Electronic Musical Instrument Design is an excellent vehicle for bringing students from multiple disciplines together to work on projects, and help bridge the perennial gap between the arts and the sciences. This paper describes how at Tufts University, a school with no music technology program, students from the engineering (electrical, mechanical, and computer), music, performing arts, and vi...

In 2000, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) proposed a three-year (2001 2003) Arts-in-Education (AiE) project to explore ways of implementing the new arts curriculum in schools. The AiE Project aimed to encourage schools to look beyond examination-oriented learning and the rigid curriculum structure, and to take a broader, humanistic, view of education and student needs (Braden, 197...

30 An Evidence-Based Approach to the Use of Social Media to Promote Political Literacy among Youth in the Sultanate of Oman; Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Salim Said AlKindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts an...

While traditional "talk" therapies remain at the foundation of counseling, the use of expressive and creative arts in conjunction with these methods can often deepen the healing process as well as expedite diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the ways in which expressive arts counsel...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

There is substantial evidence that training in Martial Arts is associated with improvements in cognitive function in children; but little has been studied in healthy adults. Here, we studied the impact of extensive training in Martial Arts on cognitive control in adults. To do so, we used the Attention Network Test (ANT) to test two different groups of participants: with at least 2 years of Mar...

This paper argues that the entrepreneurial leader in non-profit Performing Arts Organisations (PAOs) has received too little attention in literature pertaining to these organisations. This criticism also applies to museums. The paper explores how leaders in non-profit performing arts organisations balance the interests of the various funding sources and market opportunities to service their rev...

Acute calcific tendinitis of the shoulder is a well-known condition, but it is rare in the hand or finger. It is often misdiagnosed when it occurs outside the shoulder. We report an unusual case of acute calcific tendinitis of the flexor digitorum superficialis insertion of the 4th finger in a young female martial art athlete after minor trauma history, and discuss with a review of the literature.

Understanding how to create the right movement for a specific character is a significant open problem in computer animation. This same problem, however, has been at the heart of the work of performance artists for hundreds of years. In this work, we try to learn from the lessons contained in the performing arts literature so that we can apply them to creating rich, engaging, animated characters...

This paper reviews the development of the Medical Financial Assistance program (MFA) in rural China, including design and implementation processes, and assesses major areas for improvement. Jointly financed by the central and local governments, MFA provides cash assistance to poor households for the purchase of medical services. Because policy design and implementation are decentralized to loca...