In Japan, most of children haven’t read children’s story (Fairy tales or tales of old Japan) because the high technology video games are more exciting than most of picture books. But they must be effective to bring up the children’s cultivation of aesthetic sensitivity. And we have heard from teachers of elementary schools that most of themes of computer education in school are the operation of...

The subject of this article is the question of improved quality in the Dutch theater, roughly in the period 1860—1914. In essence it will statistically test the dominant historiographical narrative, which treats the era from 1875—1914 as a period of recovery of the stage after a decline which set in after about 1815 and which claims a related charge in social class base. Using the immense theat...

This article examines the tendencies of LGBT intergenerational theater projects. By engaging with ideas of queer time, temporal drag, and the pervasive heteronormative imagery of heritability and inheritance, this article explores the possibility that LGBT intergenerational projects may generate some of the problems they aim to challenge. Through the lens of queer time, the article describes th...

Focusing on the cultural significations and artistic capacities of naqqali, this article examines the comparative workings of this Iranian popular genre in Hossein Jamali’s Hamlet: The Retribution Affair. Jamali’s adaptation is worth considering since it narrates the whole events and characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a classic text of English literature, through naqqali, a classic Persian gen...

Intelligent behavior of a system is often equated with its ability to perform logical or heuristic inferences. Intelligence is thought to reside in the ability to reene the knowledge base, and thus in the articulation of \new" facts beyond the set of assertions explicitly represented. The fragility and complexity of the inference mechanisms required for this invite attempts at imbuing other com...

American playwright, novelist, story and biography writer Gertrude Stein, with her avant-garde perception destructing the theatre conventions, became one of inspiring playwrights for experimental theater in twentieth century. Stein's plays were interpreted by directors performance artists from various disciplines such as painting, music, plastic arts literature. When we look at theoretical text...

In this work, the surgical theater of a local hospital in KSA was analyzed using simulation. The focus was on attempting to answer questions related to how many Operating Rooms (ORs) to open and to analyze the performance of the surgical theater in general and mainly the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to assist making decisions regarding PACU staffing. The surgical theater consists of ten ope...