33 research outputs found
Andreas Feith Quartett, live im Tübinger Jazzclub (09.03.22), Teil 1 (Musikbox)
No full textDas Quartett um den Pianisten Andreas Feith spielt einen groovenden Modern Jazz. Die Liebe des Nürnbergers für das Klavier begann schon in seiner Kindheit. 2020 war er Finalist beim Deutschen Jazzpreis, der dann wegen Corona leider abgesagt werden musste. Andreas Feith ist als Leader oder Sideman auf zahlreichen Alben zu hören. Und: Seit 2020 lehrt er Jazzpiano und Jazztheorie an der Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg. Dort gibt es auch Lehrveranstaltungen von Saxofonist Markus Harm, dem langjährigen Weggefährten von Andreas Feith – die beiden spielen seit Jahren zusammen in einem festen Duo. Markus Harm war es schließlich auch, der bei dem Tübinger Aufritt am 9. März 2022 Lutz Häfner vertrat. Der hatte sich mit Corona angesteckt und musste deshalb eine Zwangspause einlegen.
Das Andreas Feith Quartett:
Andreas Feith: Piano
Markus Harm: Altsaxofon
Martin Gjakonovski: Kontrabass
Silvio Morger: Schlagzeu
Andreas Feith Quartett, live im Tübinger Jazzclub (09.03.22), Teil 2 (Musikbox)
No full textDas Quartett um den Pianisten Andreas Feith spielt einen groovenden Modern Jazz. Die Liebe des Nürnbergers für das Klavier begann schon in seiner Kindheit. 2020 war er Finalist beim Deutschen Jazzpreis, der dann wegen Corona leider abgesagt werden musste.
Andreas Feith ist als Leader oder Sideman auf zahlreichen Alben zu hören. Und: Seit 2020 lehrt er Jazzpiano und Jazztheorie an der Hochschule für Musik in Nürnberg. Dort gibt es auch Lehrveranstaltungen von Saxofonist Markus Harm, dem langjährigen Weggefährten von Andreas Feith – die beiden spielen seit Jahren zusammen in einem festen Duo. Markus Harm war es schließlich auch, der bei dem Tübinger Aufritt Lutz Häfner vertrat. Der hatte sich mit Corona angesteckt und musste deshalb eine Zwangspause einlegen.
Das Andreas Feith Quartett:
Andreas Feith: Piano
Markus Harm: Altsaxofon
Martin Gjakonovski: Kontrabass
Silvio Morger: Schlagzeu
Indonesian political thinking 1945 - 1965
No full textThis collection of more than one hundred excerpts from speeches, lectures, articles, and pamphlets, most of the not previously available in English, is regarded as the principal source book on Indonesian politics for the post-revolution period of 1945-1965.Chosen to define and illuminate the country's complex issues, the selections provide a balanced, comprehensive, and well-ordered survey of Indonesian political thinking from just before independence to the fall of Sukarno. After an introduction by Herbert Feith in which he discusses the Indonesian intellectual and his place in politics, the major and minor Indonesian figures of the period express their political views and their responses to the events of the first twenty years of independence. A commentary at the beginning of each chapter supplies background material relating to the selections. Three appendixes offer brief biographies of the Indonesian authors, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and a chronological chart. Indonesian Political Thinking, now brought back to life in Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, is a must-have resource for Indonesians and Indonesianists alike. HERBERT FEITH (year) was professor of Politics at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He first became familiar with Indonesian problems when he was an English Language Assistant with the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Indonesia during the 1950s. He received the MA degree from the University of Melbourne, the PhD from Cornell University, and was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific History, Australian National University, 1960-62. Professor Feith is author of The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, also a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series. LANCE CASTLES graduated from Melbourne University, Australia, received the MA degree from Monash University, and the PhD degree from Yale University. He is the author of Religion, Politics, and Economic Behavior in Java: The Kudus Cigarette Industry
Knowing Indonesia Inside and Out: Herb Feith and the Intellectual Search for Understanding
No full textHerb Feith was one of Australia's first and most prominent scholars of Indonesia. His books and articles dating from the late 1950s are still read by students of Indonesian politics today, and his opinion on Indonesia's future was sought until the day he died by people both in Australia and in Indonesia. He was also among the first to teach peace studies in Australian universities and is remembered for his activism on human rights, peace, and environmental issues as well as his scholarship. Jemma Purdey is researching and writing a biography of Herb Feith with particular focus on his engagement with Indonesia, both as scholar and humanist. This article endeavours to open up one of the areas explored in the biography, the relationship between the ‘foreign’ scholar and his subject, Indonesia. How does the initial point of engagement with Indonesia impact on the scholars’ way of ‘knowing’ it? The article is also a preliminary reflection on the process of writing, as the author negotiates her approach as biographer
Asthma Clinical Excellence – A Quality Improvement Project
No full textabstract: Purpose: Improper management of asthma leads to poor patient outcomes and increases in both costs and resources. This study aims to increase provider adherence to asthma clinical practice guidelines.
