2,913 research outputs found
The New American Gazette: Michael Barrett and Theodore Sizer; How Much School is Enough?, at Ford Hall Forum, audio recording, 11/15/1990
No full textThroughout our country, educators, parents and public officials are seeking ways to improve our schools. Debating, this week, the question of How Much School is Enough? are Massachusetts State Senator Michael Barrett, author of November\u27s Atlantic Monthly cover article arguing for dramatic lengthening of the public school year, and Brown University Education Professor Theodore Sizer, who sees the need for a broader range of reforms.https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-av/1047/thumbnail.jp
A Critical Review Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head
No full textThis Literature Review contextualises the work I undertook for „Syd Barrett: A
Very Irregular Head,‟ (1) a 140,000 word biography based on the life of the
musician Syd Barrett, lead guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter in the
original line up of Pink Floyd. The book is based on two and a half years of
focussed research, carried out between January 1997 and August 2009.
During this time I interviewed family, friends, schoolmates, fellow college
students, musicians, artists, and admirers from every stage of Barrett‟s life,
from his earliest days growing up in Cambridge, through his period as an
active musician and pop star, to his final years as a reclusive and enigmatic
figure in his home town. However, these 65 interviews comprise only one
element of my research. In addition I utilised an extensive range of primary
and secondary source material, and the bibliography for the book runs to
some 49 texts. (See appendix.) I also drew upon significant audio and video
material including rare and hard to find television transmissions, and archive
and bootleg recordings, many of which are not in the public domain
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
Donovan, Michael. Interview about St. George's church in Petty Harbour.
No full textMichael James Donovan was born in St. John's and grew up in the Goulds and Petty Harbour. In this interview we discuss St. George's Church in Petty Harbour including the regular and special services, church organizations, past reverends and organists, structure of the parish, changes to the church, and garden parties.Michael James Donovan was born March 24, 1987 in St. John’s to Karen (Weir) and Noel Donovan; Michael grew up in the Goulds and spent summers in Petty Harbour; Marguerite and Herbie Weir’s general store and Herbie’s Olde Shoppe; 2:40 – St. George’s church service times; Good Friday, Easter, Christmas; garden parties; Petty Harbour Days; raffle; church hall and rectory; dances; turkey teas; 7:06 – church organizations – vestry or working group, ACW (Anglican Church Women), servers, Sunday school, confirmation class, choir; 12:42 – succession of priests, father, reverends, arch bishops; 15:09 – ACW; 16:00 – material culture or objects found in the church; 24:20 – church bell; people’s warden; rector’s warden; 29:56 – graves and graveyards; 32:53 – changes in the structure of the parish; people involved with the church
Dawson Barrett, The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America
Get PDFDawson Barrett, The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America New York University Press, 2018. Pp. 233. ISBN: 9781479808656 Joseph Michael Gratale If you happen to be a supporter of neoliberal capitalism, well, this book is not for you. Although the focus of the book, as its title indicates, is on American protest movements over the past half a century, the narrative pivots around the economic and political philosophy of neoliberalism. This aggressive form of capitalism, the author n..
supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Trochanteric spurs and surface irregularities on plain radiography are not predictive of greater trochanteric pain syndrome
No full textSupplemental material, supplementary_material for Trochanteric spurs and surface irregularities on plain radiography are not predictive of greater trochanteric pain syndrome by Matthew C Barrett, Eve E Robertson-Waters, Michael R Whitehouse, Ashley W Blom and James R Berstock in HIP International</p
Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
Get PDFFieldwork for this paper was conducted under the Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) project of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (GL CRSP), funded by the Office of Agriculture and Food Security, Global Bureau, USAID, under grant number DAN-1328-G-00-0046-00, and analysis was underwritten by the USAID SAGA cooperative agreement, grant number HFM-A-00-01-00132-00. Financial support was also provided by the Social Science Research Council's Program in Applied Economics on Risk and Development (through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation), The Pew Charitable Trusts (through the Christian Scholars Program of the University of Notre Dame), the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal), and the Graduate School of Cornell University. Thanks are due to ILRI - Ethiopia for their hospitality and support and to Action for Development (Yabello) for logistical support. We thank Getachew Gebru and our field assistants, Ahmed Ibrahim and Mohammed Ibrahim, for their invaluable assistance in data collection. This is a much revised version of an earlier paper that circulated under the title: "Safety nets or social insurance in the presence of poverty traps? Evidence from southern Ethiopia". We thank Michael Carter, Stefan Dercon, Andrew Foster, Vivian Hoffman, Dhushyanth Raju, Steve Younger and participants at various conferences and seminars for comments that greatly improved this paper. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not represent any official agency. Any remaining errors are our own.risk, informal insurance, social networks, poverty traps, Ethiopia, Risk and Uncertainty, Z13, I3, O13,
Whole genome methylation analysis of nondysplastic barrett esophagus that progresses to invasive cancer
Get PDFOBJECTIVE: To investigate differences in methylation between patients with nondysplastic Barrett esophagus who progress to invasive adenocarcinoma and those who do not.BACKGROUND: Identifying patients with nondysplastic Barrett esophagus who progress to invasive adenocarcinoma remains a challenge. Previous studies have demonstrated the potential utility of epigenetic markers for identifying this group.METHODS: A whole genome methylation interrogation using the Illumina HumanMethylation 450 array of patients with nondysplastic Barrett esophagus who either develop adenocarcinoma or remain static, with validation of findings by bisulfite pyrosequencing.RESULTS: In all, 12 patients with "progressive" versus 12 with "nonprogressive" nondysplastic Barrett esophagus were analyzed via methylation array. Forty-four methylation markers were identified that may be able to discriminate between nondysplastic Barrett esophagus that either progress to adenocarcinoma or remain static. Hypomethylation of the recently identified tumor suppressor OR3A4 (probe cg09890332) validated in a separate cohort of samples (median methylation in progressors 67.8% vs 96.7% in nonprogressors; P = 0.0001, z = 3.85, Wilcoxon rank-sum test) and was associated with the progression to adenocarcinoma. There were no differences in copy number between the 2 groups, but a global trend towards hypomethylation in the progressor group was observed.CONCLUSION: Hypomethylation of OR3A4 has the ability to risk stratify the patient with nondysplastic Barrett esophagus and may form the basis of a future surveillance program.</p
A DNA barcode for land plants
Get PDFCBOL Plant Working Group member: Michael James Wilkinson of the University of AdelaideDNA barcoding involves sequencing a standard region of DNA as a tool for species identification. However, there has been no agreement on which region(s) should be used for barcoding land plants. To provide a community recommendation on a standard plant barcode, we have compared the performance of 7 leading candidate plastid DNA regions (atpF–atpH spacer, matK gene, rbcL gene, rpoB gene, rpoC1 gene, psbK–psbI spacer, and trnH–psbA spacer). Based on assessments of recoverability, sequence quality, and levels of species discrimination, we recommend the 2-locus combination of rbcL+matK as the plant barcode. This core 2-locus barcode will provide a universal framework for the routine use of DNA sequence data to identify specimens and contribute toward the discovery of overlooked species of land plants.CBOL Plant Working Group: Peter M. Hollingsworth...Michael J. Wilkinson..
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
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