In the following, you can continue to listen and participate into a crossdisciplinary diaor polylogue 1 between different voices, and what they stand for, including philosophers, organizational and leadership scholars, practitioners and artists. In the same spirit as it has been alive in the first part, this experimental, polyphonic practice invites you to experience different expressions of id...

The modeling of the behavior of human process operators using fuzzy methods is well established in technical applications. We investigate whether these fuzzy strategies can also be successfully applied for modeling the manner in which a musician interprets a piece of music. For L. v. Beethoven’s composition “Für Elise” we set up a base of 150 fuzzy rules that relate to features laid down explic...

This article discusses the application of technology to promote more comprehensive clinical education in the biopsychosocial aspects of primary care. Comprehensive refers to the inclusion, in addition to scientific and technical knowledge, of knowledge that is less easily characterized, quantified, and taught: empathy, intuition, the demonstration of artistry. Clinical education will be increas...

Most data warehousing and mining involves storing and retrieving data either in numerical or symbolic form, varying from tables of numbers to text. However, when it comes to everyday images, sounds, and music, the problem turns out to be far more complex. The major problem with image data mining is not so much image storage, per se, but rather how to automatically index, extract, and retrieve i...

Alpha/theta neurofeedback has been shown to be successful both in treating addictions and in enhancing artistry in music students. How its effects are mediated are not yet clear. The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that alpha/theta neurofeedback works inter alia by normalising extreme personality and raising feelings of well being. 12 participants with high scores for Withdrawal (as ...

Recently, image-to-image translation has been made much progress owing to the success of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs). However, it’s still very challenging for translation tasks with the requirement of high-level visual information conversion, such as phototo-caricature translation that requires satire, exaggeration, lifelikeness and artistry. We present an approach for l...

This essay explores the pedagogy of Dza Patrul Rinpoche (1808–1887), a well-respected Buddhist teacher from Eastern Tibet, by considering examples where Patrul frames his teachings as oratorical performances. Patrul operates under the guiding pedagogical principle that self-promoting performance is good teaching. The term “performance” describes the competitive exchanges that appear in certain ...

Acclaimed as one of the great filmmakers of the 20th century, Ingmar Bergman is for many an arch-modernist, whose work is characterized by a high degree of self-conscious artistry and by dark, even nihilistic themes. Film critics increasingly identify him as a kind of philosopher of the human condition, especially of the dislocations and misery of the modern human condition. However, Bergman’s ...

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and respond to her call. The outpourings of intuition consist of a continuous, rapid flow of choice, choice, choice. —Stephen Nachmanovich, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art [14] This paper maintains that the practice and theories of improvisational and activist theatre can infuse interactive computer games with spontaneous...

INTRODUCTION Although a majority of ingested foreign bodies (FBs) pass down the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously, those that are sharp, pointed or large in size need removal to avert serious complications. We highlight the urgent need and utility of endoscopic accessories and technical artistry in safe retrieval of FBs in children. CLINICAL PICTURE Four children had accidentally swallowed...