281 research outputs found
Episide 25: Jeremi Duru & Jesse Washington
No full textIn Forward, Thinking | Episode 25, David and Ricky are joined by legal expert and professor N. Jeremi Duru and Senior Writer at ESPN\u27s The Undefeated and co-author of I Came As A Shadow Jesse Washington.Jeremi discusses his career, his work with the..
Programming NET 35
No full textBestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into the new Microsoft frameworks. The book offers a Grand Tour" of .NET 3.5 that describes how the principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications.
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
No full textThis 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'
Extending the double ramification cycle using Jacobians
No full textWe prove that the extension of the double ramification cycle defined by the first-named author (using modifications of the stack of stable curves) coincides with one of those defined by the last-two named authors (using an extended Brill–Noether locus on a suitable compactified universal Jacobians). In particular, in the untwisted case we deduce that both of these extensions coincide with that constructed by Li and Graber–Vakil using a virtual fundamental class on a space of rubber maps
Free Zone Incentives in MERCOSUR Countries and WTO Law
No full textPublished source: Gabriel Gari, 'Free Zone Incentives in MERCOSUR Countries and WTO Law' (2011) 6 Global Trade and Customs Journal, Issue 5, pp. 223–244
ID: GTCJ2011031This article examines the consistency of the incentives offered by free zone regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay with World Trade Organization (WTO) law. It suggests that some of the incentives offered to free zone users are inconsistent with the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) because they constitute a ‘subsidy’ within the meaning of the ASCM, subject de iure or de facto to export performance, most notably, exemptions of direct taxes, exemptions of custom duties on the import of capital goods, exemptions of payment of social welfare charges, unqualified exemptions on payment of indirect taxes, and the possibility to supply goods or services to free zone users at promotional rates. By contrast, this article suggests that there are no significant inconsistencies between free zone incentives and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) but warns that the situation could change in the future if, as a result of multilateral negotiations, MERCOSUR countries opt for extending their GATS commitments to new sectors and modes of supply
New derivates of 1,6,7,12-tetra-chloroperylene-9,10-di-carboxylic di-n-butyl mono-imide di-n-butylester
No full textSynthesis of new perylene-3,4,9,10-tetra-carboxylic acid (PTCA) derivates is a research topic that has rapidly developed during the last decades. Current synthetic efforts are largely focussed on functionalizing the perylene core, via either bay- or ortho-substitution. The aim of this research project was to synthesize novel perylene mono-imide di-ester derivates by attaching different substituents at the bay-positions. The first synthetic route that was attempted in this research project was a route via a perylene mono-anhydride mono-imide derivate. The anhydride was attached to this molecule to activate the relevant bay-positions. It was found that the anhydride is not stable enough to withstand the reaction conditions that were used in an attempt to substitute the relevant bay positions. The next synthetic route that was attempted in this research project was a route via a perylene di-ester mono-imide derivate. Reactions were performed to explore whether the di-ester was able to activate the relevant bay-positions. It was found that at the used reaction conditions, phenol exchange takes place on the bay-positions of the perylene core. Due to the challenges that arose, the target compounds of this project have not been synthesized. However, three other new PTCA derivates have been synthesized during this project.Chemical Engineerin
The N=3 Weyl multiplet in four dimensions
No full text© 2019, The Author(s). The main ingredient for local superconformal methods is the multiplet of gauge fields: the Weyl multiplet. We construct the transformations of this multiplet for N = 3, D = 4. The construction is based on a supersymmetry truncation from the N = 4 Weyl multiplet, on coupling with a current multiplet, and on the implementation of a soft algebra at the nonlinear level, extending su(2, 2|3). This is the first step towards a superconformal calculus for N = 3, D = 4.sponsorship: The work is supported in part by the KU Leuven C1 grant ZKD1118 C16/16/005. JvM is a PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders and his work is supported in part by the starting grant BOF/STG/14/032 from KU Leuven. (KU Leuven C1 grant|ZKD1118 C16/16/005, KU Leuven|BOF/STG/14/032)status: Publishe
The Banality of Death: Interweaving territories of life and death at the outskirts of Mashhad
No full textThe Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops along the Bagcheh Highway that act as mediators with the goal of interweaving the territories of the dead and living. They are part of the burial ritual as well as they accommodate places for rest and leisure. The design includes a playscape at a former burial place of a persecuted minority in Mashhad where people are playfully confronted with death and its architecture (1), an ablution facility in between two highways that functions as the starting point of the burial ritual and acts as a transfer point for a mobility system, taking visitors that are not necessarily related to the burial ritual around the territory (2) and a watchtower situated on/in a forgotten site of heritage where formerly pilgrims encountered their first view towards the golden dome of the Imam Reza Shrine at the center of Mashhad, and has a role in the completion of the mourning process
