Arts

Music Educators' Perceptions of Preparation and Supports Available for Inclusion
The purpose of this study was to investigate music educators’ perceptions of their educational preparation and the availability of instructional supports to work with students with disabilities in their classrooms/ensembles. Music educators (N = 1,128) representing all 50 United States resp...


The Influence of Tonal and Atonal Contexts on Error Detection Accuracy
Music education students (N = 21) at a university in the southeastern United States took an error detection test that had been designed for this study to determine the effects of tonal contexts versus atonal contexts on the ability to detect performance errors. The investigator composed 16 melodi...
Is It the Music or Is It Selection Bias? A Nationwide Analysis of Music and Non-Music Students' SAT Scores
This study examined the college entrance examination scores of music and non-music students in the United States, drawing data from the restricted-use data set of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS), a nationally representative education study (N = 15,630) conducted by the National Cen...
Conditions That Facilitate Music Learning Among Students With Special Needs: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to identify and define the conditions that facilitate learning in music among students with special needs. Children with special needs met once a week for 10 consecutive weeks and received instruction in primarily music as well as the other arts. The ch...
Low-pH and Aluminum Resistance in Arabidopsis Correlates with High Cytosolic Magnesium Content and Increased Magnesium Uptake by Plant Roots
Low-pH stress and Al3+ toxicity affect root growth in acid soils. It was hypothesized that the capacity of genotypes to maintain Mg2+ uptake in acidic environments may contribute to low-pH and Al resistance, but explicit evidence is lacking. In this work, an Al-resistant alr104 mutant and two Al-...
LcSAIN1, a novel salt-induced gene from sheepgrass, confers salt stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis and rice
Previously, we identified more than 1,500 genes that were induced by high salt stress in sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis, Gramineae: Triticeae) when comparing the changes in their transcription levels in response to high salt stress by next-generation sequencing. Among the identified genes, a gene o...


A Performance e o Filme: da Fluxus à Performance Digital
This is an historic contextualization of the relation between performance and technology in an incursion through the ways in which media – film, video, computer – where integrated in performance through the second half of the 20th century. From John Cage to Fluxus Films through Nam June Paik,...
As Iniciativas Legislativas Europeias em Matéria de Promoção da Sociedade da Informação
This paper aims to present the initiatives of European authorities, particularly the European Commission, regarding the promotion of information society in its various areas: development of telematic networks, online security, online privacy, promotion of electronic commerce, inclusiveness and co...
Da Inadaptação do Memorando de Entendimento ao Direito Laboral Português
The Portuguese Government, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Specific Economic Policy Conditionality on May 17th 2011, in the context of Portugal’s request for financial aid. This agreement includes the...
A Escrita do Outro Mundo e o Outro Mundo da Escrita: Chico Xavier, o filme
A discussão proposta resgata elementos que permitiriam uma abordagem da obra de Francisco Candido Xavier enquanto fenômeno de escrita, e até mesmo de escrita literária. Tal resgate é feito a partir de uma análise crítica da cinebiografia do psicógrafo mineiro, realizada por Daniel Filho. ...
O "umwelt" da Capoeira Angola
A partir de uma perspectiva co-evolutiva do corpo com o seu ambiente, este texto busca aproximar certas questões em torno da experiência corporal que acontece na capoeira angola em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Este ensaio propõe a idéia de Umwelt (UEXKULL, 1992) para pensar o ‘universo particul...


The Spread of English in Portugal: A Contribution to an Understanding of the Phenomenon
This study investigates some aspects of the spread of English in Portugal, a country situated in South West Europe.  An indication of the increasing use of English in Portugal was provided by comparing the frequency of English loanwords in two newspapers from 1989 and 2009 and an indication of h...
À Volta d´O Movimento das Coisas - conversa com Manuela Serra
Este texto é uma actualização da conversa com Manuela Serra, anteriormente publicada em Cineastas Portuguesas 1874-1956 – conversas com [.], e editada por ocasião do ciclo Cineastas Portuguesas 1946-2000, que decorreu no Fórum Lisboa em Janeiro de 2001, numa produção e edição da CML. A...
Nanoarte - 200 Milhões de Anos: Árvore Pedra
Esta é a primeira parte de uma trilogia: semente, árvore, árvore pedra. Os elementos apresentados são árvores brasileiras (tabebuia, Ypê, e Lagerstroemia Indica, Resedá), suas sementes e amostra de uma árvore petrificada com 200 milhões de anos, coletada em Mata, reserva arqueológica no...
Bolsistas da Escola Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro em Munique na Década de 1890
Na década de 1890, artistas brasileiros, na qualidade de bolsistas custeados pela Escola Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, passaram temporadas de estudo na cidade alemã de Munique, um dos mais dinâmicos centros artísticos europeus da segunda metade do século XIX. Configurou-se, assi...