Jokasta: Transnational Performance by Balinese Artists

Jokasta is a new creation (kreasi baru) by the Balinese choreographer and dancer Ni Madé Pujawati and the Balinese composer I Nengah Susila. It was performed by the London-based Gamelan Lila Cita and Lila Bhawa Dancers in October and November 2012. This article by Margaret Coldiron is part of an ongoing study of the transnational and transcultural work of these Southeast Asian artists

Senior Recital, Evan Coldiron, bass baritone

The presentation of this senior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Evan Coldiron studies voice with Michelle Harman-Gulick

Kathy Foley

Kathy Foley is a distinguished scholar, performer, and director based at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she has also taught at the University of Hawai‘i, Chulalonkorn University, Yonsei University, and the University of Malaya. A specialist in wayang golek puppetry of Sunda (West Java), she has also published widely on a diverse range of performance forms from all over Southeast Asia as well as India, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. She has written and directed plays and operas and curated exhibitions of masks, puppets, and performing objects and has been the editor of Asian Theatre Journal since 2004

Women in Balinese Topeng: Voices, Reflections, and Interactions

This article charts the increasing involvement of women performers in Balinese topeng (mask dance) and emerged from discussions and emails among the authors. Following an overview explaining women’s traditional absence from this form and noting the pioneering women who have been at the forefront of change, the authors discuss how, as non-Balinese female performers and researchers, they discovered that they shared many similar stories, curiosities, and challenges relating to their training and experiences. Their insights provide a detailed picture of some important issues for women in Asian theatre

Novel approaches to the construction of miniaturized analytical instrumentation

This paper focuses on the design, construction, preliminary testing, and potential applications of three forms of miniaturized analytical instrumentation. The first is an optical fiber instrument for monitoring pH and other cations in aqueous solutions. The instrument couples chemically selective indicators that were immobilized at porous polymeric films with a hardware package that provides the excitation light source, required optical components, and detection and data processing hardware. The second is a new form of a piezoelectric mass sensor. The sensor was fabricated by the deposition of a thin (5.5 micron) film of piezoelectric aluminum nitride (AIN). The completed deposition process yields a thin film resonator (TFR) that is shaped as a 400 micron square and supports a standing bulk acoustic wave in a longitudinal mode at frequencies of approx. 1 GHz. Various deposition and vapor sorption studies indicate that the mass sensitivity of the TFR's rival those of the most sensitive mass sensors currently available, though offering such performance in a markedly smaller device. The third couples a novel form of liquid chromatography with microlithographic miniaturization techniques. The status of the miniaturization effort, the goal of which is to achieve chip-scale separations, is briefly discussed

Smartphone Detector

There is a wide variety of times when it is unacceptable to be using a smartphone, and this device could help to minimize when people are using their devices. People have become more and more reliant on their various pieces of technology such as their smartphones, and are often using them when they should be paying attention in class, attending an important meeting, watching a movie, or should just be present to their other surroundings. A device that could detect the use of smartphones at these inopportune times would be something that would benefit a wide variety of people. The goal of this project is to build a smartphone detector that is capable of detecting nearby smartphones that are using different features. The capability of this will be to alert the user of the smartphone detector if a nearby phone is making a call or text message within a certain radius of the user. This could also be further developed to allow for the detection of different applications such as recording applications or other targeted applications. Some possible applications for this detector would include locating lost smartphones that are nearby, detecting unauthorized use of smartphones in classroom settings, or detecting unwanted recordings or videotaping. It has a wide variety of uses and could be a useful tool as the world moves more and more virtual. Some of the cool features of this device will include a dial to adjust the detection radius, a user interface that will indicate the different types of signals that are being detected by the device, and other personalized touches to ensure that the device is as user-friendly and useful as possible. This is a valuable tool that could be widely used and appreciated for all of the services that it provides

THE INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF A TEXT MESSAGE INTERVENTION AND CONNECTIVITY AMONG RURAL ADOLESCENTS

Social cohesion among peers profoundly influences decision making during adolescence. Despite this, the current research is very limited concerning the association of social cohesion and intimacy among rural adolescent peers with dietary intake and weight outcomes. This is problematic because social cohesion could be an unknown contributing factor in obesity among rural adolescents. The purpose of this study was to investigate how social cohesion and intimacy among rural adolescents in Kentucky and North Carolina affects the outcomes of a text message intervention aimed at improving fruit, vegetable, fast food and sugar sweetened beverage intake. Additionally, to determine if social cohesion is an independent contributing factor to dietary intakes and weight outcomes among rural adolescents. It was found that the intervention had no effect on fruit and vegetable consumption and purchases and sugar sweetened beverage calories. However, the intervention did have a modest effect on the amount of times fast food was consumed per week