Lipsynching : popular song recordings and the disembodied voice

PhD Thesis: Multimedia items accompany this thesis to be consulted at Robinson LibraryThis thesis is an exploration and problematization of the practice of lipsynching to prerecorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a century of diverse artistic practices from early sound cinema through to the current popularity of vernacular internet lipsynching videos. This thesis examines the different ways in which the practice provides a locus for discussion about musical authenticity, challenging as well as re-confirming attitudes towards how technologically-mediated audio-visual practices represent musical performance as authentic or otherwise. It also investigates the phenomenon in relation to the changes in our relationship to musical performance as a result of the ubiquity of recorded music in our social and private environments, and the uses to which we put music in our everyday lives. This involves examining the meanings that emerge when a singing voice is set free from the necessity of inhabiting an originating body, and the ways in which under certain conditions, as consumers of recorded song, we draw on our own embodiment to imagine “the disembodied”. The main goal of the thesis is to show, through the study of lipsynching, an understanding of how we listen to, respond to, and use recorded music, not only as a commodity to be consumed but as a culturally-sophisticated and complex means of identification, a site of projection, introjection, and habitation, and, through this, a means of personal and collective creativity

Mimicry in Insects: An Illustrated Study in Mimicry and Cryptic Coloration in Insects

INSECT MIMICRY 4 WHAT IS MIMICRY? 5 MÜLLERIAN MIMICRY 7 MÜLLERIAN MIMICRY 8 YELLOWJACKET – VESPULA SPP. 9 HONEY BEE – APIS SPP. 10 BUMBLE BEE – BOMBUS SPP. 11 VELVET ANT (COW KILLER) – DASYMUTILLA OCCIDENTALIS 12 BLISTER BEETLE – EUPOMPHA ELEGANS 13 THREAD-WAISTED WASP – AMMOPHILA SPP. 14 MONARCH BUTTERFLY – DANAUS PLEXIPPUS 15 VICEROY BUTTERFLY – LIMENTIS SPP. 16 BATESIAN MIMICRY 17 BATESIAN MIMICRY 18 METALLIC WOODBORING BEETLE – ACMAEODERA SPP. 19 WASP BEETLE – CLYTUS SPP. 20 FLOWER LONGHORN BEETLE – TYPOCERUS SPP. 21 BEE BEETLE – TRICHIUS SPP. 22 BEE FLY – BOMBYLIUS SPP. 23 DRONE FLY – ERISTALIS SPP. 24 HOVER FLY –EUPEODES SPP. 25 TACHINID FLY – CYLINDROMYIA SPP. 26 SNOWBERRY CLEARWING MOTH – HEMARIS DIFFINIS 27 AMERICAN HORNET MOTH – SESIA SPP. 28 CRYPTIC COLORATION & CAMOUFLAGE 29 CRYPTIC COLORATION & CAMOUFLAGE 30 SPHINX MOTH (SNAKE CATERPILLAR) – HEMEROPLANES TRIPTOLEMUS 32 COMMON LYTROSIS MOTH – LYTROSIS UNITARIA 33 KATYDID (LEAF BUG) – MICROCENTRUM RHOMBIFOLIUM 34 STICK INSECT – PHASMIDS 35 THORN BUG – UMBONIA CRASSICORNIS 36 FLOWER MANTID – HYMENOPUS CORONATUS 37 REFERENCES 3

Pengaruh Corporate Social Reponsibility Terhadap Respon Investor Dalam Sektor Industri Barang Konsumsi

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown to be an integral part of corporate strategy. There were many researches done about the affect of CSR on investor response, but the results were inconsistent. The purpose of this research was to study the affect of CSR on investor's response in Consumer Goods Industrial sector.CSR was measured by CSRI, meanwhile investor response was measured by CAR. ROA, firm size, DER, and market share were used as control variables. The sample of this research consisted of companies from Consumer Goods Industrial sector, which listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2008-2012, with the total number of 115 firm years.The results proved that CSR had positive affect on investor response. ROA had a negative affect on investor response. Whereas, firm size, DER, and market share had no affect on investor response

Representasi Kriminalitas Dalam Film “Ted” Dan “Ted 2”

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat representasi kriminalitas dalam film “Ted” dan “Ted 2”. Bentuk-bentuk tindakan kriminalitas adalah pencurian, penyalahgunaan narkoba, tindakan asusila, pencopetan, penjambretan, penodongan senjata tajam/api, kekerasan fisik, penganiayaan, Perusakan barang orang lain, pembunuhan, penipuan dan korupsi. Film “Ted” dan “Ted 2” dipilih karena menampilkan tokoh utama “Teddy Bear yang identik dengan anak-anak, namun banyak menuai kontroversi. Peneliti ini menggunakan metode analisis isi kualitatif. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa film “Ted” dan “Ted 2” merepresentasikan tindakan kriminal penggunaan narkoba, tindakan asusila, penjambretan, penodongan dengan senjata tajam/api, kekerasan fisik, penganiayaan dan Perusakan barang orang lain. Gambaran tindakan kriminalitas ini ternyata senada dengan sejumlah film-film anak barat

