105 research outputs found
Capoeira Connections A Memoir in Motion
No full textThis ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski's thirty years of experience as a capoeirista
Comparison of drama The Storm and libretto to opera Katya Kabanova
Full text link(in English): The topic of this thesis is The Comparison of Drama The Storm by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky and Libretto to Opera Katya Kabanová by composer Leoš Janáček. It summarises the creation, the premiere and the reception of both pieces of art, shortly describes the story, the main characters of the original work of art. Then, the thesis studies the circumstances of the creation of libretto, seeks the answer to the question why Leoš Janáček chose to write an opera based on drama The Storm. The main target of the thesis is the comparison of the story and the characters of both pieces of art with the focus on main character Katya Kabanová. In the end, the thesis tries to answer the questions why the libretto was changed as opposed to the original piece of art, what was the meaning of those changes and what influenced the author to make them
Therapeutic ranges of Viscum album
No full textIntroduction: Phytotherapy is a method for prevention and treatment in the initial stages of many diseases. There are still many herbs whose medicinal properties are not sufficiently studied and applied in the pharmaceutical industry.Aim: To present the positive effects of treatment with the medicinal plant Viscum album (mistletoe); to study what part of the population today uses herbs as a method of treatment and to inform about the various effects of Mistletoe.Methods: An inquiry among people of different ages was conducted and the data was processed; different sources were used to gather information about the researched topic and certain publications in recent years were selected and summarized.Results: The therapeutic properties of viscum are known and used in folk medicine for many years. Phytopreparations are more easily used and do not cause toxic changes in the body. However, much of the population today does not know the actions of viscum on the body.Conclusion: By correct application in the treatment of disease or prevention, viscum not only heals, but also strengthens the body as a whole
Being and Becoming: Children as Audiences
No full textIn this article, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow examine the ways in which performing arts companies and arts policy institutions perceive the needs of children as audiences. Historically, children have been promoted as arts audiences. Some of these represent an attempt to fashion the adults of the future – as audiences, citizens of a nation, or members of a specific community. Other rationales focus on the needs or rights of the child, such as educational goals or the provision of an antidote to the perceived corrupting effect of electronic entertainment. Drawing on interviews with performing arts practitioners, the authors explore some of these themes through case studies of three children's theatre companies, identifying the development of policy rationales for the support of practices directed at children which are primarily based on pedagogical principles. The case studies reveal a shift away from educational goals for children's theatre, and identify a new emphasis on the importance of valuing children's aesthetic choices, examining how these trends are enacted within the case-study organizations, and the implications of these trends for company programming. Hilary Glow is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Arts Management Program at Deakin University, Victoria. She has published articles on cultural policy and the audience experience in various journals, and in a monograph on Australian political theatre (2007). Katya Johanson lectures and researches in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She has published on Australian cultural policy and on the relationship between art, politics and national identity. With Glow she is the author of a monograph on Australian indigenous performing arts (2009).</jats:p
The school: A place for children’s creativity?
No full textThis paper will discuss children's creativity as a special kind of giftedness and as a prerequisite for full development of children's potentialities. It will especially focus on school effects on children's creative development. It is assumed that one of the most powerful ways in which a culture encourages or discourages creativity is the way by which teachers and the school reward or punish certain personality characteristics as they develop in children and manifest themselves in children's behaviour.
This presentation summarises the experience the author has in studying children's creative thinking abilities and teachers' attitudes towards children's creativity in the Bulgarian educational and cultural context. The empirical data to be examined come from research concerned with 1) self-concept, motivation and values of secondary students with outstanding achievements in the arts and sciences; 2) development and evaluation of children's creative abilities as they are measured by Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking; 3) teachers' perception of the Ideal Pupil and its relation to creative personality traits. Conclusions will be drawn with respect to the following questions: What aspects of children's creativity are supported and what is neglected in the regular classroom setting? What kind of creative abilities are to be most easily misidentified? How teachers' lay conceptions of creativity influence children's creative behaviour
Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space
No full textIn “Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space: Homelessness in Ilichevsky’s Matisse,” Katya Jordan examines Aleksandr Ilichevsky’s conceptualization of homelessness as a state of existential not belonging that beset the author himself and others of his generation when the Soviet system collapsed in the early 1990s. The novel’s protagonist attempts to mitigate his metaphorical homelessness by choosing to embrace actual homelessness and to use it as “part of a flight to a deeper awareness” (Widmer); yet Jordan also shows that the type of homelessness that Ilichevsky depicts draws on the Russian spiritual tradition of strannichestvo, the kind of wandering that allows one to leave the secular world behind in pursuit of a spiritual destination, never to return to either the physical or the spiritual point of origin. By bringing into the discussion the writings of Dostoevsky, Berdyaev, and Ioann Lestvichnik, Jordan shows that although homelessness in Matisse has lost its religious underpinnings, it nevertheless remains primarily a spiritual concept that allows an individual to break free from the mass society one is living in.</jats:p
