Hypertext research has been deeply interested a narrative, and literary hypertext fiction has enjoyed a long and happy relationship to this conference. The literature of Critical Theory, on the other hand, is famously opaque, and our Balkanized technical literature on new media storytelling has grown provincial. Daring yet accessible experiments in non-sequential interactive narrative have appe...

The 2007 Topology Festival had a concentration of speakers in group theory and low dimensional topology. Two of the speakers gave introductory workshops on the subject — Chris Leininger spoke on Mapping Class Groups Versus Kleinian Groups and Tim Riley on Open Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology and Group Theory. The speakers featured in a panel discussion on Wednesday 23rd May in which they p...

On the last Wednesday of every year Iranians celebrate the sanctity of fire in the annual festival of Chaharshanbeh Soori. Each year many cases of firecracker-related injuries (FRI) are reported during this festival. The aim of this study was to assess the pattern of injuries and the frequency of disabilities during this period. In 2011, a cross-sectional study was conducted at the emergency de...

The presence of roads in any landscape is known to negatively influence terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Many tourist destinations and religious enclaves in developing countries are inside protected areas (PA). They are well connected by roads and attract thousands of visitors. The effect of such large human congregations inside PA on biodiversity is not well understood. Here, we address the...

Gatas y Vatas is an annual all-female music festival in Albuquerque that started in 2010 featuring solo performances by local musicians. Initiated by young Hispanic women as an attempt to counteract the white-male dominance of the music scene, Gatas y Vatas has become a catalyst of female empowerment where participants experience liberation while defying gender norms in an all-inclusive environ...

The article identifies factors related to the local context that influence valuation of a local, traditional and internationally recognized music festival. Analyzing case Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival held in Cali (Colombia), equation festival is estimated via an ordered probit model based upon microdata provided by face-to-face survey (N = 1257). Results show there are two key shapin...

Cultural festivals can attract cultural tourists, extend the tourist season and add vibrancy to scene. However, there is relatively little research on how affect experience of destination or outcomes such as satisfaction repeat visitation. This study used Event Experience Scale measure experiences at three in Hong Kong – Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival Cheung Chau Bun Festival. The findi...

BACKGROUND Mass gatherings, such as music festivals and religious events, pose a health care challenge because of the risk of transmission of communicable diseases. This is exacerbated by the fact that participants disperse soon after the gathering, potentially spreading disease within their communities. The dispersion of participants also poses a challenge for traditional surveillance methods....

Mathematics and science more usualy reach the general public through journalism, popularizations, fiction, biographies, plays, poems, and other forms of literary writing. Our workshop series, Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science, aims to create a critical yet supportive community of writers who share this goal. Like the first four highly successful BIRS workshops of this title, we brough...