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Peak Music Experiences: A New Perspective on Popular Music, Identity and Scenes
No full textPeak music experiences are a recurring feature of popular music journalism, biography and fan culture, where they are often credited as pivotal in people’s relationships with music and in their lives more generally. Ben Green investigates the phenomenon from a social and cultural perspective, including discussions of peak music experiences as sources of inspiration and influence; as a core motivation for ongoing musical and social activity; the significance of live music experiences; and the key role of peak music experiences in defining and perpetuating music scenes. The book draws from both global media analysis and situated ethnographic research in the dance, hip hop, indie and rock ‘n’ roll music scenes of Brisbane, Australia, including participant observation and in-depth interviews. These case studies demonstrate the methodological value of peak music experiences as a lens through which to understand individual and collective musical life. The theoretical analysis is interwoven with selected interview data, illuminating the profound and everyday ways that music informs people’s lives. The book will therefore be of interest to the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies as well as sociology and cultural studies beyond the study of music.Full Tex
The Dirac-Motzkin Problem on Ordinary Lines and the Orchard Problem (Invited Talk)
No full textSuppose you have n points in the plane, not all on a line. A famous theorem of Sylvester-Gallai asserts that there is at least one ordinary line, that is to say a line passing through precisely two of the n points. But how many ordinary lines must there be? It turns out that the answer is at least n/2 (if n is even) and roughly 3n/4 (if n is odd), provided that n is sufficiently large. This resolves a conjecture of Dirac and Motzkin from the 1950s. We will also discuss the classical orchard problem, which asks how to arrange n trees so that there are as many triples of colinear trees as possible, but no four in a line. This is joint work with Terence Tao and reports on the results of [Green and Tao, 2013]
Author and poet Lily Brett at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 18 October 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author and poet Lily Brett at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 18 October 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Adrian Caesar speaking at Alex Miller author: A Celebration, held at the National Library, Canberra, 30 October 2011 /
No full textTitle from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Alex Miller author: A Celebration, held at the National Library of Australia theatre, 30 October 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Green Chemistry Education: Recent Developments Green chemical processing ;, vol. 4./ Mark Anthony Benvenuto and Larry Kolopajlo.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and index.Kolopajlo, Larry / Benvenuto, Mark -- Noce, Anthony M. -- Berger, Michael / Karod, Madeline / Goldfarb, Jillian L. -- Sadraei, S. Iraj / Onge, Brent St / Trant, John F. -- Mill, Theodore / Patel, Jay M. / Tebes-Stevens, Caroline -- Pothoof, Justin / Ruprecht, Michal / Sliwinski, Ben D. / Sosnowski, Ben M. / Fitzgerald, Polly R. / Kosmas, Steven / Benvenuto, Mark A. -- Kovacs, Dalila G. / Krikke, James / Mack, Kristina -- Wathen, Steven P. -- Kolopajlo, Larry -- Kohn, Craig -- Ause, Robert -- Frontmatter -- About the series -- Preface: the continuum of green chemical education / Contents -- List of Contributing authors -- 1. Green chemistry and the grand challenges of sustainability / 2. Invasive species or sustainable water filters? A student-led laboratory investigation into locally sourced biomass-based adsorbents for sustainable water treatment / 3. Recent advances in the application of carbohydrates as renewable feedstocks for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds / 4. The environmental fate of synthetic organic chemicals / 5. Synthesis of "three-legged" tri-dentate podand ligands incorporating long-chain aliphatic moieties, for water remediators, and for isolating metal ions in non-aqueous solution / 6. An introductory course in green chemistry: Progress and lessons learned / 7. Introduction to cheminformatics for green chemistry education / 8. Green chemistry outreach / 9. The development of a bioenergy-based green chemistry curriculum for high schools / 10. Green chemistry in secondary school / Index1 online resource (xx, 198 pages
David Hill speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 23 October 2012, 1 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Author talk with David Hill at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 23 October 2012; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
David Hill speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 23 October 2012, 2 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Author talk with David Hill at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 23 October 2012; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Airway bacteria and their relevance to disease severity in asthma
