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New horizons in print: A synthesis of primary sources
Authors: Dabback William , Coffman Don D. , Rohwer Debbie 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Over the past 25 years the New Horizons International Music Association (NHIMA) has grown from its roots as a local programme in Rochester, New York, to an international organization that comprises more than 200 programmes touching thousands of participants in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. The organization’s unique mission and older adult population have offered expanded opportunities for research, but no review has exclusively focused on the literature related to New Horizons music populations. The authors identified 64 articles, book chapters and dissertations that have investigated questions related to participation in these programmes. They categorized the NHIMA-based publications into three overarching strands: (1) research literature from research journals (n=35), dissertations (n=12), book chapters and conference proceedings (n=10), (2) articles for practitioners from periodicals such as the Music Educators Journal and the Instrumentalist (n=7) and (3) semi-annual newsletters published by NHIMA from 2004 to 2016. This review focused on the research articles, dissertations and the newsletters. A consideration of studies offered insights into who has been researched and the programmes in which they participate. Psychosocial constructs have emerged as integral to New Horizons research and comprise the roles and nature of social interaction, identity formation, motivation and perceived musical, social and health benefits. Finally, an analysis of studies that have investigated pedagogical concerns revealed trends, best practices, resources and approaches that New Horizons programmes have utilized over the last quarter of a century.
Teacher, group, self: Music teaching and learning in two New Horizons ensembles
Authors: Tsugawa Samuel 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
This article presents a study investigating music teaching and learning among members of two senior adult music ensembles. This study employed a qualitative multiple case-study design in which members of a New Horizons band and orchestra located in two different cities were observed and interviewed over a period of several months. Video recordings of embedded observations, verbatim interview transcripts of sixteen participants and personal journal entries of two members served as primary data sources. Analysis of the data revealed members’ preferred attributes of effective conductor-teachers, their motivation to participate in group music making and how members engaged in music making and learning as individuals. Findings of this study suggest implications for research and practice that deal with: (1) understanding effective and appropriate strategies on how to teach senior adult musicians; (2) providing increased opportunities for music learning and participation among senior adults; (3) expanding the current music teacher education curriculum to include teaching adult musicians; and (4) the growth and future of the New Horizons movement.
Music in a new key: The sociocultural impact of the New Horizons Band programme and its relationship to Baltes’ Selective Optimization with Compensation Model
Authors: Glen Nancy L. 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
The New Horizons Band programme was developed by Roy Ernst to provide entry or re-entry points for active older adults to play a band instrument in an ensemble of their peers over the age of 50. While a body of research has been completed regarding a variety of aspects of the programme and its members, the research described in this article addresses two additional components. It seeks to determine what members do to remain active players within the group in relation to the Baltes’ Selection, Optimization and Compensation (SOC) Model (1990), and what social benefits and sense of belonging members receive through their participation in the group. These are revealed through two measures, along with band members’ demographic information and responses to a series of questions focused on these ideas. The study group was approximately 60 members of a New Horizons Band in Northern Colorado. Data reveal a picture of older adults who are successfully addressing challenges in playing a musical instrument as they age, through compensatory behaviours. Members offer personal statements, describing a strong sense of belonging, purpose and meaning through their involvement in the group.
An investigation into current practices and participation in New Horizons chamber music
Authors: Talbert Matthew D. , Edelman Philip B. 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this descriptive study was to gather data to ascertain current trends in chamber music participation in older-adult ensembles. Directors (N=61) of ensembles belonging to the New Horizons International Music Association (NHIMA) served as participants in this study. Using an electronic survey instrument to collect responses, the researchers gathered information on chamber music practices within the context of the NHIMA ensemble of which the respondent was the director. Results suggest that less than half of the New Horizons ensembles currently incorporate a chamber music component into their programme. Further analysis revealed the manner in which chamber ensembles were structured, common rehearsal practices and the perceived impediments to the implementation of chamber music into a NHIMA group. The authors use these results to recommend the investigation of different chamber music models within NHIMA contexts to try and identify approaches that work, given the disparate needs of each individual NHIMA organization.
Tilt Brush painting: Chronotopic adventures in a physical-virtual threshold
Authors: Chittenden Tara 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
New forms of technology such as Virtual Reality (VR) bring visible changes to the temporal-spatial structures used to represent information and contribute towards a rethinking of the vocabularies of spatiality and spatial experience in painting practice. The History of Painting encompasses a range of techniques intended to create visual 3D illusions from a 2D plane. Virtual technologies present an opportunity to rethink the conventional structures and materials in the discipline of painting, forcing a reconsideration of paintings in, and as, space to be explored. VR painting app, Tilt Brush, enables users to create 3D imagery via a simple controller that mimics the gestures of painting, materializing a range of brushes, colours and paint effects. Tilt Brush paintings call not only on different making practices but also means of viewing and reading. In this article I draw on Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope to interrogate how time and space are arranged to constitute the practice of Tilt Brush painting and as a means to understanding the experience of a VR canvas as a space existing both outside and inside a tangible environment. Rethinking notions of time and space in and around VR painting presents the opportunity to disrupt a representational logic and to consider the embodied relationship of painter to painting as a means of producing and probing the threshold between the physical and the virtual in VR painting.
