929 research outputs found
A search for measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island: An inter-provincial "cost of living" inquiry
No full textby Godfrey Baldacchino & Matt Funk.; 23 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm; "31 July 2008"- t.p.; Report written for Dr. Michael Mayne, Deputy Minister, Dept. of Innovation and Advanced Learning.; Includes bibliographic references (p. 19-21)
Keynote Address — Funk and Afro Futurism: The Past, Present, and Future of the Funk
No full textDr. Frederick “Rickey” Vincent is author of the award-winning Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (1996), the first definitive treatment of funk music and culture. His address addresses: Liberation in the Moment: Other Worlds and Black Liberation (from Soul Train to “Wakanda Forever”) The Rhythm Revolution: Liberation, Motion, and Black Identity (JB and The One) Transcendence: The Higher Plane of the Funk Groove (Sly and the body/mind/spirit unification) The Collective: Tribalism in a Post-Industrial World (Funk blends genres, blends cultures as long as it’s “On the One”) The Epic: P-Funk Earth Tour and Beyond (The “super groups” take over) More Bounce: Digital Funk and the Search for the Soul in the Machine (From Disco to House to EDM) Bring That Beat Back: the Return of the Raw (From LA to DC, the funk band returns)https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_funk_content/1028/thumbnail.jp
On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Island Life: Introducing a Unified Theory of Value & Evolutionarily Stable Island Economic Development Strategy
No full textThis discourse offers a solution to The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development on islands. This hypothesis offers a foundational, sub-game solution to The Island Survival Game, a counterintuitive, dominant economic development strategy for ‘islands’ (and relatively insular states). This discourse also tables conceptual building blocks, prerequisite analytical tools, and a guiding principle for The Earth Island Survival Game, a bounded delay supergame which models The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development at the global level. We begin our exploration with an introduction to The Principle of Relative Insularity, a postulate which informs ESS for ‘island’ and ‘continental’ players alike. Next, we model ‘island’ economic development with two bio-geo-politico-economic models and respective strategies: The Mustique Co. Development Plan, and The Prince Edward Island Federal-Provincial Program for Social and Economic Advancement. These diametrically opposed strategies offer an extraordinary comparative study. One island serves as a highly descriptive model for The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development; the other model informs ESS. The Island Survival Game serves as a remarkable learning tool, offering lessons which promote Darwinian fitness, resource holding power, self-sufficiency, and cooperative behaviour, by illuminating the illusive path toward sustainable economic development.Non-cooperative games, evolutionary game theory, relative insularity, islands, tragedy of the commons, sustainable economic development, resource holding power, evolutionarily stable strategy, long distance dispersal
"Funk is its own reward" : an analysis of selected lyrics in popular funk music of the 1970s, 2008
No full textThis research examined popular funk music as the social and political voice of African Americans during the era of the seventies. The objective of this research was to reveal the messages found in the lyrics as they commented on the climate of the times for African Americans of that era. A content analysis method was used to study the lyrics of popular funk music. This method allowed the researcher to scrutinize the lyrics in the context of their creation. When theories on the black vernacular and its historical roles found in African-American literature and music respectively were used in tandem with content analysis, it brought to light the voice of popular funk music of the seventies. This research will be useful in terms of using popular funk music as a tool to research the history of African Americans from the seventies to the present. The research herein concludes that popular funk music lyrics espoused the sentiments of the African-American community as it utilized a culturally familiar vernacular and prose to express the evolving sociopolitical themes amid the changing conditions of the seventies era
A higienização do funk na mídia : um estudo sobre o funk "proibidão"
No full textO presente trabalho trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que se propôs a analisar o funk brasileiro partindo do seguinte problema: como se dá o processo de higienização pelo qual o funk brasileiro passa para estar presente na Rádio Atlântida e na Rádio 92, emissoras do Grupo RBS? A questão foi respondida a partir do objetivo geral: analisar de que forma se dá o processo de higienização pelo qual o funk "proibidão" brasileiro passa para estar presente na Rádio Atlântida e na Rádio 92 no estado do Rio Grande do Sul em 2022. E também dos objetivos específicos: conceituar cultura e identidade, que são elementos importantes para compreender o que se entende por higienização do funk na mídia; apresentar a história do funk no Brasil, passando pelas diferentes décadas e principais marcos na mídia, até chegar ao funk "proibidão" (recorte desta pesquisa) e entrevistar comunicadores das emissoras Rádio Atlântida e Rádio 92. Após o levantamento bibliográfico, seguido da aplicação das técnicas de entrevistas semiestruturadas com um representante de cada rádio e com uma autora referenciada, observou-se que apesar de existir a possibilidade de um processo de higienização por parte das rádios, o mais usual é a versão