...Dallas Brown Professor Espinosa Introduction to SGD 23 October 2013 Career Analysis: Video Game Programmer Video games have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, but several years ago I became increasingly interested in what goes on behind the scenes to make them work and that is why I am now aspiring to be a video game programmer. My overall goal is actually to become a lead video game designer. To achieve this goal I must first establish myself in the industry as a programmer because design jobs are typically not entry-level and require more experience. Before planning the steps I will need to take to become a video game physics engine programmer I must first analyze the responsibilities of a video game programmer; specifically a physics engine programmer. “A physics engine programmer is responsible for determining the physics that will be utilized in a video game.” Realism games will strive to simulate the most accurate real-world physics that they possibly can, which requires the programmer to have a great deal of knowledge in many different aspects of physics as well as a great deal of calculus. Although, a lot of games will produce their own laws of physics that correlate with game's world they are applying them to, the physics engine programmer will still need to have a wide range of knowledge in physics to actually determine the physical laws in the world and how they interact with each other. It is not uncommon to see only one physics programmer...
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...Careers in video game development Work for play: V ideo games aren’t only for play; they also provide work. The workers, known as game developers, make a living creating the games you enjoy playing. Making video games is a serious—and big—business. According to the Entertainment Software Association, in 2009, the video game industry had sales in excess of $10 billion and employed more than 32,000 people in 34 states. Creating these games is complex and requires the collaboration of many developers, who perform a variety of tasks, from production to programming. They work for both small and large game studios to create games that can be played on many different devices, including console systems, computers, and cell phones. This article covers career options in video game development. The first section provides an overview of the development process. The second section describes four groups of video game occupations: designers, programmers, artists, and others. The third section covers the skills and training workers need for these jobs. The fourth section discusses the benefits and challenges of working in the video game industry. And the fifth section provides jobseeking tips for a career in video game development. Suggested resources for additional information are at the end of the article. Full-featured games, such as those made for consoles, have more complex programming and, therefore, take longer to develop— usually between 18 and 30 months. By comparison, most...
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...children play computer and video games, and 40% said they always or often check the video game rating before allowing their children to buy or rent computer or video games. Even through these numbers are not particularly high, they may overestimate the amount of parental monitoring of children's video game play. Foreign Literature Lepper M.R. & Gurtner, J (2002), states that prolonged and excessive use of computer games can cause, mainly upon children, a number of physical and psychological problems which may include obssesive, addictive behavior, dehumanization of the player, desensitizing of feelings, personality changes, hyperactivity learning disorders, premature maturing of children, psycho motor disorders, health problems (due to lack of exercise and tendonitis), development of anti-social behavior and loss of free will. Foreign Studies Today's "pop-culture" trends are primarily marketed to children and adolescence through the digital media. It is estimated that the average teenager uses some form of digital media between 15 to 20 hours per day through "multi-tasking", or using several different types simultaneously. The current "igeneration", the name given to the group of children entering today's elementary school gymnsiums, is more " tech savvy" than any time in the history. For example, since their birth the ipod, iphone, ipad, Wii, xbox, playstation, flash drive, travel drive, satellite radio, streaming radio, streaming video, and YouTube have all been...
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...Cigarette smoking in parents can affect the development of their children. Nowadays, more and more people start to smoke. It is a great problem of humanity, but there is greater problem. Smoke which exhaled by smoker or burning directly from cigarette causes many problems. Actually, some parents smoke cigarettes, so their children are at increased risk for a number of health problems and can start to smoke. Although parents can protect their children from secondhand smoke, if they choose not to smoke near the children or quit smoking. Tobacco smoke contains a wide variety of dangerous chemicals and poisons. These dangerous poisons and carcinogenic chemicals may cause heart diseases and cancer. Currently, about 9-12 million young children are regularly exposed to their parents’ cigarette smoke at home. These children are at increased risk for a number of infections, such as pneumonia and bronchitis. Children with asthma are especially at risk. EPA claimed that over 200,000 children with asthma have had their health condition worsened by exposure to passive smoke. The lungs of children are still developing and very sensitive to passive smoke. Smokers’ children experience a wide variety of health risks, such as increased instances of disease and hospitalization, risk of premature death, medical expenses, interference with growth and development, hindered quality of life. Cigarette smoking in parents can make children start to smoke. They begin it according to adults, especially...
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...story boards. In other words, the experienced workers would tell stories about individuals within the company, which seems to be productive. Since the average person envelops and grasps the content better via stories, this proved to be the choice of the organization venue for their safety programs. 2. Was the organization ready for the training? Should management should have done more planning? When the headquarters decided to develop a new program, they had to figure out a way that would not turn the employees off and make them disinterested. The only way to do this was to have the experienced workers (supervisors and mentors) be the individuals in the videos to tell their stories. This was captured in the years of collecting data at each site and interviewing many workers. Once the data was collected, the videos...
