Developing A Curriculum For A Contemporary Music (Jazz) Performance Undergraduate Program in Uganda

The stated goal of this Culminating Experience is to create a Contemporary Music (Jazz) Performance curriculum designed for Uganda and that such a program is relevant to the students who will be enrolled. This curriculum will outline and describe courses created for the program. It will give a sample course load by term over a three-year bachelor’s degree program. This will be accompanied a description of expected outcomes for all students completing the program. Emphasis is given to the integration of traditional African music and instruments with Western styles and instruments. This is a technical reason why the program must be designed for use specifically in Uganda and East Africa in general. Another factor in creating such a program will be explored in the justification area. Here we will see how Western approaches do not always do justice to an African reality and an indigenous approach is one whose time has come.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-contemporary-performance/1107/thumbnail.jp

EC1405 Barrel Incinerator for Dead Poultry

Extension circular 1405 discusses the barrel incinerator for dead poultry

How Am I Different? Childhood Cancer Survivors' Perspectives on Change and Growth

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Quantum Oscillations of Electrons and of Composite Fermions in Two Dimensions: Beyond the Luttinger Expansion

Quantum oscillation phenomena, in conventional 2-dimensional electron systems and in the fractional quantum Hall effect, are usually treated in the Lifshitz-Kosevich formalism. This is justified in three dimensions by Luttinger's expansion, in the parameter $omega_c/\mu$. We show that in two dimensions this expansion breaks down, and derive a new expression, exact in the limit where rainbow graphs dominate the self-energy. Application of our results to the fractional quantum Hall effect near half-filling shows very strong deviations from Lifshitz-Kosevich behaviour. We expect that such deviations will be important in any strongly-interacting 2-dimensional electronic system.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, LaTe

Mobility and inequality in the professoriate: how and why first-generation and working-class backgrounds matter

Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, – i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compared to other academic fields. Our analyses, which draw on unique survey items and open-ended qualitative materials from nearly 1,000 academic sociologists, reveal significant background divergences in academic job attainment, tied partly to educational background. Moreover, and especially unique and important, findings demonstrate significant consequences across several dimensions of inequality including compensation and economic precarity, professional visibility, and isolation at departmental, college or university, and professional levels. We conclude by highlighting how our discussion and results contribute in important ways to broader sociological concerns surrounding mobility, group disadvantage, and social closure.Published versio

The graduate school pipeline and first-generation/working-class inequalities

Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze graduate school pipeline divergences for first-generation and working-class students and the implications for inequalities in tangible resources, advising and support, and a sense of isolation. Our results point to an important connection between private undergraduate institutional enrollment and higher-status graduate program attendance—a pattern that undercuts social-class mobility in graduate training and creates notable precarities in debt, advising, and sense of belonging for first-generation and working-class graduate students. We conclude by discussing the unequal pathways revealed and their implications for merit and mobility, graduate training, and opportunity within our and other disciplines.Published versio

Disentangling the pollen signal from fen systems : modern and Holocene studies from southern and eastern England

Thick deposits of peat derived from fen environments accumulated in the coastal lowland areas adjacent to the North Sea during the middle and late Holocene. These sediments are frequently used in pollen-based reconstructions of in situ and more distant vegetation. However, discriminating between wetland and dry land originating pollen signals, and between the potential fen communities present in the wetland, is complex. In this study, a suite of analytical approaches are used to explore the pollen signal of modern fen communities and compare them against Holocene pollen assemblages. At two sites in eastern England, Woodwalton Fen and Upton Broad, vegetation composition was recorded around a series of moss polster sampling points. The communities investigated included herbaceous fen communities under different cutting regimes, a grazed area, glades, and woodland with canopies dominated by Alnus glutinosa and Betula. Cluster analysis is used to provide an overview of, and compare the structure within, the datasets consisting of the vegetation, the vegetation converted to palynological equivalents, and the pollen data. It is demonstrated that any loss of taxonomic precision in pollen identifications does not pose particular problems when attempting to identify fen communities, including tall-herbaceous vegetation, in the pollen record. Indices of Association imply pollen presence can be interpreted as indicating the local presence for some taxa, though few of these are confined to a particular community. Herbaceous fen vegetation subject to different management regimes are, however, shown to produce distinctive pollen signatures. Middle and late Holocene pollen assemblages from eastern (Fenland) and southern (Romney Marsh) England, interpreted as derived from fen vegetation, are compared against the modern pollen dataset using ordination. Most of the fossil samples plot out within or adjacent to the groupings produced by the modern samples in the ordinations. While these investigations demonstrate that modern pollen work can help improve the interpretation of Holocene assemblages they also call attention to a number of limitations including the restricted range of communities from which modern samples are currently available and the potential for non-analogous modern vegetation. The paper concludes with ideas to aid the interpretation of pollen data collected from fen peats and suggestions for future work

Meaning making and childhood cancer: A study of structure and agency in the narratives of Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo-American mothers of children with cancer.

How do mothers construct meaning around the experience of childhood cancer? For most people, cancer is a specter of death that enters without warning like a ruthless secret invasion (Sontag 1978). But when it strikes children, cancer is even more mysterious and threatening, for then it attacks the most innocent and most vulnerable members of society--those who society wants most to protect. In depth interviews were conducted with a total of fifty Mexican, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American mothers of children with cancer in two different hospital settings (in the United States and Mexico). The narratives that resulted from those interviews were then analyzed using qualitative, inductive, and thematic coding procedures. Narrative meaning was defined as sets of cognitive connections created by mothers in order to try to fit the reality of their child's diagnosis and treatment into a framework of understanding. These sets of connections clustered around problematic and/or particularly salient aspects of the experience of having a child in treatment for cancer. Discussion focuses on the ways differing sets of schemas and resources combined to create different meaning systems in the three respondent groups around issues such as cost of treatments, severity of symptoms at diagnosis, Latina self awareness, loosing sense of self, looking for causes, finding personal strength, and the community of mothers in the hospital. Not all issues were found in all three respondent groups.Ph.D.Ethnic studiesIndividual and family studiesSocial SciencesSociologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129501/2/9513504.pd