4,452 research outputs found
Narayanella, a new name for Narayana Subba Rao (hymenoptera : mymaridae)
No full textThe name Narayana was applied (Subba Rao, 1976) to a genus erected for the new species N. pilipes reared from the gaUs of Lagerstoemia flos reginae. Unfortunately the author overlooked the vulid and prior use of Narayana by Distant (1908). Narayana Distant was erected with rusticitatus as type-species (Issidae: Homoptera). Hence Narayana Subba Rao is a junior homonym which has to be replaced according to the rules of the International Zoological Nomenclature
Author interview: q and a with Dr Aliya Hamid Rao on crunch time: how married couples confront unemployment
No full textWe speak to Dr Aliya Hamid Rao about her new book Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which draws on interviews with college-educated unemployed individuals and their spouses, alongside family observations with some of the participants, to explore how men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. This interview discusses how gender is ... Continue
Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Thermal Engineering Systems using Rao Algorithms
No full textThermal engineering systems include devices or processes where heat transfer plays a major role, such as heat exchangers, refrigeration units, combustion engines, solar collectors, cooling systems in electronics, etc. These systems often have multiple performance objectives like minimizing energy consumption, maximizing heat transfer, reducing costs, improving efficiency and reliability, etc. Design optimization aims to determine the best configuration and parameters for these systems within physical, operational, and economical constraints. The number of objectives considered for optimization may be one or more than one. This study employs three optimization algorithms, known as Rao algorithms, to handle both constrained and unconstrained thermal system optimization problems under single- and multi-objective settings. Their multi-objective extensions-MO-Rao algorithms-are effectively utilized to solve selected two- and three-objective thermal engineering case studies. Additionally, the BHARAT decision-making method is applied to identify the best compromise solution from the set of Pareto-optimal non-dominated solutions. Because the optimization is performed on fast-evaluating RSM models, the obtained Pareto fronts can be readily integrated into intelligent energy management frameworks, where real-time operating conditions can be mapped to pre-optimized design or control configurations. Researchers and practitioners across scientific and engineering domains may find these algorithms advantageous in solving real-world, constrained, and non-convex single-, multi-objective optimization problems
Sketch Studies and Lu Yen’s Harmony
No full textThis paper introduces the various types of music manuscripts and current issues in music sketch studies. It argues that the study of musical manuscripts is not simply the direct conversion of composition processes into music analysis. Nor is it limited to the function of providing a basis for choosing performance editions. Rather, it allows the researchers to weigh and ponder on many entangled issues, such as the composer's intentions, musical influences and music trends, composition habits, manuscripts chronology order, revisions to the draft, and traces of pre-composition plans. In addition, manuscripts could be situated in the network of various cultural or historical moments, and of a variety of musical styles and trends. It can be linked to a large web of associations contributing in different ways to the production of the manuscripts. Manuscripts are deeply rooted in historical processes and are essentially open text. The diversity of the twentieth century music manuscript, both in terms of musical language and medium, also raise new issues for sketch studies. Borrowing from Philip Gossett, this paper examines three areas of manuscript studies—confirmatory, suggestive, and conceptual—to ponder on the analysis of 20th century music. From this angle, the paper analyzes the manuscripts of Taiwanese composer Lu Yan. It focuses on several diagrams of integers in the composer’s sketches. In particular the paper examines how these diagrams reflect abstract conceptualization of pitch structure and harmony language, and how they are connected to his composition, “Woodwind Quintet.” These sketches of “pitch material” illustrate the profound thinking encompassing his harmony, melody and tone row and balanced relationship of sound world.Peer reviewedPrimarily in Chinese; abstract, annotations, notes, and some references in English
A Comparison of Trichordal Relations in Milton Babbitt's String Quartet No. 2 and Elliott Carter's A Symphony for Three Orchestras
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The Color of Music Heritage: Chinese America in American Ultra-Modern Music
No full textThis essay considers American ultra-modern music from the vantage point of Chinese America. It argues that the interiority of this racial terrain was molded by the negotiation, mimicry, and transformation necessarily attended musical activities across racial boundaries. Cowell‘s ultra-modern composition bears witness to Asian confluence in the American musical landscape at the beginning of the century, and raises the question of musical heritage. Rejecting the typical orientalist analysis and its self-other framework, this essay explores the significance of Chinatown music, and how a sonic idea that was engendered from it found expression in the dialogical space of American ultra-modern music.Peer reviewe
Hearing Pentatonicism Through Serialism: Integrating Different Traditions in Chinese Contemporary Music
No full textCopyright 2002, Perspectives of New Music. Used by permission. This article first appeared in Perspectives of New Music vol 40 number 2, 2002.Peer reviewed
Cultural Boundary and National Border: Recent Works of Tan Dun, Chen Yi, and Bright Sheng
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The Immortal King Rao
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Historical Review following peer review. The version of record Ramnarayan S Rawat, The Immortal King Rao, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 1029–1031, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236.
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This article will be embargoed until 09/06/2026.Vauhini Vara. The Immortal King Rao. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
“We should be free to pursue our ambitions” (Chinna Rao, owner, coconut grove)
“My ambition is to program” (King Rao)
The Immortal King Rao is an innovative piece of writing that captures the social life of caste and provides a rich ethnography of Dalit ambition, initiative, and achievement through hard work. Several reviewers have written of the novel’s dystopian themes, the existence of a single shareholder’s government managed by an algorithm that has replaced nation-states, and the “exes” or large groups of people who have rejected this system and live in autonomous island zones. Vauhini Vara uses this original framework to offer new insights into Dalit lives by showcasing Dalit ambition and achievement, simultaneously tracing Dalit lives and mobility in India and in the United States while also expanding the genre of caste fiction. As a Dalit woman whose father grew up on a coconut farm in India, Vara has written a formidable novel on breaking free from the shackles of caste through education and migration—in India and abroad
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