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VIRAC: The VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue
(2018-02-21)We present VIRAC version 1, a near-infrared proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey for 312 587 642 unique sources averaged across all overlapping pawprint and tile images ... -
A virial theorem for rotating charged perfect fluids in general relativity
(2003)We obtain an exact form of the virial theorem in general relativity, which is sufficiently general to be applied to charged, conducting, rotating perfect fluids in electromagnetic and gravitational fields. The case of ... -
Virtual and online learning during COVID-19: the experience of community children’s nursing students
(2023-03-20)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant changes in how education is delivered. For many University programmes this has included a move from face-to-face to virtual and on-line learning and teaching. ... -
A virtual force interaction scheme for multi-robot environment monitoring
(2021-12-09)The autonomous multi-robot system is an emerging technology that has a wide range of potential applications, such as environmental monitoring, exploration of unknown area, battlefield surveillance, and search and rescue. ... -
Virtual learning intervention to reduce bullying victimization in primary school : a controlled trial
(2010-01)Background: Anti-bullying interventions to date have shown limited success in reducing victimization and have rarely been evaluated using a controlled trial design. This study examined the effects of the FearNot! anti-bullying ... -
The Virtual Parallax : Imaginations of Mthwakazi Nationalism - Online Discussions and Calls for Self-Determination
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The virtual peg-in-hole test
(IOS Press, 2005)In order to identifying an optimum interface for use or control of assistive technology, objective quantification of a user's skill is necessary. By making use of new haptic and virtual reality technology, detailed information ... -
A virtual reality exergame to engage adolescents in physical activity: Mixed methods study describing the formative intervention development process
(2021-02-04)Background: Early adolescence (13-17 years) is a critical developmental stage for physical activity promotion. Virtual reality (VR) exergaming is a promising intervention strategy to engage adolescents in physical activity. ... -
Virtual reality for ambulance simulation environment
(2022-04-12)Abstract: Simulations are beneficial in evaluating clinicians’ empirical competencies through practical skills, prioritizing, and decision-making as part of patient care scenarios generally run in a full-scale physical ... -
Virtual Typography
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Virtual Typography—A New Approach to Motion Graphics?
(2009-04)In an image-saturated world, type design can have a hard time standing out. In this Feature, Matthias Hillner looks at the new ways of using transitional typography and motion graphics to transmit information. With various ... -
Virtual visiting in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative descriptive study with ICU clinicians and non-ICU family team liaison members
(2022-04-29)Objective: To understand the experiences and perceived benefits of virtual visiting from the perspectives of intensive care unit (ICU)-experienced clinicians and non-ICU-experienced family liaison team members. Design: ... -
Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market
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Virtual workshops on the road : Co-designing with drivers, within context in real-time
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-25)An investigation was performed of the characteristics of real-time, virtually present, contextual inquiry between automobile drivers and automotive designers. 28 participants were remotely interviewed while they were in ... -
Virtual worlds players – consumers or citizens?
(2014-10-15)This article questions the preconceived notions that participants in virtual worlds are essentially consumers. Building on the existing scholarship around virtual worlds and notwithstanding the current character of virtual ... -
Virtual Worlds – a Legal Post-Mortem Account
(2014-12-31)This paper addresses the lack of legal literature in the area of death and virtual worlds. It sheds light on the legal status of different in-game assets, assessing whether these could fit within the notions of property ... -
‘A virtue beyond all medicine’ : The hanged man’s hand, gallows tradition and healing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
(2015-11)From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing ... -
Virtue Ethics and Particularism
(2021-07-01)Moral particularism is often conceived as the view that there are no moral principles. However, its most fêted accounts focus almost exclusively on rules regarding actions and their features. Such action-centred particularism, ... -
Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism
(2002)Contemporary theories of Virtue Ethics are often presented as being in opposition to Kantian Ethics and Consequentialism. It is argued that Virtue Ethics takes as fundamental the question, “What sort of character would a ... -
Virus Infection Impairs Fungal Response to Stress: Effect of Salt
(2023-03-10)Infection with Aspergillus fumigatus polymycovirus 1 (AfuPmV-1) weakens the resistance of biofilms of common A. fumigatus reference strain Af293 in intermicrobial competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and sensitizes A. ...