Every Monday morning, Pathé Theaters in the Netherlands decides which movies in its cinemas to retain and which to replace. It must choose replacement movies from those available at that time. We implemented the SILVERSCREENER model, a mathematical-programming system [Swami, Eliashberg, and Weinberg 1999] to help Pathé managers make those decisions for one six-screen theater, and tested its per...

The Improvisational Theater Space is an interactive stage where human actors can perform accompanied by virtual actors. Virtual actors are modeled as animated \Media Creatures" that are behavior-based automous software agents. We used Artiical Life programming methods and behavior-based design to avoid rigid scripting of performers and media interaction. Media Creatures allow content to be acti...

Although rarely considered in such terms, Renaissance theater provides particularly salient examples of interactions between oral and literate modalities. Renaissance playwrights, dramatic theorists, and antitheatricalists themselves viewed theater through the prism of orality and literacy, if using different terms. The relationship between orality and literacy was highly charged, variously cha...

The healing function of theater is reflected in all human cultures. Today, therapists and scientists work with psychodrama and drama therapy, often describing theater as the art form closest to life itself. In a unique cooperation between professional actors and a dance movement therapist/pain researcher, patients with fibromyalgia have first been trained in body and voice expression and therea...

Since it opened in April 2001, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum has hosted a variety of exhibits and educational events designed to promote the understanding of the Lone Star State's unique and complex history. The impressive four-story museum, located at the corner of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Austin, includes 34,000 square feet of exhibit space, along...

The Operating Theater (OT) is known to be a fluctuating production system. The unpredictability of populations’ needs has an impact on the required human and material resources and makes the Operating Theater a dynamic environment. Thus, the use of dynamic models is getting more realistic to solve OT Layout Problem (OTLP). While solving Dynamic OTLP, Real-life Operating Theater (OT) sizes are l...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate dental students' perception of theater-based learning, and explore its association with their clinical knowledge and future career decisions. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in the Oral Surgery Department, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan between September 2007 and March 2008 on dental students of batch 2005-2007 comprising 157 students and gr...

It is only by chance that southern Chinese theater, nanxi 南戲, began its known textual career with two revenge love stories, both concerning ungratefulness and retribution. one, Zhao the Chaste Maid and Second Son Cai (Zhao Zhennü Cai Erlang 趙貞女蔡二郎), has come to us transformed into a dramatic exemplar of duty and filiality, and the other, the story of Wang Kui 王魁, has survived in song and short-...