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Petco Maps Out a New Leadership Strategy

CLO Magazine

SNAPSHOT : From 2005 to 2007, Petco, a national pet specialty retailer, saw its market position slip as competition grew from big box retailers and boutique stores. From its inception in 1965, Petco’s mission has been to deliver quality pet products — food, toys, supplies and medicine.

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Virtual reality for pain management

KnowledgeOne

Virtual reality is very versatile and allows the creation of customized programs and scenarios in immersive universes that, depending on the needs, can be realistic or not. interactive toys, electronic games) have been extensively studied and decrease pain and anxiety (Koller & Goldman, 2012). Both passive distraction (e.g.,

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): GDC Update 2: Starting the day with Raph

Mark Oehlert

Really, one of the most un-helpful, non-useful printed programs that Iver ever seen. read Broken Toys). There are some great speakers in each of these summits but judas h priest on a pony did CMP (the event organizer) do an AWFUL job of illuminating what is going on when. "What do virtual worlds have to say about this?"

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Everyone who has graduated from college since 2005 has a FaceBook account. Another was a story from 2005, when 38% of SL users were women. One woman told me that she used to blog in LiveJournal, but there was just way too much personal information that was getting shared with the universe, so she deleted her account.

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