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Non-Isochronous Meter: A Study of Cross cultural practice, analytic technique, and implications for jazz pedagogy
This dissertation examines the use of non-isochronous (NI) meters in jazz compositional and performative practices (meters as comprised of cycles of a prime number [e.g., 5, 7, 11] or uneven divisions of non-prime cycles [e.g., 9 divided as 2+2+2+3]). The explorative meter practices of jazz, while constituting a central role in the construction of its own identity, remains curiously absent from jazz scholarship. The conjunct research broadly examines NI meters and the various processes/strategies and systems utilized in historical and current jazz composition and performance practices.
While a considerable amount of NI meter composers have advertantly drawn from the metric practices of non-Western music traditions, the potential for utilizing insights gleaned from
contemporary music-theoretical discussions of meter have yet to fully emerge as a complimentary and/or organizational schemata within jazz pedagogy and discourse. This paper seeks to address
this divide, but not before an accurate picture of historical meter practice is assessed, largely as a means for contextualizing developments within historical and contemporary practice and
discourse. The dissertation presents a chronology of explorative meter developments in jazz, firstly, by tracing compositional output, and secondly, by establishing the relevant sources within
conjunct periods of development i.e., scholarly works, relative academic developments, and tractable world music sources. Bridging the gap between world music meter sources and
theoretical musicology (primarily, the underlying perceptual and cognitive model which represents a topology of the structural premises of meter) the research acts to direct and inform a
compositional process which directly accounts for an isomorphic link between structurally similar meters
The First Moments of Nucleon Generalized Parton Distributions
We extrapolate the first moments of the generalized parton distributions
using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The calculation is based on the
one loop level with the finite range regularization. The description of the
lattice data is satisfactory and the extrapolated moments at physical pion mass
are consistent with the results obtained with dimensional regularization,
although the extrapolation in the momentum transfer to does show
sensitivity to form factor effects which lie outside the realm of chiral
perturbation theory. We discuss the significance of the results in the light of
modern experiments as well as QCD inspired models.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Simulations of a Scintillator Compton Gamma Imager for Safety and Security
We are designing an all-scintillator Compton gamma imager for use in security
investigations and remediation actions involving radioactive threat material.
To satisfy requirements for a rugged and portable instrument, we have chosen
solid scintillator for the active volumes of both the scatter and absorber
detectors. Using the BEAMnrc/EGSnrc Monte Carlo simulation package, we have
constructed models using four different materials for the scatter detector:
LaBr_3, NaI, CaF_2 and PVT. We have compared the detector performances using
angular resolution, efficiency, and image resolution. We find that while PVT
provides worse performance than that of the detectors based entirely on
inorganic scintillators, all of the materials investigated for the scatter
detector have the potential to provide performance adequate for our purposes.Comment: Revised text and figures, Presented at SORMA West 2008, Published in
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Scienc
Double deeply virtual Compton scattering off the nucleon
We study the double deeply virtual Compton scattering (DDVCS) process off the
nucleon, through the scattering of a spacelike virtual photon with large
virtuality resulting in the production of a timelike virtual photon, decaying
into an e^+ e^- pair. This process is expressed in the Bjorken regime in terms
of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and it is shown that by varying the
invariant mass of the lepton pair, one can directly extract the GPDs from the
observables. We give predictions for the DDVCS cross section and beam helicity
asymmetry and discuss its experimental feasibility.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
DVCS amplitude with kinematical twist-3 terms
We compute the amplitude of deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) using
the calculus of QCD string operators in coordinate representation. To restore
the electromagnetic gauge invariance
(transversality) of the twist-2 amplitude we include the operators of twist-3
which appear as total derivatives of twist-2 operators. Our results are
equivalent to a Wandzura-Wilczek approximation for twist-3 skewed parton
distributions. We find that this approximation gives a finite result for the
amplitude of a longitudinally polarized virtual photon, while the amplitude for
transverse polarization is divergent, i.e., factorization breaks down in this
term. However, the divergent part has zero projection onto the polarization
vector of the final real photon.Comment: 8 pages, Latex; discussion of singularities correcte
The detection of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) using loop mediated isothermal amplification in conjunction with a simplified DNA extraction process
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a commercially important species of white fish, and one of three species legally identifiable as cod in the UK. Mislabelling of G. morhua does occur, as does the substitution of G. morhua for less expensive species. Sensitive molecular tests based on PCR have been developed for this species, but they have limitations, including the need for expensive thermal cycling equipment, and complex DNA extraction procedures. A loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay was designed for the G. morhua cytochrome b gene, which was capable of detecting 0.1% w/w G. morhua in a homogenised raw fish mix. The LAMP assay was also able to detect G. morhua DNA when a rapid sample preparation was used, involving heating 100 mg of fish in a 1 ml aliquot of water and testing the supernatant, showing a higher tolerance of amplification inhibitors than a PCR assay. The LAMP assay did not generate a positive result when challenged with a range of non-target species, including Gadus macrocephalus, and Gadus chalcogrammus, indicating a high level of specificity. Direct detection of a positive reaction using propidium iodide was also demonstrated
Some aspects of chemical energy in geology
Thesis. (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Geology, 1952.Vita.Bibliography: leaves 155-162.by Vincent Alexander Saull.Ph.D
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