33 research outputs found
Book Review of Robertson, David A. (2020). Black Water: Family, Legacy and Blood Memory. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers.
No full textRe-urbanization of Population in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: ROXY-index / Spatial-cycle Analysis for the Period 1947-2005
No full textapplication/pdfThe four major stages of the spatial-cycles are quantitatively examined, by use of the Japan's population census data extending over the past sixty years (for the period 1947-2005), for the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and its five major railway-line regions. The spatial-cycle hypothesis constructed by Klaassen and the method of the Roxy-index analysis developed by the first author, are applied to our investigation. The results obtained clearly illuminate the recent trend of the re-urbanization of the population in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area as a whole and its five major railway-line regions as well. This would imply that the core-area part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area will play an increasingly critical role in the future urban policies of Japan. Among other findings is the possible existence of the metropolitan (or urban) spatial cycles of the estimated length of the period of 80～ 100 years.departmental bulletin pape
‘I’m not really a clown’: critical reflection on a Clown Cabaret Scratch Night
No full textThis article is a critical reflection on the Clown Cabaret
Scratch Night at Assembly Roxy, 14 November 2014,
organised by Plutôt la Vie and CloWnStePPing. It considers
the variety of acts included in the show and how this
plurality connects to the wider contemporary genre of
theatre clown. From a participant-observer perspective, I
introduce the tensions and contradictions in and between
the acts. I suggest that this event can provide a snapshot of
how the genre is currently perceived and practiced in
Scotland today. Of particular prominence are the role of the
‘flop’ in the clown’s relationship with the audience, the
tension between rehearsal and spontaneity, and the
connection to the ‘authentic self ’ of the performer this
implies.Publisher PD
Taking A Capella back to the Chinese Market – Working with The Metro Group through their China tour and mainland promotion
No full textThis Culminating Experience intends to develop such management plan that can be timely executed for the Metro Vocal Group (MVG), an American A Capella group based in Hong Kong specialized in singing asian pop/rock songs, with the author taking on the role of an artist manager. The group was formed in 1998 and consists of four male singers (Eric Monson, Sean Oliver, Michael Lance, Kevin Thornton) individually from Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, and Kentucky in the USA. Each individual member has extensive experience in vocal performances. MVG has been in residency in Hong Kong since 2005 and is now touring around Asia and Oceania, such as Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, southern part of China, and Australia. The unique area that MVP mainly specializes in singing - pop & rock Chinese & Cantonese songs with occasional arrangements of Western pop songs, has gained a special niche market space for the career development of MVP within Asia. The group has released seven albums, including one all-Chinese album No Borders and is now expanding their musical trace into the Greater China.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-entertainment-business/1247/thumbnail.jp
Control interno y su influencia en el desempeño laboral de los trabajadores administrativos de la Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, año 2023
No full textLa tesis titulada “CONTROL INTERNO Y SU INFLUENCIA EN EL DESEMPEÑO
LABORAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES ADMINISTRATIVOS DE LA
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AMAZÓNICA DE MADRE DE DIOS, AÑO 2023”,
cuenta con un objetivo principal de “determinar de qué manera el control interno
influye en el desempeño laboral de los trabajadores administrativos de la
Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, año 2023”.
El enfoque de esta investigación de tesis es descriptivo correlacional de corte
transversal, constituida por una muestra de 106 trabajadores administrativos que
laboran dentro de la Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, a fin de
adquirir información se aplicó un cuestionario para cada variable, que contenía
en su totalidad 26 ítems. La validación y confiabilidad del instrumento se
elaboraron de acuerdo al coeficiente de Alfa de Cronbach, obteniendo para la
variable Control Interno el 0.9076 y para la variable Desempeño Laboral el
0.8691, siendo de esta manera los instrumentos de “EXCELENTE
CONFIABILIDAD”
El Control Interno influye significativamente en el Desempeño Laboral de los
trabajadores administrativos de la Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de
Dios, año 2023, según los datos obtenidos mediante el coeficiente de correlación
lineal es de 0.465, por ende, existe una relación directamente proporcional
buena.Tesi
La filature
No full textLa filature is a call for the disruption of the post-industrial heritage.Imitating the filming technique of montaging and cutting to introduce theforeign type of the Movie Palace into the obsolete textile factoryDesurmont. The project uses the pre-existent conditions of the ruin as sets,backgrounds for the production of films and as ornaments for the MoviePalace, as a counter reaction to current understanding of industrial heritageand as a opposition to current development of the cinema type.Between 1893 and 1929, the society Jules De Sourmont and Sons builttheir main site factory of spinning wool in Tourcoing, in the North ofFrance. The use of reinforce concrete allowed the construction of large contemporary films. It challenges preconceives ways of making andthinking architecture and cinema.Openings in the walls and floors are made to let the camera pass and shotcontinuous scenes from space to space, transforming the complex in onesingle set. The cut of the cinema becomes the performer. It deconstructsthe factory main building to transform it into a movie palac. It shape is theresult of the technical specification of the film industry standard of qualityTHX, the procedure of demolition to guaranty the structural stability andthe programmatic functions of the movie palace.The fear of demolishing something and never have it back, block thetransformation of the post-industrial heritage, “It is time for a no-blameconversation about letting some things change and even letting somethings go.” . La filature celebrates the ruins, is an alternative proposal forthe Desurmont factory, not its complete demolition, neither its completetransformation. It proposes hard cuts of the building to show an alternativeway of dealing with heritage to accept the reality of the ruin.spam using bearing beams, thus liberating the floor plans for big chains ofmachines to process the wool. In 2003 the Desurmont factory closed, itcould not follow anymore the evolution of the industry. The concretestructure can no longer host the innovations of the industry. The structurethat once made the company so productive and modern, was now force itto the bankruptcy, and the abandon.Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel, an American theatrical impresario, inauguratedThe Roxy theatre in 1927. The opening hosted the silent movie “TheLoves of Sonya” starring Gloria Swanson. Its rather modest entrancedisguised one of the most cavernous lobbies ever built, and a magnificentauditorium equipped with the latest technology. Sublimely ornamented, itfollows the type’s sequence of spaces commonly used in the moviepalaces. Sadly demolished in 1960.. The movie palaces like Roxy orGaumont in Paris could not compete with the modern suburban cinemamultiplexes. Those macro complexes of mass consumption are simpleblack containers that provoke the boredom of the spectator.Sergei Eisenstein argued that “Montage has been established by the Sovietfilm as the nerve of cinema”. But what happens if instead of edit the filmwe edit architecture? The project uses demolition tools to transform thespaces and curated the ruin as a counter reaction to the over editedThe Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Desig
'Beats apart': a comparative history of youth culture and popular music in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1956 - 1965
No full textThis study explores the themes of continuity and change in twentieth-century British cultural history, particularities of place and regional identity in the North of England, and the cultural transfer of North American popular music in Britain between 1956 and 1965. By means of a comparative historical investigation of youth culture and popular music in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne, the work engages with existing debate among historians surrounding the nature and extent of cultural change for the period usually referred to as „The Sixties?, and whether or not it is possible to speak of a „Cultural Revolution?. Spanning the years between the initial impact of rock „n? roll and the immediate aftermath of the Beat Boom of 1963-64, a phenomenon described by one commentator as representing „perhaps the North's greatest single cultural „putsch??, the thesis examines the role of urban and regional identity in the process of cultural production, reproduction, and consumption. Theoretical insights derived from the associated disciplines of sociology and cultural studies are employed which offer an opportunity for a novel and dynamic analysis and interpretation of the empirical historical evidence. This research is especially pertinent at a time when historians are increasingly looking to the regional and inter-regional, as opposed to the national and international, for explanations of continuity and change. There is a burgeoning interest in the history of popular culture inspired by the transition of post-modern society from one of production to consumption. Cultural and economic theorists have called for more historical investigation to inform current debates regarding the post-modern city?s ability to attract a „creative class? as a means towards urban regeneration. This study informs these debates by bringing the above themes together in a unique historical analysis of cultural continuity and change, Northern identity, and popular music
Proverb lore in Sidney.
No full textThe purpose of this study is to show the use of proverbs in the works of Sir Philip Sidney. The method has been to select from the author's works passages which in sentiment and style seemed to indicate the manner of the proverb. These, in turn, have been sought out in established collections of proverbs and in the writings of other authors contemporaneous with, preceding, or succeeding Sidney, such as would seem to indicate that the passages in question were, or had been, or came to be in current circulation as proverbial sayings: that they occurred in other writings with a definite, clearly defined meaning such as that employed in Sidney, and maintained a certain characteristic rigidity of form which together with their content would seem to identify them as proverbs. Such a study has already been made of the works of Lyly, Pettie, Spenser, and Shakespeare, but until now no such analysis has been made of the works of Sidney. In each instance the proverb from Sidney occurs first under the heading which announces its theme, and to establish it as a true proverb parallels, chiefly early and contemporary, are cited. The titles are original and by no means arbitrary. Where possible, actual proverbs have been preferred as headings. They have not been arranged alphabetically in strict adherence to the first word occurring in the title, but rather, according to some key-word which seems best to sum up the meaning of the passage or phrase in question.
Following the main text are four appendices containing related material quoted from Sidney which throw light on his character and style of writing. Appendix A contains a group of sententious sayings for which sufficient evidence was not found to justify their consideration as proverbs; in Appendix B brief descriptions and characterizations, especially those containing humor, have been selected in Appendix C (an incidental study) attention has been given to passages relating to music and its coordination with poetry; in Appendix D the spiritual nature of Sidney and his attitude towards his own literary attainments are the motives of the selections
Author Correction: Regional and temporal variability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in relation to El Niño southern oscillation
No full textTraumatic Brain Injury Induces Rapid Enhancement of Cortical Excitability in Juvenile Rats
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