864 research outputs found
The piano music by Čestmír Gregor
No full textIn my thesis, I introduce a complete list of piano works by Cestmír Gregor, a contemporary Czech composer of modern classical music. 1 have tried to define his compositional techniques and sources of inspiration by analysing the individual pieces of music. I have found that the major features of the author's highly unique style are polyphonic thinking, the development of motives from small nuclei, expressive themes, plastic tunes, inventive work with rhythm, and the absence of a tonal centre which he compensates for by distinctive melodies . The author finds his inspiration in folklore, especially Moravian (Leoš Janácek), the works of Czech interwar avantgarde (Pavel Borkovec) and in jazz (Jaroslav Ježek). His music reflects the emotional states of a man living in the twenty-first century whose life style is predominantly determined by an urban environment. Gregor does not use any of the Musica Nova theories, instead he founded his own music language. The basis for his compositions is communicative music, which follows the patterns of human perceptive psychology. Gregor's concertant compositions are typical for a new instrument stylization and nontraditional attitudes towards instrument virtuosity (playing with a palm, elbow; an unconventional fingering). His piano sonatas and concerts enable the..
Čestmír Gregor: The Piano Compositions of the Composer
No full textIn my thesis, I introduce a complete list of piano works by Čestmír Gregor, a contemporary Czech composer of modern classical music. 1 have tried to define his compositional techniques and sources of inspiration by analysing the individual pieces of music. I have found that the major features of the author's highly unique style are polyphonic thinking, the development of motives from small nuclei, expressive themes, plastic tunes, inventive work with rhythm, and the absence of a tonal centre which he compensates for by distinctive melodies . The author finds his inspiration in folklore, especially Moravian (Leoš Janáček), the works of Czech interwar avantgardě (Pavel Borkovec) and in jazz (Jaroslav Ježek). His music reflects the emotional states of a man living in the twenty-first century whose life style is predominantly determined by an urban environment. Gregor does not use any of the Musica Nova theories, instead he founded his own music language. The basis for his compositions is communicative music, which follows the patterns of human perceptive psychology. Gregor's concertant compositions are typical for a new instrument stylization and nontraditional attitudes towards instrument virtuosity (playing with a palm, elbow; an unconventional fingering). His piano sonatas and concerts enable the..
Gregor Piatigorsky
No full textIn this Master disertation, the author talks about the life and career of a legendary virtuoso cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Gregor Piatigorsky is one of the most important figures in the history of cello. Piatigorsky has not only achieved an incredible solo career, but as a teacher he also raised a large number of great cellists and cello teachers of today. Among his most famous pupil are Mischa Maisky, Steven Isserlis or Raphael Wallfish. Disertation also includes authors own experience with teaching of Laurence Lesser, who was an assistant of Piatigorsky for almost 7 years, and whose style of teaching is nearly the same as Piatigorsky's
Statewide congestion overview
No full textprepared by Oregon Department of Transportation, Transportation Planning Analysis Unit ; principal author: Brian Gregor ; staff support: Michal Wert, MW Consulting.Title from PDF title page.Covers OCLC #1390891081, OCLC #1378912112, OCLC #1201266716, and OCLC #1201266486.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
On Bayesian Based Adaptive Confidence Sets for Linear Functionals
No full textWe consider the problem of constructing Bayesian based confidence sets for linear functionals in the inverse Gaussian white noise model. We work with a scale of Gaussian priors indexed by a regularity hyper-parameter and apply the data-driven (slightly modified) marginal likelihood empirical Bayes method for the choice of this hyper-parameter. We show by theory and simulations that the credible sets constructed by this method have sub-optimal behaviour in general. However, by assuming “self-similarity” the credible sets have rate-adaptive size and optimal coverage. As an application of these results we construct L∞-credible bands for the true functional parameter with adaptive size and optimal coverage under self-similarity constraint
A Mixture Model for Filtering Firms’ Profit Rates
No full textExisting methods for sample selection from noisy profit rate data in the industrial organization field of economics tend to be conditional on a covariate’s value that risks discarding valuable information. We condition sample selection on the profit rate data’s structure instead by means of a Bayesian mixture model. In a two component (signal and noise) mixture that reflects the prior belief of noisy data, each firm profit rate observation is assigned an indicator latent variable. Gibbs sampling determines the latent variables’ posterior densities, sorting profit rate observations to the signal or noise component. We apply two model specifications to empirical profit rate cross sections, one with a Normal and one with a Laplace signal component. We find the Laplace specification to have a superior fit based on the Bayes factor and the profit rate sample to be time stationary Laplace distributed, corroborating earlier estimates of cross section distributions. Our model retains 97%, as opposed to as little as 20%, of the raw data in a previous applicatio
Gregor Samsa’s Self Alienation in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis: Lacanian Psychoanalysis
