The conversion of α-benzocycloalkenones to homologous β-benzocycloalkenones containing six, seven and eight-membered rings is reported. This was accomplished via a Wittig olefination-oxidative rearrangement sequence using [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]-benzene (HTIB) is the oxidant, that enables the synthesis of regioisomeric pairs of methyl-substituted β-benzocycloalkenones. The incorporation of carb...

Planetarium technology is steadily shifting from opto-mechanical based projection to digital projection. This technology shift allows the consolidation of many individual projection sources into a single full-dome video-based display and image generation system. This shift is having a profound effect on planetarium show production, educational tools, theater automation, system maintenance, equi...

Hospitalizations aboard aircraft carriers were examined to ascertain differences in illness type attributable to theater of operations and combat deployment status. Percentage distributions and lengths-of-stay statistics of major diagnostic categories are provided and compared between Vietnam combat support and peacetime modes of operations and between Western Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...

The immersive Earth Theater at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) uses CaveUT and the Unreal Engine for real time virtual tours as part of public and educational programming. Research conducted comparing the theater with desktop displays shows immersion is a powerful tool, helping people create more connections. Content builds on the museum’s strengths and includes dinosaurs, an Egyptian...

In the context of two relevant examples of intangible cultural heritages, such as music and theater, this paper presents an innovative approach to online fruition of live performances. Our proposal aims at adding both interactivity and multi-layer fruition to traditional Web viewers, as well as a way to manipulate and create new media. The premise to reach these goals is digitizing a number of ...

This paper suggests to turn to the performative arts for insights that may help the fluent coordination and jointaction timing of human-robot interaction (HRI). We argue that theater acting and musical performance robotics could serve as useful testbeds for the development and evaluation of action coordination in robotics. We also offer two insights from theater acting literature for HRI: the m...

as the most important method of religious and ritual theater, ta’ziye has many capabilities in iran which can be used in different forms of modern visualization. the only element which has been studied in this kind of theater has been distancing in performance. through studying the existent versions of ta’ziye, one can find that there are other elements that have not been studied yet. the relat...