Intelligent perturbation algorithms for space scheduling optimization

Intelligent perturbation algorithms for space scheduling optimization are presented in the form of the viewgraphs. The following subject areas are covered: optimization of planning, scheduling, and manifesting; searching a discrete configuration space; heuristic algorithms used for optimization; use of heuristic methods on a sample scheduling problem; intelligent perturbation algorithms are iterative refinement techniques; properties of a good iterative search operator; dispatching examples of intelligent perturbation algorithm and perturbation operator attributes; scheduling implementations using intelligent perturbation algorithms; major advances in scheduling capabilities; the prototype ISF (industrial Space Facility) experiment scheduler; optimized schedule (max revenue); multi-variable optimization; Space Station design reference mission scheduling; ISF-TDRSS command scheduling demonstration; and example task - communications check

Intelligent perturbation algorithms to space scheduling optimization

The limited availability and high cost of crew time and scarce resources make optimization of space operations critical. Advances in computer technology coupled with new iterative search techniques permit the near optimization of complex scheduling problems that were previously considered computationally intractable. Described here is a class of search techniques called Intelligent Perturbation Algorithms. Several scheduling systems which use these algorithms to optimize the scheduling of space crew, payload, and resource operations are also discussed

Trauma-Focused CBT Informed Music Therapy: Connecting Traumatized Youth with Affective Modulation — Developing a Method

Abstract Remediating the impact of trauma experienced by children and adolescents is a focus of psychotherapy treatment. Research in neurology suggests brain development of youths who have experienced trauma is impacted in negative ways. One impact noted is a delay of the development of emotional perception and regulation, where youths may demonstrate an inability to perceive and identify feelings within themselves or others and may experience inappropriate emotional outbursts or emotional withdrawal. Evidence-based practices (EBPs) with specific components and protocols are increasingly preferred by consumers and insurance providers due to research-supported results within expedient timeframes. Music therapy is an evidence-based practice, however literature of its use to treat youths who have experienced trauma is sparse. Using a recognized evidence-based framework, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), this capstone thesis explores the use of music therapy interventions within the Affect Modulation Skills component of the framework. Two individual case studies are examined in which participants engaged in individually relevant music therapy activities designed to enhance identification and expression of feelings and emotions. Results included increased awareness and regulation of feelings and improved interpersonal connections with others as observed by the author and as self-reported by the participants

IV. Melodic Structure in Nigra Sum

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Subject to Change

Subject to Change is comprised of a series of self-devised, ritually practiced free-associative action-mark-making strategies. Each procedure explores various degrees of chance operations and seeks to question and explore the roles of intuition, intention, interpretation and human participation. A hybrid of fixed method with variables of the unknown explores and investigates performative mark-making methodologies, in-person and internet collaboration, control and working under pre-fixed intervals. Alongside chance, time-based procedures are concurrently determined to achieve work on paper whose marks are not initially foreseen. This practice of working addresses the disconnect between the maker engaged in active activity of doing versus the relative stagnancy of the resulting end product. There is a relationship of tension between the realized end product and the formulas which created them in terms of which components possess relevance. Repetitively practiced actions of activity attempt to unite conventional modes of art production with routinely practiced everyday structured studio activity. Heavily influenced by the scientific method, art-by-instruction and process art, the work aims to capture the conflicting elements of predetermined activity and variables and free-associative mark-making. The chance operations in the work consist of: the rolling of dice, the blind spinning of dials, the selection from a deck of cards, and solicited participation of people from social media. Through drawing, printmaking and mixed media, the works possess a strong reference to their materiality and the passage of time as seen through change, evolution or degradation

III. Parody and Variation in Monteverdi's Vespers

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I. The Mass and Vespers of 1610: The Sources and their Interpretations

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Civic Identity and Civic Glue: Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Processions were an integral part of Venetian religious and civic life. State and church were inextricably intertwined, since the doge served not only as the head of the civil government, but also as the governor of the ducal church of St. Mark’s, by far the most important ecclesiastical institution in the city. Processions on feast days as well as processions celebrating civic events all culminated in some kind of religious service. Ducal processions included the two instrumental ensembles of the doge: his pifferi and his six long silver trumpets. Other instruments and singers from St. Mark’s also participated in official processions. Aside from ducal processions, the city’s confraternities and many churches mounted their own processions, often including instruments and singers on their patron saints’ feast days, the first Sunday of every month, during Holy Week and for funerals of members. These processions were very frequent, often wound through various parts of the city, and were a major factor in displaying governmental authority, the city’s institutions and in creating a sense of civic identity and unity. The article concludes with an account of the four-day celebration of the coronation of the Dogaressa Morosina Morosini Grimani 4-7 May, 1597 to illustrate the intertwining and integration of processions, religion, governmental authority and public entertainment, all accompanied by music, in a spectacular example of the unifying effects of such festivities