Downtown Muncie infill development : comprehensive plan

The following document is a response to research regarding the historic development and certain demographic, economic, and physical conditions of Muncie, IN. Observations of Muncie's assets and history have led to conclusions about its needs, especially within the older, central part of the city. A particular interest of the physical conditions of Downtown Muncie bound by Liberty St. on the west, Wysor St. on the north, Monroe St. on the east, and the RR tracks on the south led to a project proposal meant to supplement this community. This infill development project will certainly complement current municipal goals to revitalize the center city, creating an attractive, destination downtown. A block bound by Main St., High St., Jackson St., and Franklin St. was selected as the most suitable site for the next downtown development for several reasons regarding its location and context. Attention to preliminary research ensures a comprehensive addition, one which will harmonize with current physical structures while honoring the historical and cultural context of the area.Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg

A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition

This thesis explores arrangements of British Isles folk song melodies as set by major composers: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers found vivid inspiration and a certain amount of success by setting folk songs as art music, but a survey of available scholarship centering on their works in most instances reveals only a superficial discussion of their folk song arrangements. Moreover, folk song studies, which tend to focus on the existence of melodies, their origins, and modern efforts in collection, also avoid the arrangements by serious composers. A few important studies exist which deal specifically with folk song arrangements, but by and large this area suffers from neglect. This is no doubt due to a misunderstanding of the term arrangement as it applies to the examples from the works of these composers, and its connotation as a composition of lesser value than wholly original works. This paper explores the folk song arrangements by these four composers through a study of similar melodies from their collections, which altogether number more than eight hundred songs. A review of the historical context of these collections reveals the degree of importance they occupied in each composer's overall output of works. Then an analysis of one melody set three different ways by Vaughan Williams, as well as analytical comparisons of arrangements of seven other melodies set by pairs of these four composers demonstrates the various devises each used to bring originality, creativity, and musical artistry to a work despite the limitations proscribed by a preexisting melody

Knowledge Based Radiation Therapy with Three Dimensional Registration of the Planning Target Volume

<p>Knowledge based radiation therapy planning was developed as a way to use a knowledge base of clinically approved radiation therapy plans to shorten the amount of time necessary to create a new treatment plan. The method has been tested using plans from a database of approved plans from Duke University and it was shown that the quality of the new plan is at least comparable to the original plan. When a match is found from the database for a query anatomy, the fluences of the match plan are deformed to fit the query planning target volume (PTV) and brought into the new query plan. The deformation is currently done using several two dimensional deformation registrations of the beam's eye vies (BEV) projection of the match PTV to the BEV of the query PTV for each beam in the plan. We investigated whether using information from a three dimensional deformation of the PTVs to deform the fluences would yield higher quality plans than the two dimensional method. Using Velocity AI's three dimensional deformation capabilities we deformed several match query pairs and projected the deformation field down into two dimensions for each beam angle. Using the projected fields we deformed each beam's fluence and imported the new fluences into a radiation therapy plan. After evaluating the DVHs of both pre- and post-optimized plans we concluded that there is no benefit to performing the three dimensional deformation method over the two dimensional method for prostate patients.</p>Thesi

Tagoriana

Recital at Rice University, Houston, Texas, January 7, 2012. Aidan Soder, mezzo soprano; Paul Busselberg, baritone; Calogero di Liberti, piano