cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review of Sean Gallagher, James Haar, John Nadas, and Timothy Striplin, eds. Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004
Creators: name: Dohoney, Ryan W.
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2003

description: The untimely passing of James McKinnon in 1999 remains a point of great sorrow not only among scholars of medieval liturgy and chant but also among the musicological community at large. The publication of his magnum opus The Advent Project (2000) and subsequent scholarly debate sparked by its provocative history of the composition of Roman Mass Propers have insured that his legacy will remain vital to students of chant and religious studies for decades to come. As Kenneth Levy notes in his contribution to Western Plainchaint, the first millennium was the “Lake Erie of [McKinnon’s] musicological boatings” (231). Beginning with his publication in the first issue of Current Musicology, James McKinnon was a tireless investigator into the music of the Christian liturgy from late antiquity through the early Middle Ages. While his initial work explored the place of instruments within the music of the Christian liturgies of the first millennium (1965), his later work focused on the organization and development of the Roman Mass. In the mid-1980s, McKinnon began ambitious studies into the origins of the Mass Proper. His examination of psalmody in the ancient synagogue argued that psalmody did not have its origins in Jewish practice as thought by earlier scholars such as Peter Wagner (McKinnon 1986). Instead, McKinnon posited a late fourth-century “psalmodic movement” that popularized psalm-singing in monastic communities and led to the formation of the Gradual as psalm-singing became a greater part of both monastic and lay liturgical expression (1987; 1994).
description: Current Musicology, No 76 (2003): Current Musicology
Interpreting Discontinuity in the Late Works of Debussy
Creators: name: Wheeldon, Marianne
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: Many writers have commented upon formal discontinuity in Debussy’s music. Robert Sherlaw Johnson compares this discontinuity to the collage technique of Messiaen (1975:102-03); Robert Orledge describes it as mosaic construction (1982:170); Roy Howat refers to it as a definable system of block construction (1983:23n6); and Robert P. Morgan terms it additive structure (1991:48). Yet these scholars were not the first to take note of disjunction in Debussy’s compositional style. Decades earlier, another group of musicians similarly drew attention to Debussy’s use of discontinuity. The composers of the Darmstadt avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s seized upon Debussy’s works to inspire and legitimize their own formal experiments. Pierre Boulez, Herbert Eimert, Dieter Schnebel, and Karlheinz Stockhausen all acknowledged their debt to Debussy with lectures, articles, recordings, and concerts of his compositions. These composers focused on Debussy’s formal innovations in general and championed Debussy’s last orchestral work, the ballet Jeux (1913), in particular. The present article draws upon many of the insights of the Darmstadt composers to help isolate those features of Debussy’s music that promote discontinuity. By revisiting their commentary and incorporating it, whenever feasible, into analyses of Debussy’s works, I hope to achieve two objectives. First, by cultivating an approach that valorizes discontinuity, I aim to flesh out many of the observations and descriptions scholars have made concerning Debussy’s compositional style, a small selection of which was cited in the opening paragraph. These writers all point to a conspicuous feature of Debussy’s music, one that became more pronounced in his final works. While the Darmstadt composers perhaps overemphasized the role of discontinuity with regard to Jeux, Debussy’s subsequent compositions are more in line with their commentary. For example, certain Preludes (1913) and Etudes (1915), the Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme (1913), and the central movements of the Cello Sonata (1915) and Violin Sonata (1917) pursue formal discontinuity further, which becomes even more noticeable in the smaller scope and sparser textures of these compositions.
description: Current Musicology, No 77 (2004): Current Musicology
Learning Graph Representations
Creators: name: Joshi, Rucha Bhalchandra
name: Mishra, Subhankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social and information networks are gaining huge popularity recently due to their various applications. Knowledge representation through graphs in the form of nodes and edges should preserve as many characteristics of the original data as possible. Some of the interesting and useful applications on these graphs are graph classification, node classification, link prediction, etc. The Graph Neural Networks have evolved over the last few years. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are efficient ways to get insight into large and dynamic graph datasets capturing relationships among billions of entities also known as knowledge graphs. In this paper, we discuss the graph convolutional neural networks graph autoencoders and spatio-temporal graph neural networks. The representations of the graph in lower dimensions can be learned using these methods. The representations in lower dimensions can be used further for downstream machine learning tasks.
Rumph, Stephen. 2004. Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Creators: name: Mathew, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: Beethoven is moving steadily rightwards. After a century or so of criticism that has taken Beethoven's revolutionary convictions and Enlightenment utopianism for granted, the last decade of Beethoven scholarship has wit-nessed the beginnings of a revisionist trend. Most importantly, several schol-ars have given unprecedented critical attention to the neglected group of compositions that Beethoven composed in the reactionary political climate of the Congress of Vienna-the notorious Wellingtons Sieg foremost among them. 1 With Stephen Rumph's splendid new book, this revisionist sensibil-ity has finally blossomed into a thesis: Beethoven's late music, argues Rumph, partakes of the counterrevolutionary politics, nostalgic medievalism, and anti-Enlightenment attitudes of German "political Romanticism." Rumph gives us a Beethoven more at home with Friedrich Schlegel than Immanuel Kant.
description: Current Musicology, No 77 (2004): Current Musicology
et-enhanced turbulent combustion
Creators: name: Gete, Zenebe
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A study of the squish-jet design concept in spark ignition engines, with central ignition, was conducted in a constant volume chamber. The effects of jet size, jet number and jet orientation in generating turbulence and jet enhanced turbulent combustion were investigated. Three sets of configurations with three port sizes were used in this study. The research was carried out in three stages: 1.Qualitative information was obtained from flow visualization experiments via schlieren photography at 1000 frames per second. The flow medium was air. A sequence of frames at specific time intervals were selected to study the results from the respective configurations and jet sizes. The swirling nature of the flow is vivid in the offset arrangement. 2.Pre-ignition pressure and combustion pressure traces were measured with a piezoelectric pressure transducer from which characterising parameters such as maximum pressure, ignition advance and mass burn rate were analysed. Mass fraction curves were calculated using the simple model of fractional pressure rise. A maximum pressure increase of 66% over the reference quiescent combustion case, and combustion duration reduction of 77% were obtained for the offset arrangement with 2 mm diameter port. Comparisons of the times required for 10%, 50% and 90% mass burned are identified and confirmed that it took the 2 mm jet the shortest time to burn 90% of the mixture in the chamber. 3.Two-component velocity measurements were made using an LDV system. Measurements were taken in the central vertical plane of the chamber at specified locations. The data collected were window ensemble- averaged for the mean and fluctuating velocities over a number of cycles. Data intermittency and low data rate precluded, however, cycle-by-cycle analysis. Mean tangential velocities were calculated for each case and the data were used to construct a movie of the tangential velocity as a function of time, suitable for quantitative flow visualization. The vortical nature of the flow was recorded, the distribution being neither solid body rotation nor free vortex, but some complex fluid motion. The jet scale and orientation influence the in generation of turbulence flow field in the chamber, affecting the rate of combustion and the ensuing maximum pressure rise. The offset jet arrangement gives the best results, whereas radially opposed jets have a reduced effect. Increasing the number of jets in opposed arrangement does not enhance turbulent flow. Turbulent flow in the spark region during the onset of ignition was found to be important.
First-principles approach to lattice-mediated magnetoelectric effects
Creators: name: Iniguez, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first-principles scheme for the computation of the magnetoelectric response of magnetic insulators. The method focuses on the lattice-mediated part of the magnetic response to an electric field, which we argue can be expected to be the dominant contribution in materials displaying a strong magnetoelectric coupling. We apply our method to Cr2O3, a relatively simple and experimentally well studied magnetoelectric compound.
description: 4 pages with 1 figure embedded. More information at http://www.icmab.es/dmmis/leem/jorge
Reflection is necessary before choosing the path
Creators: name: Timalsina, Staneshwar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: sarvamnaya-oral-tradition-archive
vimarsha-foundation
sarvamnaya

