The performing art of violin was introduced, popularized and developed in China as the result of an economic and cultural exchange between the east and west. Chinese violin music has its unique characteristics, which is rooted from Chinese tradition music and philosophy bounded with western composing concept and rich violin techniques. The efforts by Chinese musicians and violin educators in th...

This study describes and tests two models of personality: the HEXACO model of personality, which is derived from the lexical tradition and which is rooted in "normal" psychology, and the 5DPT model of personality, which is derived from a theoretical approach and which is rooted in clinical psychology. The HEXACO and 5DPT models are compared in the prediction of antisocial and self-benefiting pe...

IN A 1965 interview with John Thompson, Judith Wright was asked if she considered herself a ‘nature poet’. She replied, ‘No, I don't. My real interest, I think, is the question of man in nature—man as part of nature. The theory of correspondences that Baudelaire brought forward—the question of nature as a symbol for one's experience has always seemed to me to have a great deal in it.’ Thompson ...

The emergence of CSCW as a distinct area of intellectual inquiry and professional practice was grounded not least in the methods and concerns of the Participatory Design (PD) movement. PD’s concern for direct engagement with work settings and those who occupy them has been methodologically central to CSCW practice, and PD’s central commitment to the complex of social forces that surround techno...

â â  this article deals with the systematic significance of ney (the flute) , which is rooted in persian literary heritage and was manifested in the work of jaläl-ad-dä«n-e rå«mä«, also known as mowlavi. it then elaborates on its influence on modern arab poetry. to achieve this, the article first takes a glimpse at the famous poem by mowlavi, known as “ the flute” and outlines its symbolic...