the affiliated hospital of Shandong university of traditional Chinese medicine were selected and divided into the control group and the observation group according to random number table method, with 21 cases in each group.The control group received routine rehabilitation training, mainly including core training, balance training, coordination training, gait training, and daily life ability training, twice a day, 45 minutes each time, five days a week, continuous training for six weeks.The observation group received visual tracking training combined with six-character formula training on the basis of the control group.Visual tracking training included thumb tracking, Whack-a-mole game, posture control, training eyeball moving as figure "8", each training for 20 minutes, once a day.Six-character formula of pronunciation training with blowing, shout, hippies, oh, boo, si breathing exercises, and cooperated with body guidance training, each training for 25 minutes, once a day.The above training for five days per week, continuous training for six weeks.The third part of the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale(UPDRS-Ⅲ)and the time up and go test(TUGT)were used to assess the patient's motor function; the balance stability limit test(AP-SD, ML-SD)was used to evaluate the patient's balance function;the Parkinson's questionnaire-39(PDQ-39)was used to evaluate the patient's quality of life.Results:Before treatment, there were no statistically significant difference in UPDRSⅢscore, AP-SD and ML-SD, TUGT time and PDQ-39 score between two groups(<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05); Compared with before treatment, the UPDRSⅢ, AP-SD, ML-SD, TUGT and PDQ-39 scores of the two groups after treatment decreased significantly, the differences were statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); Compared with the control group, UPDRSⅢ, AP-SD, ML-SD, TUGT and PDQ-39 scores of the observation group after treatment were lower, the differences were statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Visual tracking training combined with six-character formula can effectively improve the motor function and quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease.…”
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Patrimoine juif, pouvoir marocain by Chiara Lutteri

“…In this new political setting, the King has seen his political prerogatives formally reduced, all while striving to maintain his role of arbitrator in the Moroccan political game. The survival of the monarchical institution’s primacy centers around the King’s religious role as “commander of the faithful”. …”
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