Memories near and far

Memories Near and Far depicts the transformation, emotionally and psychologically, that occurs when childhood meets adulthood. The loss of naiveté, accumulation of experiences and memories, and the release of memory necessary to move on to new experiences mark this transition. The events that occur during this time period are represented through seven installations: Incubation, I Am What I Fear, Consumed, An Offering: Gifts for Healing, Between Realities, The Self as a House: Self-Confinement, and Gleanings. The work portrays memories of my personal journey through this time, the struggles I encountered, and lessons I have learned. Color, accumulation, and repetition of materials and objects help create the psychological atmosphere of the memories depicted in each installation

The discourse of working-class self-education in Victorian narrative

The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which working-class subjects were constituted by the cultural practices of education in Victorian England, the ways in which working-class subjects resisted and attempted to appropriate such hegemonic constructions, and the ways in which the terms of this struggle were defined in literary representations of self-educated working-class individuals by middle-class authors. In Victorian Britain, formal education of the working poor tended to consist of just those skills they might need to be effective industrial workers. By so narrowly defining the content of education, the educational system participated in a form of social control. But there is an imbalance within the concept of education itself which becomes evident when individuals acquire education for themselves outside the boundaries of authorized channels, to aspire to an educational level denied to them by the social, political, and economic status quo. This situation is represented in fiction about the working-class autodidact in Victorian England. These representations articulate the agendas of the self-educated who attempt to resist their exclusion from power as well as the agendas of the dominant discourse which struggles to defend its position. These narratives present characters who attempt to create subject positions through which they can define themselves and assign a value to their lives and experience that is not automatically granted to them by their society. In other words, they attempt to enter the discourse of power from which they are traditionally excluded. In response, authors of fiction (mostly middle-class authors) create characters who make this attempt of self-fashioning in order to critique the very possibility and advisability of discursive appropriation by the disenfranchised. Quite often, these fictional narratives reinscribe the social boundaries and limitations of the project of self-fashioning, even if they do so with a reformist agenda. This study looked at the autobiographies of working-class autodidacts, Thomas Carter, William Lovett, and Thomas Cooper, as well as the social-problem fiction of Charles Kingsley (Alton Locke) and George Eliot (Felix Holt, the Radical) to examine the ideological underpinnings of these representations of working-class autodidacts

A phenomenological study: Mid-career changer transitions through levels of expertise

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how two midlife adult men experienced different levels of expertise as they transitioned between non-teaching and teaching professions. Of further interest were the unique qualities that these mid career changers brought to secondary education and their recommendations for improving preparation, induction, and retention of midlife career changers in teaching; The study examined the transition experiences through three dimensions: (1) the levels of creativity in the context of environments; (2) the physical, social, and emotional development of the individuals; and (3) the theoretical framework of expertise. Semistructured interviews were conducted, and analyses were made by horizontalization, categorization, and textual and structural description. Interpretation of the data was made through the phenomenological themes of spatiality, temporality, and relationality; The two participants in this study performed at advanced levels of problem solving and creativity and brought rich lived experiences to their new professional environments. Their abilities to filter problems through their own lived experiences allowed them to create learning environments that motivated students to succeed; The results of the study indicated that both participants were discouraged because their school environments did not: (1) encourage the type of creative problem solving and teamwork that they had experienced in their former professions, (2) account for ineffective teaching behaviors, and (3) promote sufficient professionalism; The emotional lows that accompanied the lack of requisite knowledge to perform specific tasks or to be received as a professional instead of a novice were critical to the experience of transitioning between expert and novice levels of performance. Both participants quickly adapted to their new professions by viewing the entire school community as their professional domain; Implications from this study include a need to: (1) create preparation and induction programs that are tailored to meet and compliment the unique strengths of midlife adults who change professions, (2) provide opportunities for mid-career changers to continue using their creative problem solving talents, and (3) give voice to mid-career changers and mid-career teachers to create synergism and symbiosis

GEO BluePlanet - NOAA CoastWatch - ESRI Coastal Eutrophication Index in support of Sustainable Development Goal 14.1.1

