DJANK YUCCA

The DJANK YUCCA Performance System utilizes a production technique that DY has coined audio-quilting. Audio-quilting involves aspects of DJing – threading together short musical fragments into a larger, cohesive musical journey – and yet, audio- quilting involves production along with performance. Rather than focusing on producing complete tracks, DY focused on creating segments that would fit together and move the narrative forward. This catalogue of segments can be arranged in a variety of sequences in Ableton Live’s session mode, all the while maintaining cohesion and momentum.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1011/thumbnail.jp

The applicability of simple adaptive algorithms for the active control of random noise in ventilation ducts.

The term Active Noise Control (ANC) describes the suppression of an unwanted sound field by the superposition of an antiphase field. In general, an active control system consists of a sensing mechanism to detect the unwanted noise, a processing element to analyse the sound and produce the antiphase signal and a system of secondary sources to radiate the required antisound. The ideal ANC system would have the ability to modify its own response to accommodate any changes in the environment in which it is placed. Such as system is known as anadaptive one. This thesis is concerned with assessing the suitability of several different recursive algorithms for adapting digital controllers to control random noise within ventilation ducts. Algorithms for adapting both Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) digital filters are studied. Computer simulations are presented which directly compare the performance of the algorithms when used in system identification and when used to control adaptive systems in ducts. Experiments were made in ducts of varying length and ranging from anechoic to highly reverberant in nature. Conclusions drawn from the simulations indicate some very significant savings in terms of economy of filter length when implementing adaptive systems within the duct.<p

Cytokines regulate complement receptor immunoglobulin expression and phagocytosis of Candida albicans in human macrophages: A control point in anti-microbial immunity

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Complement Receptor Immunoglobulin (CRIg), selectively expressed by macrophages, plays an important role in innate immunity by promoting phagocytosis of bacteria. Thus modulation of CRIg on macrophages by cytokines can be an important mechanism by which cytokines regulate anti-microbial immunity. The effects of the cytokines, tumor necrosis factor, transforming growth factor-β1, interferon-γ, interleukin (IL)-4, IL-13, IL-10, IL-1β, IL-6, lymphotoxin-α, macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) and GM-CSF on CRIg expression were examined in human macrophages. We demonstrated that cytokines regulated the CRIg expression on macrophages during their development from monocytes in culture at the transcriptional level using qPCR and protein by Western blotting. Both CRIg spliced forms (Long and Short), were similarly regulated by cytokines. Direct addition of cytokines to matured CRIg+ macrophages also changed CRIg mRNA expression, suggesting that cytokines control macrophage function via CRIg, at two checkpoints. Interestingly the classical complement receptors, CR3 and CR4 were differentially regulated by cytokines. The changes in CRIg but not CR3/CR4 mRNA expression correlated with ability to phagocytose Candida albicans by macrophages. These findings suggest that CRIg is likely to be a control point in infection and immunity through which cytokines can mediate their effects, and is differentially regulated from CR3 and CR4 by cytokines

Concert recording 2018-04-29a

[Track 1]. Toccata / Girolamo Frescobaldi arranged by Joseph Skillen -- [Track 2]. Winds. I. Khamsin [Track 3]. II. Zephyrs [Track 4]. III. Bora [Track 5]. IV. Doldrums [Track 6]. V. Sirocco / Rodger Vaughan -- [Track 7]. David and Goliath / Michael Forbes -- [Track 8]. Down in the river / traditional arranged by David Gluck -- [Track 9]. Ball of fire / Steven Smalley -- [Track 10]. Ludus / Vaclav Nelhybel -- [Track 11]. Let love be heard / Jake Runestad arranged by Cody Hutchison -- [Track 12]. Meltdown / Jonathan Sass

Concert recording 2018-02-19

[Track 1]. The barber of Seville overture / Gioachino Rossini arranged by Hutchison -- [Track 2]. Capriccio for tuba and marimba / William Penn -- [Track 3]. Galgenlieder, op. 129. I. Das Geburtslied [Track 4]. II. Das Hemmed [Track 5]. III. Die zwei Wurzeln IV. Die Luft [Track 6]. V. Fisches Nachtgesang (tuba solo) [Track 7]. VI. Igel und Agel [Track 8]. VII. Die beiden Esel [Track 9]. VIII. Das Gebet / Jan Koetsier -- [Track 10]. Concerto per tuba e 4 corni. I. Introduction - allegro [Track 11]. II. Adagio [Track 12]. III. Allegro con spirito / Corrado Maria Saglietti -- [Track 13]. David and Goliath / Mike Forbes

