This article explores the language in the four plays of Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Footfalls. It considers the way in which Beckett uses language, especially through fragmentation utterances, repetitions, monologues, contradictions, and silence. It discusses the function of language in modern society, in the Theater of the Absurd, and in the plays. Parad...

The scheduling of surgical operations in a hospital is a complex problem, with each surgical specialty having to satisfy their demand while competing for resources with other hospital departments. This project extends the construction of a weekly timetable, the Master Surgery Schedule, which assigns surgical specialties to operating theater sessions by taking into account the post-surgery resou...

This Mediadrom artful post-TV scenario consists in sketching the user interface of an interactive media content browsing system for exploring thematically sorted artworks, from the art field of plastic theater, merging art pieces at the intersection of the visual and the performing arts. Combining a touchscreen and an hypermedia browser of image and video content with expert annotations, this s...

in cultural semiotics as posed by tartu-moscow circle the concepts of cultural sphere, border, and the (non)cultural other and the dialogue between this cultural self and that other on the borders are very critical. the mechanism of intercultural translation and the processes of inclusion and exclusion govern this intercultural dialogue. such communication between cultures, in order to be reali...

Traditionally, room response equalization is performed to improve sound quality at a given listener in applications ranging from automobile, home-theater, movie theater, multimedia education in classrooms. However, room responses vary with source and listener positions. Hence, in a multiple listener environment, equalization may be performed through spatial averaging of magnitude responses at l...