Emily Townsend, Viola

Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919) / Rebecca Clarke; Capriccio for Solo Viola, Op. 55 (Op. posth. 9) / Henri Vieuxtemps; Sinfoinia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra / W. A. Mozar

THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF THE AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER: ORIGINAL PRACTICES AND THE ACTORS' RENAISSANCE SEASON IN STAUNTON, VA

The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA prides itself on a history of producing the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in a manner that borrows certain staging conditions of the Early Modern period. With the inception of the yearly Actors' Renaissance Season in 2005, the ASC has taken a significant step further into the world of original staging conditions by allowing its company of veteran actors to produce the plays of the season without directors or designers in only a matter of days. While the Renaissance Season is built on a scholarly foundation and must carefully juggle claims of producing "authentic" Shakespeare, it is ultimately striving towards its own interpretation of authenticity. This thesis asks what the contribution of the Actors' Renaissance Season is to the broader conversation about Original Practices Shakespearean performance techniques and examines its unique combination of OP preparatory and performance style

Bristol urban integrated diagnostics project. Challenge theme report: Carbon neutral city

This report presents the key findings of the Carbon Neutral City theme of the Bristol Urban Integrated Diagnostics (Urban ID) pilot project, one of its four themes and five case studies. Urban ID was one of a small number of projects funded by the seven UK Research Councils and Innovate UK’s Urban Living Consortium to explore sustainability in city contexts. Urban ID brought together researchers from the two universities in Bristol, representatives of Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council, the Bristol Green Capital Partnership, Bristol Health Partners, community groups and companies to explore and co-create means of diagnosing urban sustainability problems and potential solutions.The carbon neutral city theme explored four key questions:•What does ‘carbon neutrality’ means for the Bristol Urban Area (and what is the Bristol Urban Area) and over what timescale should such a vision be achieved?•What are the barriers to decarbonisation across the three scopes of carbon emissions (energy use; energy supply; consumption of goods and services)?•Can Urban ID co-design top-level aims and aspirations for the Bristol Urban Area in relation to carbon neutrality up to 2050?•Can carbon neutrality for the Bristol Urban Area include ‘all embodied carbon’ as well as emissions from energy use and supply?The project team concluded that in order to develop a pathway to carbon neutrality for the Bristol urban area there are several key questions to be addressed:1) What is the carbon budget for the urban area associated with energy production and use in the city region across different sectors – energy supply, domestic, transport, industrial and commercial?2) What are the current emissions from scopes 1, 2 and 3 (energy use; energy supply; and consumption of goods and services)?3) What are the ‘business as usual’ projections for emissions to 2030 and 2050 and how do these differ from a carbon neutral pathway?4) What mitigation actions are needed in different sectors to ‘zero’ the per-capita emissions value and how can carbon budgets assist with this?5) What is the embedded carbon in goods and services consumed and items purchased in the urban area and is this included in the carbon neutral definition? 6) What level of carbon sequestration is it appropriate to consider to offset any remaining emissions after mitigation actions across sectors?7) What are the geographical and economic boundaries of the Bristol Urban Area in relation to the carbon neutrality definition?8) What is the baseline year and what is the end point/target year for the Bristol Urban Area?The project reveals significant challenges in attempts to design and implement a pathway to a carbon neutral city, but also offers a range of insights and suggestions as to how the above questions might be addressed

Term Harvesting & Generation Guide

The "Term Harvesting & Generation Guide" outlines term harvesting strategies to help build the list of search terms for advanced literature reviews, such as systematic reviews. The Guide was developed by a team of Taubman Health Sciences Library Informationists as an instructional tool for the Systematic Reviews: Opportunities for Librarians Workshop and Advanced Literature Searching in the Health Sciences Massive Open Online Course.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/153785/4/Term_Harvesting_and_Generation_Guide.pd

Facilitating stakeholder dialogues on a carbon neutral city: We need to talk about carbon (and air quality)

© 2018 WIT Press. The issues surrounding successful public engagement with climate change mitigation policy and decision-making have been extensively researched and identified as barriers to long-term civic and civil engagement. The challenge of transforming our urban spaces to mitigate and adapt to climate change was a key theme of the Bristol Urban ID project, which explored the “business as usual” approaches in policy, practice and engagement that limit truly transformational actions. As part of the project, a Carbon Neutral Bristol 2050 roundtable was held with civic leaders and stakeholders. Discussions focussed on defining carbon neutrality targets, “scopes” and boundaries for Bristol, exploring the opportunity for Bristol to be a carbon neutral city leader, how to build political, business and citizen space for engagement with carbon neutrality, and the role of Bristol Green Capital Partnership (BGCP), a cross-sector network of over 800 organisation working for a sustainable city, as an enabler and facilitator of change. The findings demonstrate a need for organisations working on interconnected environmental, social and wellbeing, and economic issues in cities, such as carbon neutrality and air pollution, to communicate and collaborate. Partnership working is essential to improving city-wide engagement in carbon and air quality management decision making, and to developing integrated city sustainability management strategies that recognise co-benefits and trade-offs. A set of guidelines highlight the need to create political space for people and organisations to talk about carbon and air pollution to develop city plans

Heavy fermion effective mass in the superconducting vortex state

The extended-Lifshitz-Kosevitch formalism (ELK) unifies the treatment of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect, allowing it to transcend its traditional roles of mapping Fermi surfaces and measuring effective masses. Here we exploit the capabilities of dHvA as a probe of many-body effects to examine heavy-fermion su- perconductivity. ELK successfully describes dHvA in heavy fermion materials using a slave-boson model in mean field, and in type-II superconducing materials with the introduction of a self energy due to interactions with the vortex lattice. We propose a model for combining these two many-body effects, and examine its implications for dHvA measurements. The result retains the two important characteristics of its parent models: an enhanced effective mass and temperature-independent damping of the oscillations in the superconducting state. However no suppression of the heavy mass is predicted in the superconducting state, contrary to experiment

Incidence of Severe Hepatotoxicity Related to Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients

Introduction. Hepatotoxicity is a concern in HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfected patients due to their underlying liver disease. This study assessed the incidence of hepatotoxicity in HIV/HCV co-infected patients in two outpatient infectious diseases clinics. Methods. HIV/HCV co-infected adults were included in this retrospective study if they were PI or NNRTI naïve at their first clinic visit and were initiated on an NNRTI- and/or PI-based antiretroviral regimen. Patients were excluded if they had active or chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). The primary objective was to determine the overall incidence of severe hepatotoxicity. Results. Fifty-six of the 544 patients identified met inclusion criteria. The incidence of severe hepatotoxicity was 10.7% (6/56 patients). Severe hepatotoxicity occurred with efavirenz (N = 2), nevirapine (N = 1), indinavir (N = 1), nelfinavir (N = 1), and saquinavir/ritonavir (N = 1). Conclusion. The incidence of severe hepatotoxicity appears to be low in this retrospective analysis of HIV/HCV co-infected patients receiving a PI-and/or NNRTI-based regimen