This paper describes an experience of porting the THEATRE agent architecture on top of the grid. The agent architecture consists of light-weight actors and computational theatres which have been proven to be well suited for modeling and simulation of complex systems. THEATRE nodes act as agencies that provide common services of message scheduling and dispatching to mobile actors. THEATRE is cur...

This paper proposes a component-based software architecture (Theatre) hosted by Java, which enables modelling and discrete-event simulation of complex and dynamically reconfigurable systems, possibly on top of a distributed computing context. At the “programming in-the-small” level, Theatre rests on light-weight reactive components (actors or agents) which interact to one another by asynchronou...

We are investigating face, hand and body expressions to be applied to avatars of a virtual environment to improve their communication capabilities and enrich and facilitate their perception by users of the environment. We report on our work based on obtaining inspiration from the world of theatre. In this perspective Commedia dell’Arte and Noh theatre have been the focus of our attention. We ex...

twentieth century french theatre has strongly been affected by world wars i and ii, obviously resulting in a change of existing dramatic principles. samuel beckett well known innovator in the field of the avant-garde, probed the theatre with a naked form and far from conventional regulations and dramatic arrangements. beckett's theatre is known as the beginning of the new method in writing...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of surgeons and anaesthetists in predicting the time it will take them to complete an operation or procedure and therefore explain some of the difficulties encountered in operating theatre scheduling. DESIGN Single centre, prospective observational study. SETTING Plastic, orthopaedic, and general surgical operating theatres at a level 1 trauma centre serving...

a large number of the operation theatres of the United Kingdom and on the continent, and hopes that these notes may succeed in conveying some information as to the points that one surgeon is likely to learn from another. Major Standage, in part I, has prepared the patient for operation, brought her into a fully equipped, fully staffed and carefully organized operation room and has left me, so t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate our unit's theatre throughput efficiency, to identify where inefficiencies existed and consequently where the greatest improvement might be made.To identify the causes of day of surgery cancellations and how they might be avoided.  PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective audit of theatre utilisation was undertaken over a 6 month period between 05/02//2013 and 02/08/2013 at Ip...

OBJECTIVES To investigate associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) at delivery (using pregnancy-specific BMI cut-off values 5 kg/m2 higher in each of the WHO groups) and clinical, theatre utilisation and health economic outcomes for women undergoing caesarean section (CS). DESIGN A prospective multicentre observational study. SETTING Seven secondary or tertiary referral obstetric...

This article discusses Visionaries, a forum theatre project on sexuality and disability in Zimbabwe. Focus is placed on the notion of beauty and its association with myths of sexuality among disabled and non-disabled persons. The paper posits that forum theatre can be a significant site to negotiate the complexities and possibilities of disability and sexual corporeality. This article discusses...