Book reviews
Authors: Janssen E. Das , DeAnda Michael Anthony , Watlington Emily 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, Matthew Heinz (2016) Chicago: Intellect, 300 pp., ISBN: 9781783205684, h/bk, $71.66
Queer Game Studies, Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw (eds) (2017) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 336 pp., ISBN: 9781517900366, h/bk, $108.00; ISBN: 9781517900373, p/bk, $27.00
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art, Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe (eds) (2017) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 296 pp., ISBN: 9780295742007, h/bk, $90.00; ISBN: 9780295741376, p/bk, $40.00
‘This Burning Desire is Turning Me to Sin’: The intrapersonal sexual struggles of two Disney singing villains
Authors: McGill Craig M. 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Using a typological approach to villain characteristics and functions, this article examines two Disney singing villains: Gaston (Beauty and the Beast [Trousdale and Wise, 1991]) and Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Trousdale and Wise, 1996]). Both characters face incongruence between private and public identities, hold high social standings in their respective communities and are narcissistic, stopping at nothing to get what they feel is owed to them. Each is framed in a monster/man dichotomy, socially superior, but morally and ethically inferior to the male protagonist of the film. Their songs are used to position them, characterize their inner struggles and provide a gateway into their inner complexities, especially as contrasted to their male protagonist counterparts who sing less than they do.
Information Security of Russia in the Digital Economy: The Economic and Legal Aspects
Authors: FROLOVA Evgenia Evgenevna , POLYAKOVA Tatyana Anatolevna , DUDIN Mihail Nikolaevich , RUSAKOVA Ekaterina Petrovna , KUCHERENKO Petr Aleksandrovich 
Published: September 2018

Contemporary realities dictate that technologization, digitalization (transition of the economy and the social sector to digital technologies of functioning and interaction) and the national intellectual capital are the basic competitive advantages of the country that require proper information security. An information security system is a set of corporate rules, standards of work and procedures for ensuring information security formed based on the audit of the company's information system, and the analysis of existing security risks in accordance with requirements of the regulatory documents of the Russian Federation and the provisions of the standards in the field of information security. It is especially important for Russian companies actively interacting with foreign partners. In addressing the problem of information security, the development of the company's unified information security policy occupies a leading place; therefore, this article will be devoted to consideration of these issues.
The authors of the present study proceed from the objective-subjective predetermination of any phenomena and processes of the external world. In this format, the study is based on general scientific methods: systematic analysis and generalization of normative and practical materials; formal and dialectical logic: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, hypotheses, analogies; and special methods of legal research: comparative-legal and historical-legal, system analysis and interpretation of legal norms.
Based on the analysis, the following conclusions have been made: currently, the most important direction of the national economy development is the protection of vital human and social interests, the key element of which is information security. This study represents the development of a scientific overview of the modern ways to ensure information security in both applied and legal contexts. This article underlines and examines the problems and economic legal features of ensuring information security in Russia. These materials can be used both in preparation of other scientific research and in the development of guidance documents by the power structures.
Problems and Prospects of Regulation of Water Resources of the Aral Sea Basin
Authors: MUSABEKOV Kambar , NURASHEVA Kulyanda , MERGENBAYEVA Aziza 
Published: September 2018

The purpose of the study is to analyze the causes of economic, social and environmental tensions in the development of the Central Asian countries of the Aral Sea basin.
Using the method of economic and geographical research allowed identifying the problems of the region, the causes of depletion of water resources. Although the water-energy and resource potential is sufficient, there is a water deficit due to the irrational use of trans boundary rivers.
As a result of the analysis of global competitiveness and innovation of economies, these countries are classified as the poorest. Measures are proposed for environmental sustainability and biological productivity of the Aral Sea ecosystem.
It is recommended to conduct a full analysis of the legal framework on the Aral Sea basin, inventory of existing legal instruments with a view to eliminating contradictions and discrepancies in the implementation of development programs for the Central Asian region.
Skuteczne wspieranie Innego – rozważania nad uwarunkowaniami rozwoju zespołów terapeutycznych
Authors: Konieczna Iwona , Smolińska Katarzyna 
Published: September 2018

This paper will try to present developmental determinants multi specialist therapeutic teams which support people with disability (multi and trans disciplinary models of therapeutic teams).Developmental analysis of therapeutic teams will include formal, legal, organizational and theoretical aspects (basing on Kwiatkowski professional competences development theory).
