Cynthia and Parodies

Includes: Cynthia , by Grace Ferguson and Parodies , by Gene Smith and Grace Ferguso

A Group of Characters

The character is a literary form usually presenting a type, and most highly developed during the 17th century

American Legacy; David Walker; 1998

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Controlled vocabularies in bioinformatics: A case study in the Gene Ontology

The automatic integration of information resources in the life sciences is one of the most challenging goals facing biomedical informatics today. Controlled vocabularies have played an important role in realizing this goal, by making it possible to draw together information from heterogeneous sources secure in the knowledge that the same terms will also represent the same entities on all occasions of use. One of the most impressive achievements in this regard is the Gene Ontology (GO), which is rapidly acquiring the status of a de facto standard in the field of gene and gene product annotations, and whose methodology has been much intimated in attempts to develop controlled vocabularies for shared use in different domains of biology. The GO Consortium has recognized, however, that its controlled vocabulary as currently constituted is marked by several problematic features - features which are characteristic of much recent work in bioinformatics and which are destined to raise increasingly serious obstacles to the automatic integration of biomedical information in the future. Here, we survey some of these problematic features, focusing especially on issues of compositionality and syntactic regimentation

Challenges in International Security: Kidnapping & Crisis Management

According to the UN, kidnapping is a crime that victimizes more than 10,000 persons each year. Silence (of both the victims and their rescuers) is the rule, not the exception.     If you ever experience this type of crisis, would you be prepared for the ripple effect of confusion, fear and turmoil? Dozens, even hundreds, of persons might be impacted—family members, colleagues, personnel in the country where you work and personnel at corporate headquarters. Other organizations are likely to be drawn in as well-law enforcement agencies, humanitarian groups, Embassy representative

The Life and Work of the Orchestral Bass Trombonist, Allen Ostrander, and the Development of His Bass Trombone Methods and Solos.

The purpose of this monograph is to document the career of Allen Ostrander as an orchestral bass trombonist as well as an arranger and composer for the instrument. It also examines the significant contributions be made regarding performance skills, teaching, and improvements to the bass trombone. The research was accomplished primarily by conducting an interview with Ostrander. Additional information came from former colleagues, students, and orchestras that give insight into his life and career as performer, composer, and teacher. The monograph begins with a discussion of Ostrander\u27s tenor trombone studies before he became a professional bass trombonist. He studied with some of the most prominent brass instrumentalists of his day including Ernest Williams, Gardell Simons, and Simone Mantia among others. Ostrander\u27s professional career began in 1935 when he won an audition for the bass trombone position with the National Symphony Orchestra. It marked the first time he had ever played the bass trombone. He taught himself the skills needed to play it by applying what he already had learned from his previous teachers. He spent the next forty years as a professional bass trombonist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, NBC Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. The twenty-nine years Ostrander performed with the New York Philharmonic are most significant because of the popularity he enjoyed while he was with it. More trombonists became interested in playing the bass trombone and he began teaching it. Ostrander composed the first bass trombone method book in the United States while teaching his first bass trombone student. He subsequently composed and arranged several bass trombone methods, etudes, and solos. He also contributed to the design of the double valve bass trombone. Ostrander\u27s approach to teaching bass trombone performance is documented through his method books and the students he taught. He places special emphasis on tone quality, intonation, rhythmic accuracy, and proper phrasing. Ostrander passes on a great legacy for bass trombonists through his method books and teaching as well as his own performing ability