Being and becoming : children as audiences
No full textIn this article, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow examine the ways in which performing arts companies and arts policy institutions perceive the needs of children as audiences. Historically, children have been promoted as arts audiences. Some of these represent an attempt to fashion the adults of the future – as audiences, citizens of a nation, or members of a specific community. Other rationales focus on the needs or rights of the child, such as educational goals or the provision of an antidote to the perceived corrupting effect of electronic entertainment. Drawing on interviews with performing arts practitioners, the authors explore some of these themes through case studies of three children's theatre companies, identifying the development of policy rationales for the support of practices directed at children which are primarily based on pedagogical principles. The case studies reveal a shift away from educational goals for children's theatre, and identify a new emphasis on the importance of valuing children's aesthetic choices, examining how these trends are enacted within the case-study organizations, and the implications of these trends for company programming. Hilary Glow is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Arts Management Program at Deakin University, Victoria. She has published articles on cultural policy and the audience experience in various journals, and in a monograph on Australian political theatre (2007). Katya Johanson lectures and researches in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She has published on Australian cultural policy and on the relationship between art, politics and national identity. With Glow she is the author of a monograph on Australian indigenous performing arts (2009)
Capoeira Connections: A Memoir in Motion
No full textOriginating in the Black Atlantic world as a fusion of dance and martial art, capoeira was a marginalized practice for much of its history. Today it is globally popular. This ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski’s thirty years of experience as a capoeirista.
Capoeira Connections follows Wesolowski’s journey from novice to instructor while drawing on her decades of research as an anthropologist in Brazil, Angola, Europe, and the United States. In a story of local practice and global flow, Wesolowski offers an intimate portrait of the game and what it means in people’s lives. She reveals camaraderie and conviviality in the capoeira ring as well as tensions and ruptures involving race, gender, and competing claims over how this artful play should be practiced. Capoeira brings people together and yet is never free of histories of struggle, and these too play out in the game’s encounters.
In her at once clear-sighted and hopeful analysis, Wesolowski ultimately argues that capoeira offers opportunities for connection, dialogue, and collaboration in a world that is increasingly fractured. In doing so, capoeira can transform lives, create social spheres, and shape mobile futures.</p
Country specific predictions of the cost-effectiveness of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 in endemic Africa
Full text linkAbstractBackgroundRTS,S/AS01 is a safe and moderately efficacious vaccine considered for implementation in endemic Africa. Model predictions of impact and cost-effectiveness of this new intervention could aid in country adoption decisions.MethodsThe impact of RTS,S was assessed in 43 countries using an ensemble of models of Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology. Informed by the 32months follow-up data from the phase 3 trial, vaccine effectiveness was evaluated at country levels of malaria parasite prevalence, coverage of control interventions and immunization. Benefits and costs of the program incremental to routine malaria control were evaluated for a four dose schedule: first dose administered at six months, second and third - before 9months, and fourth dose at 27months of age. Sensitivity analyses around vaccine properties, transmission, and economic inputs were conducted.ResultsIf implemented in all 43 countries the vaccine has the potential to avert 123 (117;129) million malaria episodes over the first 10years. Burden averted averages 18,413 (range of country median estimates 156–40,054) DALYs per 100,000 fully vaccinated children with much variation across settings primarily driven by differences in transmission intensity. At a price of 39.8 per fully vaccinated child with a median cost-effectiveness ratio of 78–136 (range 220) - in settings where parasite prevalence in children aged 2–10years is at or above 10%.ConclusionRTS,S/AS01has the potential to substantially reduce malaria burden in children across Africa. Conditional on assumptions on price, coverage, and vaccine properties, adding RTS,S to routine malaria control interventions would be highly cost-effective. Implementation decisions will need to further consider feasibility of scaling up existing control programs, and operational constraints in reaching children at risk with the schedule
Revising an institutional open access policy to reserve the right to apply a Creative Commons License to dissertations and author accepted manuscript versions of peer-reviewed articles
No full textIn 2003, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) implemented the world's first university-wide open access mandate. This policy, which required the deposit of higher degree research theses and author accepted manuscripts of peer reviewed articles, has played a significant role in the success of QUT's open access repository, QUT ePrints. In 2018, QUT revised its open access policy in what is perhaps another world's first. This strategic policy aims to increase the proportion of repository content made available under a Creative Commons license, facilitating greater use and impact of QUT's research outputs. Previously, most author accepted manuscript files downloaded from QUT's repository carried no license information. This revised policy asserts that author accepted manuscripts will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) license, and higher degree by research theses (dissertations) will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial NoDerivative (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. This action is supported by the University's Intellectual Property Policy which reserves some rights with respect to works created by staff in the course of their employment. QUT's revised policy aligns with trends in funding body requirements in regards to open access requirements, and represents a new approach to knowledge discovery and dissemination
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