Fiscal counter-cyclicality and productive investment: evidence from advanced economies
Authors: Furceri Davide , Jalles João Tovar 
Published: September 2018

AbstractWe use a difference-in-difference approach to 25 industries for 18 advanced economies over the period 1985–2012 to examine the effect of fiscal counter-cyclicality on productive investment: (i) Research and Development (R&D), and (ii) Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The results show that fiscal counter-cyclicality increases R&D expenditure and the share of ICT capital in industries that are more financially constrained. Moreover, the effect is larger during recessions – when financing constraints are more likely to be binding – than during economic expansions. Our statistical method mitigates concerns about omitted variable bias and reverse causality. In addition, the results are robust to different measures of fiscal counter-cyclicality and to the inclusion of several controls.
Evaluating Lean Performance of Indian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Automotive Sector
Authors: Tiwari Rupesh Kumar , Tiwari Jeetendra Kumar 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Under new “make in India policy” India has started to become global manufacturing hub and many Indian organizations are looking to implement lean philosophy to gain sustainable strategic benefits over others. Therefore, a need was felt to develop comprehensive lean evaluation system for Indian automotive small & medium sized enterprises in order to measure its present lean status and potential improvements to gain significant strategic advantages. Research started with the identification of various lean factors and associated sub factors through literature survey. Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process was applied to assign weight to various extracted lean factors and sub factors because of its evident merits. Fuzzy comprehensive analysis was applied to assess present status of Indian automotive small and medium sized enterprises, where lean does not practice. Lean performance of Indian automotive small & medium sized enterprises was ascertained as poor. The proposed model could be useful to guiding the Indian automotive small and medium sized enterprises in judicial selection of lean practices to gain significant sustainable strategic advantage over its competitors. Novelty of this research is to emerge from the development of comprehensive lean measurement model for Indian small and medium sized enterprises in automotive sector.
Effects of zinc acetate and cucurbit[6]uril on PP composites: crystallization behavior, foaming performance and mechanical properties
Authors: Zhou Yuhui , He Li , Gong Wei 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
In this study, polypropylene (PP) foams were prepared with 1.0 wt% of cucurbit[6]uril (Q[6]), zinc acetate (Zn(Ac)2), Zn@Q[6] (a supramolecular compound synthesized from Q[6] and Zn(Ac)2), or a mixture of Zn(Ac)2 and Q[6] (weight ratio of 1:1) through injection molding in the presence of a chemical blowing agent, azodicarbonamide. The effect of the additions on the crystallization behavior and foaming performance of PP and the mechanical characterizations of the foaming samples were determined. The results showed that the additions can change the crystallization type from homogeneous to heterogeneous, increase the crystallization rate and shrink the size but increase the density of spherulites. Among the additions, Q[6] most significantly altered the crystallization properties. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images revealed that the PP foaming performance can be improved by Zn(Ac)2 addition at a lower temperature (175°C); however, further increasing the temperature had an undesirable effect. Q[6] exhibited the optimum foaming improvement effect on PP in a wide temperature range (175–195°C). Adding nanoparticles also enhanced the tensile properties, flexural strength and impact strength of foaming PP at low temperatures. However, with increasing temperature, the poor cell structure demonstrated undesirable effects in terms of tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength.
MiR-128/SOX7 alleviates myocardial ischemia injury by regulating IL-33/sST2 in acute myocardial infarction
Authors: Yang Jinhua , Hu Fudong , Fu Xin , Jiang Zhengming , Zhang Wencai , Chen Kui 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) induced by ischemia hypoxia severely threatens human life. Cell apoptosis of neurocytes was identified to mediate the pathogenesis, while the potential mechanism was still unclear. Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were used to establish the AMI rat model. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Western blot were performed to detect gene expression in mRNA and protein levels, respectively. A TUNEL assay was carried out to determine cell apoptosis. The relationship between SRY-related HMG-box (SOX7) and miR-128 was verified using luciferase reporter assay. The expression of SOX7 was decreased, while miR-128 was increased in AMI rats and ischemia hypoxia (IH) induced H9c2 cells. Hypoxia induction significantly promoted the expression of interleukin (IL)-33 and soluble ST2 (sST2), and also promoted cell apoptosis. MiR-128 targets SOX7 to regulate its expression. Down-regulated miR-128 reversed the effects of IH on expression of SOX7, sST2 and cell apoptosis, while down-regulated sST2 abolished the effects of miR-128 inhibitor. In addition, overexpressed IL-33 abolished the effects of miR-128 inhibitor that induced by IH on the expression of SOX7 and cell apoptosis. In vivo experiments validated the expression of miR-128 on cell apoptosis. The present study indicated that miR-128 modulated cell apoptosis by targeting SOX7, which was mediated by IL-33/sST2 signaling pathway.
