When the flame dies

When the flame dies Composer - Ed Hughes Librettist - Roger Morris Video - Will Reynolds & Poppy Burton-Morgan With the voices of Andrew McIntosh (baritone); Lucy Williams (mezzo); Peter Kirk (tenor); Emily Phillips (soprano); Ben Williamson (counter-tenor); also video artist Loren O'Dair. Ensemble - The New Music Players Advisers: Tim Hopkins and David Chandler (Professor of Photography, University of Plymouth). Duration: 70 minutes The unnamed Poet, protagonist of the drama, dreams of the Underworld where he meets the characters of his past and his imagination. He must choose between love and creativity. This new opera is being worked on during Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012 towards a full scoring for a cast of five singers and ensemble (The New Music Players) with live electronics. A public presentation is planned for 2013. The project will explore the use of specially created video, combining newly conceived material with archive stills and film footage, in order to devise new textures in the concert performance of opera, and to find fresh ways of contextualising works with historical and mythical resonances in performance

The Lindenwood Model: An Antidote for What Ails Undergraduate Education

In this important book on American higher education, Edward Morris argues that undergraduate students at most U.S. colleges and universities are being shortchanged. Year after year, tuition and fees grow at a rate well above that of inflation, with the result that today\u27s generation of students is paying-in real dollars-more than twice as much to go to college as their parents did. At the same time, informed observers with a stake in the outcome-parents, employers, and educators themselves-are increasingly skeptical of the quality of the degrees students are receiving. A disconnect between the cost and benefits appears to be growing unabated on the nation\u27s campuses. In these pages Dr. Morris lays out what ails undergraduate education, including: An unfocused, multiversity structure under which schools try to be all things to all people-and neglect their students in the process. A publish or perish policy for faculty that too often results in intellectual resources being diverted from the classroom to inconsequential academic research. A tenure system that provides senior professors with career-long employment and minimal accountability-and little in the way of incentives to teach. ? A tradition of faculty governance that puts the professor\u27s needs above the student\u27s. A disregard for much needed economies of scale, with universities spending too much money on too few students in order to climb higher in annual rankings of colleges. At the same time, Dr. Morris sets forth a remedy for many of the ills of modern academia by describing the recent successes of Lindenwood University. He details how Lindenwood, a self proclaimed teaching university, manages to provide a high quality and affordable liberal arts education to its undergraduates by disregarding many of the ill-conceived practices of America\u27s higher education establishment.https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lu_press/1005/thumbnail.jp

LABOR LAW-ARBITRATION-APPLICABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES ARBITRATION ACT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS

Plaintiff brought an action in the federal district court for Pennsylvania against the defendant labor union for damages caused by a strike, allegedly in violation of a written collective bargaining agreement between them. This contract also provided, inter alia, for submission to arbitration of all differences arising between the parties under the contract. However, no arbitration had been had prior to this suit. Defendant moved to stay all proceedings pending arbitration, allegedly as authorized by section 3 of the United States .Arbitration .Act providing for such stays in . . . any suit or proceeding . . . brought in any of the courts of the United States upon any issue referable to arbitration . . .. Plaintiff urged that these words were limited by section 1, the definition section of the act, which contained a clause that . . . nothing herein contained shall apply to contracts of employment. . .. The district court sustained defendant\u27s arguments and further pointed out that even if section I were applicable to section, it was doubtful that a collective bargaining agreement was a contract of employment for purposes of exclusion from the act4 On appeal, held, reversed. Contracts of employment, which include collective bargaining agreements, are excluded from the operation of the entire Arbitration Act. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, & Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 1063, (3d Cir. 1952) 193 F. (2d) 327

FEDERAL PROCEDURE-VENUE-APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 1404(a) OF NEW TITLE 28 TO ANTI-TRUST SUITS

