Encounter with The Other: The Serialists and The Spectralists

Musik kontemporer di Paris pada tahun 1970an didominasi oleh musik serial, dan spektralisme hadir memberi alternatif. Di tulisan ini, saya berargumen bahwa fenomena naiknya musik spektral ini bukan hanya sekedar masalah domestik musik kontemporer Eropa, tetapi fenomena ini berkaitan erat dengan masalah hubungan dengan yang “Liyan”, termasuk dengan budaya musik non-Barat. Dalam analisis saya, saya menemukan tendensi pada komposer musik serial untuk menjadi eksklusif melalui apa yang saya sebut mekanisme Othering, yang muncul pada tulisan-tulisan Schoenberg dan Boulez. Sebaliknya, komposer spektral menunjukkan sikap yang lebih inklusif terhadap musik di luar musik kontemporer Eropa. Musik spektral menawarkan terobosan dalam cara pandang terhadap musik, baik dalam ranah teknis mau pun kultural. Sebagai contoh, menggunakan spektrum inharmonik untuk basis komposisi daripada spektrum harmonik—spektrum harmonik sering digunakan sebagai landasan teori untuk membingkai musik non-Barat sebagai “alami” dan “belum tersentuh”. Contoh lain adalah memblurkan perbedaan antara warnanada dan harmoni, di mana konsep ini memperluas konsep harmoni, hingga tidak terbatas pada definisi harmoni klasik Eropa. Musik spektral membuka jalan baru untuk menghadapi pertanyaan-pertanyaan tentang inklusivitas. The Parisian contemporary music scene was dominated by serial music in the 1970s, and spectral music came to provide a musical alternative. In this essay, I argue that the rise of spectral music is not merely a domestic phenomenon within the European contemporary music scene, but that it is deeply tied with the issues of Othering, including the relationship with non-Western musical cultures. My analysis points out the tendency of exclusivity of the serialists via what I call mechanisms of Othering, as appears in the writings of Schoenberg and Boulez. On the contrary, the view and approach of the spectral composers tend to be more inclusive towards various musical system. Spectral music proposes viewpoints that are groundbreaking on the technical and cultural level. For example, putting the focus on the inharmonic spectra as a compositional basis, which negates the obsession towards the harmonic spectra, as it is often used as a theoretical justification to frame non-Western music as being “natural” and “untouched”. Another example, blurring the distinction between timbre 

Response of thin-walled cylinders to aerodynamic excitation

Non-linear vibrations of thin-walled shells under aerodynamic excitation are investigated using Flugge's thin-shell theory, modified to include the effects of large deformations. The theory is applicable to any type of boundary conditions and various types of normal loading. The formulation includes mean or initial deformations of the median surface. A probabilistic-deterministic analysis of fatigue, representative of wind effects on earth-borne structures, is proposed based on the derived stresses and the Palmgren–Miner rule. Extensions of the non-linear theory to include structural damping and to analyse single mode. static collapse of thin shells are also outlined. In the random vibration analysis; based on energy methods, the multi-mode random response of thin shells under wind loading are studied. A fixed-free shell configuration is investigated in detail, though the formulation is applicable to any type of boundary conditions. [Continues.

M.A.E.G.U.S: MEASURING ALTERNATE ENERGY GENERATION VIA UNITY SIMULATION

This paper presents the MAEGUS serious game and a study to determine its efficacy as a pedagogical tool. The MAEGUS serious game teaches sustainable energy concepts through gameplay simulating wind turbines and solar arrays. Players take the role of an energy manager for a city and use realistic data and information visualizations to learn the physical factors of wind and solar energy generation. The MAEGUS serious game study compares game assisted learning to a more traditional teaching method such as reading material in a crossover study, the results of which can inform future serious game development for educational purposes

Belonid fish Ablennes hians caught with entrapped plastic bangle, off Mangalore

During our regular observation at Mangalore Fisheries Harbour, on 6th March 2012, a belonid fish, Ablennes hians (Valenciennes, 1846) was collected along with seerfish and mackerel landed by drift gillnet operated at 36-40 m depth, south-west off Manjeswara

Determination of stature from fingerprints in Malaysian Malays by regression analysis