description: We must be aware of WHO we're learning from and WHAT we're learning 🪷.

#guru #sarvamnaya #authenticlineage #tantra #awareness #love #compassion

Watch full video on Youtube

Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx6Og8TtfI

This presentation is part of the Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive.
Vimarsha Foundation. (2025). The Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15188107
Expeditious assembly of biuret-guanidine derivatives via the catalyst-free transformation
Creators: name: Yang, Zhen
name: Cao, Ting-Ting
name: Sun, Yun-Fang
name: Wu, Dao-Shun
name: Xu, Yue
name: Yang, Shi-Hai
name: Wang, Shu-Qin
name: Wang, Lei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Neuroscience
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We disclose a mild and practical catalyst-free transformation for the expeditious construction of biuret-guanidine derivatives using aromatic isocyanates. This synthetic transformation is featured with mild reaction conditions and high efficiency.
Plasma Heating Induced by Tadpole-Like Downflows in the Flaring Solar Corona
Creators: name: Samanta, Tanmoy
name: Tian, Hui
name: Chen, Bin
name: Reeves, Katharine K.
name: Cheung, Mark C. M.
name: Vourlidas, Angelos
name: Banerjee, Dipankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As one of the most spectacular energy release events in the solar system, solar flares are generally powered by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. As a result of the re-arrangement of magnetic field topology after the reconnection process, a series of new loop-like magnetic structures are often formed and are known as flare loops. A hot diffuse region, consisting of around 5-10 MK plasma, is also observed above the loops and is called a supra-arcade fan. Often, dark, tadpole-like structures are seen to descend through the bright supra-arcade fans. It remains unclear what role these so-called supra-arcade downflows (SADs) play in heating the flaring coronal plasma. Here we show a unique flare observation, where many SADs collide with the flare loops and strongly heat the loops to a temperature of 10-20 MK. Several of these interactions generate clear signatures of quasi-periodic enhancement in the full-Sun-integrated soft X-ray emission, providing an alternative interpretation for quasi-periodic pulsations that are commonly observed during solar and stellar flares.
description: Published in The Innovation; Animations are available in the Journal's Website
Analysis of Bacterial Diversity during Bioremediation of Gasoil-contaminated Soils with Different Salinities
Creators: name: Layalestani, Seyed Sina Seyedpour
name: Shavandi, Mahmoud
name: Haddadi, Azam
name: Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali
name: Dastgheib, Seyed MohammadMehdi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: Bioremediation is a proven technology for treatment of contaminated soils. Soil physico-chemical properties and microbial composition are key factors for the successful implementation of this technology. In this study, we evaluated the bacterial diversity during bioremediation of gasoil-contaminated soils with different salinities. The results of TPH analysis indicated an inverse relationship between soil salinity and TPH degradation extent, so that TPH removal decreased from 61% in the non-saline soil to 33% in hypersaline soil (8% NaCl) from the Hoze Soltan salt lake. Culture-independent analysis of soil bacterial diversity during bioremediation process showed that Xanthomonas was dominant in the microcosm of Hoze Soltan (8% salinity), Marinobacter and KSA1 were dominant in microcosm of the Rudeshur (5% salinity) and Achromobacter, Iamia and Xanthomonas had the highest frequency in microcosm of the Khorshid-Abad farmland (0% salinity) during bioremediation. The results of culture-dependent analysis showed that Bacillus genus was dominant in the microcosms of Hoze Soltan and Rudeshur. However, Proteobacteria including the genera Microvirga, Brevundimonas, and Hyphomonas were dominant in microcosm of the Khorshid-Abad. The obtained results suggest that the soil salinity has a considerable effect on the microbial flora and bioremediation success of gasoil-contaminated soil and accordingly the simultaneous application of both culture-dependent and independent methods can provide a better comprehension about petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation.
Testing the distance-dependence of the van der Waals interaction between an atom and a surface through spectroscopy in a vapor nanocell
Creators: name: Laliotis, Athanasdios
name: Maurin, Isabelle
name: Todorov, Petko
name: Hamdi, Ismahène
name: Dutier, Gabriel
name: Yarovitski, Alexander
name: Saltiel, Solomon
name: Gorza, Marie-Pascale
name: Fichet, Michèle
name: Ducloy, Martial
name: Bloch, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents our current measurements in a vapor nanocell aiming at a test of the distance-dependence of the atom-surface interaction, when simple asymptotic descriptions may turn to be not valid. A state-of-the-art of atom-surface interaction measurements is provided as an introduction, along with the comparison with the theory of the van der Waals (or Casimir-Polder) interaction; it is followed by a presentation of the most salient features of nanocell spectroscopy
Time-aligned Annotations of Makah Narratives
Creators: name: LaChester, Ralph
name: Hashimoto, Erin
name: Jacobsen, William H.
name: Rosés Labrada, Jorge Emilio
name: Robertson, Mabel
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2019

description: The materials in this collection include time-aligned transcriptions and translations of Makah narratives, originally recorded by William Jacobsen in 1965, with some newly spliced audio recordings (where a narrative was split over more than one recording or where one recording included more than one story). For each bundle, two time-aligned files were created: the first one was created with SayMore and includes the original transcription and translation and the second one, created in ELAN, includes a naturalized translation and a tier with notes (in addition to the original transcription and translation).
Investigating Unprompted and Prompted Diagrams Generated by Physics MajorsDuring Problem Solving
Creators: name: Vignal, Michael
name: Wilcox, Bethany R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diagrams are ubiquitous in physics, especially in physics education and physics problem solving. Problem solvers may generate diagrams to orient to a scenario, to organize information, to directly extract an answer, or as a tool of communication. In this study, we interviewed 19 undergraduate and graduate physics majors, asking them to solve 18 multiple-choice physics problems -- with no prompting regarding diagrams -- and then six diagramming tasks of situations similar to six of the multiple-choice problems. By comparing spontaneously generated and prompted diagrams, we identify different diagramming elements and features used by physics majors acting towards different ends (\textit{i.e.,} in different epistemic frames). We found that different physical contexts impact how critical it is to draw an accurate diagram, and that the differences in diagramming between cohorts (\textit{e.g.}, between lower-division undergraduate and graduate students) seem to be smaller than the differences within a cohort. We also explore implications for teaching and research.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Cosmopolitanism and Race in Percy Grainger’s American “Delius Campaign”
Creators: name: Kirby, Sarah
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2017