No full textThis research is focused on Jacques Lacan\u27s psychoanalytic theory, which is described in the main character in Franz Kafka\u27s novel The Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa is the main character of The Metamorphosis. Gregor was a traveling salesman who was the Samsa family\u27s sole son and earner. He mysteriously transforms into a massive bug, causing him to be estranged from his family. The author finds out why Gregor’s family members do not care about him and can\u27t perceive him as a complicated human being with his own needs. As a result, Gregor has been estranged from his family and himself. The author argues that Gregor has another alienation from his physical reality after the transformation. His family views him as a terrifying, unpleasant monster, as seen by their fear of his existence and their decision to get rid of him. Gregor, who suffers from humiliation, views himself in the same light. He and his family unwittingly reject Gregor\u27s potential as an individual, making him feel alienated. This research aims to identify how Gregor\u27s conditions make him feel alienated and the connection between his identity crisis and alienation, as depicted in The Metamorphosis. Although humans are free human beings, society contributes to the perspective of self-identity and the decision of their own goals
Wings of Gregor Samsa: Motif’s Implementation in Russian Thought
No full textThis article is dedicated to the reception of Franz Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” within Russian intellectual discourse. The aim of this article is to analyze various interpretative perspectives regarding the presence of wings in the transformed Gregor Samsa. The analysis juxtaposes different readings of the novella, highlighting the perspectives of Russian translator G. Notkin, critic V. Belonozhko, and Russian-speaking playwright Z. Sagalov, author of the play “Don’t Trust Mr. Kafka.” It is revealed that the question of Gregor’s wings presents contrasting resolutions in scholarly and translational hermeneutics on one hand, and artistic interpretations on the other. The issue of whether transformed Gregor possesses wings was raised by V. Nabokov, and in the scholarly and translational tradition that challenges Nabokov’s interpretation, Gregor’s metamorphosis into a winged insect is rejected. Conversely, artistic hermeneutics portray Gregor as a winged creature. The relevance of this interpretation is substantiated by referencing Kafka's unfinished novel “Wedding Preparations in the Village,” which contains an image of transformation into an insect with wings. The comparative analysis and observations presented by the author form the basis for an original interpretation of the novella, supported by an examination of its narrative specifics and a discussion of English translation practices regarding the lexeme denoting the insect into which Gregor transformed
Bayesian filtering for thermal conductivity estimation given temperature observations
No full textInternational standards often require complex experimental layouts to estimate the thermal conductivity of materials, and they marginally take into account the uncertainty in the estimation procedure. In this paper, we propose a particle filtering approach coupled with a simple experimental layout for the real-time estimation of the thermal conductivity in homogeneous materials. Indeed, based on the heat equation, we define a state-space model for the temperature evaluation based on the unknown conductivity, and we apply a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter. Finally, the approach is validated considering heating and cooling cycles given to a specimen made up of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) in forced convection. Results show good estimates in accordance with the PMMA conductivity range, and computational times confirm the possibility of a real-time estimation
The Struggle of Gregor against Alienation in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
No full textThe Metamorphosis tells a transformation of a man into an insect. That man is Gregor Samsa. He has to struggle against alienation from people around him until he finally meets his tragic death. The story begins when one morning Gregor who works as a cloth salesman, found his body turned into a giant insect when he woke up. He thought it might be a dream. But as time passes and his human form does not come back, Gregor finally believes that what he experienced is not only a hallucination. Until the end, Gregor could no longer do his activities as usual. Gregor's family who felt that Gregor is now nothing but a burden, then they abandon Gregor just like that, make Gregor struggling alone to live his new life until he died because he could not stand the injury and the pressure he felt.
This research uses qualitative method to find and analyze the data in the novel. The data are collected using the documentary method. There are primary data and secondary data. The primary data of the research are collected from the novel written by Franz Kafka entitled The Metamorphosis. They are in the form of facts and information about the alienation of Gregor presented in the novel. The secondary data are the information that is out of the novel such as the real socio-cultural condition of Prague in the early twentieth century and the life of the author. They are taken from the various sources for instance books, journals, literary work reviews, internets and the other sources to support the analysis. To find the ideological implication of class struggle as the structure of the text in The Metamorphosis, this research describes about the socio-cultural condition of Prague that must have an influence to Kafka in taking alienation as his theme of the story. Analyzing the structure of the novel and the real society of Prague will lead the writer to know the worldview of the author. By knowing the world view of the author, then the ideology and the reason of the author in creating The Metamorphosis can be understood.
The result of this research shows (1) Gregor is alienated from people around him, his father, sister, mother, and his manager where he works. And after struggle with his miserable condition, he meets his death. His death could be the only way to free him from his alienation. (2) The social and cultural background of the people living in the novel of The Metamorphosis are reflected to the condition of society that was trapped within the slavery of capitalism caused by industrialization that was developing in Europe at that time. In addition, the alienation by most European citizens against the Jews was also the portrayal of social conditions in the story. (3) The author‟s worldview in The Metamorphosis is a thinking that believes that human existence is very importan
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