* This paper investigates recent changes in British cultural policy and their implications for artsmarketing. It first points out the decisive role of the policy in shaping the environment of the nonprofit arts and argues that arts marketing developed as an organisational strategy within the context of marketisation policy since the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the current cultural...

Based on the new technology development direction of “high, difficult, beautiful, new” of the Taolu competition in Chinese martial arts, this paper analyses the current situation to the development of the competitive Wushu Routine at colleges in Jiangxi province by way of questionnaires, inquires and comparison. It discovers that the development level of the competitive Wushu Routine at college...

The arts have long been valued for their aesthetic contributions to education, and studies have been conducted to demonstrate their contribution to academic performance in an attempt to justify their inclusion in the curriculum. Art integration involves learning core content subjects (math, reading, language, science, social studies) through the arts (drama, dance, music, visual arts). The focu...

v Special Issue on the ARTECH 2015 International Conference; José Bidarra, Universidade Aberta, Research Centre for Arts and Communication (CIAC), Lisbon, Portugal Mauro Figueiredo, University of Algarve, Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Research Centre for Arts and Communication (CIAC), Faro, Portugal Elizabeth Simão Carvalho, Universidade Aberta, Research Centre for Arts a...

The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS), funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and based at the University of Glasgow, aims to support research and teaching in UK Higher Education by collecting and promoting the use of digital data relating to the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre and dance. The PADS is one of 5 service providers of the Arts and Humanities...

Recent application of coupled-room systems in performing arts spaces has prompted active research on sound fields in these complex geometries. This paper applies a diffusion-equation model to the study of acoustics in coupled-rooms. Acoustical measurements are conducted on a scale-model of two coupled-rooms. Using the diffusion model and the experimental results the current work conducts in-dep...

A detailed pharmacokinetic analysis was performed with 47 children from Papua New Guinea with uncomplicated falciparum or vivax malaria treated with artesunate (ARTS) suppositories (Rectocaps) given in two doses of approximately 13 mg/kg of body weight 12 h apart. Following an intensive sampling protocol, samples were assayed for ARTS and its primary active metabolite, dihydroartemisinin (DHA),...

This paper turns our attention to the arts and New Literacy Studies as an understudied area in the learning sciences. Our study documents, describes, and analyzes urban youths’ Media Arts Practices within a Computer Clubhouse, drawing on the New Literacy Studies movement and work on authentic practices. Results indicated that youth engaged in at least eight literate practices aligned with profe...