Dear Jacques ... Lecoq in the twenty first century

This essay considers Jacques Lecoq's influence almost 20 years after his death. Arguing that Lecoq's pedagogy is largely as relevant today as it was when he was still alive, the author speculates whether Lecoq would have welcomed developments in the use of digital technology within live performance. The essay proposes that much of Lecoq's teaching with its emphasis on play, complicite, invention, imagination and the creative actor remains relevant to contemporary developments in site-specific, immersive and postdramatic theatre. The essay is constructed in the form of a posthumous letter to Jacques Lecoq

Algorithmic Programming Language Identification

Motivated by the amount of code that goes unidentified on the web, we introduce a practical method for algorithmically identifying the programming language of source code. Our work is based on supervised learning and intelligent statistical features. We also explored, but abandoned, a grammatical approach. In testing, our implementation greatly outperforms that of an existing tool that relies on a Bayesian classifier. Code is written in Python and available under an MIT license.Comment: 11 pages. Code: https://github.com/simon-weber/Programming-Language-Identificatio

Modelling and correcting for the impact of the gait cycle on touch screen typing accuracy

Walking and typing on a smartphone is an extremely common interaction. Previous research has shown that error rates are higher when walking than when stationary. In this paper we analyse the acceleration data logged in an experiment in which users typed whilst walking, and extract the gait phase angle. We find statistically significant relationships between tapping time, error rate and gait phase angle. We then use the gait phase as an additional input to an offset model, and show that this allows more accurate touch interaction for walking users than a model which considers only the recorded tap position

A conspiracy of orphans: John Berger and the art of creative attention

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Dear Jacques ... Lecoq in the twenty first century

This essay considers Jacques Lecoq's influence almost 20 years after his death. Arguing that Lecoq's pedagogy is largely as relevant today as it was when he was still alive, the author speculates whether Lecoq would have welcomed developments in the use of digital technology within live performance. The essay proposes that much of Lecoq's teaching with its emphasis on play, complicite, invention, imagination and the creative actor remains relevant to contemporary developments in site-specific, immersive and postdramatic theatre. The essay is constructed in the form of a posthumous letter to Jacques Lecoq

Alien Registration- Murray, Simon F. (Ashland, Aroostook County)

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Observing Star Formation in local Active Galactic Nuclei from Swift-BAT survey

A hallmark of the co-evolution between a super-massive black hole (SMBH) and its host galaxy is the connection between the growth of a SMBH (AGN activity) and of the galaxy (star formation). I investigate this connection by measuring the mean star formation rates (SFRs) of a sample of 313 galaxies of AGN selected from the Swift-BAT ultra-hard (14 – 195 keV) X-ray survey of the local Universe. This is achieved by separating the contribution of the AGN and star formation from the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the Swift-BAT AGN using infrared photometry from Herschel and WISE. I present the mean star formation rates (SFRs) as a function of bolometric AGN luminosity (LBOL) which show a rise towards higher luminosities (LBOL ≥ 1044 erg s-1). I set out a range of methods (e.g. stellar mass offsets from star-forming galaxy relations) to show that the rise in SFR is most likely a consequence of the high fraction of the higher luminosity subset being starbursts (i.e. an intense period of star formation in a galaxy) and of mass effects (i.e. more massive galaxies hosting more luminous AGN). In support of this main project, I investigate the value of modern Herschel photometry compared to legacy IRAS photometry in the estimation of SFRs. In addition I propose a new colour diagnostic for identifying AGN using Herschel photometry and assess how reliable our SED fitting procedure is by constraining the AGN template to subarcsecond resolution mid-infrared photometry

The basic bundle gerbe on unitary groups

We consider the construction of the basic bundle gerbe on SU(n) introduced by Meinrenken and show that it extends to a range of groups with unitary actions on a Hilbert space including U(n), diagonal tori and the Banach Lie group of unitary operators differing from the identity by an element of a Schatten ideal. In all these cases we give an explicit connection and curving on the basic bundle gerbe and calculate the real Dixmier-Douady class. Extensive use is made of the holomorphic functional calculus for operators on a Hilbert space

Expression in Escherichia coli of fragments of the coiled-coil rod domain of rabbit myosin: influence of different regions of the molecule on aggregation and paracrystal formation

We have expressed in Escherichia coli a cDNA clone corresponding broadly to rabbit light meromyosin (LMM) together with a number of modified polypeptides and have used this material to investigate the role of different aspects of molecular structure on the solubility properties of LMM. The expressed material was characterized biochemically and structurally to ensure that it retained the coiled-coil conformation of the native molecule. Full-length recombinant LMM retained the general solubility properties of myosin and, although soluble at high ionic strength, precipitated when the ionic strength was reduced below 0.3 M. Constructs in which the ‘skip’ residues (that disrupt the coiled-coil heptad repeat) were deleted had solubility properties indistinguishable from the wild type, which indicated that the skip residues did not play a major role in determining the molecular interactions involved in assembly. Deletions from the N terminus of LMM did not alter the solubility properties of the expressed material, but deletion of 92 residues from the C terminus caused a large increase in solubility at low ionic strength, indicating that a determinant important for interaction between LMM molecules was located in this region. The failure of deletions from the molecule's N terminus to alter its solubility radically suggested that the periodic variation of charge along the myosin rod may not be as important as proposed for determining the strength of binding between molecules and thus the solubility of myosin

Molecular basis of myosin assembly: coiled-coil interactions and the role of charge periodicities

Complementation of alternating zones of positive and negative charge in the myosin rod enables molecules to interact in a number of ways. This accounts for the complexity of the molecular organisation of thick filaments. However, directed mutagenesis of expressed LMM cDNA indicated that charge zone complementation is not a major driving force in myosin polymerisation. Instead, it probably serves to prevent unfavourable interaction geometries