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Online Gaming: An Inside Look At How Interpersonal Relationships Are Developed, Raquel Urquizo

Culture, Society, and Praxis

The study included six participants that often interacted with other gamers online. The participants shared their experience with other users. The online gaming community is often stigmatized, and past studies have overlooked the social interactions that go on within the online community. The study found that online gamers often built strong interpersonal relationships among other gamers. These relationships often transcended outside of the game and even resulted with individuals meeting in person.

Understanding The Unconscious Bias Of Gender In Boñar, Spain, Alicia Cabral

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Within the province of Leon, Spain is a town named Boñar, which is known for its rich culture connected to the mining industry. In the summer of 2019, I conducted field research to discover the role women played during the mining industry within this town. While in the field looking for women that fit my criteria, I came across many locals who would direct me toward men for my interviews instead of the women I am in search of. This essay explores the idea that the townspeople of Boñar have been socialized to send questions about mining to the men …

Letter From The Editor: Fall 2020, Amanda Pullum

Culture, Society, and Praxis

No abstract provided.

Simultaneous Participation In Multiple Video Conferences, Brian Silverstein, Benjamin Azose

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to enable content from a second, additional online meeting to be included in a first meeting. To enable such content provision, the meeting platforms that host the two meetings (which may be the same or different) can establish a connection to allow content from the second meeting to be streamed to the user device via the first meeting platform. The received content from the second meeting can be displayed as a picture-in-picture or other suitable view. Audio from the second meeting can be muted automatically and closed-captions be provided, with user permission. The user can be …

Content Rating System For Network-Based Solutions, Cesar Lopez Zamarripa, Luis Roberto Hernández Martínez, Shankar Ramanathan, Richard Furr, Shashank Singh

Defensive Publications Series

Constraints (such as, for example, data privacy limitations) may limit the ability to measure the effectiveness of a piece of content (such as, for example, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)) in solving a (e.g., network related) problem. Current analytics solutions focus on providing data on how many times a site is visited, but there is a lack of data that correlates a site’s visibility with its effectiveness at solving a problem. To address challenges of these types techniques are presented herein that support a method for developing and safely exposing resolution ratings of internal and external URLs – based on, …

Use Of Per-Cpu Counters To Protect Kernel-Mode Processes On A Multicore Processor, Joel Agnel Fernandes

Defensive Publications Series

When user and kernel mode processes are scheduled to run simultaneously on the same physical processor core via simultaneous multithreading, processor vulnerabilities can result in sensitive data restricted to kernel-mode processes being leaked to user-mode processes. While disabling simultaneous multithreading or use of a scheduler that determines sequence of execution can prevent such leakage, these changes degrade processor performance. This disclosure describes the use of per-CPU counters to track when each physical core of a processor begins and ends the execution of a program thread running in the kernel mode. Upon detection of such a thread, the core is identified …

Mounting Device, Christian A. Mohr

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to a mounting device (9) for a hanging installation of a household appliance (1, 101), specifi5 cally for a lateral fixation of a household appliance (1), in particular for an extractor hood. The mounting device (9) comprises a first portion (13) and a second portion (11). The first portion (13) is connectable or connected with a frame surface or a housing wall of the household appliance (1). The second por10 tion (11) is attachable or attached to a wall, in particular to a kitchen furniture wall, and comprises an engagement opening or a suspension edge or …

Household Appliance, Christian A. Mohr

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention is related to a household appliance (1) comprising an illumination means for providing information to a user of the household appliance (1). A lighting intensity of the 5 illumination means of the household appliance (1) is modifiable. According to the invention, the illumination means is positioned under or behind a blackened or dark glass plate (5) or window and invisible when switched off and visible through the glass 10 plate (5) or window when switched on. Further, a control unit is included, which is configured to gradually modify the lighting intensity upon recognition of a status change …

Cooking Method And Cooking System, Christian A. Mohr

Defensive Publications Series

A method for boil detection in a cooking utensil is disclosed which comprises: (a) generating a low range vibration function that is representative for vibrations having a frequency that falls in a range of frequencies having an upper limit of from 75 to 120 Hz, and a lower limit of from 0 to 25 Hz ; (b) evaluating at least one characteristic of the low range vibration function; and (c) determining boiling in dependency of said at least one characteristic.

Improved Color Compression For People With Color Blindness, Collin Irwin, Rachel Hausmann

Defensive Publications Series

Color blindness is estimated to affect around 9% of the population. Streaming media requires large bandwidth due to the size of the video which depends in part on the color information in the video. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage, with user permission, a user’s unique visual acuity to automatically adjust the parameters and the encoding of a video stream to incorporate suitably modified color information to reduce bandwidth and/or to improve quality of the video stream for the particular user.