Methods: A multifaceted intervention was utilized that included educational sessions for providers, adjustments to the electronic health record (EHR), access to toolkits, and workflow changes. Pediatric patients aged 5-18 years and diagnosed with asthma (N = 173) were evaluated using a pre-post design. Provider adherence to key components of clinical practice guidelines were assessed prior to implementation, and a three and six months post-implementation. Data was analyzed using descriptive statists and the Friedman’s ANOVA by rank.
Results: Provider education, EHR adjustments, provider toolkits, and changes to office workflow improved provider adherence to key aspects of asthma clinical practice guidelines. A significant difference was found between the pre and post implementation groups (p < .01).
Conclusion: Increased adherence to clinical practice guidelines leads to fewer complications and an overall improved quality of life. Continuing provider education is critical to sustained adherence
Safe Reinforcement Learning in Flight Control: Introduction to Safe Incremental Dual Heuristic Programming
No full textOnline continuous reinforcement learning has shown promising result in flight control achieving near optimal control within seconds and the capability to adapt to sudden changes in the environment. However no guarantees about safety can be given, needed for use in general aviation. Furthermore performance is often dependent on the precise tuning of hyperparameters inside the system. As a new initiative in providing safety guarantees Safe Incremental Dual Heuristic Programming (SIDHP) is presented. SIDHP combines the fast learning speed of Incremental Dual Heuristic Programming (IDHP) with a safety layer, able to keep the aircraft within a predetermined safe flight envelope. SIDHP is demonstrated and compared to IDHP using a high fidelity flight simulation of a Cessna Citation-II in three separate experiments. SIDHP shows to be more robust with respect to changing hyperparameters compared to IDHP and results in less failures overall.Aerospace Engineerin
A multifactorial histopathologic score for the prediction of prognosis of resected esophageal adenocarcinomas after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
No full textBACKGROUND
For esophageal adenocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, postoperative staging classifications initially developed for non-pretreated tumors may not accurately predict prognosis. We tested whether a multifactorial TNM-based histopathologic prognostic score (PRSC), which additionally applies to tumor regression, may improve estimation of prognosis compared with the current Union for International Cancer Control/American Joint Committee on Cancer (UICC) staging system.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
We evaluated esophageal adenocarcinoma specimens following cis/oxaliplatin-based therapy from two separate centers (center 1: n = 280; and center 2: n = 80). For the PRSC, each factor was assigned a value from 1 to 2 (ypT0-2 = 1 point; ypT3-4 = 2 points; ypN0 = 1 point; ypN1-3 = 2 points; ≤50 % residual tumor/tumor bed = 1 point; >50 % residual tumor/tumor bed = 2 points). The three-tiered PRSC was based on the sum value of these factors (group A: 3; group B: 4-5; group C: 6) and was correlated with patients' overall survival (OS).
RESULTS
The PRSC groups showed significant differences with respect to OS (p < 0.0001; hazard ratio [HR] 2.2 [95 % CI 1.7-2.8]), which could also be demonstrated in both cohorts separately (center 1 p < 0.0001; HR 2.48 [95 % CI 1.8-3.3] and center 2 p = 0.015; HR 1.7 [95 % CI 1.1-2.6]). Moreover, the PRSC showed a more accurate prognostic discrimination than the current UICC staging system (p < 0.0001; HR 1.15 [95 % CI 1.1-1.2]), and assessment of two goodness-of-fit criteria (Akaike Information Criterion and Schwarz Bayesian Information Criterion) clearly supported the superiority of PRSC over the UICC staging.
CONCLUSION
The proposed PRSC clearly identifies three subgroups with different outcomes and may be more helpful for guiding further therapeutic decisions than the UICC staging system
Increased intraepithelial CD3+ T-lymphocytes and high PD-L1 expression on tumor cells are associated with a favorable prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and allow prognostic immunogenic subgrouping.