description: “Cosmopolitanism and Race in Percy Grainger’s American ‘Delius Campaign’” analyzes Grainger’s early-twentieth-century campaign to promote the works of Frederick Delius in the United States, exposing the campaign’s underpinnings in Grainger’s racist, nativist, and eugenicist ideologies and projects. Kirby exposes a peculiar construction of cosmopolitanism at the root of Grainger’s modes of presenting Delius to US audiences, arguing that by downplaying his European national roots, Delius and his music could be deployed as a “blank canvas” upon which Grainger could superimpose his own “developing racist ideologies.”
description: Current Musicology, No 101 (2017): Current Musicology
Review of Matthew Riley. 2004. Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing
Creators: name: Head, Matthew
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: Matthew Riley’s impressive contribution to the history of music theory and psychology explores an Enlightenment ideal of listener “attentiveness.” This ideal was discussed, or more often simply referenced, by German theorists of the last three decades of the eighteenth century. Attentiveness (Aufmerksamkeit) concerned neither reverent communion with music nor rapt attention and silent contemplation; it was neither a description of social conduct nor a presentiment of Romantic and modernist listening. Rather, it described a psychological state in which the attention, as a faculty of the mind, was voluntarily exercised. Attentiveness was rarely a goal in itself; most often, it was a means to listeners’ engagement with the ruling sentiment of the piece as it unfolded through time and was subject to changes in intensity, or gave way temporarily to subsidiary sentiments. Riley traces such visions of listening to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (chapter 2), whose concepts of melodic unity and natural simplicity provided compositional-stylistic cues for audience attentiveness. At the same time, Riley notes in passing that such ideas of unity and their relationship to the listeners’ undivided attention were already present in Germany in the 1730s in the writings of Johann Mattheson. Riley sets himself the painstaking task of elucidating what the authors of his primary sources sought to communicate in their jargon-filled and often abstract texts. Riley’s readings stay close to the terms employed by contemporary authors, giving his book the character of a foundational study rather than one that explores less immediately apparent aspects of music-theoretical discourse. Given that the sources are complex and contradictory, and that the terminology and conceptual background often unclear to modern readers, this is an appropriate and difficult task which Riley executes extremely well.
description: Current Musicology, No 77 (2004): Current Musicology
Nonlinear dynamics of the inverted pendulum under linear-feedback stabilization
Creators: name: Henders, Michael G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Analysis is conducted on a linear control system used for the stabilization of an inverted pendulum, examining the behaviour of the system throughout its global state space. The dynamic equations of the inverted pendulum are obtained, and a linear state-feedback controller is designed, based on this system model, for its stabilization. The behaviour of the resulting closed-loop system is examined through simulation, in two stages. In the first stage, the feedback controller is modified slightly to decouple the pendulum dynamics from those of its supporting cart, permitting examination of the pendulum dynamics in a two-dimensional state space, using phase plane analysis. In this way, a globally valid description of the pendulum dynamics is obtained, revealing the existence of two state attractors in this modified system. The feedback controller is seen to create a stable point attractor in the phase plane, as intended, but the basin of attraction of this point is of unusual shape and limited extent, due to the nonlinearity of the pendulum dynamics. All initial system states outside this basin are drawn to the second state attractor, which is a stable limit cycle. As the second stage of analysis, the system is examined with its original controller; characterization of the overall dynamics then requires a four-dimensional state space. The continued existence of a point attractor at the state space origin is demonstrated, and the basin of attraction of this point is mapped numerically, using a state space sampling algorithm, which might readily be applied to the analysis of other dynamic systems. This basin is presented as a series of three-dimensional sections of the full four-dimensional region; taken together, these sections outline the entire basin map. The boundaries of the origin-bound basin are seen to be highly irregular, and potentially fractal in nature. The existence of an infinite set of such four-dimensional stability regions is demonstrated, and complex, potentially chaotic, behaviour is observed outside the basins of attraction; it is not clear whether or not a four-dimensional counterpart of the limit cycle (from the first stage analysis) exists.
Influence of electric and magnetic fields and $σ$-edge bands on the electronic and optical spectra of graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Do, Thi-Nga
name: Shih, Po-Hsin
name: Gumbs, Godfrey
name: Huang, Danhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unusual electronic and optical properties of armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) subject to in-plane transverse electric and perpendicular magnetic fields have been systematically investigated. Our calculations were carried out within the generalized multi-orbital tight-binding model based on a Hamiltonian which takes into account hopping integrals among the (s, $p_x$, $p_y$, $p_z$) atomic orbitals as well as the external electric and magnetic fields. The electronic structure consists of $π$ bands arising from the $p_z$ orbital and $σ$ bands originating from the (s, $p_x$, $p_y$) orbitals. The energy bands and optical spectra are diversified by both the nature of the edge of the nanoribbon and strength of the external fields. Armchair GNRs display a width-dependent energy gap in addition to low-energy $σ$ bands while the zigzag system has the unfilled flat band with $π$ edge states at zero energy and partially filled wide-range $σ$ bands. An applied in-plane electric field leads to the splitting of energy bands and shifted Fermi level, thereby enriching the inter-band and intra-band optical conductivities. The interplay between an external magnetic field and the edge geometry gives rise to extraordinary quantized Landau levels and special optical spectra.
Caracteristicas y niveles de organizacion en los sistemas biologicos.
Creators: Issis Yolotzin
Publisher: name: HHMI BioInteractive Educator Resource Library
Year: 2023