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...allowed them to treat individuals with mental health issues while teaching them to reduce stress. The Stress, Portrait of a Killer video has opened my eyes to all levels of stress and the impact stress will take on our health and bodies. This video surprised me with stressors that I don’t even think about from day to day even though I experience them. One being traffic jams, I actually saw myself setting in the vehicle hitting the stirring wheel as the man did in the video. Seeing this, seeing me and knowing I am in traffic jams daily, I am going to take the steps to not be upset when I am sitting there or someone cuts me off in order to cut in line instead of waiting their turn. I also found interesting the fact that one can tell the different level of stress people are experiencing as they drive through neighborhoods. Middleclass vs. Poverty neighborhoods show a great difference in stress and ultimately will take its toll on an individual’s health. Young children who grow up in poverty would have the stress factor without knowing leaving them with brain and cognitive development problems. Thus leaving them with a lifetime of additional stressors they will face as they grow into young adults and so on. When I took the stress assessment I found that most of my stressors had to do with the recent changes in my life. However, through this video, I have found that I have more day to day...
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...16, 2014 Michelle Gomillion “Should A Pregnant Woman Be Punished For Exposing Her Fetus To Risk” When a woman becomes pregnant, it is very important for her to lead a healthy life to eat plenty of nourishing food, get plenty of rest, and exercise regularly. It is also vital that she avoid anything that might harm her or her baby-to-be. For a pregnant woman, drug abuse is doubly dangerous. According to (daily news, 2010) one hundred babies are born with drug withdrawal symptoms every month. Some drugs can directly impair prenatal development, most of the body organs and systems of the baby-to-be are formed within the first ten weeks or so of pregnancy during this stage. After about the tenth week, the fetus should grow rapidly in weight and size. At this stage, certain drugs may damage organs that are still developing, such as the eyes, as well as the nervous system. Continuing drug use also increases the risk of miscarriage and premature delivery. But the greatest danger drugs pose at this stage is their potential to interfere with normal growth “low-birth weight babies require special care and run a much higher risk of severe health problems or even death”. (Murphy, 1998) The cases of women who are charged and convicted of child abuse even before they are born reflect an interesting intersection between the conservative War on Drugs and the conservative effort to restrict reproductive freedoms. In the case of Whitner vs. South Carolina; the court found that the state’s...
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...This video shows a theory of ethics, utilitarian bioethics that is a branch of ethics and recommends directing medical resources where they will have a more lasting effect for good. It is used implicitly in some health planning decisions, such as the use of quality-adjusted life years and the concept of triage, but it is controversial in many other cases. Utilitarian bioethics is based on the premise that the distribution of resources is a zero-sum game, so logically medical decisions must be based on the productive value and total happiness of each person in the future, in their chance to survive the Present and in the resources necessary for the treatment. For those whose cost of medical treatment or maintenance exceeds their total future economic value (because they are terminally ill, they are no longer productive and have no reasonable chance of becoming productive or happy in the foreseeable future), it is Economically efficient to release medical resources by...
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...Teen Pregnancy Is A Social Issue There is no doubt that teen pregnancy is a growing problem within the United States. Teen pregnancy will have a big impact on both the parents, child, education, welfare, employment and social service, also the society as a whole. The United States has the highest rate than any other country where teen pregnancy is an issue. There are many factors that comes into play when teenagers considering having children. Many teens who get pregnant without considering the consequences that they will have to face Although pregnancy is an emotional challenge for teenage girls, but it is a social problem that is affecting various things. Some individuals understand that this is a concern to the teenagers, but not everyone understand the consequences that our society have to face. 85 percent of teen is sexual active around the age 15 and 19. Throughout this paper I will be discussing why teenage pregnancy is a social problem and the various problems and consequences it have on our society. First the teenage mothers, the baby and on to the new parents. Dramatic changes need to be made before it destroy our society. The youth need to be educated more about unprotected sex and the consequences that comes along with it. There are several reasons why teen pregnancy occur. Majority of the time teen pregnancy occur because of peer pressure. Teen pregnancy is a natural drive to conform. “The main reason that peer pressure is so easily driven by teens...
