The purpose of this narrative study was to describe the role and potentials of drama groups for enhancing and maintaining well-being for female drama group members living with HIV in Uganda. Six semi-structured interviews were carried out and analyzed through a thematic analysis. The analysis was made within a theoretical framework based upon Sen's notion of the capability approach and social p...

since the beginning of the nineteenth century onward , arabic drama has preserved a close relation to the heritage. one of the most famous dramas s using the classical elements is “al-malik howa-l-malik” ( the king is the king) written by the syrian dramatist “sa’dallah wannous”. in composing this drama ,he has been inspired by one of one thousand and one nights fables namely “an-naim wa-l- yag...

Schellenberg (2004) assigned 144 6-year-old children to one of four treatments in a pretest-posttest design. Subjects experienced either keyboard, Kodaly voice, drama, or no lessons over an academic year. Schellenberg reported a significant difference of 2.7 IQ points if the keyboard and voice results were combined and contrasted against the combined drama and no-lessons results. Steele (2005) ...

IDtension is an Interactive Drama project initiated 10 years ago (Szilas, 1999). It aims at providing long term solutions to the problem of combining narrativity and interactivity. IDtension has been demoed in 2002 (COSIGN) and 2006 (IUI, TIDSE). Our motivation to demo IDtension again is twofold: 1) IDtension has never been demoed in North America; 2) The newest version has been improved and ai...

IT is exceedingly difficult to assess the position held by women in fifth-century Athens.1 When we examine their position in fourth-century law, we find them defined as near slaves, or as perpetual minors. In fifth-century history, at least as Thucydides saw it, there were no women. Yet women play a prominent part in Athenian literature and visual arts; they are not invisible, not helpless as. ...

among various references used by drama composers are the literary works, especially narrative ones. these works often possess many characteristics of a technical play. the design of a drama can begin with one of these three references: 1) “content” which can be portrayed, 2) “source” which can be expanded, 3) “characters” which can be involved dramatically. using a descriptive and analytic meth...

The citation for Soyinka’s 1986 Nobel prize for literature reads: “Who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones, fashions the drama of existence”. The “wide cultural perspective” mentioned refers to the fact that Soyinka’s writings, especially the dramas for which he is best known, are at once deeply rooted in traditional African expressive and performance forms like myths and r...

In this issue, Lietha and colleagues (2007) report the structure of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and reveal how FAK maintains an autoinhibited state. Together with the structure of another tyrosine kinase, ZAP-70 (Deindl et al., 2007), this work highlights the diversity of mechanisms that nature has evolved within the kinase superfamily to regulate their activity through autoinhibition.

[abstract] The export of Japanese television programs overseas started in the 1970s and the rapid growth of Japanese television programs globally especially in Asia started in the early 1980s. However, in the 21st century, the glory of Japanese dramas seems to have faded and replaced by the “Korean wave”. Perhaps the younger generation nowadays has not heard of “J-Pop” and here is an examinatio...