Esta hoja de trabajo utiliza el video de "Selección para la carencia de colmillos en elefantes" como ejercicio para identificar las características de los sistemas biológicos y los niveles de organización.
The Intergenerational Learning Activities Based on Local Wisdom: Lesson Learned from Baan Huay Sapan Samakkee Community, Kanchanaburi ProvinceRavee Sajjasophon
Creators: name: Ravee Sajjasophon
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Local Wisdom
Intergenerational Learning
Baan Huaysapan Samakkee Community

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 12, 3, 120-132
Relation Between Quiescence and Outbursting Properties of GX 339-4
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Riya
name: Debnath, Dipak
name: Chatterjee, Kaushik
name: Nagarkoti, Shreeram
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip Kumar
name: Sarkar, Ritabrata
name: Chatterjee, Debjit
name: Jana, Arghajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic black hole candidate (BHC) GX~339-4 underwent several outbursting phases in the past two and a half decades at irregular intervals of $2-3$ years. Nature of these outbursts in terms of the duration, number of peaks, maximum peak intensity, etc. varies. We present a possible physical reason behind the variation of outbursts. From a physical point of view, if the supply of matter from the companion is roughly constant, the total energy release in an outburst is expected to be proportional to the quiescence period prior to the outburst when the matter is accumulated. We use archival data of RXTE/ASM from January 1996 to June 2011, and MAXI/GSC from August 2009 to July 2020 data. Initial five outbursts of GX~339-4 between 1997 and 2011 were observed by ASM and showed a good linear relation between the accumulation period and the amount of energy released in each outburst, but the outbursts after 2013 behaved quite differently. The 2013, $2017-18$, and $2018-19$ outbursts were of short duration, and incomplete or `failed' in nature. We suggest that the matter accumulated during the quiescence periods prior to these outbursts were not cleared through accretion due to lack of viscosity. The leftover matter was cleared in the immediate next outbursts. Our study thus sheds light on long term accretion dynamics in outbursting sources.
description: 13 Pages, 6 Figues, 2 Tables (Accepted for Publication in ApJ)
Milton Babbitt’s Glosses on American Jewish Identity
Creators: name: Maggart, Alison
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2017

description: Despite the fact that Babbitt claimed to “regard himself as Jewish and did not wish to be in any way evasive about being Jewish,” little scholarship has documented how Babbitt’s Jewish identity influenced his discourse or music. Yet, during the postwar era—a time when many American Jews felt an obligation to reaffirm their Jewish identity—Babbitt frequently employed Jewish themes in his discourse. Mapping the Jewish Exile narrative onto the plight of academic composers, he often draws correspondences between Schoenberg and Moses, America and the Promised Land, and the university and Masada. In this article, I contextualize this aspect of Babbitt’s rhetoric by outlining how his relationship to his Jewish identity evolved over the course of his career: from concessions he made to Princeton’s anti-Semitic policies early in his career to his active participation in conferences devoted to Jewish issues later in his career. I argue that the analogies Babbitt draws between Jewish tradition and his music demonstrate that he, like many American Jews during the period, fashioned his Jewish identity around Jewish individuals and religious beliefs that complemented his secular worldview. Then, I examine the repercussions Babbitt’s constructed Jewish identity had for his music. To this end, I offer an interpretation of three climactic, unsung moments in Glosses (1988). These three un-pitched vocalizations, I argue, not only realize the Jewish tradition wherein God, who in defying definition also resists signification, but also gloss Schoenberg’s musical symbol for YHVH.
description: Current Musicology, No 101 (2017): Current Musicology
Black Labor and the Deep South in Hurston’s The Great Day and Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige
Creators: name: Kibbee, Brendan
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2017