SIAH1/ZEB1/IL-6 axis is involved in doxorubicin (Dox) resistance of osteosarcoma cells
Authors: Han Xiuxin , Liu Fengting , Zhang Chao , Ren Zhiwu , Li Lili , Wang Guowen 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Osteosarcoma (OS) patients often exhibit pulmonary metastasis, which results in high patient mortality. Our present study established the doxorubicin (Dox) resistant human OS MG-63 and HOS cells and named them MG-63/Dox and HOS/Dox, respectively. The Dox resistant OS cells had greater invasion ability than that of parental cells. The expression of ZEB1, while not FOXM1, Snail, HIF-1α, or Sp1, was significantly increased in Dox resistant OS cells. Silencing of ZEB1 can attenuate the metastasis and increase Dox sensitivity of MG-63/Dox and HOS/Dox cells. The upregulation of ZEB1 can increase of the expression of interlukin-6 (IL-6). Anti-IL-6 inhibited the invasion and increase the Dox sensitivity of MG-63/Dox and HOS/Dox cells. There was no significant difference of ZEB1 mRNA between Dox resistant and control cells. The upregulation of ZEB1 in Dox resistant OS cells can be attributed to the increase of protein half-life. This was confirmed by results that the inhibitor of proteasomal degradation can increase ZEB1 in Dox resistant OS cells. Over expression of SIAH1 can inhibit the expression of ZEB1 and increase the Dox sensitivity of MG-63/Dox and HOS/Dox cells. Collectively, we confirmed that SIAH1 induced ZEB1 is involved in the Dox resistance of OS cells.
Production of Iron Based Alloys from Mill Scale through Metallothermic Reduction
Authors: Bugdayci Mehmet , Alkan Murat , Turan Ahmet , Yücel Onuralp 
Published: September 2018

AbstractMill scale (MS) has a potential to use as an iron source because of its high iron content. MS mainly consists of a mixture of iron oxides, metallic iron and other base metal oxides. MS is formed on the surfaces of steel ingots during continuous casting as a waste material. In this study, the use of MS as an iron source for the production of carbon-free iron containing alloys (unalloyed iron, Fe-Ni, Fe-Cr-Ni, Fe-Cr-Ni-Mo) via a metallothermic reduction process was investigated. Thermodynamic calculations and the experimental studies were performed on the basis of 100 g of MS. The effects of different stoichiometric amounts of MS and aluminum (Al) powders (as reductant) were investigated for the production of unalloyed Fe. While, different amount of metal oxide ratios and their effects on metal recoveries, compositions and microstructure of final alloys were studied during Fe-based alloys production. The highest iron recovery during unalloyed Fe production was obtained as 95.14 % by using 100 g of MS and 100 % stoichiometric Al (28.6 g) containing mixture. In Fe-based alloys production series, the highest metal recovery values were reached up to 95.0 % for Fe, 95.1 % for Ni, 68.3 % for Cr and 77.2 % for Mo, respectively.
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Analysis of Thermal Decomposition of Deodar (Cedrus Deodara) Saw Dust and Rice Husk as Potential Feedstock for Pyrolysis
Authors: Rasool Tanveer , Srivastava Vimal Chandra , Khan M. N. S. 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
A comparative study on thermal analysis of two waste biomass materials of Kashmir namely deodar (Cedrus deodara) saw dust (DSD) and rice husk (RH), was carried out at different heating rates of 10, 25, 50 and 100 °C min−1 in air and nitrogen atmospheres. The onset, peak and burnout temperatures and rates of decomposition of components were determined and compared to understand the combustion and pyrolysis kinetics of selected biomass materials using iso-conversional Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) and Ozawa-Flynn-Wall (OFW) models. The kinetic parameters calculated were in turn used to calculate the changes in thermodynamic parameters, the enthalpy (ΔH), the Gibbs free energy (ΔG) and the entropy (ΔS). The physicochemical characterisation was carried out by elemental analyser and FTIR spectroscopy. The average activation energy values for RH were found to be 107.6 and 101.2 kJ mol−1 in air atmosphere and 85.5 and 92.1 kJ mol−1 in nitrogen atmosphere based on KAS and OFW models, respectively. The activation energy for DSD on the other hand was found to be 89.9 and 95.3 kJ mol−1 in air, 179.2 and 180.6 kJ mol−1 under nitrogen atmosphere based on KAS and OFW models, respectively. The heating values of the two biomasses (~ 10 to16 MJ kg−1) and Gibbs free energy values (between 165 to 176 kJ mol−1) indicate that the selected biomass can not only prove to be potential feedstock for pyrolysis but also can become a useful source of energy and chemicals.