425 research outputs found
Student Recital, Tara Davis, saxophone
No full textSpecial Student RecitalTara Davis, tenor saxophonewith Charles Cannon, soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones; Prof. J.C. Kuhl, soprano and tenor saxophones; Desi Rice, alto saxophone; Graeme Evans, Braeden Ferguson, Nathan Fussell, Kevin Granados-Alvarado, and Kenny Travis, tenor saxophone; Charles Cutler, baritone saxophone; Sebastian Ford, trumpet; Danny Dupes and Prof. Antonio Garcia, trombone; Minjee Jang and Allen Macuno, piano; Chris O\u27Leary, bass; Ben Eisenberg, drums; and Rhonda Oliver, vocalsFriday, March 18, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
Student Recital, Tara Davis, saxophone, video
No full textSpecial Student Recital, videoTara Davis, tenor saxophonewith Charles Cannon, soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones; Prof. J.C. Kuhl, soprano and tenor saxophones; Desi Rice, alto saxophone; Graeme Evans, Braeden Ferguson, Nathan Fussell, Kevin Granados-Alvarado, and Kenny Travis, tenor saxophone; Charles Cutler, baritone saxophone; Sebastian Ford, trumpet; Danny Dupes and Prof. Antonio Garcia, trombone; Minjee Jang and Allen Macuno, piano; Chris O\u27Leary, bass; Ben Eisenberg, drums; and Rhonda Oliver, vocalsFriday, March 18, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
Instytucja kultury i kultura instytucjonalna z perspektywy transkulturowej: Czym jest kultura za kulisami, a czym w klatce?
No full textThis article presents the profile of the East Asian theatre artist Danny Yung, director of the acclaimed Zuni Icosachedron theatre in Hong Kong. In the first part, Maciej Szatkowski offers a synthesis of his artistic biography, from his early years as a theatre maker in Hong Kong in the 1980s to the creation of a transnational Chinese theatre, which provides a space for artistic encounters of established and emerging artists from the Sinosphere and beyond. The article focuses on highlighting the main areas of Yung’s work and contextualizing them in terms of the realities of Chinese cultural life. The author describes the central distinguishing features of Yung’s activity and its consecutive stages over the years, as well as the impact of his work on theatres in China and Taiwan. The appendix provides a transcript of Yung’s talk at the conference Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Art: Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective (2021). The guiding idea of the lecture is the role of institutions in shaping theatre policy and connecting artists and ideas. Yung draws on examples from his own experience, describing the process of creating his most recent productions. He emphasizes the importance of collaboration and dialogue between artists, as well as the role of theatre institutions as major actors influencing the development of theatre art in contemporary Eurasia.Tekst przedstawia sylwetkę Danny’ego Yunga, wschodnioazjatyckiego twórcy teatralnego, dyrektora uznanego teatru Zuni Icosachedron działającego w Hongkongu. W pierwszej części Maciej Szatkowski syntetycznie prezentuje jego biografię artystyczną, poczynając od wczesnych lat działalności teatralnej w Hongkongu w latach osiemdziesiątych XX wieku aż po stworzenie transnarodowego teatru chińskiego, który stanowi forum spotkań artystycznych dla uznanych oraz początkujących twórców, nie tylko z obszaru sinosfery. W artykule skupiono się na wyeksponowaniu głównych obszarów działalności Yunga i ich kontekstualizacji w realiach chińskiego życia kulturalnego. Tekst charakteryzuje najważniejsze wyróżniki twórczości Yunga oraz kolejne jej etapy, a także wpływ na teatry w Chinach i na Tajwanie. Aneks tekstu stanowi zapis wystąpienia Danny’ego Yunga podczas konferencji Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Art: Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective (2021). Wykład jest refleksją nad rolą instytucji w kształtowaniu polityki teatralnej i łączeniu artystów oraz idei. Yung przywołuje przykłady z własnych doświadczeń, opisując proces powstawania swoich najnowszych spektakli. W wystąpieniu podkreśla wagę współpracy i dialogu między twórcami, a także znaczenie instytucji teatralnych jako ważnych aktorów wpływających na rozwój sztuki teatralnej we współczesnym świecie eurazjatyckim
The savings collapse during the transition in Eastern Europe