description: Among the musical representations of Deep South African American life circulating in the 1930s and early 1940s, Ellington’s extended composition Black, Brown, and Beige and Zora Neale Hurston’s staged revue The Great Day stand out for their shared emphasis on the laboring body. This emphasis, I argue, countervailed predominant representations produced in two important spheres of artistic activity at the time. The first, Tin Pan Alley, had inherited much from the legacy of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel theater and tended to present Southern plantation life through nostalgic, bucolic tableaus and through playful “naturally rhythmic” dancing black bodies. The second, intellectuals associated with the Harlem Renaissance, cast the concert spiritual as the music best suited to put black cultural actors on equal footing with their white counterparts, positioning the “soul” as the bearer of African American culture, thus downplaying the role of the body. Building on works from Cedric Robinson and Raymond Williams, this article highlights the ideological work that goes into naturalizing ideas of race and space. In the 1930s and 1940s this ideological work could be seen in what Ellington labeled “the Dixie Chamber of Commerce dream picture of the South.” Through Ellington’s poetry and Hurston’s critical essays, I show the intent of these artists to reimagine the Deep South landscape in ways that highlight the contribution of black labor. Then, through an analysis of Ellington’s music and Hurston’s staging of folkloric songs, I demonstrate the specific ways that each artist went about realizing this intent.
description: Current Musicology, No 101 (2017): Current Musicology
Review of Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heblin, eds. 2004. The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press; and Robert O’Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffith, eds. 2004.
Creators: name: Higgins, Niko
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: What is the "New Jazz Studies?" Uptown Conversations and The Other Side of Nowhere contain a diverse array of scholarship that approaches the broad fields of jazz studies and musical improvisation through various perspec-tives and methodologies. Krin Gabbard's two volume collection, Represent-ing Jazz (1995a) and Jazz Among the Discourses (1995b), is the clear prece-dent for these new anthologies. Uptown Conversations and The Other Side of Nowhere continue this trajectory by moving away from jazz as a static object to be stylistically described, explained, and celebrated through the heroic and larger-than-life individual towards an understanding of jazz as a music in continual dialogue with the historical, social, political, racial, and gendered processes governing its creation.
description: Current Musicology, No 77 (2004): Current Musicology
Review of Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. 2002. The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Creators: name: Irvine, Thomas
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: Anyone who has heard medieval music in live performance or on record in the last fifty years knows the sound that medieval music used to make: the joyful yowling of a mixed crew of instrumentalists, bowing, tooting, honking, and plucking, and-in the best performances-above it all, a single, ecstatic voice. Anyone who has listened to such music in the last twenty knows the sound it tends to make now: a blended and-again, in the best renditions- no-Iess-ecstatic combination of purely intoned a cappella voices. The former is now widely regarded to be “unhistorical”; it is a model that has been “superseded;’ thanks to “progress” in historical research. The Modern Invention of Medieval Music tells the story of how a music changed its sound because scholars re-thought its history and how a music changed its history because musicians re-thought its sound.
description: Current Musicology, No 77 (2004): Current Musicology
Early unintentional pregnancy loss as it is experienced by the couple : a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Iker, Carolyn E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This phenomenological study examined the experience of miscarriage from the couple's perspective. The study participants were six couples who had miscarried within four weeks of the initial interview. Data were collected in interviews and were analyzed concurrently. Themes were identified and validated by the couples as the interviews progressed. Findings from analysis confirmed that couples grieve following a miscarriage. This grief experience is represented by a composite of four interacting motifs called Discovery, Disclosure, Definition and Decision. Each motif is characterized by dominant emotions and behaviours. The composite interacts with the external theme of Health Care Interactions. Findings supported assertions that individuals within the couple relationship grieve incongruently. The grief experience is facilitated or hampered by the quality of health care interactions the couple experiences. Couples identified needs that were unmet during the experience particularly the need to talk through the experience at a later time and the need to have their losses acknowledged by their health care givers. Differences in Discovery were found between couples who had a prodromal phase of miscarriage and those who had a missed abortion. Couples who had a missed abortion experienced confusion in addition to the shock and disbelief encountered at this time. Findings also supported the assertion that grief following a miscarriage is generally resolved within twelve weeks. This description of the grief experience following a miscarriage will assist nurses to provide couple-centred care to facilitate resolution of their grief. Implications for practice, research and education are described to enhance the nurse's ability to provide more effective care to miscarrying couples.