Determination of human stature is an important parameter in person identification. Fingerprints form a valuable physical evidence in crime investigation. The pressure of fingers produced impression on the objects and thus producing fingerprint impression that can be used for person identification. The fingerprints provide useful clue towards narrowing the pool of potentially matching identities. No criminal history record is created for non-offenders and first-time offenders who are out of police view and it is cumbersome to identify them through fingerprint records and hence investigators search for suspects. If the height of the offender is known through fingerprint, it is easy to narrow down the suspects. The arrest is the event that triggers the creation of a criminal history record for a particular case. Literature review shows that very limited studies were conducted in estimating stature from fingerprints and currently there are no population specific standards to determine stature from fingerprints in a Malaysian Malay population. Hence the present study is aimed to derive population specific regression equations to determine the stature in this population

Fishery and biology of threadfin bream, Nemipterus mesoprion from Mangalore-Malpe

The landings of threadfin breams recorded 8 fold increase during 1989 – 1998 period while the catch rate showed three-fold increase. Maximum catch and catch rate was observed in September-October. N. mesoprion has taken over the place of N. japonicus by forming 64% of the fishery. The mean size increased from 127 to 164 mm. Significant differences were found in the length-weight relationship between sexes. Males outnumbered females in all the months and the overall sex ratio was M-1: F-0.70, which significantly departs from the expected 1:1 ratio. The minimum size at first maturity of males was 145 mm and female, 125 mm. Spawning was prolonged with peak during August-November. The peak spawning indicated by GSI, is in general agreement with the percentage occurrence of maturity stages in different months. The fecundity ranged from 7,444 to 49,689 eggs. The stomach content analysis revealed that the species feed mainly on crustaceans

allosteric regulation of the follicle stimulating hormone receptor

Abstract Follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) belongs to the leucine-rich repeat family of the G protein–coupled receptor (LGR), which includes the glycoprotein hormone receptors luteinizing hormone receptor, thyrotropin receptor, and other LGRs 4, 5, 6, and 7. FSH is the key regulator of folliculogenesis in females and spermatogenesis in males. FSH elicits its physiological response through its cognate receptor on the cell surface. Binding of the hormone FSH to its receptor FSHR brings about conformational changes in the receptor that are transduced through the transmembrane domain to the intracellular region, where the downstream effector interaction takes place, leading to activation of the downstream signaling cascade. Identification of small molecules that could activate or antagonize FSHR provided interesting tools to study the signal transduction mechanism of the receptor. However, because of the nature of the ligand-receptor interaction of FSH-FSHR, which contains multiple sites in the extracellular binding domain, most of the small-molecule modulators of FSHR are unable to bind to the orthosteric site of the receptors. Rather they modulate receptor activation through allosteric sites in the transmembrane region. This review will discuss allosteric modulation of FSHR primarily through the discovery of small-molecule modulators, focusing on current data on the status of development and the utility of these as tools to better understand signaling mechanisms

Torsional vibrations of multi-cell tubes

This paper presents torsional vihraTion analYJis of multi-cell tubes. The main difference between the single and multi-cell tube analysis lies in the determination of the cross-sectional constants. Derivation of cross-sectional constants, involved in the governing equations, is illustrated by considering a four-cell tube. The improvement, in the estimation of the natural frequency by the present proposal, is brought out by comparing the theoretical value with the experimental observation in a specific case

Stature estimation from anthropometric measurements of footprints in Lun Bawang, an indigenous ethnic group of east Malaysia by linear regression analysis

The footprint is a valuable physical evidence encountered in the crime scenes and examination of barefoot impressions is important especially in developing countries like India, Malaysia where the majority of the rural population like to walk barefooted. Most of the foot/foot print studies were conducted on mixed population. But racial and cultural aspects of foot morphology must be considered while conducting such studies. Hence the present study aims to estimate stature from bilateral footprints collected from 230 (115 males, 115 females) consenting adult Lun Bawang ethnics, indigenous groups residing in Sarawak state, east Malaysia. The height of the individuals and footprints were collected following the standard procedure. The data obtained were analyzed with PASW 20 computer software and derived regression formulae to estimate stature from footprint lengths of Lun Bawang ethnics. The investigation revealed that all footprint lengths exhibit statistically positive significant correlation with stature (p<0.001). Correlation coefficient (R) values are found to be higher in the pooled sample (0.862–0.883) when compared with males (0.718–0.760) and females (0.754–0.802). The regression formulae derived for the pooled sample can be used to estimate stature when the sex of the footprint remains unknown, as in real crime scenarios