538 research outputs found
Contemporary Music Notation for the Flute: A Unified Guide to Notational Symbols for Composers and Performers
David Cope stated: “There are two basic approaches to the study of New Music Notation: codification and comprehension […] what really needs to be done is not to keep listing the diverse ways each composer symbolizes his music or create substantially new and negating systems of notation, but to concentrate on codifying one way for future composers to symbolize their music.”[1]
In an attempt to limit the inconsistency and complexity characterizing contemporary notation idiomatic to the flute, this paper is the first to adopt Cope’s statement and ultimately apply it in relation to the notation of non-standard extended flute techniques. Following thorough examination of significant pre-existing literature pertaining to new music instrumental notation as well as comprehensive guides to contemporary flute notation, and the studying of over thirty scores for solo flute and flute ensemble, this work presents the various symbols of extended techniques employed in works since before the twentieth century, and suggests one-way to symbolize key clicks, pizzicato, tongue ram, singing and playing, speaking and playing, and aeolian sound.
The final selection of symbols in this study is based upon criteria directly related to their visual effectiveness in communicating the function of the extended technique they represent. Any symbol that resembles another preceding symbol, or is too abstract, has been rejected, and symbols that are a logical extension from traditional notation and immediately communicate the action a flutist should take to successfully produce the technique, has been retained.
[1] David Cope, New Music Notation (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub, 1976), xi
Alcohol Consumption Among Cannabis Users in Vermont
Objective: To examine the relationship between cannabis and alcohol consumption in Vermont; after the legalization of cannabis in 2018.
Methods: We used Vermont\u27s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey; this data included only participants who had reported alcohol use in the past year (n = 3,781). We used multiple linear regression to compare frequency of cannabis use against days per month of alcohol consumption and binomial logistic to compare regression to the frequency in which cannabis was used against the odds of Heavy Alcohol Consumption (HAC).
Results: We found that low and moderate cannabis users had more days of alcohol consumption on average than non-users. High cannabis users, however, had fewer days on average than non-users of cannabis. Additionally, compared to non-users, low, moderate, and high cannabis use was associated with increased odds of HAC.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that cannabis use may be predictive of alcohol consumption, so individuals, clinicians, and policymakers should be aware of how cannabis use could impact a person\u27s overall health picture
Assessment of Ongoing Challenges with the Parental Nutrition Ordering Processes Within the Lehigh Valley Health Network
Development of a Bereavement Program in the Intensive Care Unit: Helping Provide Nurses with Meaningful Closure Following the Death of a Patient
Fermion Masses in Emergent Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
We consider the generation of fermion masses in an emergent model of
electroweak symmetry breaking with composite gauge bosons. A universal
bulk fermion profile in a warped extra dimension is used for all fermion
flavors. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale where
boundary mass terms are added to generate the fermion flavor structure. This
leads to flavor-dependent nonuniversality in the gauge couplings. The effects
are suppressed for the light fermion generations but are enhanced for the top
quark where the and couplings can deviate at the
level in the minimal setup. By the AdS/CFT correspondence our model
implies that electroweak symmetry is not a fundamental gauge symmetry. Instead
the Standard Model with massive fermions and gauge bosons is an effective
chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV
scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism.Comment: modified discussion in Sec 3.1, version published in JHE
The Effective Lagrangian for Bulk Fermions in Models with Extra Dimensions
We compute the dimension 6 effective Lagrangian arising from the tree level
integration of an arbitrary number of bulk fermions in models with warped extra
dimensions. The coefficients of the effective operators are written in terms of
simple integrals of the metric and are valid for arbitrary warp factors, with
or without an infrared brane, and for a general Higgs profile. All relevant
tree level fermion effects in electroweak and flavor observables can be
computed using this effective Lagrangian.Comment: 22 pages. V2: typos corrected, matches published versio
Starting a New Oral Oncology Agent in the Midst of the Pandemic
Abbey Kaler pictured. Breast Medical Oncology
Kaler A, McClosky V, Raghavendra AS, Tripathy D. Oral Oncolytics: Using Remote Technology to Improve Access, Operational Efficiency, and Satisfaction. Clinical journal of oncology nursing. 2022;26(3):308-312. doi:10.1188/22.CJON.308-312https://openworks.mdanderson.org/aprn-week-22/1002/thumbnail.jp
Development and Implementation of Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity in the Primary Care Setting
Simple and Realistic Composite Higgs Models in Flat Extra Dimensions
We construct new composite Higgs/gauge-Higgs unification (GHU) models in flat
space that overcome all the difficulties found in the past in attempting to
construct models of this sort. The key ingredient is the introduction of large
boundary kinetic terms for gauge (and fermion) fields. We focus our analysis on
the electroweak symmetry breaking pattern and the electroweak precision tests
and show how both are compatible with each other. Our models can be seen as
effective TeV descriptions of analogue warped models. We point out that, as far
as electroweak TeV scale physics is concerned, one can rely on simple and more
flexible flat space models rather than considering their unavoidably more
complicated warped space counterparts. The generic collider signatures of our
models are essentially undistinguishable from those expected from composite
Higgs/warped GHU models, namely a light Higgs, colored fermion resonances below
the TeV scale and sizable deviations to the Higgs and top coupling.Comment: 30 figures, 9 figures; v2: minor improvements, one reference added,
version to appear in JHE
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