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The zombie apocalypse has happened and you are in charge of keeping as many survivors alive within your camp. But unfortunately, life isn’t fair, and that saying is more prominent in the apocalypse. As players take turns scavenging for supplies for their camp, there is a chance that the group that was sent out searching can come back bitten. Choose wisely during your game or you may cause all your members to die in the end!We designed the game keeping player choice and chance in mind to imitate how life would be in this unfortunate future. Player choice is simulated by having players choose placement of resources and members, and making choices during events in the game. Chance is implemented in scavenging, picking up a faced-down card, and the player acting accordingly depending on the card.

Acceptance is an important construct across models for understanding psychological distress. Several measures have been designed to capture acceptance, however, there is a lack of evidence regarding the most suitable tool. A systematic review evaluated 20 articles, reporting 32 studies, examining acceptance questionnaires. The methodological quality of included studies were evaluated using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health status Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist. The quality of measurement properties were evaluated using criteria suggested by Terwee et al. (2007). All studies were independently reviewed by two raters, and inter-rater reliability was high. Nine instruments were identified: two unidimensional scales of acceptance, four mindfulness tools with an acceptance subscale, and three emotion regulation scales with an acceptance-based subscale. None of the measures evaluated can be recommended as having superior psychometric properties. Further research is required to demonstrate the psychometric properties of existing measures, given their significant role in evaluating acceptance-based interventions across clinical and research settings.The lack of a valid and reliable measure of acceptance prevents researchers from drawing conclusions about the efficacy of acceptance-based interventions and identifying the role of acceptance processes in clinical change. Given that there is no current gold standard assessment tool for measuring acceptance, the present study sought to develop and evaluate a new instrument to meet this need. Across three separate studies an initial item pool was evaluated and refined. The resultant measure, named the Southampton Acceptance Scale (SAS), was then evaluated with regards to the factor structure, reliability, and validity. An initial exploratory approach was employed as a unique pool of items with many potential relationships was under investigation. These analyses were subsequently followed up with confirmatory approaches. The SAS, comprising 18-items, was shown to have a theoretically coherent two-factor structure which was validated in an independent sample. The scale has excellent internal consistency, and demonstrated convergent, concurrent and discriminant validity. The SAS has strong psychometric properties and is a promising new measure of acceptance.

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We describe a prototype knowledge base that uses semantic web technologies to provide a service for querying a large and expanding collection of public data about resilience, dependability and security. We report progress and identify opportunities to support resilience-explicit computing by developing metadata-based descriptions of resilience mechanisms that can be used to support design time and, potentially, run-time decision making.