Experimental Investigation of Rigid Pavement using Demolished Waste
Creators: name: Karthekeyan, Vijay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: There is a large amount of demolished waste generated every year in India and other developing countries. Since very small amount of this waste is recycled or reused. So, disposing this waste is a very serious problem because it requires a large amount of space. This project is experimented to reduce the cost of concrete. Aimed at the study, design mix of grade M25 was prepared using IS10262-2009. Thereafter, the replacement of different constituents of concrete, one at a time was carried out by replacing these with the different sieved fractions of crushed demolition waste. The demolished concrete was mixed with the concrete in 10%, 15%, 20%. Cubes were casted with concrete mixes and subjected to curing for 7 days, 14 days, 28 days and their strength is determined. Test result shows that the strength of the concrete increase when the demolished waste is replaced, as the demolished concrete percentage increased the strength of the concrete also increase. For reducing the cost and natural aggregate we can replace with the demolished concrete, so that the strength of the concrete increase.
Gravitational interaction signatures in isolated galaxy triplet systems: a photometric analysis
Creators: name: Tawfeek, Amira A.
name: Saha, Kanak
name: Vaghmare, Kaustubh
name: Kembhavi, Ajit
name: Takey, Ali
name: Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes
name: Fritz, Jacopo
name: Awad, Zainad
name: Ali, Gamal B.
name: Zain, Hayman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy triplets are interesting laboratories where we can study the formation and the evolution of small and large systems of galaxies. This study aims to investigate signs of interaction between the members of nine isolated galaxy triplet systems (27 galaxies) selected from the "SDSS-based catalogue of Isolated Triplets" (SIT) with members brighter than 17.0 ($m_r\le$ 17.0) in the $r-$band, and mean projected separation between the members of $r_p \leq$ 0.1 Mpc. In this work, we performed a one-dimensional (1D) fitting of the surface brightness profiles and a two-dimensional (2D) modeling of the sample galaxies. In the 1D fitting, we examined the far outer part of the light profiles of disk galaxies (22 galaxies) and categorized them into type I (simple exponential), type II (down-bending), and type III (up-bending). This fitting results showed that 55$\%$ of disk galaxies in our sample represent type III i.e are in state of interaction. In the 2D modeling, we fit smooth axisymmetric profiles to the 27 galaxies and found that 70$\%$ exhibit asymmetric features and signs of interactions in their residual images. Thus, we conclude that galaxy triplets, with projected separations ($r_p \leq$ 0.1 Mpc) between their members, are physically bounded systems that show pronounced signs of interactions.
description: 48 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Search for New Phenomena in the CDF Top Quark Sample
Creators: name: Lannon, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent results from CDF in the search for new phenomena appearing in the top quark samples. These results use data from proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity ranging from 195 pb^-1 to 760 pb^-1. No deviations are observed from the Standard Model expectations, so upper limits on the size of possible new phenomena are set.
description: to appear in Proceedings of SUSY06, the 14th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions, UC Irvine, California, 12-17 June 2006
Romani Sound Recordings
Creators: name: Adams, Joe
name: , Bessy
name: Bumbalow, Sally
name: Cooper, Mary
name: Davis, Bob
name: George, Janet
name: , Gus
name: Herezegh, Helen
name: John, Danny
name: Johnson, Nick
name: Johnson, Raida
name: Lee, John
name: Lee, Mary
name: Marks, George
name: Marks, Linda
name: Miller, Bini (Ben)
name: Miller, Catherine
name: Mitchell, Frank
name: Quick, Edith
name: , Raita
name: Richard, Mara
name: Richard, Rachel
name: Richard, Steve
name: Riste, Cookie
name: Riste, Danny
name: Riste, Frank "Dudo"
name: Riste, Morena
name: , Rosie
name: Siganoff, Eda
name: Siganoff, Roy
name: Siganoff, Ruby
name: Signo, Nina
name: Sztogka, Joe
name: Thomas, Mary
name: Thomas, Tom
name: Thompson, Frank
name: Tyler, Guy
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2018

