The Utilization of Perceptual Motor-Learning Principles for the Acquisition of Head Voice in the Post-Adolescent Bass Voice

Over the last two centuries, knowledge of the voice has grown exponentially due to advances in science, technology, and medicine. One no longer needs to guess regarding certain functions of the instrument through pure empiricism, but rather, principles or ideas can be brought to the laboratory and tested through simulation and studies. In the last few decades, scientists and pedagogues have realized that registration is not solely the result of laryngeal musculature, but also has implications in the acoustic environment of the vocal tract. This discovery has completely changed the way a teacher may look at training a voice, or fixing vocal issues. One avenue of voice training and science that has not received the same level of interest is the process in which we learn to sing. Significant strides have been made recently in the science of perceptual motor learning and is utilized to great effect in the field of Speech and Language Pathology. Given that the musical use of the voice is a highly complex motor skill, it is easy to appreciate the possible implications of borrowing theories and principles from motor learning science in order to better train singers. This study offers a discussion regarding commonly used terms in male registration, as well as a brief look at the history of male high voice singing. In addition, it explores certain principles of motor learning and subsequently how they can be employed to train the upper range of the low male voice. Detailed examples of exercises are provided, as well as short repertoire extracts for context

Manifestations that Matter: A Case of Oaxacan Ruin Possession

In order to understand the tensions and ties between Mitleños and INAH, I consider the role that these ‘relics of another world,’ as Bandelier (1884) once described the ruins, have in reconfiguring the communities that live within and around them. A striking relationship exists between the production of history, the way it is mobilized and performed, and the vitality or ‘becoming’ of monumental heritage. Landscapes such as Mitla’s are constituted by sedimentations of contested pasts. Saturated, then, with multiple meanings, Mitla’s seemingly ‘inanimate matter’ is animated by conflicts over definition. Indeed, it is continuously resignified by these exact disagreements. As such, this paper is an archaeological ethnography , interrogating what it means to be possessed by and dispossessed of monumental heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico. There are two particular social formations I am seeking to elucidate. First, I am interested in why it is that the ruins decided to manifest, to ‘show themselves’, at this moment in Mitleño history and in this particular, intangible yet embodied way. Second, what does it mean to listen to the ruins and to dwell with them? In my response to these questions, I move between posthumanist scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and the cosmological and historical worlds of Mitla, suggesting ultimately that both possession and dispossession must be understood in relation to the ruins’ own distinctive qualities and, equally, the ongoing control of heritage sites by INAH

Electrical characterization and application of pulsed DC magnetron sputtered zirconium oxide

As aggressive scaling of CMOS circuits continues, gate oxide thickness is reduced in order to maintain control of ever shrinking channel lengths. Current cutting edge transistors are using a gate oxide thickness below 20Å, approaching a regime where direct, or quantum, tunneling is the primary leakage mechanism. Below ~16Å, leakage becomes too great for use in MOS transistors. There are short-term fixes in place, however the industry road map indicates the need for an alternative to SiO2 within five years. Among the leading candidates is Zirconium Oxide (ZrO2). ZrO2 was investigated as a possible replacement for Si02 in MOS devices. A statistically designed experiment was utilized to optimize processing parameters. MOS capacitors were used as a test vehicle. Leakage less than 200pA, breakdown strength greater than 8MV/cm, and relative permittivity greater than 7, have been demonstrated. ZrO2 gate dielectric, PMOS transistors have been fabricated with l-V characteristics comparable to transistors with a SiO2 gate dielectric, as shown in the l-V plot below. An initial investigation into a damascene Copper/Titanium gate stack, utilizing ZrO2 as a gate dielectric, was also been performed. Capacitors fabricated in this manner exhibited similar reliability results as capacitors fabricated using conventional processes. Graph: lDS vs. VDS at different VGS, for a PMOS transistor with a ZrO2 gate dielectric. Graph is difficult to read

Female Leisure: The Motivations of Expats in South Korea

Serious leisure activities help expatriates overcome many of the challenges of living abroad but also can also improve their fitness and wellbeing. For female expats based in South Korea, leisure groups help them make friends, learn new skills, and overcome homesickness. Little research has been done to understand the motivations of female expat serious leisure, despite increasing global numbers. This research utilized 11 in-depth interviews with Korean based, female expats involved in serious leisure and details their motivations to join. Using grounded theory and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the results showed that the social aspect was the core motivation, although a desire to join in was also strong, and also that the expat context meant that homesickness and a chance for new experiences also influenced their motivations. Overall the findings highlighted the crucial role leisure plays in the participants wellbeing and happiness abroad

