Sixty staff working in a hospital operating theatre, where a case of humidifier fever had been identified, were studied together with 49 subjects working in other parts of the hospital. They each had a blood test for serology, a skin test, and a chest radiograph and completed a questionnaire. The theatre staff also had pulmonary function tests. The theatre humidifier was found to contain severa...

In this paper I present the challenges of combining game design with theatre conventions in relation to the implementation of a hybrid form of pervasive performance, Chain Reaction. I use game design as part of my research process in order to explore how participatory games can be used to enable alternative ways of engaging with performance and theatre, more specifically how games can foster ar...

AIM This paper is a report of a study exploring nurses' perceptions of the components of competence in the operating theatre. BACKGROUND Competency Standards for operating theatre practice are used in some countries to guide clinical and professional behaviours. The need for competence assessment has been enshrined, but the conceptualization and agreement about what signifies competence in Op...

Howard Barker’s Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe, edited by James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith, sets out to provide “a timely and much-needed re-evaluation” (1) of Howard Barker and the theatre company founded to stage his work, The Wrestling School. The timeliness and necessity of the collection is, in part, due to the more “practice-orientated” (1) focus of its various contributions. Where p...

The article offers an overview of the Croatian National Theatre research. It comes in two parts. The first examines the position theatre in the era of globalization, while the second focuses on the Croatian National Theatre, in the era of globalization, in the context of specific social and national interests, as well as within the limits of the national possibilities. What emerges in this over...

OBJECTIVE To compare the diagnostic accuracy of clinic-based biopsy versus theatre biopsy against final histopathology in patients presenting with extremity tumours. METHODS The retrospective study was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised record of patients who underwent biopsy procedure of extremity tumours from January 2008 to December 2011. Data regarding socio...

This article addresses the question of how metaphor works and illustrates this with an explication of the ‘organization as theatre’ metaphor. It is argued that the so-called comparison account of metaphor that has dominated organization studies to date is flawed, misguided, and incapable of accounting for the fact that metaphors generate inferences beyond the similarities required for comprehen...

In this paper, we show to what extent traditional theatre staging is based on a formal approach of similarity using a dramaturgical ontology and instanciation variations. Drawing our inspiration from the opposite approach through interactive data mining, we hereby account for theatre and opera researches using computers as actor partners to escape a priori specification.

William Hunter, a male midwife, was author of an anatomy atlas that featured pregnant cadavers as specimens. He lived in the building later became Lyric Theatre. Through examination Theatre hauntological site, and experience psychosis, proposed paradigm shift for theatre performance historiography emerges: phenomenology dyschronia.

Objectives To assess referrals to a Field Hospital Mental Health Team (FMHT), assign a diagnosis, provide appropriate treatment, and decide whether suitable for safe return to unit in theatre (RTU), or evacuation home on psychiatric grounds (evac). Methods All documented referrals to the FMHT of 202 Field Hospital during the Op Telic 1 study period of 17 March (day 1) to 23 July 2003 (day 129) ...