Motion in Quantum Gravity

We tackle the question of motion in Quantum Gravity: what does motion mean at the Planck scale? Although we are still far from a complete answer we consider here a toy model in which the problem can be formulated and resolved precisely. The setting of the toy model is three dimensional Euclidean gravity. Before studying the model in detail, we argue that Loop Quantum Gravity may provide a very useful approach when discussing the question of motion in Quantum Gravity.Comment: 30 pages, to appear in the book "Mass and Motion in General Relativity", proceedings of the C.N.R.S. School in Orleans, France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. Whitin

Comparative Evaluation of Translation Memory (TM) and Machine Translation (MT) Systems in Translation between Arabic and English

In general, advances in translation technology tools have enhanced translation quality significantly. Unfortunately, however, it seems that this is not the case for all language pairs. A concern arises when the users of translation tools want to work between different language families such as Arabic and English. The main problems facing ArabicEnglish translation tools lie in Arabic’s characteristic free word order, richness of word inflection – including orthographic ambiguity – and optionality of diacritics, in addition to a lack of data resources. The aim of this study is to compare the performance of translation memory (TM) and machine translation (MT) systems in translating between Arabic and English.The research evaluates the two systems based on specific criteria relating to needs and expected results. The first part of the thesis evaluates the performance of a set of well-known TM systems when retrieving a segment of text that includes an Arabic linguistic feature. As it is widely known that TM matching metrics are based solely on the use of edit distance string measurements, it was expected that the aforementioned issues would lead to a low match percentage. The second part of the thesis evaluates multiple MT systems that use the mainstream neural machine translation (NMT) approach to translation quality. Due to a lack of training data resources and its rich morphology, it was anticipated that Arabic features would reduce the translation quality of this corpus-based approach. The systems’ output was evaluated using both automatic evaluation metrics including BLEU and hLEPOR, and TAUS human quality ranking criteria for adequacy and fluency.The study employed a black-box testing methodology to experimentally examine the TM systems through a test suite instrument and also to translate Arabic English sentences to collect the MT systems’ output. A translation threshold was used to evaluate the fuzzy matches of TM systems, while an online survey was used to collect participants’ responses to the quality of MT system’s output. The experiments’ input of both systems was extracted from ArabicEnglish corpora, which was examined by means of quantitative data analysis. The results show that, when retrieving translations, the current TM matching metrics are unable to recognise Arabic features and score them appropriately. In terms of automatic translation, MT produced good results for adequacy, especially when translating from Arabic to English, but the systems’ output appeared to need post-editing for fluency. Moreover, when retrievingfrom Arabic, it was found that short sentences were handled much better by MT than by TM. The findings may be given as recommendations to software developers

Handel and the English Chapel Royal during the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I

Handel's association with the English Chapel Royal began soon after he settled in London, and continued intermittently for the remainder of his life. ' The thesis traces this association until'the death of King George I in 1727. Handel's Chapel Royal music is examined with dual reference to the Chapel's musical traditions and the development of the composer's style. Political events influenced the extent of Handel's involvement with the Chapel at different periods: the relationship between the composers, the Chapel Royal and the British Court is described within the historical contexts drawing on many unpublished sources. After an introductory survey of the repertoire of Handel's Chapel Royal music, the musical history of the Chapel during the period preceding Handel's arrival in London is described, paying special attention to performances of instrumentally-accompanied services and anthems, and the ceremonial Thanksgiving Services of Queen Anne's reign. Handel's experience of church music In Italy and Germany previous to his arrival in England is described, and the contemporary English anthems of William Croft are examined by way of an introduction to Handel's first English Verse Anthem. Two chapters are devoted, to Handel's Chapel Royal compositions from the period 1710-1714, including his music celebrating the Peace of Utrecht. Chapters 6 and 7 investigate the circumstances surrounding Handel's disassociation from the Chapel in 1715-1722 and his subsequent re-establishment there during the last years of George I's reign. The significance, of Handel's appointment as Composer to the Chapel is considered, and a chronology for his Chapel Royal music from the 1720p suggested. The music is examined in detail, and described with reference to related antecedent Chandos Anthems., The later history of Handel's Chapel Royal music is surveyed briefly in the final chapter. Factual background material is collected in an extended supplement and fifteen appendices

User Review Analysis for Requirement Elicitation: Thesis and the framework prototype's source code

Online reviews are an important channel for requirement elicitation. However, requirement engineers face challenges when analysing online user reviews, such as data volumes, technical supports, existing techniques, and legal barriers. Juan Wang proposes a framework solving user review analysis problems for the purpose of requirement elicitation that sets up a channel from downloading user reviews to structured analysis data. The main contributions of her work are: (1) the thesis proposed a framework to solve the user review analysis problem for requirement elicitation; (2) the prototype of this framework proves its feasibility; (3) the experiments prove the effectiveness and efficiency of this framework. This resource here is the latest version of Juan Wang's PhD thesis "User Review Analysis for Requirement Elicitation" and all the source code of the prototype for the framework as the results of her thesis

Volume 60, Number 05 (May 1942)

Musical Results Musical Reciprocity Four Score—and Then! (interview with Walter Damrosch) Sing It Again!: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!—The Romance of a Great American Patriotic Hymn Twenty-five Busy Women Keep Up Their Music: Farmingham Housewive Find New Interest in the Art Striking New Concert Gowns of Leading Singers, to Say Nothing of a Noted Harpist Comedy in Grand Opera (interview with Salvatore Baccaloni) Acquiring Skill in the Reading of Music Inter-American Music Week for 1942 Care of Music Thomas Britton the Small-Coal Man What About that Whole Tone Scale? General Tubman, Composer of Spirituals: An Amazing Figure in American Folk Music Highlights in the Art of Teaching the Piano Most Popular Woman Singer in Radio Cannot Read a Note (interview with Kate Smith) Music of the African Bushveld (interview with Josef Marais) Technic of the Month—Melody with Broken Chord Accompaniment, Heller Op. 47, No. 15https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1238/thumbnail.jp

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3.1 Erotica

George Platt Lynes, Al Purdy, Takis, Endre Farkas, Vito Acconci, Hédi Bouraoui, Michael Delisle, John Oughton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Noel Harding, Joel-Peter Witkin, Lucien Francoeur, Jayce Salloum, John Grube, Victor Coleman, David McFadden, Frank Davey, Jean Paul Daoust, Yehuda Yordan, George Bowering, Noah Zacharin, Paul Artaud, Thomas McNeely, Dawnold Brackett, Jim Smith, Isabelle Larrivée, Thomas Peiffer, Steve Smith, Glenn Frew, Karen MacCormack, Robert Priest, Shaunt Basmajian, Chris Faiers, Sarah Spracklin, Dawn Danelagh, Susie Queue, Leif Eriksson, Susan Worth, Chris Beausoleil, Joe Blades, Michael Schiff, Dianne Nagai, Don Pope, Leslie McAllister, Kirk Wirsig, Marlene Goldman, Sylvia Aizupietis, Leslie Choyce, T. K. Splake, Tom Robe, Paul Dutton, bp Nichol, Eldon Garnet, Karl Jirgens, Janice Peshke

Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950)

Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality Ballet . . . A New Freedom How to Choose a Violin Don\u27t Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton) What is Your Vocal Problem? Ninety We Lose: Children Aren\u27t Little Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View Musician\u27s Worst Enemy—The Common Cold Voices Aren\u27t Made . . . They Grow What Music Teachers Forget to Teach My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza) How to Play a Melodyhttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1154/thumbnail.jp