No full textAsthma is a heterogeneous condition resulting from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors leading to airway hyperreactivity, reversible bronchoconstriction and chronic airway inflammation. Little is known about the role of chronic bacterial colonization in the underlying inflammation and how it can alter disease phenotype. In COPD, airway colonization with potentially pathogenic microorganisms (PPMs) leads to neutrophilic airways inflammation, increased frequency of exacerbation, worsening symptom scores and an accelerated decline in lung function. The Gram positive coccus Staphylococcus aureus is known to produce enterotoxins (SAEs) which can act as superantigens leading to an exaggerated T lymphocyte response and has been linked to steroid resistance in asthma. Hypotheses tested were: (1) Bacterial colonization patterns differ between the asthmatic and healthy lower airway. (2) Airway colonization with potentially pathogenic bacterial species contributes to asthma severity and alters phenotype. (3) S. aureus colonizes the lower airway in asthma and contributes to treatment resistance through the action of superantigens. The non1culture based, molecular microbiological technique of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiling (T1RFLP) was used to demonstrate the patterns of airway bacterial colonization in severe asthmatics, mild asthmatics and healthy controls. We have demonstrated that T1RFLP profiling of respiratory specimens is a more sensitive tool than standard respiratory culture in detecting potentially pathogenic bacterial species and is able to give a relative abundance of each species compared to the total bacterial load within the specimen. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was used to sample the distal lower airways of volunteers and demonstrated a more diverse colonizing flora in severe asthmatics than mild asthmatics (p=0.001) and healthy controls (p=0.029). PPMs such as Haemophilus sp. and Streptococcal sp. were more frequently detected in severe asthma than in mild asthma (p<0.001) and healthy controls (p=0.004). The total abundance of PPMs as a percentage of total bacterial load was significantly higher in severe asthmatic BAL than mild asthmatic (p<0.001) and healthy subjects (p=0.004). Within the severe asthma group total BAL PPM abundance correlated with neutrophil counts, IL18 and worsening FEV1. Induced sputum was used to sample the central, proximal, lower airways and demonstrated lower species diversity in severe asthma than in mild asthma (p=0.012) and healthy controls (p=0.005). Within the severe asthma group, when the most abundant species within induced sputum was Haemophilus sp., Streptococcal sp. or Moraxella catarrhalis, significantly worse FEV1 (p=0.025), higher sputum neutrophil counts (p=0.001) and longer disease duration were seen. Dominance of these species within induced sputum was associated with a neutrophilic asthma phenotype (p=0.014). Evidence of the effect of S. aureus superantigens was investigated with BAL T cell receptor (TCR) V? profiling. BAL S. aureus colonization was demonstrated in 38% of severe asthmatic subjects and was associated with higher V? 5.3 (p=0.001), V? 5.1 p=0.01), V? 13.1 (p<0.001) and V? 2 (p=0.022) positive CD4 T cells. This skewing of TCR V? populations provides a surrogate marker for the action of SAEs which may be relevant in the development of steroid resistant disease. The findings of clinically relevant PPM airway colonization in severe asthma provide an opportunity for new targeted therapies in a group of patients where there are currently few therapeutic options. <br/
Letter from Smith Green to grandma and grandpa
No full textLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green (August 7, 1937).Fort Sam houston, Texas August 7, 1937 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I supposed you thought that I was never going to write to you. I'm just like ol' "Ben Puttin Itoff" or what ever his name was. I started to write several times but every time I put it off for some reason or another. I was certainly surprised to learn that Florence is married. The last letter she wrote she told me about Louis McClinton. She thought he was about everything there was. I got a letter from John last week. He said he was going home the latter part of this month and stay about a week. He intends to come down here the 29th and enroll at St. Mary's College of San Antonio. If he does, we can see a great deal of each other. I hope he does come down. I know you will be awfully glad to see dear Aunt Lucy. I would like to see Uncle Gus and the kids. Now comes the hard part. I don't see how I can send any money this month. I guess you think its getting to be a habit but I really can't helpt it. When I went on the good will tour I borrowed money to take along and I didn't get to pay it back until this month. Soldiers have more expense than any one would imagine. I could borrow moneay now and send it to you and I will if you need it. I certainly have trouble trying to keep even. When I take a furlough everything will be fine. Well, I must close. Answer soon. I'm sending a snap shot or two. Love, Smith. S. Green 2nd Tank Co. Ft. Sam Houston Texas Mr. W.M. Green Box #426 Broken Bow, Oklahoma PICTURES FROM AUSTIN TRIP & "ARIZONA BILL." Remove
Alex Miller signing books at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 30 October 2011 /
No full textTitle from information supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Alex Miller author: A Celebration, held at the National Library of Australia theatre, 30 October 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
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