No full textEsophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the most common esophageal cancer associated with poor prognosis and additional therapeutic strategies must be implemented to optimize ESCC treatment. Meanwhile, the important biologic role and potential prognostic and therapeutic implications of a tumors immunologic microenvironment (IM) have been recognized in various cancers.In order to investigate the contexture and the prognostic relevance of the IM in ESCC, we immunohistochemically evaluated the extent of overall/intraepithelial TILs (CD3+/CD8+) and of PD-1 / PD-L1 expression in a cohort of 125 therapy-naive ESCCs, additionally assessing PD-L1 copy number status via fluorescence in-situ hybridization.High intraepithelial CD3+ TILs (CD3ihigh) and high PD-L1 expression on tumor cells (PD-L1high) were each significantly associated with improved overall- (OS) (CD3+: p = 0.019; PD-L1: p = 0.028), disease specific- (DSS) (CD3+: p = 0.05; PD-L1: p = 0.006) and disease free survival (DFS) (CD3+: p = 0.009; PD-L1: p < 0.001). CD3ihigh- and PD-L1high cases were significantly associated with one another (p < 0.001). Subgrouping of ESCC revealed decreased OS (p = 0.031), DSS (p = 0.012) and DFS (p < 0.001) for CD3ilow/PD-L1low cancers.Our data not only associate CD3ihigh- and PD-L1high ESCC with a beneficial outcome, but also demonstrate PD-L1high- and CD3ihigh status to be closely intertwined. Furthermore, our study demarcates a prognostically unfavorable, "non-immunoreactive" CD3ilow / PD-L1low ESCC-subgroup, potentially forming the basis for an immune-based stratification of ESCC
Why EU promotion is at odds with successful crisis management: public relations, news coverage, and the Aceh Monitoring Mission. EU Centre in Singapore Working Paper No. 10, September 2012
No full textThe EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and its accompanying Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions can be tools used to increase the international profile of the European Union. Nevertheless, CSDP missions garner little news coverage. This article argues that the very nature of the missions themselves makes them poor vehicles for EU promotion for political, institutional, and logistical reasons. By definition, they are conducted in the middle of crises, making news coverage politically sensitive. The very act of reporting could undermine the mission. Institutionally, all CSDP missions are intergovernmental, making press statements slow, overly bureaucratic, and of little interest to journalists. Logistically, the missions are often located in remote, undeveloped parts of the world, making it difficult and expensive for European and international journalists to cover. Moreover, these regions in crisis seldom have a thriving, local free press. Using the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) as a case study, the author concludes that although a mission may do good, CSDP missions cannot fulfil the political function of raising the profile of the EU
Paper Memories, Presented Selves: Original Order and the Arrangement of the Donald G. Simpson Fonds at York University
No full textAs the acquisition of modern, recently created records has become more common, new challenges and opportunities have become part of archivists’ work. Original order in contemporary, open personal fonds is no longer the tidy concept introduced by Muller, Feith, and Fruin, but more often a moving target, and arrangement is much less self-evident or simple than in former days. This article is a case study about archival arrangement, order, the experience of working with a living donor, and particularly the intellectual struggle between theory and practice encountered by the author during the arrangement and description of the Donald G. Simpson Fonds at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University in Toronto. The article discusses and reflects upon the ways in which original order was interpreted given that the received order was a self-conscious construction of the creator, making archival arrangement an interesting endeavour to protect evidential value while revealing the fonds’ immense informational value to users. The Simpson Fonds is an intriguing, real-world example that supports recent reconceptions of original order in the archives literature. In discussing Simpson’s (re)arrangement, the author references critical theory on life writing and its ideas about identity, self-representation, and memory in order to draw parallels between the processes of writing the self and documenting the self. The author also explores the benefits, opportunities, and challenges that came with having a “live” donor. This is a unique case of participatory archiving with an enthusiastic and active donor. It contributes to the sparse archives literature on working with personal records, and shares one archivist’s experience interpreting original order as it manifested in this personal fonds.
RÉSUMÉ
À mesure que l’acquisition de documents d’archives modernes et nouvellement créés est devenue plus courante, le travail des archivistes s’est ouvert à de nouveaux défis et à de nouvelles opportunités. L’ordre original pour les fonds personnels ouverts et contemporains n’est plus le concept clair et précis que Muller, Feith et Fruin ont introduit; c’est plus une cible mouvante et le classement est beaucoup moins évident et simple que dans le passé. Cet article présente une étude de cas au sujet du classement archivistique, de l’ordre, de l’expérience de travail avec un donateur vivant, et en particulier, du débat intellectuel entre la théorie et la pratique que l’auteure a connue lorsqu’elle traitait et décrivait le fonds Donald G. Simpson aux Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections à Université York à Toronto. L’auteure examine et réfléchit aux façons dont l’ordre original a été interprété, puisque l’ordre établi était une construction volontaire du créateur, ce qui a fait du traitement de ce fonds une entreprise intéressante pour protéger la valeur de preuve tout en mettant l’accent pour les chercheurs sur l’immense valeur informationnelle du fonds. Le fonds Simpson est un exemple réel et intrigant qui appuie les récentes redéfinitions de l’ordre original rencontrées dans les écrits en archivistique. En examinant le (re)classement du fonds Simpson, l’auteure fait référence à la théorie critique sur l’écriture biographique et à ses idées autour de l’identité, de la représentation de soi et de la mémoire, dans le but d’établir des parallèles entre les processus d’écrire au sujet de soi et de laisser de traces écrites de sa vie. L’auteure explore les avantages, les opportunités et les défis encourus lorsqu’on travaille avec un donateur vivant. Il s’agit d’un cas unique d’archivage participatif avec un donateur enthousiaste et actif. Cet article contribue au très petit corpus de documents savants portant sur les archives personnelles et il partage les expériences d’une archiviste qui interprète l’ordre original tel qu’il s’est manifesté dans ce fonds personnel. 