higienizada das músicas ser fornecida pelos próprios artistas, processo descrito por Lopes (2011). Foi constatado que é extremamente raro as rádios alterarem as músicas tocadas, sendo este um recurso utilizado somente quando uma música está muito em alta e não disponibiliza uma versão higienizada.The present work is a qualitative research that proposed to analyze Brazilian funk starting from the following problem: how is the cleaning process that Brazilian funk goes through to be present on Rádio Atlântida and Rádio 92, stations of Grupo RBS? The question was answered based on the general objective: to analyze how the cleaning process takes place through which the Brazilian funk "proibidão" goes through to be present on Rádio Atlântida and Rádio 92 in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in 2022. Also the specific objectives: to conceptualize culture and identity, which are important elements to understand what is meant by the cleaning of funk in the media; present the history of funk in Brazil, going through the different decades and main milestones in the media, until reaching the funk "proibidão" (excerpt from this research) and interview communicators from Rádio Atlântida and Rádio 92. After the bibliographical survey, followed by the application of semi-structured interview techniques with a representative of each radio station and with a referenced author, it was observed that although there is the possibility of a cleaning process on the part of the radio stations, the most usual version is the censored version of the songs is provided by the artists themselves, a process described by Lopes (2011). It was found that it is extremely rare for radios to change the songs played, this being a resource used only when a song is very popular and does not provide a censored version
On affine planes with 3-regular group of projectivities
No full textThe author looks at affine planes from von Staudt's point of view, by investigating the consequences of regularity assumptions for the group Πa of affine projectivities. This group Πa, which consists of all products of parallel projections, is always doubly transitive; it is 2-regular only in Desarguesian affine planes, and it is 4-regular in free affine planes [A. Barlotti et al., Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 60 (1978), 183--200; MR0555963 (81g:51005)]. Concerning 3-regularity, the author proves the following theorem: Let A be an affine plane, and assume that Πa is 3-regular. Then A is a translation plane, and if the kernel of A is not GF(2) (or if A is finite), then A is in fact Desarguesian
Joel David Funk
No full textAn article with the title identical to the author\u27s name? It\u27s not that I\u27m an egotist, it\u27s just that one has a lifetime of experience with one\u27s own name and it\u27s logological permutations
The development of a model of Alpha helix formation for transmembrane peptides
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 26).Researchers have studied the folding and binding properties of peptides in water for many years, but only recently has anyone attempted to explore those same tendencies in an environment similar to that of a transmembrane protein incorporated into the phospholipid bilayer of the cell. To this end, we have been working on the synthesis of a group of peptides with the general sequence +H3N-Ala2-Leu3-Ala7-Trp-Ala-X-Ala10-Lys6-COOH, where we will substitute all twenty naturally occurring amino acids into position X. We have successfully synthesized and purified the peptide in which the guest position X is filled by an isoleucine-due to the difficulty of the sequence involved, we have been unable to synthesize and purify eighteen of the remaining nineteen. Peptides, once synthesized, are characterized by MALDI mass spectrometry and HPLC and purified peptides are studied using circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to determine the a-helicity. Initial results suggest that the transmembrane environment will indeed alter the propensities of the various amino acid residues to form a-helices, though to what degree still remains to be seen. Once complete, this study should make it possible to determine a system for predicting a-helix formation in membrane proteins and determine the basic rules that guide such helix formation
Nothovernonia purpurea H. Rob. & V. A. Funk
No full text<p> <b> <i>Nothovernonia purpurea</i> (Sch.Bip. ex Walp.) H.Rob. & V.A.Funk</b> —</p> <p>Habit: Herb.</p> <p>Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: II.</p> <p> Voucher: West Mount Kenya, Coles Mill, Alt. 2 200 m, 16 Jan. 1922, <i>Fries & Fries 948</i> (K).</p> <p>References: Beentje (2000), Agnew (2013).</p>Published as part of <i>Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1)</i> on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6550464">http://zenodo.org/record/6550464</a>
Survey of the Moths (Lepidoptera) Inhabiting the Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area, Wayne and Ashland Counties, Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State UniversityIn 1995, the Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area was the subject of an ongoing series of insect surveys intended to establish benchmark information on arthropod diversity of wetlands in northeast Ohio. This article concentrates on the moths which were collected at ultraviolet light traps within the Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area. A companion report will follow focusing on the Coleoptera along with several orders of aquatic insects. 3252 specimens were identified to 306 species in 19 families. These species are classified as follows: Abundant = 34; Locally Abundant = 1; Common = 257; Locally Common = 2; Uncommon = 10; Rare = 1; and Special Interest = 1
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