description: The collection contains elicitation sound recordings in Romani, as well as field notes used during recording sessions.
A Voice Like Thunder: Corsican Women's Lament as Cultural Work
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Ruth Emily
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: Funeral rites are commonly understood as a means by which communities reestablish normal or ideal social relationships following death. Lament, which has played a prominent role in such rites, has been studied in numer-ous cultural and historical contexts as a practice that is effective on both a personal and collective level. An individual lam enter facilitates the collec-tive confrontation with death through a performance that combines musi-cal and verbal signification (in the forms of homage, praise, etc.) with non-linguistic utterances such as stylized crying or weeping, the meanings of which are culturally constructed (Urban 1988).As a predominantly (in many contexts exclusively) feminine mode of expression, lament has more recently been examined in its relationship to gender identity (Tolbert 1990a, 1990b, 1994; Briggs 1992, 1993). In the Greek context especially, it has been dem-onstrated that lament can serve as a privileged arena within male-domi-nated society in which women express gender-specific concerns (Auerbach 1987; Seremetakis 1990, 1991; Caraveli 1986; Caraveli-Chaves 1980; Danforth and Tsiaras 1982).
description: Current Musicology, No 78 (2004): Current Musicology
Producing and Detecting Correlated atoms
Creators: name: Westbrook, Christoph I.
name: Schellekens, Martijn
name: Perrin, Aurélien
name: Krachmalnicoff, Valentina
name: Gomes, Jose Carlos Viana
name: Trebbia, Jean-Baptiste
name: Estève, Jérôme
name: Chang, Hong
name: Bouchoule, Isabelle
name: Boiron, Denis
name: Aspect, Alain
name: Jeltes, Tom
name: McNamara, John
name: Hogervorst, Wim
name: Vassen, Wim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss experiments to produce and detect atom correlations in a degenerate or nearly degenerate gas of neutral atoms. First we treat the atomic analog of the celebrated Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment, in which atom correlations result simply from interference effects without any atom interactions.We have performed this experiment for both bosons and fermions. Next we show how atom interactions produce correlated atoms using the atomic analog of spontaneous four-wavemixing. Finally, we briefly mention experiments on a one dimensional gas on an atom chip in which correlation effects due to both interference and interactions have been observed.
description: to appear in conference proceedings "Atomic Physics 20"
“Lenin in Swaddling Clothes”: A Critique of the Ideological Conflict Between Socialist State Policy and Christian Music in Cold War Romania
Creators: name: Pieslak, Sabina Pauta
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2004