Wellness Through Answers News November/December 2020

Articles - Patient Care

No abstract provided.

The Curriculum Review Process: A Powerful Learning Opportunity, Laura Neuberg, Juli Lenzotti

Colorado Mathematics Teacher

We describe the value and learnings that came from participating in a curriculum review and adoption process.

Reflections On Reading, John E. Jackson

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

And The Whole Mountain Burned, Thomas J. Gibbons, Ray Mcpadden

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

From The Sea To The C-Suite: Lessons Learned From The Bridge To The Corner Office, Ed Gillen, Cutler Dawson, Taylor Baldwin Kiland

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Modernisation Of The Republic Of Korea Navy: Seapower, Strategy And Politics, Alexander M. Hynd, Ian Bowers

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, And Civil-Military Relations, John Garofano, Christopher J. Lamb

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

A New Conception Of War: John Boyd, The U.S. Marines, And Maneuver Warfare, Dale C. Rielage, Ian T. Brown

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Kill Chain: Defending America In The Future Of High-Tech Warfare, Martin L. Cook, Christian Brose

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’S Wartime Correspondence With Churchill And Roosevelt, John B. Hattendorf, David Reynolds, Vladimir Pechatnov

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Peak Oil, Progressivism, And Josephus Daniels, 1913–21, Roger Stern

Naval War College Review

Daniels’s time as Secretary of the Navy was activated by Progressivism and peak oil. To preserve the Naval Oil Reserve, Daniels ultimately resorted to seizing oil, always at a below-market price and sometimes without compensation at all. His campaign to save the Navy from both peak oil and the ostensible predations of “big oil” ended in fiasco—fuel-oil seizures led by armed Marines.

A “New Look” At Cold War Maritime Defense—The Royal Canadian Navy’S Seaward Defence Report And The Threat Of The Missile-Firing Submarine, 1955, Michael Whitby

Naval War College Review

The Soviets’ development in the mid-1950s of the capability to launch nuclear-armed missiles from conventional submarines constituted a significant challenge to Allied antisubmarine forces during the Cold War, impacting the U.S. Navy and Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) most. The RCN’s 1955 Seaward Defence Report reveals how a midsize navy with comparatively limited resources charged with defending a long coastline and valuable strategic targets proposed to cope with dramatically changing circumstances.

“Neither Fish Nor Fowl Nor Yet Good Red Herring”—Joint Institutions, Single-Service Priorities, And Amphibious Capabilities In Postwar Britain, Ian Speller

Naval War College Review

A joint approach to institutional responsibility for amphibious warfare served British needs during the Second World War but contributed to poor results after 1945. British capabilities did not recover until amphibious warfare became the particular responsibility of the naval service.

“Things Done By Halves”—Observations From America’S First Great-Power Competition, Benjamin F. Armstrong

Naval War College Review

By looking to the maritime past and scuttling the idea that somehow the “gray zones” of today have initiated something unique to our contemporary world, naval forces will be better prepared to address the challenges presented by maritime security, naval irregular warfare, and great-power friction on the world’s oceans. An examination of the Quasi War with France illuminates key questions for strategists and planners considering the interactions among great powers.

Ameliorating The Alliance Dilemma In An Age Of Gray-Zone Conflict—Lessons Learned From The U.S.-Japan Alliance, Michael M. Bosack

Naval War College Review

Fear of abandonment and entrapment can affect alliance management in a modern strategic environment marked by gray-zone conflict. Applying notable takeaways from scholarship to the context of the modern security environment identifies the type of incidents that affect formal alliances. The U.S.-Japan alliance provides a case study of how abandonment and entrapment influence alliance interactions.

China’S Global Navy—Today’S Challenge For The United States And The U.S. Navy, James E. Fanell

Naval War College Review

The PRC continues to build a naval force that, if left unchallenged, will be increasingly capable of achieving sea control in the global maritime commons as early as 2030, and potentially achieving sea superiority by 2049.

President's Forum, Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

From The Editors, Robert Ayer

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Autumn 2020 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Attitude Of Gratitude: Evaluation Of A Wellness Program To Improve Dispositional Gratitude Among Medical Students, Amelia C. Phillips, Farina A. Klocksieben

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: Medical students face significant mental health challenges as they matriculate through medical training. Research has emphasized the need for more interventions that promote physician trainee well-being and resilience during the early stages of training. Recent interventions have shown to be effective in promoting mental health and well-being; however, no interventions have examined the impact that daily gratitude practice, which is linked to increased well-being, may have on dispositional gratitude levels among medical students.

Methods: In Spring 2019, medical students at the University of South Florida were invited to participate in a gratitude program. Participants logged three good things that …