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    Examples of works to practice staccato technique in clarinet instrument

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    Klarnetin staccato tekniğini güçlendirme aşamaları eser çalışmalarıyla uygulanmıştır. Staccato geçişlerini hızlandıracak ritim ve nüans çalışmalarına yer verilmiştir. Çalışmanın en önemli amacı sadece staccato çalışması değil parmak-dilin eş zamanlı uyumunun hassasiyeti üzerinde de durulmasıdır. Staccato çalışmalarını daha verimli hale getirmek için eser çalışmasının içinde etüt çalışmasına da yer verilmiştir. Çalışmaların üzerinde titizlikle durulması staccato çalışmasının ilham verici etkisi ile müzikal kimliğe yeni bir boyut kazandırmıştır. Sekiz özgün eser çalışmasının her aşaması anlatılmıştır. Her aşamanın bir sonraki performans ve tekniği güçlendirmesi esas alınmıştır. Bu çalışmada staccato tekniğinin hangi alanlarda kullanıldığı, nasıl sonuçlar elde edildiği bilgisine yer verilmiştir. Notaların parmak ve dil uyumu ile nasıl şekilleneceği ve nasıl bir çalışma disiplini içinde gerçekleşeceği planlanmıştır. Kamış-nota-diyafram-parmak-dil-nüans ve disiplin kavramlarının staccato tekniğinde ayrılmaz bir bütün olduğu saptanmıştır. Araştırmada literatür taraması yapılarak staccato ile ilgili çalışmalar taranmıştır. Tarama sonucunda klarnet tekniğin de kullanılan staccato eser çalışmasının az olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Metot taramasında da etüt çalışmasının daha çok olduğu saptanmıştır. Böylelikle klarnetin staccato tekniğini hızlandırma ve güçlendirme çalışmaları sunulmuştur. Staccato etüt çalışmaları yapılırken, araya eser çalışmasının girmesi beyni rahatlattığı ve istekliliği daha arttırdığı gözlemlenmiştir. Staccato çalışmasını yaparken doğru bir kamış seçimi üzerinde de durulmuştur. Staccato tekniğini doğru çalışmak için doğru bir kamışın dil hızını arttırdığı saptanmıştır. Doğru bir kamış seçimi kamıştan rahat ses çıkmasına bağlıdır. Kamış, dil atma gücünü vermiyorsa daha doğru bir kamış seçiminin yapılması gerekliliği vurgulanmıştır. Staccato çalışmalarında baştan sona bir eseri yorumlamak zor olabilir. Bu açıdan çalışma, verilen müzikal nüanslara uymanın, dil atış performansını rahatlattığını ortaya koymuştur. Gelecek nesillere edinilen bilgi ve birikimlerin aktarılması ve geliştirici olması teşvik edilmiştir. Çıkacak eserlerin nasıl çözüleceği, staccato tekniğinin nasıl üstesinden gelinebileceği anlatılmıştır. Staccato tekniğinin daha kısa sürede çözüme kavuşturulması amaç edinilmiştir. Parmakların yerlerini öğrettiğimiz kadar belleğimize de çalışmaların kaydedilmesi önemlidir. Gösterilen azmin ve sabrın sonucu olarak ortaya çıkan yapıt başarıyı daha da yukarı seviyelere çıkaracaktır

    Science and corporeal religion: a feminist materialist reconsideration of gender/sex diversity in religiosity

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    This dissertation develops a feminist materialist interpretation of the role the neuroendocrine system plays in the development of gender/sex differences in religion. Data emerging from psychology, sociology, and cognitive science have continually indicated that women are more religious than men, in various senses of those contested terms, but the factors contributing to these findings are little understood and disciplinary perspectives are often unhelpfully siloed. Previous scholarship has tended to highlight socio-cultural factors while ignoring biological factors or to focus on biological factors while relying on problematic and unsubstantiated gender stereotypes. Addressing gender/sex difference is vital for understanding religion and how we study it. This dissertation interprets this difference by means of a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach. This approach builds upon insights from the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion, affect theory and affective neuroscience, and social neuroendocrinology, and it is rooted in the foundational insights of feminist materialism, including that cultural and micro-sociological forces are inseparable from biological materiality. The dissertation shows how a better way of understanding gender/sex differences in religion emerges through focusing on the co-construction of biological materiality and cultural meanings. This includes deploying a gene-culture co-evolutionary explanation of ultrasociality and an understanding of the biology of performativity to argue that religious behavior and temperaments emerge from the enactment and hormonal underpinnings of six affective adaptive desires: the desires for (1) bonding and attachment, (2) communal mythos, (3) deliverance from suffering, (4) purpose, (5) understanding, and (6) reliable leadership. By hypothesizing the patterns of hormonal release and activation associated with ritualized affects—primarily considering oxytocin, testosterone, vasopressin, estrogen, dopamine, and serotonin—the dissertation theorizes four dimensions of religious temperament: (1) nurturant religiosity, (2) ecstatic religiosity, (3) protective/hierarchical religiosity, and (4) antagonistic religiosity. This dissertation conceptualizes hormones as chemical messengers that enable the diversity emerging from the imbrication of physical materiality and socio-cultural forces. In doing so, it demonstrates how hormonal aspects of gender/sex and culturally constructed aspects of gender/sex are always already intertwined in their influence on religiosity. This theoretical framework sheds light on both the diversity and the noticeable patterns observed in gender/sex differences in religious behaviors and affects. This problematizes the terms of the “women are more religious than men” while putting in place a more adequate framework for interpreting the variety of ways it appears in human lives

    Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe

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    This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities

    Ludotopia

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    Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featuring in most general theories of space to lay the groundwork for the study of spatiality in games. Shifting the focus away from earlier debates on, e.g., the narrative nature of games, this collection proposes, instead, that thorough attention be given to the tension between experienced spaces and narrated places as well as to the mapping of both of these

    A systemic approach to the prevention and management of the causes of Hotel Environmental Sustainability Strategy Execution Failure (HESSEF)

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    Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Our world is at risk due to unprecedented anthropogenic global warming leading to climate change. From pre-industrial period (1850-1900) to 2006-2015, global mean surface (land and ocean) temperature (GMST) and mean land surface air temperature (MSAT) respectively increased by 0.87°C and 1.53°C, leading to increasing occurrence of severe natural disasters. Hotels (184 thousand with 17 million hotel rooms in 2018) enable significant economic growth and social progress within international tourism, the third largest industry in the world. In 2018, this industry was worth USD 1.7 trillion, contributed 10.4 per cent to world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), cared for 1.4 billion tourists, and employed 319 million persons (one in ten jobs). Unfortunately, hotels also have negative environmental impacts and account for one to two per cent of the five per cent global carbon dioxide emitted by the tourism industry. Hotels hence contribute to the global warming and climate change. There is a need to curb hotels’ carbon dioxide emissions with appropriate strategies. However, properly formulated strategies do not guarantee effective execution. Strategy Execution (SE) is difficult to achieve and execution failure is possible. The execution of Hotel Environmental Sustainability Strategies (HESS) is not an exception. A Hotel Environmental Sustainability Strategy Execution (HESSE) paradigm shift and behaviour change, with subsequent habits of effectiveness are hence required. The aim of this study is to address the following research problem: “There is no model that can assist hotel practitioners (HP) and academics with a systemic approach to the prevention and management of the causes of Hotel Environmental Sustainability Strategy Execution Failure (HESSEF).” The primary objective of the study is the development of the Seven Habits of Effective HESSE (7HoE HESSE) model to address this problem. In support to the primary objective, a number of secondary objectives are pursued. First, the world sustainability challenges and initiatives are described. Second, the challenges of environmental sustainability within the context of hotel management are understood and opportunities for improvement are identified. Third, the challenges of HESSE are understood. Fourth, the escalation of HESSEF is analyzed and possible HESSE paradigm shift and behaviour change for systemic HESSE enhancement are studied. Fifth, the 7HoE HESSE model for HESSE systemic enhancement is conceptualized and operationalized. Sixth, the model is verified. Seventh, the model is validated through face to-face structured interview of HP and feedback used for the model improvement. The 7HoE HESSE model is described by HP as the way forward for sustainability as it provides a good approach towards sustainability. HP highly appreciated the model describing it as a great tool, highly suitable to the hospitality industry, interesting model, straight-forward, easy to understand and well structured with appropriate monitoring HESSE processes. HP expressed high willingness to experience the 7HoE HESSE model which properly summarizes and contextualizes their reality. They are willing to experience the model as they believe it will be very useful for favouring collaboration and commitment of all hotel stakeholders. They expressed the views that the model could ensure successful execution of sustainability projects in the hotel industry.