No full textThe authors assess the presence and extent of involuntary savings by comparing the predicted savings rates of market economies with those of the pre-transition economies. On balance, predicted savings rates fell short of actual savings rates, especially for the former Soviet Union and the Baltics -- providing some support for the notion of excessive pre-transition savings. Comparing the savings behavior of market economies and transition economies, they found substantial similarities, except for a negative link between savings and GDP growth. As the fastest-growing transition economies are at the bottom of the adjustment J-curve, the finding is consistent with consumption smoothing. Finally, they explored whether differences in the extent of economic liberalization affected savings rates in the cross-section of transition economies. They found that liberalization is associated with lower savings, with a one-year lag. To the extent that liberalization is perceived as an indicator of likely future growth, this behavior is consistent with smoothing in the face of a J-curve change in output.Insurance Law,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Rural Poverty Reduction
Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (HCOHSEM) Information Management Analysis
No full texthis Project generated 13 recommendations for HCOHSEM by employing an Action Research model using Purposeful Design. It also observed the occurrence and first stages of response by HCOHSEM to Hurricane Harvey. First-hand information and lessons learned from the response to Hurricane Harvey are incorporated into this project and its recommendations. Incorporating this information also helps pave the way for additional research opportunities, especially the unprecedented community response to the disaster. The recommendations provide a range of options for HCOHSEM to implement in order to improve their information management and the emergency notification process during emergency management operations.Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Managemen
Comprehensive U.S. Cyber Framework: Key Aspects of Critical Infrastructure, Private Sector, and Personally Identifiable Information
No full texthis project is a product of the Class of 2019 Bush School of Government and Public Service,Texas A&M University Capstone Program. The project lasted one academic year and involved eight second-year master students. It intends to synthesize and provide clarity in the realm of issues pertaining to U.S. Internet Protocol Space by demonstrating natural partnerships and recommendations for existing cyber incident response. The project was produced at the request of PointStream Inc., a private cybersecurity contractor. This capstone team analyzed existing frameworks for cyber incident response for PointStream, Inc. in order to propose a comprehensive and efficient plan for U.S. cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and private sector stakeholders.Pointstream, Inc
DFT-based Vibrational Spectra for THz-Spectroscopy and Defect Fingerprinting in Molecular Crystals and Solids.
No full textSpectroscopic techniques based on atomic vibrations provide a powerful tool for the
atomic scale characterization of solids. Unfortunately, the translation of their spectra into
atomistic structures tends to be an inverse-problem, as a structural model is required to
assign the observed spectral peaks. This is further complicated by the fact that the exact
position of the latter is sensitive to the precise underlying atomic structure. This results
in the need for very accurate models.
With the steady growth of computational resources, the calculation of vibrational spectra
for extended and periodic systems has become more attainable at the level of quantum
mechanical calculations. In this work, we first present the example of the THz vibrational
spectrum of lactose-monohydrate (LM), and use our results to identify the spectral lines
of the observed spectra of different phases, obtained experimentally by heating the LM
sample.1 The accompanying water loss induces two phase transitions. According to our
results, all phases, including the starting high purity commercial sample, are mixtures of
different phases. We discuss the impact of both structural—such as water content and
orientation— and methodological—such as Pulay stresses, periodic boundaries, and
supercell sizes—aspects on the calculated spectra, and show that DFT-based spectra
under periodic boundaries can be matched with experimental data.
