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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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FOLKLORE MOTIFS IN PIANO MUSIC FOR CHILDREN BY ANATOLY KOLOMIETS
The article examines certain aspects of the work of the Ukrainian composer Anatoly Kolomiyets. It was found that the composer quite often turned to the use of folklore elements in piano works for young people, in particular in the album “Selected works for piano”.
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Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
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Unsupervised motifs detection in handwritten music scores
This thesis is part of the data mining applied to ancient handwritten music scores and aims at a search for frequent melodic or rhythmic motifs defined as repetitive note sequences with characteristic properties. There are a large number of possible variations of motifs: transpositions, inversions and so-called "mirror" motifs.
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Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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“B. A. C. H. - MISSAL FOR ORGAN”, BY EDUARD TERÉNYI
B. A. C. H. missal for the organ op. 4 (1967) constitutes the prototype of the creation period of the 62s – 72s that is considered by the maestro Eduard Terényi to be “constructivist” or “the crystal music”, that is characterized through symmetry ...
Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN
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ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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