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die planeet word bedreig deur ongekende vlakke van aardverwarming wat lei tot klimaatsverandering. Die gemiddelde Land en Oseaan temperature of the wel (GMST), sowel as gemiddelde Land en Atmosfeer temperatuur of te wel (MSAT) het onderskeidlik met 0.87 grade celcuis en 1.53 grade celcuis toegeneem sedert die pre-industrieële periode (1850- 1900). Klimaatsverandering gee aanleiding tot natuur rampe. Die hotel industrie het ‘n positiewe impak op ekonomies groei en sosiale ontwikkeling. Daar is tans nie minder as 184 duisend hotelle and 17 miljoen hotel kamers. Toerisme was pre-Covid die derde grootste industrie ter wêreld en was in 2018 USD 1.7 triljoen werd. Die industrie was verantwoordelik vir 10.4 persent van die wêreld se Bruto Nasionale Produk, en het werk verskaf aan 319 miljoen mense (een uit elke 10 werk geleenthede op aarde). Hotelle het ongelukkig ook ‘n baie negatiewe impak op die omgewing en is verantwoordelik vir tot 40 present van alle CO2 wat deur die toerisme bedryf geproduseer word. Dit is dus baie belangrik vir hotelle om strategieë. te onwikkel wat hierdie potensiele nagatiewe impak kan verlaag. Strategie Uitvoering (SU) in die algemeen is moeilik en mislukking is baie moontlik. Die uitvoer van ‘n Hotel Omgewings Volhoubaarheid Strategie (HOVS) is nie ‘n uitsondering nie. ‘n Paradigma skuif en gedragsverandering is dus noodsaaklik om effeftiewe HOVS Uitvoering (HOVSU) te verseker. Dit is dus verdermeer nodig om effektiewiteits gewoontes te kweek. Die oogmerk van hierdie studie is om die volgende navorsingsprobleem aan te spreek: “Daar bestaan tans geen model wat Hotel Operateurs (HO) en akademici kan bystaan om deur middel van ‘n systematiese benadering die oorsake van Hotel Omgewings Volhoubaarheid Strategie Uitvoerings Mislukking (HOVSUM) te verminder en te bestuur nie.” Die primêre doelwit van die studie is die ontwikkeling van ‘n gedragsveranderingsmodel wat sal aanleiding gee tot die kweek van Sewe HOVSU gewoontes (7HoE HESSE). In ondersteuning tot die primêre doelwit is ‘n aantal sekondêre doelwitte geformuleer. Eerstens is die aard en omvang van die planeet se volhoubaarheidsuitdagins en inisiatiewe beskyf. Tweendens is die omgewingsvolhoubaarheiduitdagings wat hotelle in die gesig staar beskryf. Derderds is die problematiek aangaande HOVSU ondersoek en beskryf. Vierdens is die verloop van HOVSUM en moontlikhede aangaande gedragsverandering en gewoonte vorming beskryf. Die vyde sekondêre doelwit was die formulering en operasionalisering van die 7HoE HESSE model. In die sesde plek is die model geverifieer en in die sewende plek is die model gevalideer tydens indiepte onderhoude met Hotel Operateurs en bestuurders sowel as industrie kundiges. Die terugvoer van beide operateurs en kundiges is besonder positief en die model word beskryf as ‘n eenvoudige en prakties implementeerbare instrument om die problematiek wat verband hou met die uitvoer van omgewingsvolhoubaarheid strategieë binne hotelle die hoof te bied.Master

    The Anthropocene Hypothesis

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    The Play and Place of Criticism

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    Originally published in 1967. In The Play and Place of Criticism, Professor Krieger addresses basic questions related to criticism in the title essay that forms the introduction to this collection and that constitutes a considered statement of his "contextualist" position. In agreement with Spitzer, Krieger believes that the critic has a valuable part to play in relating the "new words" of the individual poem to the "old words" of the language. He goes further in identifying the role of the critic as essentially rhapsodic, a sharing-in and an expression of the poet's "fine frenzy," which, when it succeeds, transports the critic beyond words and dooms his analytical efforts to failure. Thus, while defending the critic's right to exercise "the free play of the mind" in approaching his subject, the author insists that the critic recognize his subordinate "place" in performing his act of mediation. Elsewhere in the volume Krieger uses other terms and metaphors to explore similar problems revolving around the mediate and the immediate in poetry and criticism. In calling for a poetry of "still movement," for example, he examines both the opposition and the union of temporal with spatial or plastically formal elements, of the dynamically empirical with the statically archetypal. Having defined his critical position in these ways, Krieger relates it to other schools of criticism and applies its methods to the analysis of works by Shakespeare, Pope, Arnold, Hawthorne, and others
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