A comparison of related performance practices of late Renaissance Italian madrigals and twentieth century choral jazz ballads.

Primary sources that inform the performance practices of the jazz ballad, including recordings of solo artists, are presented. Recommendations are made for choral jazz ballad performance practice. Recorded examples and scores (original and altered versions) are provided for three works: Come Sunday by Duke Ellington, My Funny Valentine by Rogers and Hart, and I'll Be Seeing You by Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain.The case is made that the choral field suffers due to the lack of performance practice resources regarding late Renaissance Italian madrigals and twentieth-century choral jazz ballads. Musical-cultural contexts of both genres are reviewed, noting similarities and suggesting how a comparative study of these two performances practices can be mutually informative.Primary sources that inform the performance practices of the late Renaissance Italian madrigal are presented. Recommendations are made for late Renaissance Italian performance practice. Recorded examples and scores (original and altered versions) are provided for three works: Si, ch'io vorrei morire by Claudio Monteverdi, Io piango by Luca Marenzio, and Languisco e moro by Carlo Gesualdo.In conclusion, a comparison of late Renaissance Italian madrigal and twentieth-century choral jazz ballad performance practices is presented with similarities highlighted. The argument is made that given such commonalities, a comparative study is mutually informative and bridges classical and jazz musical environments to the benefit of the musical profession

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thesisBy analyzing evidence from the China 2000 and 2010 County-level Censuses, which includes over 3,000 county units, questions regarding which socio-demographic covariates correlate with the sex ratio at birth can be answered. This study investigated variables that have connections to gender discrimination - such as gender difference in illiteracy - and conducted OLS and logistic analysis at the 2000, 2010, and 2000-2010 years. Results indicate the gender difference in college enrollment revealed the most conclusive findings, with a positive relationship to the SRB at the 0.001 significance level. In two of the models, there was a positive correlation of the prevalence of multigenerational households and the SRB. All the results suggest that urbanization is a negative covariate of SRB, although results are not significant in the 2010 analysis. According to these results, efforts ought to be made at targeting women's education in counties with a large gender gap in college enrollment, policies ought to be catered to rural areas as well as urban areas, and formation of nuclear families ought to be encouraged as opposed to families based on virilocal marriage

Thrombin-anti-thrombin levels and patency of arterio-venous fistula in patients undergoing haemodialysis compared to healthy volunteers : a prospective analysis

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The co-production critical mix: the relationship between the small enterprise and business support

This paper sets out to identify how value is added for small enterprises engaging in business support and how this effects strategy development, using theories of co-production in the relationship between the business advisor and the small enterprise owner/manager and, more specifically, in the application of the critical mix (Brudney and England 1983)

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by african american (AA) and caucasian american (CA) older adults in a rural setting: a descriptive, comparative study

BACKGROUND: The use of CAM is at an all time high. There is very little research that compares the use of CAM in elders by ethnicity in rural settings. The purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference between African American and Caucasian American rural elders on use of CAM and self-reported satisfaction with CAM. METHODS: The design was a descriptive, comparative study of 183 elders who reported the number of CAM used and satisfaction with CAM. A convenience sample was recruited through community service organizations in the state of Mississippi. The availability of elders through the support groups, sampling bias, subject effect, and self-report were limitations of the study. RESULTS: The commonest examples of CAM used by rural elders were prayer, vitamins, exercise, meditation, herbs, chiropractic medicine, glucosamine, and music therapy. Significant findings on SES and marital status were calculated. Differences on ethnicity and demographic variables were significant for age, education, and the use of glucosamine. CONCLUSIONS: Health care providers must be aware that elders are using CAM and are satisfied with their use. Identifying different uses of CAM by ethnicity is important for health care practitioners, impacting how health care is provided

The phonology and morphology of Bachamal (Wogait)

This thesis sketches the phonology and morphology of Bachamal. The syntax, sentence intonation and genetic relationship of Bachamal to other Australian languages are not covered in this sub-thesis, but are to be investigated in a further study which will compare Bachamal and Emmi to establish the relationship of each language to each other, and to other neighbouring languages

