Military physicians deploy primarily to care for traumatic injuries. However, critically ill medical patients are also evaluated and treated in theater with similar capability as hospitals in the United States because of the close proximity of medical and surgical specialists and advanced equipment in combat support and theater hospitals. We report a case of a 33-year-old soldier diagnosed with...

The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...

Africa has faced problems in the area of media communication due to a lack of resources, technology and manpower and poor planning. In recent years, Africans have begun to argue the point of a need for comprehensive communications planning that considers economic limitations. An effective form of education and communication for Africa should present information in an inexpensive, ad hoc manne...

The effect of white channel enhancement as implemented in the Texas Instrument DLP digital projector technology is evaluated theoretically using both the CIELAB and the CIECAM02 color appearance models and experimentally through psychophysical testing using real images. Both theory and the test results confirm a compression of perceptual gamut in both chroma and colorfulness as a result of the ...

This article examines how in his influential 1964 Fun Palace project the late British architect Cedric Price created a unique synthesis of a wide range of contemporary discourses and theories, such as the emerging sciences of cybernetics, information technology, and game theory, Situationism, and theater to produce a new kind of improvisational architecture to negotiate the constantly shifting ...