In some historical opera halls there are boxes located around the proscenium, commonly called proscenium or "director" boxes. These boxes have a certain influence on the initial part of the impulse response of an opera hall on the singer-auditorium, singer-singer, and singer-orchestra pit paths. During the reconstruction of the Ljubljana opera hall, measurement of a scaled model was performed t...

In this article the physics motivation and the detector design of the OPERA experiment will be reviewed. The construction status of the detector, which will be situated in the CNGS beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso laboratory , will be reported. A survey on the physics performance will be given and the physics plan in 2006 will be presented.

This paper presents an optical music recognition (OMR) system to process the handwritten musical scores of Kunqu Opera written in Gong-Che Notation (GCN). First, it introduces the background of Kunqu Opera and GCN. Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest forms of musical activity, spanning the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and GCN has been the most popular notation for recording musical works in ...

AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of the debate on quality assurance in nonprofit organizations (Chaffee and Sherr, 1993) and growing economic constraints on nonprofit professional opera companies (Coe, 1994), the issue of measuring artistic performance in opera companies comes to the fore. The management literature has explicitly discussed quality and quality management since the end of the 1980s (Hackma...

Advances in genetic research have created the need to inform consumers.Yet, the communication of hereditary risk and of the options for how to deal with it is a difficult task. Due to the abstract nature of genetics, people tend to overestimate or underestimate their risk. This paper addresses the issue of how to communicate risk information on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer through an on...

This short feature describes a project to create an online opera which deploys a new web technology, the Syzygy Surfer, developed in the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University. The project is a collaboration between the IOCT and The Opera Group.

OPERA(Oscillation Project with EmulsiontRacking Apparatus) is a new detector concept, iron(lead)emulsion for a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. This experiment would perform an appearance search for υμ−υτ oscillation in the parameter region indicated by the atmospheric neutrino anomaly. OPERA can run at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in the proposed NGS (Neutrino to Gran Sasso) Beam fr...

ISTI-CNR (National Research Council), Area della Ricerca del C.N.R., Via Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy [email protected], [email protected] Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST) University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova, Italy [email protected] CNIT (Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications) – University of Genova Research U...