description: On April 11 , 1924, the monarchic government of Romania decreed, through the so-called “Gheorghe Marzescu” law, that the political practice of Communism was subversive to the national cause and therefore illegal. Until the ban was lifted in 1944, the government imprisoned members of the Romanian Communist Party (Constantiniu 2002:309). To raise funds for their incarcerated comrades while avoiding official detection, groups of activists belonging to Red Assistance International (Ajutorul Rosu International) adapted certain winter caroling practices of the Christian Orthodox Church. Instead of singing star songs (cemtece de stea) or Christmas carols (colinde) and carrying staffs bearing the star of Bethlehem with the image of the infant Jesus in swaddling clothes, the activists sang altered texts that urged listeners to contribute money to the cause of the working class and carried staffs decorated with a five-pointed star emblazoned with Lenin’s image (Cernea, Radulescu, and Pintean 1964:124-25).
description: Current Musicology, No 78 (2004): Current Musicology
Experiment on scalable multi-user twin-field quantum key distribution network
Creators: name: Zhong, Xiaoqing
name: Wang, Wenyuan
name: Mandil, Reem
name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
name: Qian, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twin-field quantum key distribution (TFQKD) systems have shown great promise for implementing practical long-distance secure quantum communication due to its measurement-device-independent nature and its ability to offer fundamentally superior rate-loss scaling than point-to-point QKD systems. A surge of research and development effort in the last two years has produced many variants of protocols and experimental demonstrations. In terms of hardware topology, TFQKD systems interfering quantum signals from two remotely phase-locked laser sources are in essence giant Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) requiring active phase stabilization. Such configurations are inherently unsuitable for a TFQKD network, where more than one user-pair share the common quantum measurement station, because it is practically extremely difficult, if not impossible, to stabilize MZIs of largely disparate path lengths, a situation that is inevitable in a multi-user-pair TFQKD network. On the other hand, Sagnac interferometer based TFQKD systems exploiting the inherent phase stability of the Sagnac ring can implement asymmetric TFQKD, and are therefore eminently suitable for implementing a TFQKD network. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a proof-of-principle multi-user-pair Sagnac TFQKD network where three user pairs sharing the same measurement station can perform pair-wise TFQKD through time multiplexing, with channel losses up to 58 dB, and channel loss asymmetry up to 15 dB. In some cases, the secure key rates still beat the rate-loss bounds for point-to-point repeaterless QKD systems, even in this network configuration. It is to our knowledge the first multi-user-pair TFQKD network demonstration, an important step in advancing quantum communication network technologies.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures and 2 tables
A Schur-Horn type theorem for II$_1$ factors
Creators: name: Argerami, M.
name: Massey, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L10

description: Given a II$_1$ factor M and a masa A of M, we prove a version of the Schur-Horn Theorem, together with a contractive version. These results are inspired on a recent conjecture of Arveson and Kadison (math.OA/0508482).
description: Major revision. To appear in Indiana Univ. J. of Math