This article examines the impact of COVID on festivals and future industry. Analysing more than 50 items online news, scholarly reviews reports, governmental guidance, this immediate effects in industry as a whole, particularly its precarious artists workforce. It also explores changing behavioural attitudes towards festivals. Importantly, looks at long-term institutional changes that might eme...

The scene is a large room. There are two laptop computers and a printer on a table between piles of printouts of lists and photocopies of maps downloaded from "Yahoo". Two cell phones can also be seen. The two computer screens have an Access file open with names, addresses, more names and credits and debits in English. Three men sit at the table; two of them are unshaven and blurry-eyed as if t...

Ayurveda does not stand simply for the cure of certain diseases in individuals. It aims at keeping both the individual and the society healthy and happy by preservation and promotion of physical and mental health and prevention of diseases. These measures are described in detail in the form of dina carya, rtu carya and ratri carya. For a common man, these practices are prescribed in the form of...

this article exposes an analysis of the zoroastrian persian calendar in a 12th century hebrew book on the jewish calendar (sefer ha-‘ibbūr). the hebrew treatise was composed by the polymath abraham bar ḥiyya, probably in northern france. bar ḥiyya depicts the structure of the zoroastrian persian calendar, its months and some of its festivals. he then expounds on calendrical algorithms which ena...

The IIT Mumbai recently held a tech fest. It was an extraordinary opportunity for engineering students from around the country to participate in diverse competitions like making robots, harnessing renewable sources of energy, designing ecofriendly houses, building boats that run on solar power and making machines out of junkyard scrap. Most good engineering institutes have this kind of technica...

Between 2009 and 2013 I have worked on a system in the MaxMSP, Jitter, and Processing environments that explores the transfer of data and gesture directly from movement to audio, audio to video, and movement to video in real-time. In this paper I describe the techniques used to capture the data, mapping schemes and their implications, the experience of performing the 2 incarnations of the piece...

This paper describes the participation of the Syllabs Team in the content analysis task of the CLEF MC2 Evaluation lab. In the current state of our work, we offer preliminary solutions to first detect the language of the microblogs used within the task, then extract the named entities that will be later used to recognize Wikipedia entities and finally, detect microblogs that deal with festivals.

Warrendale is the title of a film prepared as a television documentary about a residential establishment in Canada for extremely disturbed children. The film is an artistic success, having won awards at the Festivals of Montreal and Cannes. Provisional arrangements had been made to give it a television showing in Canada and in Britain. In Canada it was finally turned down because of the compuls...

Objective The general objective of the eSBIRTes project (http:// www.esbirtes.eu) was to identify and develop effective tools for screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment for adults presenting at the emergency department (ED) with problems related to poly-drug use. The electronic screening brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) was pilot tested in four EDs in gener...

Despite the increasing availability of various forms of digital maps and guides, paper still prevails as the main information medium used by tourists during city visits. The authors describe how recent technologies for digitally augmented paper maps can be used to develop interactive paper maps that provide value-added services for tourists through digital overlays. An initial investigation int...