904 research outputs found
Wouter Keesing's notes on Fats Domino recording sessions, undated
No full textUndated notes written by Wouter Keesing, a researcher of and authority on Fats Domino, related to content recorded during various recording sessions from 1953 to 1962
The Wouter Keesing Collection on Fats Domino and New Orleans R&B
No full textThe Wouter Keesing Collection on Fats Domino and New Orleans R&B is a record group within the Hugo Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture. This record group includes realia, ephemera, recordings, magazines, books, newspaper clippings, and personal/tour material on Fats Domino, as well as Imperial Records, Smiley Lewis, New Orleans Jazz and R&B, and the research materials of Wouter Keesing. Any magazines or periodicals included in this collection will contain articles on Fats Domino, Imperial Records, and related artists. The series contains clipped articles and notes on material by John Broven, Rick Coleman, Michel Ruppli, and Jeff Hannusch (a.k.a. Almost Slim). Wouter Keesing's records also contain limited materials on Vietnam War recordings
The Hugo Keesing Collection on Roy Orbison
No full textThe Hugo Keesing Collection of Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, and memorabilia related to 20th century American popular music, in particular rock 'n' roll. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Collection has been separated into five record groups. The collection consists of clippings and magazines, ephemera, recordings and miscellaneous documents. These materials span the length of Orbison's career
The Hugo Keesing Collection on Elvis Presley
No full textThe Hugo Keesing Collection on Elvis Presley consists of books, serials, clippings, and memorabilia related to his life and music. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of this collection covers the period from the 1970s through the 1990s. This collection has been separated into eight series: Realia, ephemera, clippings, serials, catalogs, books, programs, and recordings related to Elvis Presley, from both during his career and after his death
The Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture
No full textThe Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, memorabilia, and teaching and research materials related to twentieth-century American popular music, and to rock and roll music in particular. The materials were collected by Hugo Keesing, a popular culture scholar and former professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, and by Dr. Keesing's brother, Wouter Keesing. The bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s to the 1990s. Serials in the collection include Rolling Stone, Pulse, Discoveries, Goldmine, and many other national and regional music serials. Research and teaching materials include Dr. Keesing's University of Maryland syllabi and class notes, writings, auction lists, catalogues, and price guides. In addition to the books housed with the archival collection, there are an additional 3,000 books that are can be found through the University of Maryland catalog. The collection is broad in its coverage of twentieth-century popular music; however, the collection originally contained a significant number of books, magazines, clippings, and memorabilia related to Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Roy Orbison, and Fats Domino, respectively. These materials have been organized into four separate collections; each collection has its own finding aid. Please note: While the majority of this collection has been processed, select series may not yet have complete inventories. Please contact the curator for more information
Hugo Keesing collection of popular music sheet music
No full textThe Hugo Keesing collection on popular music sheet music consists of sheet music, sheet music books, and other publications dedicated to sheet music from the twentieth century. The materials were collected by Hugo Keesing, a popular culture scholar and former professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, and by Dr. Keesing's brother, Wouter Keesing. This collection contains sheet music published throughout the entire twentieth century, including music from the Tin Pan Alley era, as well as sheet music published after the rise of recorded sound and rock 'n' roll. The bulk of the materials date from 1920 - 1940 and from 1970 - 2000
The Hugo Keesing Collection on The Beatles
No full textThe Hugo Keesing Collection on the Beatles consists of books, serials, clippings, and memorabilia related to this band. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, the collection covers the period from the 1963 through the 2007, with the bulk between 1963 and 1980, and again from 1990-2000. The collection has been separated into five record groups including realia, ephemera, recordings, magazines, books, newspaper clippings, and other materials on the Beatles, from both during the band's active career and after the group disbanded
Digging through the dirt: a general method for abstract discrete state estimation with limited prior knowledge
No full textAutonomous robots are often successfully deployed in controlled environments. Operation in uncontrolled situations remains challenging; it is hypothesized that the detection of abstract discrete states (ADS) can improve operation in these circumstances. ADS are high-level system states that are not directly detectable and influence system dynamics. An example of a typical ADS problem that is used in this thesis is that of a wheeled robot driving through puddles of mud that, when entered, alters the velocity of the robot. When the robot is in such a puddle, it is in an ADS 'mud', and when it is not, it is in an ADS 'free'. ADS can be indirectly inferred through the analysis of lower-level data such as the velocity of the robot. The goal of this thesis is to design a general abstract discrete state estimator (ADSE) operating with limited prior knowledge. An ADSE is a hierarchical system for detecting changes in ADS. The ADSE should be general; applicable to multiple ADSE problems. The ADSE should further operate under limited prior knowledge: only assuming that the amount of ADS and the ADS that describes the regular operation are known. The basis for the ADSE designed in this thesis is a Gaussian hidden Markov model (GHMM), a hidden Markov model enhanced with Gaussian emissions. Randomly generated experiments are done on a simple but general ADSE problem. Two unsupervised learning methods derived from Expectation Maximization are evaluated, namely Baum-Welch (BW) and forward extraction (FWE). FWE is introduced in this thesis and is a simpler implementation of Viterbi extraction, leveraging assumptions of ADSE to in theory gain computational efficiency. We found that both BW and FWE exhibit superior performance compared to a likelihood-based baseline estimator when the maximum score of the learning curve is considered. When the final score is considered, in some cases, FWE displays a deteriorating learning curve, resulting in worse final scores compared to the baseline. Furthermore, it was found that the lower the overlap coefficient (therefore the less similar the ADS), the higher the maximum reached score. It was further shown that BW exhibits better convergence than FWE to the true model parameters. Besides this, FWE obtained comparable or in some cases even superior scores compared to BW. In general, from the results, the diversity of the experiments conducted, and the assumptions made we can conclude that the GHMM can be a general method for an ADSE with limited prior knowledge. To quantify the suitability of the GHMM for ADSE, further research should include the evaluation of different ADSE methods on the same problem. There exists a tradeoff between the lower computational cost FWE and the more stable but more computationally intensive BW learning. Therefore, future research can include a combination of these methods. Other extensions include extending the GHMM to a Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model to allow for the modeling of more complex distributions, or the application to multiple states or a changing environment.https://github.com/Wouter-deBoer/adseMechanical Engineering | Vehicle Engineering | Cognitive Robotic
embalming and reperfusion of porcine kidneys
No full text<p>These are the data of the following article:</p>
<p>Understanding Thiel embalming in pig kidneys to develop a new circulation model</p>
<p>First author: Wouter Willaert</p
Nederland op een kantelpunt: Interview met Wouter Veldhuis over het Stedelijk Netwerk Nederland en het sociaal netwerk van woonwijken
No full textDe stedenbouwkundige en architect Wouter Veldhuis en landschapsarchitect Jannemarie de Jonge zijn per 1 december 2020 Rijksadviseur voor de fysieke leefomgeving. Later in september 2021 komt daar de architect Francesco Veenstra bij als Rijksbouwmeester en dan is het nieuwe trio College van Rijksadviseurs weer compleet. De uitdagingen voor het college zijn groot. De ruimteclaims die er liggen in stad en land, de hooggestemde ambities om klimaatneutraal en circulair te zijn in 2050, de roep om een minister voor de fysieke leefomgeving en of wonen en weer een echt ministerie met budget. Het enorme probleem op de woningmarkt en de druk om één miljoen woningen ergens bij te bouwen. Op 24 april sprak het team van 1M Homes initiative van de TU Delft met de nieuw benoemde rijksadviseur voor de fysieke leefomgeving Wouter Veldhuis over de aanstaande veranderingen
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