Folk Music of Atlantis: An Exploration of Water as a Sound Source in Music

Folk Music of Atlantis is a programmatic composition for water instruments and orchestra depicting the mythical city of Atlantis. I have researched water’s musical properties: its pitch bending, its ability to create sound through motion, and its percussive effects on various materials. Drawing upon my research, I have invented a collection of water-based instruments that take advantage of these properties. Folk Music of Atlantis demonstrates their potential, combining them with both the traditional orchestra and the innovations in water music of past composers. The written portion of the thesis includes a historical overview of water as a musical sound source, instructions for assembling the newly invented instruments, and an exegesis of Folk Music of Atlantis. It examines the interplay between form, thematic development, orchestration, and programmatic narrative, and demonstrates the ways in which the musical qualities of water inform the theoretical and programmatic underpinnings of the composition

Greek Tragedy and Trauma Retold in Three New Translations

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A Study To Determine The Adequacy Of The Business Department Of The Negro High Schools Of Dallas County

Purpose of The Study The purpose of this study is to determine how adequately Negro schools of Dallas County, Dallas, Texas are conforming to certain standards in business education. To assist the schools in ascertaining the effectiveness of the existing programs. To assist the schools in finding existing weaknesses in their programs. To help the schools recognize revisions needed in the present program. To provide better personnel for business through a more effective school curriculum. A comparative survey of business administration programs has been made, and the programs were evaluated by standards formulated by the texas education agency and recognized investigators in this field. After careful consideration of all the data available for this study, the writer made conclusions and recommendations with regard to the business education programs in the schools of Dallas county

Volatile Bubble Resorption in Silicate Melts & Magmas via Diffusive Mass Transfer

Bubble growth in magmas is a first-order control on volcanic eruption style, with changes typically resulting from re-equilibration in non-isothermal-isobaric conditions, or diffusive mass transfer of volatiles across the bubble interface. The latter process is well understood for bubbles coupled to high-viscosity liquids such as rhyolitic magmas associated with Plinian and Dome-forming eruptions, but two significant gaps remain: (1) changes to decoupled bubbles in lower viscosity fluids like basaltic magmas typical of Hawaiian or Strombolian eruptions, and (2) bubble resorption and magma regassing resulting from reverse volatile mass transfer into the magma. Using two new definitions of Péclet number for coupled and decoupled bubbles (Pes and Peb), and Sherwood number (Sh), these two complexities are explored through the relative timescales of diffusion and advection in analogue and magmatic bubble- melt. Numerical simulations find that in basaltic systems, spherical bubbles are almost always decoupled with resorption limited by diffusion (Peb ≫ 105 or Sh>10), meaning they resorb at the rate of diffusive mass transfer. By contrast, spherical bubbles in rhyolitic melts have restricted buoyancy making them coupled and their resorption limited by the high melt viscosity (Pes ≪ 105). In both melt compositions, resorption of the smallest bubbles (R0 < 1μm) becomes limited by surface tension effects. Experimental observations of decoupled bubbles show that larger bubbles described by high values of Peb resorb at a faster rate than smaller bubbles in lower Peb systems. This is attributed to larger bubbles rising faster to continually encounter new melt with a renewed concentration gradient. These findings have great significance to the modelling of eruptive volcanic processes, providing support for theories on the formation of bubble-free material, or dynamic magma regassing. Whilst a numerical model for decoupled bubble resorption in magmas is not yet complete, this thesis quantifies the onset of different bubble regimes for magmas of contrasting compositions

FALC stromal cells define a unique immunological niche for the surveillance of serous cavities

The serous cavities contain specialised adipose tissues which house small clusters of immune cells known as fat-associated lymphoid clusters (FALCs). The continuous flow of fluid from the serous cavities through FALCs makes them unique niches for the clearance of fluid phase contaminants and initiation of locally protective immune responses during infection and inflammation. Development, and activation of FALCs both at homeostasis and following inflammation are co-ordinated by the close interaction of mesothelial and fibroblastic stromal cell populations with immune cells. In this review we discuss recent developments in FALC stromal cell biology and highlight key interactions that occur between FALC stroma and immune cells

Historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales: the role of historians

This article reflects on methodological and ethical issues that have shaped a collaborative project which aims to chart social, legal and political responses to child sexual abuse in England and Wales across the twentieth century. The etymological problem of searching for child sexual abuse in the historical archive is discussed, given that the term itself is a relatively recent one. Acknowledging that research tools will always be partial, it then focuses on the gaps and silences in the archive, most problematically in relation to the voices and experiences of victims and survivors themselves. Finally it discusses ethical issues relating to the naming or anonymising of those accused and convicted (as well as victims and survivors) in the writing up of research findings. The discussion focuses on two key periods – the 1920s and 1950s – and on education policy, including regulatory procedures for teachers in state and fee-paying schools.ESRCThis is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Taylor & Francis via http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2016.117712

Performing "Moral Resistance"? Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Activism in Public Space

This article focuses on acts of resistance regarding reproductive politics in contemporary Britain. Drawing on empirical research this article investigates grassroots activism around a complex moral, social, and political problem. This article therefore focuses on a site of resistance in everyday urban environments, investigating the practice and performance involved. Identifying specifically the territory(ies) and territorialities of these specific sites of resistance, this article looks at how opposing groups negotiate conflict in public space in territorial, as well as habitual, ways. Second, the article focuses on questions around the impact, distinction, and novelty both in the immediate and long term of these acts of resistance for those in public space. Here, then, the focus shifts to the reactions to this particular form of protest and questions the “acceptability” of specific resistances in the public imaginary. </jats:p