Problemstillingar rundt framføring av transkribert musikk - Ei analyse av Bach/Busoni: Chaconne i d-moll

Ei samanlikning og analyse av Busoni sin transkripsjon av Bach sin Chaconne frå partita nr. 2 for solofiolin

Oral History Interview: Flem A. Brumfield

This interview is one of a series conducted with former employees of the Huntington Owens-Illinois, Inc. glass bottle factory. Mr. Flem A. Brumfield was an employee at the Owens-Illinois glass factory. He discusses: his experiences working at the plant; unions and strikes; seniority at the plant; machines at the plant; men and women at the plant; management; a brief discussion on recycling; social activities at the plant; race relations at the plant; health problems at the plant; West Virginia and Huntington in general; the government; and other topics.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1486/thumbnail.jp

La modélisation psychomécanique des systèmes temporels : le cas du russe

La démarche de la psychomécanique est en principe hypothético-déductive, la théorie prenant son départ à une exigence absolue — un « inévitable » — et procédant déductivement jusqu’à la rencontre avec les faits : Guillaume pose par exemple dans Temps et verbe (1965) que toutes les langues construisent leur systématique verbale à partir d’un présent universel α/ω). Le modèle qu’il élabore pour le russe comme celui de Meney (1974a et b, 1975), bien qu’incompatibles entre eux, acceptent ce postulat qui entraîne des problèmes de cohérence interne et, en bout de course, la non-satisfaction de l’exigence minimale d’adéquation d’observation. L’hypothèse de remplacement que je propose, limitée à l’indicatif, révoque sa division en époques au bénéfice de la combinatoire de deux systèmes aspectuels, l’un lexical, l’autre grammatical. Cette solution, qui range le russe parmi les langues exclusivement aspectuelles, s’impose par sa simplicité, sa cohérence, son accord avec la sémiologie et son efficacité sur le plan empirique.In principle, the process of Psychomechanics is a hypothetico-deductive one. It starts with a basic requirement—an "inevitable"—and proceeds deductively until one arrives at the facts. For example, Guillaume, in Temps et Verbe (1965), states that all languages build their verbal systems from a universal present tense α/ω. His model for Russian, like Meney's (1974a abn b, 1975), is based on this assumption, which creates problems of internal coherence and fails to satisfy the minimum critérium of observational adequacy. I am proposing a replacement hypothesis, limited to the indicative, that rejects the division into periods of time in favour of combining two aspectual systems, one lexical, the other grammatical. This solution, which aligns Russian with exclusively aspectual languages, commends itself because it is simple, coherent, empirically efficient and in conformity with semiology

A Pilot Study of Propofol as an Anti-emetic in Laparoscopic, Gynecologic Surgery Patients

The goal of this project was to use sub-hypnotic doses of propofol to decrease post operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) rates in the immediate post-operative period in females, ages 18-65, undergoing laparoscopic gynecologic surgery. PONV is one of the largest complications of anesthesia affecting 20-30% of all surgical patients. Risk factors associated with PONV are female gender, laparoscopy, general anesthesia, opioids, volatile agents, and post-operative pain; all of which are frequently encountered. The incidence of PONV can prolong recovery time, delay discharge, increase patient cost, decrease patient satisfaction, and can cause significant medical complications. Propofol has previously demonstrated anti-emetic properties; often being used in total intravenous anesthesia in patients with known PONV. This pilot study investigated if the administration of a sub-hypnotic dose of propofol, as an anti-emetic during emergence period of anesthesia, affects PONV rates during the immediate post-operative period. A randomized, blinded, controlled comparison group study was conducted to investigate the use of propofol as an antiemetic. A group of 10 (N=10) ASA I or II patients, ages 18-65, undergoing laparoscopic, gynecologic surgery were examined using a verbal analog scale. These patients were randomly assigned to a control group which received ZofranTM only, or a treatment group which received ZofranTM and propofol. A paired samples t-test failed to reveal a statistically reliable difference between the mean of the CX (M = 0, s = 0) and TX (M = 2.00, s = 4.472) group created during this pilot study, t(8) = 1.000, p = .0.174, α = .05. A chi-square test was performed and no relationship was found between the CX and TX groups in relation to vomiting, X2 (1, N = 10) = 1.111, p =0.146. Thus, the pilot study determined there was no statistical significance of preventing PONV with sub-hypnotic doses of propofol

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Réalité et fiction du temps opératif en psychomécanique

Transformant la structure linguistique en procès et les oppositions en positions dans un continuum, le paramètre du temps opératif fait de la psychomécanique une théorie mentaliste et énonciative.Son revers est que la durée, substrat des opérations mentales, est corvéable à merci. Les guillaumiens tendent à abuser de cette facilité, en y référant des différences de sens qui résultent en fait de la combinatoire discursive : d’où une polysémie généralisée qui viole la fonction sémiologique et alourdit les composantes morphologique et syntaxique. La nécessaire réaction est amorcée.The parameter of operative time which transforms the linguistic structure into a process and the oppositions into positions in a continuum makes of psychomechanics a mentalist and enunciative theory.The drawback is the fact that the duration, substratum of the mental operations, is exploitable ad infinitum. Guillaumians tend to abuse this facility by referring to it differences in meaning which actually are a result of the contextual interplay in discourse. As a consequence, polysemy is generalized, a fact which violates the semiological function and overloads the morphological and syntactical components. The required counter-movement has started

Graphical statistics to explore the natural and anthropogenic processes influencing the inorganic quality of drinking water, ground water and surface water

Plots of cumulative distribution functions (CDF) are a simple but powerful exploratory data analysis (EDA) tool to evaluate and compare statistical data distributions. Here, empirical CDF plots are used to compare results of four large (476 to 884 samples) national- to continental-scale inorganic water chemistry data sets: (1) European surface water, (2) European tap water, (3) European bottled waters as a proxy for groundwater and (4) Norwegian crystalline bedrock rock groundwater, all analysed at the same laboratory, albeit at different times. For many parameters (e.g., Ba, Cl-, K, SO4 2-) median values and ranges are, given the differing origins and, in some cases, treatment processes of the waters, surprisingly comparable. Unusually high concentrations of some other elements (e.g., B, Be, Br, Cs, F-, Ge, Li, Rb, Te and Zr) appear to be characteristic of deeper-seated, mature groundwaters. Other influences that can be inferred include contamination from well construction or plumbing materials (Cu, Pb, Zn – in tap waters, bottled waters and Norwegian groundwaters), water treatment (Fe, Mn – in tap- and Norwegian groundwater), bottle materials (Sb - bottled waters). The empirical CDF plots also reveal analytical issues for some elements (excessive rounding, element interferences). The best reference for natural and uncontaminated ’water’ is probably provided by the mineral water samples, representing ’deep groundwater’ at the European scale

Sharp uniform-in-time propagation of chaos

We prove the optimal rate of quantitative propagation of chaos, uniformly in time, for interacting diffusions. Our main examples are interactions governed by convex potentials and models on the torus with small interactions. We show that the distance between the $k$-particle marginal of the $n$-particle system and its limiting product measure is $O((k/n)^2)$, uniformly in time, with distance measured either by relative entropy, squared quadratic Wasserstein metric, or squared total variation. Our proof is based on an analysis of relative entropy through the BBGKY hierarchy, adapting prior work of the first author to the time-uniform case by means of log-Sobolev inequalities.Comment: 28 page