Word: interactivity
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...teams have their own versions of software that analyzes thousands of variables--from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' probable actions--and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during a race. The program spits out possible options and assesses the chances of success. Now that racetrack technology is coming to the equally fast-paced world of business...
...believe that a diverse student body is important to any institution of higher education because it allows students to interact with and learn from fellow students from other cultures and with different life experiences. A number of studies have found that diversity can produce these tangible results. According to Mitchell J. Chang, an associate dean at Loyola Marymount University, and Alexander W. Astin, director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, a diverse campus environment “contributes to the student’s academic development, satisfaction with college, level of cultural awareness, and commitment to promoting racial...
Increasing workplace diversity will, as in higher education, also have the positive effect of allowing others to interact with colleagues they otherwise would not. There is a definite social good in having individuals from different backgrounds interact with each other, and oftentimes the workplace is one of the few spots where this can occur...
...prisoners are placed in chain-link enclosures called "dog runs," one per cage. Their cuffs are removed through a door slot. This is the only time the inmates actually see and interact with one another. "It is awkward adjusting my voice from the necessary yell of the cell block to the face-to-face conversation in the yard," Rudolph writes. "Unlike me the Arabs don't adjust the volume." Rudolph describes how his neighbors pair up in their separate runs and then "walk the length of the cage in unison, back and forth, yelling as they...
...Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). In 2003, Reyes was one of roughly 200 applicants for a fellowship with DRCLAS’ Art Forum, only two of whom eventually received invitations.Over the next three years, Reyes made a series of extended visits to the center that enabled him to interact with faculty and take advantage of the University’s research facilities. It was on one of these visits that Reyes met Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative. Through Sommer, Reyes became familiar with the work...