Timestamp: 44819.6683347106 Email Address: [email protected] Name: Merrie Beth Neely Affiliation: Global Science and Technology Program Office/Division: NESDIS/STAR/SOCD/NOAA CoastWatch Position Title: research scientist (contractor) Title of use case: GEO BluePlanet - NOAA CoastWatch - ESRI Coastal Eutrophication Index in support of Sustainable Development Goal 14.1.1 Authors or Creators: Neely, M and Lance, V Affiliations of Authors or Creators: GST, Inc. (Neely) and NOAA Federal (Lance) Contributors: Smail, E. and Ramachandran, S Affiliation of Contributors: GEO BluePlanet (Smail) and RIVA (Ramachandran) Description: UN Environment requested assistance developing two satellite-based ocean color indicators of coastal eutrophication. This global product covers the EEZs for all coastal nations, enabling reporting toward meeting national benchmarks for SDG 14.1.1. Keywords: coastal eutrophication, satellite, ocean color, SDG Start date of use case: 44348 End date of this use case: Is this use case ongoing? : Yes Use case URL : https://chlorophyll-esrioceans.hub.arcgis.com/apps/EsriOceans::sdg-14-1-1a-coastal-eutrophication-reporting/explore Data source URL: https://chlorophyll-esrioceans.hub.arcgis.com/apps/EsriOceans::sdg-14-1-1a-coastal-eutrophication-reporting/explore Image:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PTFNVg0ZgKEyQ-qY7KcoV40cO0_4B3_8 Ocean Region: Global Oceans Sea: Large Marine Ecosystem Area: Country: Other Geography: Used by any country with a coastline. Format Type: Narrative description, Report, publications are pending Data Type:Data Service, GIS Raster, GIS Vector, REST API, Web Service Primary Use: Research, Education, Resource Management, Weather/Climate, Environmental Management User Type: Private Individual, Government Professional, Industry Professional, NGO/Non-Profit Professional, Academic Data Type: Biological, Geospatial Ocean Observing System (OOS) Variable: Phytoplankton biomass and diversity, Ocean color Information Type: Remote sense data Other Format Data: Published Date: Publisher Name: Publisher City: Publisher State : Publisher Country: Publisher/Distributor URL: Publication URL: DOI: Industries which benefit: Aquaculture, Marine Research and Education, Marine Related Professional and Technical Services, National Defense and Public Safety, Living resources (not specified) - check this box and elaborate in “Other” box below, SAV, Coral, Benefits to ecosystems: Ecosystem Health, Biodiversity Ecosystem Services: Fisheries (commercial or recreational, Aquaculture Ecosystem Regulation and Maintenance Services: Cultural Ecosystem Services: Direct, in-situ and outdoor interactions with living systems that depend on presence in the environmental setting, Spiritual, symbolic and other interactions with natural environment, Other biotic characteristics that have a non-use value Are benefits documented?: Unknown/Don\u27t Know Are the benefits documented by: Are the benefits quantified?: Unknown/Don\u27t Know Are the quantified benefits reported as monetary values?: Unknown/Don’t Know Other Benefits: Data Service, GIS Raster, GIS Vector, REST API, Web Servic

Critical Use of NOAA CoastWatch Great Lakes Node Remote Sensing of Sea Ice for USCG mission planning

Timestamp: 44823.3273319444 Email Address: [email protected] Name: Merrie Beth Neely Affiliation: Global Science and Technology, Inc. Program Office/Division: NESDIS/STAR/SOCD/NOAA CoastWatch Position Title: Research Scientist (contractor) Title of use case: Critical Use of NOAA CoastWatch Great Lakes Node Remote Sensing of Sea Ice for USCG mission planning Authors or Creators: Neely, M.B. and Lance, V. Affiliations of Authors or Creators: GST, Inc. (Neely) and NOAA Federal (Lance) Contributors: VanderWoude, A and Liu, S. Affiliation of Contributors: NOAA Federal (VanderWoude), CIGLR - University of Michigan (Liu) Description: USCG uses NOAA CoastWatch-supplied true-color imagery, the RADARSAT ice classification, and ice extent imagery when selecting their ice breaking route. This NOAA-supplied service is critical for the USCG and impacts the shipping traffic in the Great Lakes. Keywords: Great Lakes, sea ice, shipping, transport, commercial, remote sensing Start date of use case: 43647 End date of this use case: Is this use case ongoing? : Yes Use case URL : Data source URL: https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/ice.html Image: Ocean Region: Great Lakes Sea: Large Marine Ecosystem Area: Country: Other Geography: Format Type: Narrative description Data Type:Tabular Data, Data Service, GIS Raster, GIS Vector, REST API, Web Service Primary Use: Public Safety/Law Enforcement, Weather/Climate, Commercial Fishing, Commercial Shipping, Operations User Type: Government Professional, Industry Professional Data Type: Physical, Geospatial, Safety Ocean Observing System (OOS) Variable: Sea ice, Sea surface ice, Ocean color Information Type: In situ data, Remote sense data, Model output Other Format Data: Published Date: Publisher Name: Publisher City: Publisher State : Publisher Country: Publisher/Distributor URL: Publication URL: DOI: Industries which benefit: National Defense and Public Safety Benefits to ecosystems: Ecosystem Services: Regulation and Maintenance Services, Fisheries (commercial or recreational Ecosystem Regulation and Maintenance Services: Cultural Ecosystem Services: Are benefits documented?: Are the benefits documented by: Are the benefits quantified?: Unknown/Don\u27t Know Are the quantified benefits reported as monetary values?: Other Benefits: Tabular Data, Data Service, GIS Raster, GIS Vector, REST API, Web Servic