Selectively cancelling signals at specific locations within an acoustical environment with multiple listeners is of significant importance for home theater, automobile, teleconferencing, office, industrial and other applications. We have proposed the eigenfilter for selectively cancelling signals in one direction, while attempting to retain them at unintentional directions. In this paper we inv...

u nderstanding t he e lements or s tructural c onstituents of t he m odern t heater is not e nough. it s hould be e xamined t hrough a m ethod according to which the characteristics of modern theater are harmonized and lead to an organized system. hence, the elements can only be understood through the whole body. this paper tries to achieve some results about the modern theater through a struct...

Using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. In fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. Children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. In other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Western theater theory and criticism is generally considered to be set forth by the Greeks. Plato was “the first theater critic” with his negative comments about theater owing to his idealistic views about “the truth.” Then came Aristotle who used a different viewpoint from that of Plato, saying that there is “truth” in theater. However, hostile criticism on theater came back in the Middle Ages...

the western symbolism that characterized in france at the late nineteenth century invaded the arabic modern literature and had great effect on development of its forms and genres especially on the theater. actors arose in arab world take principles of symbolism in their productions among them ali oqla orsan who is truly master of writing, presenting and criticism of theater in syria. his symbol...

Methods: Retrospective review of combat theater deployed personnel presenting in theater for mental health treatment were screened for the presence theater limiting mental health conditions that were present prior to combat deployment. Rates were retrospectively established for patients who could be treated in theater (N=511) compared to those that necessitated theater medical evacuation (N=123...

In various social, work-related, or educational contexts, an increasing demand for intelligent assistance systems can be observed. In this paper, we present a domain-independent approach that combines a number of planning and interaction components to realize advanced user assistance. Based on a hybrid planning formalism, the components provide facilities including the generation, execution, an...

In various social, work-related, or educational contexts, an increasing demand for intelligent assistance systems can be observed. In this paper, we present a domain-independent approach that combines a number of planning and interaction components to realize advanced user assistance. Based on a hybrid planning formalism, the components provide facilities including the generation, execution, an...