Developing creativity in exceptional young dancers: An investigation of the Dance4 Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) programme

This research study is an investigation on the development of creativity in dance training for exceptional young dancers in the UK. The aim for this research is to articulate how creativity is conceptualised in dance training and to provide insight into how creativity might be further nurtured. The Dance4 Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) programme, a pre-vocational training programme for young dance talents aged 11-18 in the East Midlands, is the primary field of study. Through an ethnographically informed approach to dance studies, this qualitative research provides a multi-dimensional narrative. As the researcher, I take on the role of both a non-participatory observer as well as an active dance teacher in the programme, allowing for the teaching and learning of dance at Dance4 CAT to be examined from both the periphery as well as within. The notion of modalities of learning is proposed as a new approach in conceptualising how learning is achieved in dance training. In order to capture findings from the ethnographic field, the Replication-Discovery Model of Creativity in Dance Learning is devised to illustrate the relationship between pedagogic intent, modalities of learning and creativity. Through investigation, reflection and development of pedagogical practices and curriculum design, this research aims to contribute to the future development of the Dance4 CAT programme as well as training for exceptional talents in dance both nationally and internationally. This study argues for dance training that embraces the integration of multiplicities stemming from the agency of young dancers as a possible way of nurturing creativity

Nuclear magnetic resonance implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm using different initial states

The Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm distinguishes constant functions from balanced functions with a single evaluation. In the first part of this work, we present simulations of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) application of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm to a 3-spin system for all possible balanced functions. Three different kinds of initial states are considered: a thermal state, a pseudopure state, and a pair (difference) of pseudopure states. Then, simulations of several balanced functions and the two constant functions of a 5-spin system are described. Finally, corresponding experimental spectra obtained by using a 16-frequency pulse to create an input equivalent to either a constant function or a balanced function are presented, and the results are compared with those obtained from computer simulations.Comment: accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physic

A Study of Longitudinal Oscillations of Propellant Tanks and Wave Propagations in Feed Lines. Part III - Wave Propagation in an Elastic Pipe Filled with Incompressible Viscous Streaming Fluid

Longitudinal wave propagation in elastic pipe filled with incompressible viscous streaming flui

Surface topographical changes measured by phase-locked interferometry

An electronic optical laser interferometer capable of resolving depth differences of as low as 30 A and planar displacements of 6000 A was constructed to examine surface profiles of bearing surfaces without physical contact. Topological chemical reactivity was determined by applying a drop of dilute alcoholic hydrochloric acid and measuring the profile of the solid surface before and after application of this probe. Scuffed bearing surfaces reacted much faster than virgin ones but that bearing surfaces exposed to lubricants containing an organic chloride reacted much more slowly. The reactivity of stainless steel plates, heated in a nitrogen atmosphere to different temperatures, were examined later at ambient temperature. The change of surface contour as a result of the probe reaction followed Arrhenius-type relation with respect to heat treatment temperature. The contact area of the plate of a ball/plate sliding elastohydrodynamic contact run on trimethylopropane triheptanoate with or without additives was optically profiled periodically. As scuffing was approached, the change of profile within the contact region changed much more rapidly by the acid probe and assumed a constant high value after scuffing. A nonetching metallurgical phase was found in the scuff mark, which was apparently responsible for the high reactivity

Structure of the chromosphere-corona transition region

Structure and energy distribution of chromosphere-corona transition regio

Surface profile changes of scuffed bearing surfaces

A phase locked interference microscope capable of resolving depth differences to 30 A and planar displacements of 6000 A was constructed for the examination of the profiles of bearing surfaces without physical contact. This instrument was used to determine surface chemical reactivity by applying a drop of dilute alcoholic hydrochloric acid and measuring the profile of the solid surface before and after application of this probe. Scuffed bearing surfaces reacted much faster than unscuffed ones, but bearing surfaces which had been previously exposed to lubricants containing an organic chloride reacted much more slowly. In a separate series of experiments, a number of stainless steel plates were heated in a nitrogen atmosphere to different temperatures and their reactivity examined later at room temperature. The change of surface contour as a result of the probe reaction followed an Arrhenius type relation with respect to heat treatment temperature. This result could have implications on the scuffing mechanism