A Presentation of World Musical Styles of the Western Boehm Flute

Long prior to planning my senior recital I mentioned to my flute professor, who would become my mentor for the Senior Honors Project, that I was interested in the music of other cultures. She mentioned the term ‘ethnomusicology’ to me, but at the time I wasn’t familiar with that field. This became the central point upon which I built my project. My goal was to introduce to the audience music that did not meet their expectations of Western flute repertoire, and to challenge their preconceptions about flute music

Profiling Children With Cerebral Visual Impairment Using Multiple Methods of Assessment to Aid in Differential Diagnosis

International audienceCerebral (cortical) visual impairment (CVI) is the primary cause of visual impairment in children in high-income countries. It is increasing globally due to improved life-saving measures for premature and full-term infants. Yet the consequences of this condition are only beginning to be understood and addressed. In contrast to visual impairment due to refractive error and disorders of the eye, there is limited public awareness of CVI, and the consequent impairment of a variety of visual capabilities may go unidentified, adversely affecting cognitive, motor, and social development. CVI refers to visual perception deficits not related to the peripheral (i.e., prechiasmatic) system disorder, but rather, to injury to brain areas serving assimilation, integration, and interpretation of visual information. According to the topography, site, and the extent of the pathology, the deficit may variably concern central visual functions, the visual field, perception of movement, visual analysis, visual exploration and attention, or visual memory, as well as visual guidance of movement. Each affected child has a unique clinical picture, which needs to be identified and individually profiled. This is probably the underlying reason that CVI is commonly underdiagnosed, especially in children, and, as a consequence, the full range of potential behavioral outcomes are not identified and adequately addressed. The present paper shows how the use of multiple methods of assessment can improve the understanding of children with CVI

A Presentation of World Musical Styles of the Western Boehm Flute

Long prior to planning my senior recital I mentioned to my flute professor , who would become my mentor for the Senior Honors Project , that I was interested in the music of other cultures. She mentioned the term 'ethnomusicology' to me , but at the time I wasn't familiar with that field. This became the central point upon which I built my project. My goal was to introduce to the audience music that did not meet their expectations of Western flute repertoire , and to challenge their preconceptions about flute music

A Presentation of World Musical Styles of the Western Boehm Flute

Long prior to planning my senior recital I mentioned to my flute professor , who would become my mentor for the Senior Honors Project , that I was interested in the music of other cultures. She mentioned the term 'ethnomusicology' to me , but at the time I wasn't familiar with that field. This became the central point upon which I built my project. My goal was to introduce to the audience music that did not meet their expectations of Western flute repertoire , and to challenge their preconceptions about flute music

Voyage

Premiere performance of flute quartet by ECU student composer Julian Ward. Recorded at A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall on November 20th, 2014

Voyage

Premiere performance of flute quartet by ECU student composer Julian Ward. Recorded at A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall on November 20th, 2014.Composer: Julian Ward

Two pathogen loci determine Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici virulence to wheat resistance gene Pm1a

Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) is a globally important fungal pathogen of wheat that can rapidly evolve to defeat wheat powdery mildew (Pm) resistance genes. Despite periodic regional deployment of the Pm1a resistance gene in U.S. wheat production, Bgt strains that overcome Pm1a have been notably non-persistent in the U.S., while on other continents they are more widely established. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted to map sequence variants associated with Pm1a virulence in 216 Bgt isolates from six countries, including the U.S. A virulence variant apparently unique to Bgt isolates from the U.S. was detected in the previously mapped gene AvrPm1a (BgtE-5612) on Bgt chromosome 6; an in-vitro growth assay suggested no fitness reduction associated with this variant. A gene on Bgt chromosome 8, Bgt-51526, was shown to function as a second determinant of Pm1a virulence and despite <30% amino acid identity, BGT-51526 and BGTE-5612 were predicted to share >85% of their secondary structure. A co-expression study in Nicotiana benthamiana showed that BGTE-5612 and BGT-51526 each produce a PM1A-dependent hypersensitive response. More than one member of a B. graminis effector family can be recognized by a single wheat immune receptor, and a two-gene model is necessary to explain virulence to Pm1a