Working directly from a branch office in Washington, D.C., defendant corporation solicited orders and distributed films in the state of Virginia, although it had not registered as a foreign corporation in that state. Alleging that the defendant had violated the anti-trust laws by its activities in Virginia, plaintiff brought a civil action for damages and injunctive relief in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Pursuant to section 14O4(a) of Title 28 U.S.C. defendant moved to transfer the action to the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Held, since the defendant was not transacting business in Virginia sufficient to satisfy the venue provisions of the anti-trust acts and had not shown a preponderance of circumstances favoring the transfer as required by section 1404(a), motion denied. Hampton Theatres Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, (D.C.D.C. 1950) 90 F. Supp. 645

European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum Hardcover

This richly illustrated volume presents 100 artworks from the collection, dating from the 13th century to the 20th century and representing many of the most important artists, schools, and styles of European art history. Noted scholars and specialists examine these works while considering artist biography, practice and technique, and cultural and historical contexts. An essay by Taylor J. Acosta, Ph.D., Joslyn’s Associate Curator of European Art, offers a history of the arts in Omaha and the formation of the Museum’s European collection.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/artarthistfacbooks/1006/thumbnail.jp

Lubricant-surface system characterisation for high performance transmissions

Lubricant-surface system characterisation for high performance transmission

Automated Bayesian model development for frequency detection in biological time series

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A first step in building a mathematical model of a biological system is often the analysis of the temporal behaviour of key quantities. Mathematical relationships between the time and frequency domain, such as Fourier Transforms and wavelets, are commonly used to extract information about the underlying signal from a given time series. This one-to-one mapping from time points to frequencies inherently assumes that both domains contain the complete knowledge of the system. However, for truncated, noisy time series with background trends this unique mapping breaks down and the question reduces to an inference problem of identifying the most probable frequencies.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In this paper we build on the method of Bayesian Spectrum Analysis and demonstrate its advantages over conventional methods by applying it to a number of test cases, including two types of biological time series. Firstly, oscillations of calcium in plant root cells in response to microbial symbionts are non-stationary and noisy, posing challenges to data analysis. Secondly, circadian rhythms in gene expression measured over only two cycles highlights the problem of time series with limited length. The results show that the Bayesian frequency detection approach can provide useful results in specific areas where Fourier analysis can be uninformative or misleading. We demonstrate further benefits of the Bayesian approach for time series analysis, such as direct comparison of different hypotheses, inherent estimation of noise levels and parameter precision, and a flexible framework for modelling the data without pre-processing.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Modelling in systems biology often builds on the study of time-dependent phenomena. Fourier Transforms are a convenient tool for analysing the frequency domain of time series. However, there are well-known limitations of this method, such as the introduction of spurious frequencies when handling short and noisy time series, and the requirement for uniformly sampled data. Biological time series often deviate significantly from the requirements of optimality for Fourier transformation. In this paper we present an alternative approach based on Bayesian inference. We show the value of placing spectral analysis in the framework of Bayesian inference and demonstrate how model comparison can automate this procedure.</p

Lubricant-surface system characterisation for high performance transmissions abstract

Lubricant-surface system characterisation for high performance transmissions abstrac

Molecular dynamics of flows in the Knudsen regime

Novel technological applications often involve fluid flows in the Knudsen regime in which the mean free path is comparable to the system size. We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the transition between the dilute gas and the dense fluid regimes as the fluid density is increased.Comment: REVTeX, 15 pages, 4 EPS figures, to appear in Physica

Prediction Properties of Aitken's Iterated Delta^2 Process, of Wynn's Epsilon Algorithm, and of Brezinski's Iterated Theta Algorithm

The prediction properties of Aitken's iterated Delta^2 process, Wynn's epsilon algorithm, and Brezinski's iterated theta algorithm for (formal) power series are analyzed. As a first step, the defining recursive schemes of these transformations are suitably rearranged in order to permit the derivation of accuracy-through-order relationships. On the basis of these relationships, the rational approximants can be rewritten as a partial sum plus an appropriate transformation term. A Taylor expansion of such a transformation term, which is a rational function and which can be computed recursively, produces the predictions for those coefficients of the (formal) power series which were not used for the computation of the corresponding rational approximant.Comment: 34 pages, LaTe