The Volatility of Aid

aid volatility, aid heterogeneity, project aid, programme assistance, MDGs

Current U.S. Military Strategy

This morning, my assignment is a challenging one indeed: an analysis of current U.S. military strategy and how it supports the participation of our armed forces, either under circumstances of general war or of conflict short of general war

The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Nova Scotia: A Classification of Pitch Space

The traditional vocal music of Nova Scotia is a collage of genres reflecting its population and distinct history. Serving as a historic nautical gateway between North America and Europe, the continuous influx of populations led to the formation of many communities ranging from the urban epicenter of Halifax to the smallest of rural communities and coastal outports. Though largely akin to the musical traditions of the Western European colonizers of the 17th-19th centuries (predominantly English, Irish, Scottish, German, and French), the combination of song variants, repertoires from other cultures and traditions, and original compositions led to the emergence of a uniquely Nova Scotian canon. Acknowledging that previous scholarship, economic, and editorial forces had a direct influence concerning what musics were explored, gathered, and promoted, this dissertation examines the published transcriptions of Nova Scotian traditional vocal repertoires spanning 1912-2005. I restrict this study to the repertoire encoded in conventional pitch labels of the Western European tradition, as that was the medium through which previous transcribers of these oral repertoires encoded this music. This repertoire is examined through quantitative inquiry, employing set-class theory and successive interval arrays. Through the creation of tonic-based successive-interval arrays for nearly two thousand melodies spanning twenty-seven publications, I present a meta-analysis of the pitch-spaces encoded by the transcribers of this repertoire and identify normative collection sizes, scalar patterns, and outliers. I also make new transcriptions, based on commercially available field recordings of attributed source materials, to enable a cursory comparison and audit of previous transcriptions in order to comment on the quality and issues surrounding differing interpretations. The pedagogical merits of using the tonic-based successive-interval array for teaching music spanning a limited number of pitches, containing chromaticism, and modal repertoire is also explored. As such, this work serves to assemble and present a detailed overview of transcribed materials in print

Sea Power and Current U.S. Military Strategy

National power exists only to serve the national purposes, to help achieve the national aims

The Present Situation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Area

I have been asked to talk today on the situation in the Mediterranean and Middle East-and what I shall give you is pretty much of a reporter\u27s story. I have recently been there and have seen a good many of our military, naval, and diplomatic people-­ and many local personalities as well. I\u27ll give you as objective a survey of the existing situation as I can

Regulation and testing of wattmeters

Citation: Fielding Jr., George T. Regulation and testing of wattmeters. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1903.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The business of electric lighting and power distribution from central stations has grown to such a volume that millions of dollars change hands yearly in the transaction of that business. The commodity exchanged is the electric current and yet there is great uncertainty as to what that so called current really is. Considering this fact, the enormity of the business built upon this invisible something is rather surprising. The general lack of definite knowledge on the subject and the fact that the commodity is intangible are perhaps responsible for the laxity that has existed in the buying and selling of electrical power until a comparatively recent time. The sale of current involving large sums is often based upon measurements taken with poor, inefficient instruments or upon a system of calculation closely allied with guessing. Such .a manner of doing business would have resulted in bankruptcy in any other line, but the spirit of the age has entered the trade and the cry for the past few years has been for a more accurate system and this means better instruments. While the station manager knows that his financial success depends largely upon the excellence and efficiency of his plant yet he cannot shut his eyes to the fact that his income depends largely upon the system by which he sells his current. Dissatisfied Or suspicious customers are not conducive to prosperous trade, and dissatisfied they will be if they feel that there is inaccuracy or guessing in their accounts. The effect of poor measuring devices usually reacts in two ways upon the central station manager for beside trouble with customers he also has to stand a loss from inefficient metering, this loss often amounting to eight per cent of the current going through the meters. With the rapid strides of electrical enterprise, however, the improvement and manufacture of electric meters has in a large measure kept pace and today there are on the market a number of very efficient meters

The impact of travel time to cancer treatment centre on post-diagnosis care and mortality among cancer patients in Scotland

Funding This research was supported by a grant from NHS Grampian Endowment Fund (Grant no.16/11/017). The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preprataion, review or approval of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

2008-2009 Philharmonia Season Program

Philharmonia No. 1 October 11, 2008 at 7:30 PM and October 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM Jon Robertson, guest conductor ; Sergei Babayan, piano Overture to La Forza del Destino / Giuseppe Verdi -- Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor / Gustav Mahler -- Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34 / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30 / Sergei Rachmaninoff Philharmonia No. 2 November 8, 2008 at 7:30 PM and November 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM Albert-George Schram, music director and conductor Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72 a / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 ( Unfinished ) / Franz Schubert -- España / Emmanuel Chabrier -- Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28 / Richard Strauss Philharmonia No. 3 December 6, 2008 at 7:30 PM and December 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM Albert-George Schram, music director and conductor ; Carol Cole, violin ; Ralph Fielding, viola Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73 / Johannes Brahms Philharmonia No. 4 January 31, 2009 at 7:30 PM and February 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM 2008 Concerto Competition Winners Philharmonia No. 5 February 21, 2009 at 7:30 PM and February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM Albert-George Schram, music director and conductor Overture to Candide / Leonard Bernstein -- Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116 / Béla Bartók Philharmonia No. 6 March 28, 2009 at 7:30 PM and March 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM Jon Robertson, guest conductor ; Nadine Sierra, soprano Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Richard Wagner -- Un bel di from Madame Butterfly / Giacomo Puccini -- Vissi d\u27arte from Tosca / Giacomo Puccini -- Pace, pace mio Dio from La Forza del Destino / Giuseppe Verdi -- Io son l\u27umile ancella from Adriana Lecouvreur / Francesco Ciléa -- Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, op. 64 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyhttps://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_philharmonia/1026/thumbnail.jp