Concert recording 2017-03-06

[Track 1]. Triumph of the demon gods / John Stevens -- [Track 2]. Sonata in F minor. Andante cantabile / Georg Philipp Telemann -- [Track 3]. Sonata in F minor. Allegro / Georg Philipp Telemann -- [Track 4]. Sketches. Spirited / Michael McFarland -- [Track 5]. Sketches. Slow and expressive / Michael McFarland -- [Track 6]. Sonata for unaccompanied euphonium. Introduction and allegro / Fred Clinard -- [Track 7]. Sonata for unaccompanied euphonium. Song / Fred Clinard -- [Track 8]. Tuba concerto. Allegro moderato / Edward Gregson -- [Track 9]. Sonata 1 in F major. Largo Allegro / Benedetto Marcello -- [Track 10]. Suite for cello no. 4, BWV 1010. Bourree 1 Bourree II / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [Track 11]. Summer isles / Philip Sparke -- [Track 12]. Tuba suite. Prelude Hornpipe Sarabande Bourree Mazurka / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 13]. Soliloquy IX / Christopher Wiggins -- [Track 14]. Suite for unaccompanied tuba / Walter Hartley

Concert recording 2017-11-28

[Track 1]. Bill Bailey / Hughie Cannon arranged by James Garrett -- [Track 2]. Second suite. I. March [Track 3]. II. Song without words, I\u27ll love my love / Gustav Holst arranged by Cody Hutchison -- [Track 4]. Deutschland uber alles / Franz Joseph Haydn arranged by Eugene Anderson -- [Track 5]. Geleit from Three pieces / Johannes Brahms translated by William R. Lee -- [Track 6]. Belle of Chicago march / John Philip Sousa arranged by Skip Gray -- [Track 7]. Three preludes from op. 34. No. 14 [Track 8]. No. 7 [Track 9]. No. 16 / Dmitri Shostakovich arranged by Rauch -- [Track 10]. Tuba Sunday / traditional arranged by Gerald Sloan -- [Track 11]. Quartet for tubas / Sy Brandon -- [Track 12.] Cherokee / John Schooley -- [Track 13]. Moondance / John Stevens -- [Track 14]. Amazing grace / traditional arranged by David Uber

Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores

Chemical profiles from Greenland ice cores show that the frequency of volcanism was higher during the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) and early Holocene, (17–9 ka b2k) than in any other period during the last 110 kyr. This increased frequency has partly been linked to climate-driven melting of the Icelandic ice sheet during the last deglaciation, with regional isostatic changes thought to alter mantle viscosity and lead to more eruptions. Our study is the first to construct a comprehensive tephrochronological framework from Greenland ice cores over the LGIT to aid in the reconstruction of volcanic activity over this period. The framework is based on extensive high-resolution sampling of three Greenland ice cores between 17.4 and 11.6 ka b2k and comprises a total of 64 cryptotephra deposits from the NGRIP, GRIP and NEEM ice cores. We show that many of these tephras are preserved within the core without an associated chemical signature in the ice, which implies that reconstructions of volcanism based solely on glacio-chemical indicators might underestimate the number of events. Single glass shards from each deposit were geochemically characterised to trace the volcanic source and many of these deposits could be correlated between cores. We show that the 64 deposits represent tephra deposits from 42 separate volcanic events, and of these, 39 are from Iceland, two from the north Pacific region (Japan and USA) and one has an unknown source. Six deposits can be correlated to terrestrial and/or marine tephra deposits in the Northern Hemisphere and the remaining 36 are unreported in other archives. We did not locate tephra from the compositionally distinctive Laacher See eruption (∼13 ka b2k) in our records. Combining our new discoveries with the previously published tephra framework, raises the number of individual tephra horizons found in Greenland ice over this interval to 50. This significantly improves the regional tephrochronological framework, our knowledge of the eruptive history of Iceland during the LGIT and provides new tephra constraints over key LGIT climate events. Consequentially, this framework can guide sampling strategies of future tephra studies in the terrestrial and marine realms aiming to link these records to the Greenland ice cores to assess regional climate synchroneity