Impact Assessment of Rail Switch Location Design on Railway Network Resilience
No full textIn the upcoming years more train passengers are expected and with more trains on the tracks railway systems require greater resilience. Switches can play a major role during disruptions as they enable trains to be rerouted onto other tracks, allowing them to bypass the disruption but switches also facilitate overtaking, meet-pass operations at stations as well as diverging and merging at junctions. Since switches consist of numerous parts and the fact these are moving infrastructure elements they are subject to failure itself. Maintenance is expensive and ProRail, the Dutch infrastructure manager, only has a limited budget from the government and if certain switches are only used during disruptions it sounds logical to remove those switches. With on average 50 disruptions per day in the Netherlands with both small and huge impact, it is important to get insights into the relationship between resilience and the location of the switches. In this thesis a model is constructed that evaluates the impact of a set of disruption scenarios on different switch configurations. Four key performance indicators are found in literature that can measure resilience quantitatively: costs (number of switches), rate of cancelled services, punctuality and time to recover. In interviews with rail experts, weightings for the four KPIs are derived which are used to calculate a score for all disruption scenarios and infrastructure layouts. A trade-off between costs and resilience is made in order to find the optimal switch configuration for a double track and four track layout which provides the highest capacity during disruptions. The set of disruptions including cause, location and duration come from an extensive analysis of disruption events of the past 6.5 years in the Netherlands. Currently, NS is cancelling many trains since NS is examined on punctuality and not on the number of trains. This research aims to cancel as few trains as possible which is also examined in a case study where the model is validated. The Dutch railway line Utrecht Centraal – Arnhem Centraal appears to have a weak spot and by proposing new switch location configurations on a part of this line the score increased, despite the fact that more switches have been included in the proposed solution. Since the big renovation, 108 switches in Utrecht Centraal were removed by ProRail which improved punctuality, capacity and speed but decreased the flexibility: a disruption between Utrecht and Arnhem (or Eindhoven) currently has a lot of impact on the train service between Amsterdam and Utrecht, because short turning options in Utrecht are rare. This means that trains are now being cancelled completely or short turn already in Amsterdam. By using smart options with new rerouting strategies, capacity between Amsterdam and Utrecht can be kept high with the proposed solution during a disruption between Utrecht and Arnhem or Eindhoven.Civil Engineering | Transport and Plannin
Nearest Neigbor Compliance: in Quantum Circuit Design
No full textOver the course of the last decade, an interest has emerged in nearest neighbor constraints for quantum circuit design. The challenge herein is to bothminimize the running time of a circuit and tomodify it such that quantum gates only act on adjacent qubits while leaving the desired computational operation intact. These modifications involve the insertion of SWAP gates, which introduces computational overhead. Several exact and heuristic methods have been developed to determine the minimal number of required SWAP gates. Until now, the model sizes of exact methods scale superexponentionally in the number of qubits of the quantum circuit. The main research goal of this project was to develop an integer linear program that instead scales polynomially both in the number of qubits and the number of quantum gates in the quantumcircuit. 7 First, qubits located on a linear array were considered. The resulting integer linear program proposed requires O(n^2 m) variables and constraints, where n denotes the number of qubits and m denotes the number of quantum gates of the quantum circuit under consideration. Second, qubits located on a two- or threedimensional grid were considered. The programs both require O(n4m) variables and O(n^3 m) constraints. Subsequently we prove that, for a fixed quantum circuit, the optimal objective value of the one-dimensional problem is an upper bound for the optimal objective value of the corresponding two- and three-dimensional problems. Using CPLEX’s Branch & Bound method, 131 benchmark instances of various circuit sizes were evaluated. The largest of which contained either eighteen qubits and sixteen quantum gates, or five qubits and 112 quantumgates. Furthermore, we identify problems on the interface of nearest neighbor compliant quantum circuit design and distributed quantum computing. Integer linear program formulations are provided for these additional problems.Applied Mathematic
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