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...The Ageing Process “How Our Bodies and Minds Change” Aging is a process that concerns us all. The increasing armamentarium provided by molecular biology and other techniques has allowed greater understanding of some of the processes involved. Numerous definitions of aging exist; an acceptable and commonly used definition is that aging is the total of all changes an organism undergoes from its conception to its death, including development, maturation and adulthood. There are many theories about how our bodies and minds change as we age, but no matter how much research or theories have been formed, one thing remains true is that our bodies and minds does, and will, change with age and one thing can be agree upon is that the end results in all these studies is that the body and minds does go through many changes during our life time. Since the life span varies between and within species and human longevity is partially hereditary, it is clear that genetic factors, the biology of the brain, and our culture effect the function of the brain and influence the aging process ( Johnson 1993, Schacter et al. 1993, Vijg et al. 1995). Twin studies show that genetic differences account for about a quarter of the variance in adult human lifespan. While a great deal of research has focused on diseases of aging, there are only a few informative studies on the molecular biology of the aging brain. Many molecular changes are due in part to a reduction in the size of the brain, as well as loss...
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...process can start with any of the three inputs. New Product Concepts and the New Product [pic] You need at least two of the three inputs to have a feasible new product concept, and all three to have a new product. The Soft Bubble Gum Example • Benefit: “Consumers want a bubble gum that doesn’t take five minutes to soften up.” • Form: “We should make a softer, more flexible bubble gum.” • Technology: “There’s a new chemical mixing process that prevents drying out of food and keeps it moist.” [pic]Are the followings good concepts? “Learning needs of computer users can be met by using online systems to let them see training videos on the leading software packages.” “A new way to solve the in-home training/educational needs of PC users.” “Let’s develop a new line of instructional videos.” • Evaluation Process [pic] PRODUCT MARKETING Protocol Concept Basic Strategy Testing Prototype Tactical Plans Product Pilot Testing Complete Final...
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...be prevented by use of various methods (2003). According Macionis personal health is not solely a matter of personal choice or a biological issue but patterns of health and illness stem from the organization of a society (Macionis 2003). This implies that the conditions are dependent on many factors that are social in nature. Obesity may result due to genetic interplay with the environment such as polymorphisms in human genes which control metabolism and appetite. These sometimes predispose children to obesity under certain conditions. The number of genetically related obesity cases has been found to vary from 6% and going as high as 85% in different populations. Genetic contribution to development of the condition has been found to be around 40-70%.Hormones which influence development of obesity includes leptin and insulin, others are sex hormones and...
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...adults spend more time sitting down have a greater risk of premature death from all causes. The study was performed by researchers from several universities in the United States. In the study, the research team analyzed the data of 7,985 black and white people, aged 45 and above. They followed these people for four years. The researchers assessed the physical activity of the participants using a hip-mounted accelerometer, a device that measures the acceleration of the body. The information from the device was used to calculate how many hours participants spent in sedentary behavior each day. In every 16-hours waking day, a total of 12.3 hours were spent by the participants sitting down. The average time spent by each...
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...comprehensive service delivery. With the special lease option provided to us by the county we saw an incredible opportunity to enhance the lives of the underprivileged in our community by constructing a state‐of‐the‐art comprehensive facility that will house pediatrics, behavioral, & educational services at one location. The North West area of Miami‐Dade County is a multiracial, ethnically and linguistically diverse part of our community that includes significant numbers of low socioeconomic status families that do not have ready access to appropriate primary health, behavioral health, prevention and educational services. This geographic area has multiple neighborhoods that exhibit poor health and social indicators (e.g., high rates of: premature births, chronic illness, substance abuse, child abuse, truancy, poor school achievement, domestic violence, juvenile crime,...
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...Childhood Obesity Introduction Childhood obesity has gained a lot of attention in the recent years especially the 21st century. Its prevalence over the last decade has increased tremendously. According to Wang and Lim (176), approximately 20% of school age-children in the European countries are overweight or obese with 5 percent being obese. Additionally, Wang and Lim (176), note that in North America, 15% of school age-children are obese, and 30% are overweight. Developing countries have also experienced an increase in the prevalence of obesity especially in the urban and suburban areas where the socio-economic status is high. Hence, childhood obesity is currently being associated with affluence and families that are well off. Obesity can be categorized into different levels. A case of severe obesity is defined as being greater 99th percentile of the body mass index for age and gender (Flores and Lin 31). In other cases, obesity may be defined based on the body weight/height. Thus, obesity in this case can be defined as being greater than 120% of the mean body weight/height value (Cameron, Norgan and Ellison 5). However, the body mass index (BMI) is the most common method employed in measuring obesity. The BMI is calculated by dividing an individual’s weight (kg) by the square height (meters) (Philips 14). Risk Factors associated with Childhood obesity A common risk factor is the presence of parental obese genes. According to Philips (16), parents having obese genes increase...
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