Performance and Procress: A Study on How to Develop, Maintain, and Reinvigorate Performance Quality

Performance and Procress is a performance thesis. I doing this thesis I wanted to achieve a better performance quality in myself and research how professional performers constantly better themselves. I was cast in J.T. Horenstein\u27s work Under the Ground during pLunge week. I rehearsed with the piece all semester long until our final performance in December. During the process, I developed my character, worked to master the dance steps, and pushed myself to constantly increase my expressivity. My research question asked how performers in extended runs of shows can keep the performance fresh and continue to motivate themselves to get better. I mainly used interviews with professionals who have been on Broadway for my primary research method. I also read biographies and memoirs of legends like Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins to understand how the absolute greats approached the performance. Ultimately my thesis gave me a greater knowledge of how to be a better performer and readied me to become a professional

Fluidic Technology and Some Recent Applications to Space and Oceanography

This paper is presented to show the degree of advancements that fluidic technology is making in various technical disciplines. Examples are used and discussed based on the many programs sponsored by the government. The references used here represent only a small percent of the total. Individuals with specific interests or applications can expand the reference list on the choosen subject to take advantage of the considerable amount of advanced research and development already completed

Evidence of Deep Water Penetration in Silica during Stress Corrosion Fracture

We measure the thickness of the heavy water layer trapped under the stress corrosion fracture surface of silica using neutron reflectivity experiments. We show that the penetration depth is 65–85 Å, suggesting the presence of a damaged zone of ~100 Å extending ahead of the crack tip during its propagation. This estimate of the size of the damaged zone is compatible with other recent results

Fractoluminescence characterization of the energy dissipated during fast fracture of glass

Fractoluminescence experiments are performed on two kinds of silicate glasses. All the light spectra collected during dynamic fracture reveal a black body radiator behaviour, which is interpreted as a crack velocity-dependent temperature rise close to the crack tip. Crack velocities are estimated to be of the order of 1300 m.s$^{-1}$ and fracture process zones are shown to extend over a few nanometers.Comment: Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters; 5 pages; 4 figure

Qualitative extension of the EC′ Zone Diagram to a molecular catalyst for a multi-electron, multi-substrate electrochemical reaction

Traverse the EC′ Zone Diagram with a molecular H 2 -evolving electrocatalyst through systematic variation of the acid p K a , scan rate, acid concentration and catalyst concentration

Human cancers over express genes that are specific to a variety of normal human tissues

We have analyzed gene expression data from 3 different kinds of samples: normal human tissues, human cancer cell lines and leukemic cells from lymphoid and myeloid leukemia pediatric patients. We have searched for genes that are over expressed in human cancer and also show specific patterns of tissue-dependent expression in normal tissues. Using the expression data of the normal tissues we identified 4346 genes with a high variability of expression, and clustered these genes according to their relative expression level. Of 91 stable clusters obtained, 24 clusters included genes preferentially expressed either only in hematopoietic tissues or in hematopoietic and 1-2 other tissues; 28 clusters included genes preferentially expressed in various non-hematopoietic tissues such as neuronal, testis, liver, kidney, muscle, lung, pancreas and placenta. Analysis of the expression levels of these 2 groups of genes in the human cancer cell lines and leukemias, identified genes that were highly expressed in cancer cells but not in their normal counterparts, and were thus over expressed in the cancers. The different cancer cell lines and leukemias varied in the number and identity of these over expressed genes. The results indicate that many genes that are over expressed in human cancer cells are specific to a variety of normal tissues, including normal tissues other than those from which the cancer originated. It is suggested that this general property of cancer cells plays a major role in determining the behavior of the cancers, including their metastatic potential.Comment: To appear in PNA