The importance of an extended periodic system for obtaining an accurate vibrational
spectrum is also shown in studying defects in diamond. However, here, we show that the
qualitative picture of the defect character of each atom in the system is independent of
the system size, allowing for small periodic cells to determine the relevant defect atoms
at much reduced computational cost.2 Defects tend to be very localized, resulting in
atomic modes.3 Therefore, an often-used strategy for selecting the contributing atoms
considers only their relative position with regard to the defect center. Using the atomprojected
vibrational spectrum, we present a quantitative method for determining the
defect character of each atom in the system, allowing for a rational incremental
improvement of the defect spectrum. This method is then applied on several simple
defects in diamond.Author : Danny E.P. Vanpoucke
Author name needs to be updated to include middle names, and correctly linked to the uhasselt personel databas
DFT-based Vibrational Spectra for THz-Spectroscopy and Defect Fingerprinting in Molecular Crystals and Solids.
No full textSpectroscopic techniques based on atomic vibrations provide a powerful tool for the
atomic scale characterization of solids. Unfortunately, the translation of their spectra into
atomistic structures tends to be an inverse-problem, as a structural model is required to
assign the observed spectral peaks. This is further complicated by the fact that the exact
position of the latter is sensitive to the precise underlying atomic structure. This results
in the need for very accurate models.
With the steady growth of computational resources, the calculation of vibrational spectra
for extended and periodic systems has become more attainable at the level of quantum
mechanical calculations. In this work, we first present the example of the THz vibrational
spectrum of lactose-monohydrate (LM), and use our results to identify the spectral lines
of the observed spectra of different phases, obtained experimentally by heating the LM
sample.1 The accompanying water loss induces two phase transitions. According to our
results, all phases, including the starting high purity commercial sample, are mixtures of
different phases. We discuss the impact of both structural—such as water content and
orientation— and methodological—such as Pulay stresses, periodic boundaries, and
supercell sizes—aspects on the calculated spectra, and show that DFT-based spectra
under periodic boundaries can be matched with experimental data.
The importance of an extended periodic system for obtaining an accurate vibrational
spectrum is also shown in studying defects in diamond. However, here, we show that the
qualitative picture of the defect character of each atom in the system is independent of
the system size, allowing for small periodic cells to determine the relevant defect atoms
at much reduced computational cost.2 Defects tend to be very localized, resulting in
atomic modes.3 Therefore, an often-used strategy for selecting the contributing atoms
considers only their relative position with regard to the defect center. Using the atomprojected
vibrational spectrum, we present a quantitative method for determining the
defect character of each atom in the system, allowing for a rational incremental
improvement of the defect spectrum. This method is then applied on several simple
defects in diamond.Author : Danny E.P. Vanpoucke
Author name needs to be updated to include middle names, and correctly linked to the uhasselt personel databas
Small area estimation under informative probability sampling of areas and within the selected areas
No full textIn this article we show how to predict small area means and obtain valid MSE estimators and confidence intervals when the areas represented in the sample are sampled with unequal probabilities that are possibly related to the true (unknown) area means, and the sampling of units within the selected areas is with probabilities that are possibly related to the outcome values. Ignoring the effects of the sampling process on the distribution of the observed outcomes in such cases may bias the inference very severely. Classical design based inference that uses the randomization distribution of probability weighted estimators cannot be applied for predicting the means of nonsampled areas. We propose simple test statistics for testing the informativeness of the selection of the areas and the sampling of units within the selected areas. The proposed procedures are illustrated by a simulation study and a real application of estimating mean body mass index in counties of the U.S.A, using data from the NHANES III survey
New important developments in small area estimation
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to review and discuss some of the new important developments in small area estimation (SAE) methods. Rao (2003) wrote a very comprehensive book, which covers all the main developments in this topic until that time and so the focus of this review is on new developments in the last 7 years. However, to make the review more self contained, I also repeat shortly some of the older developments. The review covers both design based and model-dependent methods with emphasis on the prediction of the area target quantities and the assessment of the prediction error. The style of the paper is similar to the style of my previous review on SAE published in 2002, explaining the new problems investigated and describing the proposed solutions, but without dwelling on theoretical details, which can be found in the original articles. I am hoping that this paper will be useful both to researchers who like to learn more on the research carried out in SAE and to practitioners who might be interested in the application of the new methods
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