A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia

This thesis provides the first detailed description of Emmi, a dying language spoken by about two dozen adults who are based at Belyuen on the Cox Peninsula west of Darwin. Chapter One first explains the geographical, historical and social context of the language and its speakers. It describes my fieldwork methodology, and provides an overview of the Emmi language and its typological singularities. It provides a critique of earlier work on the language and summarises what is known about the relationship of Emmi to neighbouring languages. Chapter Two describes the segmental phonology of the language. It provides evidence for the existence of a voicing contrast between stops and the existence of two phonemic fricatives. It shows how the stress patterns of complex morphemes which have been subsumed into the verb reveal that they were once independent words. Chapter Three describes the nominal morphology of the language, with particular reference to the role of adnominal enclitics as NP relators. It explains the function of the generic nouns awa 'meat' and miya 'edible plant, the five ways used to express the possessive relation, and the overlap between adjectives and nouns on the one hand, and adjectives and verbs on the other. Chapter Four explains verb structure, and analyses the morphology of the obligatory components: auxiliary verb, coverbs, bound pronominals, bound number words. Chapter Five examines the possible combinations of auxiliary and coverb and works out the semantic and syntactic motivations for cooccurrence. Chapter Six describes nominal incorporation, distinguishing between lexical and syntactic incorporation and showing how lexically incorporated bodyparts function as metaphors and classifiers for entities v1ith the same shape as the bodypart. Chapter Seven describes the functions of the fourteen propositional enclitics. Chapter Eight describes the syntax of simple and complex clauses with particular focus on serial ronstructions. It shows how the major intransitive auxiliary verbs have been polygrammaticised to provide aspectual information. Appendix A comprises Basedow's word-lists of the language, dating from 1906. Appendix B gives Capell's raw Ami data, dating from the 1950s. Appendix C sets out the auxiliary verb paradigms. Appendix D consists of six texts

Considering Vermont\u27s Future in a Changing Climate: The First Vermont Climate Assessment

The Vermont Climate Assessment (VCA) paints a vivid picture of a changing climate in Vermont and calls for immediate strategic planning to sustain the social, economic and environmental fabric of our state. The VCA is the first state-scale climate assessment in the country and speaks directly to the impacts of climate change as they pertain to our rural towns, cities and communities, including impacts on Vermont tourism and recreation, agriculture, natural resources and energy

Bridging the Climate Information Gap: A Framework for Engaging Knowledge Brokers and Decision Makers in State Climate Assessments

Large-scale analyses like the National Climate Assessment (NCA) contain a wealth of information critical to national and regional responses to climate change but tend to be insufficiently detailed for action at state or local levels. Many states now engage in assessment processes to meet information needs for local authorities. The goals of state climate assessments (SCAs) should be to provide relevant, actionable information to state and local authorities, and to generate primary sources, build networks and inform stakeholders. To communicate local climate impacts to decision makers, SCAs should express credibility, salience and legitimacy. They can provide information (e.g., case studies, data sets) and connect stakeholders to the NCA and its process. Based on our experience in the Vermont Climate Assessment (VCA), we present a framework to engage decision makers in SCAs using a fluid network of scientific experts and knowledge brokers to conduct subject area prioritization, data analysis and writing. The VCA addressed economic, environmental and social impacts of climate change at local scales to increase resiliency and manage risk. Knowledge brokers communicated VCA findings through their own stakeholder networks. We include a qualitative impact evaluation, and believe our framework for interaction among scientists, knowledge brokers and stakeholders to be an effective structure for SCAs and a transformative experience for students

Knowledge-driven mineral potential modelling: applying the Mineral Systems Approach to the west Kimberley, Australia

Regional prospectivity analysis of the west Kimberley has been undertaken using the results of geophysical structural interpretation and the mineral systems approach (MSA) to mineral potential modelling. Ore deposits are small expressions of much larger Earth processes and systems focusing mass and energy flux at multiple scales. The MSA provides a framework within which metal sources, fluid transport mechanisms and traps can be recognised and represented by predictor maps. Predictor maps act as proxies for mineral system processes and include distance to a particular geological feature, locations of rheological and chemical contrast, structural complexity and location of mantle-tapping structures. The approach to mineral potential modelling taken here combines different predictor maps in a knowledge-driven inference framework order to identify likely zones of mineralisation. Nickel-sulphide analysis indicates that the Inglis Fault and Yampi Fold Belt localises areas of increased mineral potential. Carbonate-hosted base metal prospectivity is restricted to regions overlying basement highs in the Lennard Shelf. A buried NW extension of the Oscar Range interpreted from geophysics is identified as a region of high mineral potential. Gold potential is mostly associated with the Inglis Fault, the Yampi Fold Belt and the central portion of the King Leopold Orogen. The centre, west and east of the King Leopold Orogen and parts of the Yampi Fold Belt show small, but high, regions of mineral potential for stratiform-hosted base metal deposits. The northwest and east of the King Leopold Orogen show small regions of tin-tungsten mineral potential. Intrusion-related base metal mineral potential is restricted to the Wotjulum Porphyry in the Yampi Fold Belt and the northern central part of the King Leopold Orogen