Effect of Diet on the Growth and Survival of Adrenalectomized Rats Treated with Corticosterone

Author Institution: Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Ohio at Toledo ; Bureau of Biological Research, Rutgers UniversityDietary protein content did not influence the life sustaining capacity of a daily 300 vg dose of corticosterone in adrenalectomized rats. A lower daily dosage of 150 ng was less effective when animals were fed a 5% casein diet. Depletion of body protein stores prior to adrenalectomy did not significantly alter the response pattern of animals maintained on a daily 300 fxg dose of corticosterone. Reducing the dietary protein content from 20% to 10% interfered with the capacity of the daily 150 /Jig dosage of corticosterone to support body weight gain in adrenalectomized rats. No significant changes in bod}^ weight were noted in adrenalectomized animals fed a 5% casein diet. Protein depletion had a favorable effect on this aspect of the hormone's activity when adrenalectomized rats were treated with the daily 300 ,ug dosage and refed 10% or 20% casein diets. Adrenalectomized animals maintained under these experimental conditions gained more weight than nondepleted animals fed the same diets

Evaluation of Learner vs. Teacher Centered Syllabi in Construction Management Courses: An Initial Investigation

Research indicates that retention and performance of undergraduate students increases when they perceive a cooperative and supportive educational community. The course syllabus is one of the first opportunities to influence student perception on their educational experience. Literature on syllabi suggests that learner-centered syllabi yield more positive student perceptions of teachers and the course as compared to traditional teacher-centered syllabi. Current research on the impacts of different syllabi constructs within construction education is lacking, and no studies could be found on whether these perceptions translate to student grades. This study used action research to better understand the impact of a learner-centered syllabus vs. a teacher-centered syllabus in an undergraduate construction management program. Student perception, faculty perception and student grades were measured between the learner-centered class and the teacher-centered class. The data was collected from four different classes, split among two courses, and taught by two faculty over the spring 2020 semester. Results suggested that the learner-centered syllabi appeared to motivate student engagement as well as impact both, the first impressions of the instructor and teacher-student relationship. However, it showed no difference in student grades

A Linguistic Analysis of Houston Stewart Chamberlain’s German Nationalist War Essays, 1914-1917

PhDThis thesis presents a critical discourse analysis of Houston Stewart Chamberlain’s German nationalist war propaganda essays written between 1914 and 1917. Focussing on Chamberlain’s discursive strategies of manipulation, the analysis explores how he uses language to suggest to his readers that they have freedom of thought while actually reducing or eradicating their critical disagreement space. As language is the sole vehicle for the manipulative dissemination of ideology in written discourse, this research makes a contribution to understanding the workings of propaganda as ideology-driven mass manipulation by exposing the linguistic mechanisms therein. The thesis also contributes to broader Chamberlain scholarship and, specifically, to as yet scant scholarship on Chamberlain as a nationalist propagandist rather than as a race theorist. After analysing the topical content of the war essays and contextualising the results against the local and global context of Chamberlain’s Germany, an extensive text analysis is provided. The text analysis follows a targeted multi-methodological approach combining methods of critical discourse analysis with pragma-dialectics and corpus-assisted discourse studies. This incorporates a corpus-assisted analysis of keywords and concordances, and a qualitative close-reading analysis addressing discourse strategies of legitimisation and delegitimisation, coercion and dissimulation. The major finding produced by this research is that Chamberlain’s war essays are just as much legitimisations of the author and his essays as they are of the essays’ topical ideological propositions. They are characterised by strategies of ‘othering’ on two levels: the topical ideological ‘othering’ of Germany’s war enemies in relation to the German ‘self’ and, on the meta-level, of the ‘othering’ of the readers in relation to the authorial ‘self’. Using an elaborate metaphor scenario, he delegitimises the reader by undermining the epistemic certainty of their environment, and correspondingly legitimises himself as the source of ‘enlightenment’. Using strategies of abstractive legitimisation and delegitimisation, he makes the war a human-centric matter, the resolution of war reader-dependent, and the solution to the war author-dependent, ultimately making Chamberlain’s justification of the ideological message dependent on the justification of his authorial means.Leverhulme Trust,as part of the Leverhulme funded project The Discourse of German Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 1871-1924