Senior Recital: Briana Curtis, bassoon

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Ms. Curtis studies bassoon with Andrew Brady.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2151/thumbnail.jp

“Everything Old Is New Again”: The Rise of Interpolation in Popular Music

With hip-hop becoming the number one genre in the United States, many artists working outside of the hip-hop genre are trying to emulate the success of hip-hop artists by incorporating compositional techniques of hip-hop into their own music. One of the most common hip-hop techniques adopted by artists working in other genres is sampling. However, with copyright rules and regulations becoming more strictly enforced, artists are finding creative ways to emulate sampling styles, while trying to avoid copyright concerns, including interpolation. Through the technique of interpolation, by reperforming aspects of the original song, artists are able to quote and reference previously recorded songs while avoiding some of the legal ramifications. This avoids many issues of copyright while providing the original songwriter with credit and a portion of the royalties. This trend has been increasing significantly since 2017 and many publishing companies are taking an interest in this trend. Primary Wave is leading the trend of buying artists’ catalogs and encouraging current artists to interpolate music from their own song library, bringing in revenue to the publishing company in addition to the artists. By focusing on songs from 2017 to 2023 of Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100, this thesis will exam interpolation trends through the lenses of social media, copyright issues, and economic gain for publishing companies

Junior Recital: Grayson Saylor, bassoon

This recital is presented while pursuing the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Ms. Saylor studies bassoon with Andrew Brady.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2185/thumbnail.jp

Senior Recital: William Worthan, horn

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degrees Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Worthan studies horn with Jason Eklund.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2200/thumbnail.jp

Mouse and human FcR effector functions

International audienceThis article is part of a series of reviews covering Fc Receptors in Volume 268 of Immunological Reviews.Summary: Mouse and human FcRs have been a major focus of attention not only of the scientific community, through the cloning and characterization of novel receptors, and of the medical community , through the identification of polymorphisms and linkage to disease but also of the pharmaceutical community, through the identification of FcRs as targets for therapy or engineering of Fc domains for the generation of enhanced therapeutic antibodies. The availability of knockout mouse lines for every single mouse FcR, of multiple or cell-specific—' a la carte'—FcR knockouts and the increasing generation of hFcR transgenics enable powerful in vivo approaches for the study of mouse and human FcR biology. This review will present the landscape of the current FcR family, their effector functions and the in vivo models at hand to study them. These in vivo models were recently instrumental in redefining the properties and effector functions of FcRs that had been overlooked or discarded from previous analyses. A particular focus will be made on the (mis)concepts on the role of high-affinity IgG receptors in vivo and on results from antibody engineering to enhance or abrogate antibody effector functions mediated by FcRs

The function of Fcγ receptors in dendritic cells and macrophages

Dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages use various receptors to recognize foreign antigens and to receive feedback control from adaptive immune cells. Although it was long believed that all immunoglobutin Fc receptors are universally expressed by phagocytes, recent findings indicate that only monocyte-derived DCs and macrophages express high levels of activating Fc receptors for IgG (Fc gamma Rs), whereas conventional and plasmacytoid DCs express the inhibitory Fc gamma R. In this Review, we discuss how the uptake, processing and presentation of antigens by DCs and macrophages is influenced by Fc gamma R recognition of innmunoglobulins and immune complexes in the steady state and during inflammation