74 research outputs found
Review of "Debates in the Digital Humanities"
No full textJenni Rodda provides a review of Debates in the Digital Humanities
Jenni Brandon: Colorist Landscape Composer Three Selected Works for Oboe
No full textThis project examines three contrasting works, featuring the oboe by award-
winning American composer, Jenni Brandon. A champion of writing new music for the
oboe, Brandon has composed thirteen works from 2003 to 2016, ranging from
unaccompanied solo works to woodwind chamber ensemble.
Brandon is highly influenced by her surrounding landscapes and paints vivid
musical pictures. Apart from being emotionally impactful, Brandon’s works are enriched
with color, lyricism, and technical demand. This document focuses on three selected oboe
works by Brandon: On Holt Avenue (2006), In the City at Night (2008), and The Sequoia
Trio (2008). It presents a biographical sketch of the composer, surveys of the works,
compositional process and provide performance practice considerations. It is hoped that
this research will continue to increase awareness of the composer, provide performers a
better understanding on approaching the selected work, while promoting individual
expression.Embargo status: Restricted to TTU community only. To view, login with your eRaider (top right). Others may request the author grant access exception by clicking on the PDF link to the left
Divergent demographic strategies of plants in variable environments
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record.One of the best-supported patterns in life history evolution is that organisms cope with environmental fluctuations by
buffering their most important vital rates against them. This demographic buffering hypothesis is evidenced by a tendency
for temporal variation in rates of survival and reproduction to correlate negatively with their contribution to fitness. Here, we show that widespread evidence for demographic buffering can be artefactual, resulting from natural relationships between the mean and variance of vital rates. Following statistical scaling, we find no significant tendency for plant life histories to be buffered demographically. Instead, some species are buffered, whereas others have labile life histories with higher temporal variation in their more important vital rates. We find phylogenetic signal in the strength and direction of variance–importance correlations, suggesting that clades of plants are prone to being either buffered or labile. Species with simple life histories are more likely to be demographically labile. Our results suggest important evolutionary nuances in how species deal with environmental fluctuations.This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) UK, grant NE/L007770/1, and supported by NERC IOF grant NE/N006798/1. T.H.G.E. is funded by NERC Fellowship NE/J018163/1
Fully-automated and ultra-fast cell-type identification using specific marker combinations from single-cell transcriptomic data
No full textFunding Information: The authors thank Dr. Pirkko M Mattila, Dr. Jenni Lahtela and Bhiswa Ghimire for their valuable suggestions on how to improve the web-tool, Olle Hansson for the FIMM cluster server machine to host the web-tool and the database, and all the beta-testers for confirming the smooth operation and reproducibility of the analyses. This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (grants 295504, 310507, 326238, 340141 and 344698 to TA), European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (ERA PerMed JAKSTAT-TARGET), the Cancer Society of Finland (TA), the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation (TA), and the Norwegian Cancer Society (grant 216104 to TA). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).Identification of cell populations often relies on manual annotation of cell clusters using established marker genes. However, the selection of marker genes is a time-consuming process that may lead to sub-optimal annotations as the markers must be informative of both the individual cell clusters and various cell types present in the sample. Here, we developed a computational platform, ScType, which enables a fully-automated and ultra-fast cell-type identification based solely on a given scRNA-seq data, along with a comprehensive cell marker database as background information. Using six scRNA-seq datasets from various human and mouse tissues, we show how ScType provides unbiased and accurate cell type annotations by guaranteeing the specificity of positive and negative marker genes across cell clusters and cell types. We also demonstrate how ScType distinguishes between healthy and malignant cell populations, based on single-cell calling of single-nucleotide variants, making it a versatile tool for anticancer applications. The widely applicable method is deployed both as an interactive web-tool (https://sctype.app), and as an open-source R-package.Peer reviewe
Rational Vs Emotional Appeals with Communications to Landholders: A Review of Focus Group Responses
No full textThere are many organisations that seek to communicate with landholders for the purposes of engaging them in local environmental or conservation programs and sustainable production. This study examined whether different segments of landholders are likely to respond better to communication based on different appeals (rational or emotional), using different messages and communication channels. Seven hypothetical communication campaigns were designed with specific messages and appeals, each produced in three types of media. Focus groups of three specific landholder groups lifestylers., traditional and absentee landowners were held to obtain their responses to the campaigns. Findings suggest that the effectiveness of communications with landholders can be increased by using preferred messages and appeals, and selecting a combination of media appropriate to the landholder group being targeted
Identifying Late Iron Age textile plant fibre materials with microscopy and X-ray methods — a study on finds from Ravattula Ristimäki (Kaarina, Finland)
No full textFunding Information: We acknowledge the provision of facilities and technical support by Aalto University at the OtaNano?Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC). We would like to thank Mira Viljanen and Kirsi Svedstr?m from the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland; and Jaana Riikonen and Juha Ruohonen from the Department of Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland. Funding Information: Open Access funding provided by University of Helsinki including Helsinki University Central Hospital. This work was supported by grants from The Finnish Cultural Foundation and The University of Helsinki Funds (Kaarlo Koskimiehen ja Irma Koskimiehen rahasto). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).In Finland, the earliest remains of a Christian church and cemetery date to the Late Iron Age (800–1150/1300 AD) and have been excavated in Ravattula Ristimäki, in Kaarina, southwestern Finland. In this study, seven assumingly plant fibre textile samples from individual inhumation graves were analysed to identify their materials. The aim of the study was to investigate the possibilities of identifying archaeological plant fibre samples using a three-stage procedure by observing the surface characteristics, microfibrillar orientation and cross section of the fibres via transmitted light microscopy (TLM). The identification process was based on such a TLM characterisation. Additionally, parts of the samples were studied with X-ray microtomography (micro-CT) and wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) to test the possibilities of using the X-ray methods in research and to identify bast fibre textiles. Both flax and nettle were found in the samples, indicating a preference for these two fibre plants in Late Iron Age Finland.Peer reviewe
Author Correction: A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery
No full textIn the version of this article initially published, the ATLAS Collaboration
author names, affiliations and acknowledgements were omitted and
have now been included in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Affective Practice of Soldiering: How Sharing Images Is Used to Spread Extremist and Racist Ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook Site
No full textThe paper explores how visual affective practice is used to spread and bolster a nationalist, extremist and racist ethos on the public Facebook page of the anti-immigrant group, Soldiers of Odin. Affective practice refers to a particular sensibility of political discourse, shaped by social formations and digital technologies—the contexts in which political groups or communities gather, discuss and act. The study shows how visual affective practice and sharing and responding to images fortify moral claims, sense exclusionary solidarity and promote white nationalist masculinity which legitimizes racist practices of “soldiering.” By examining both the representations and their reactions (emoticons), the study demonstrates how ideas and values are collectively strengthened through affective sharing and are supported by platform infrastructures. Most importantly, it demonstrates that instead of considering the affect of protecting the nation as a natural result of “authentic” gut feeling, we should understand the ways it is purposefully and collectively produced and circulated.Peer reviewe
Edmontosaurus from the Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta, and its chronostratigraphic position in the Late Cretaceous Brazeau Formation and correlative units in western Canada
No full textThe Upper Cretaceous Brazeau Formation (early Campanian–early Maastrichtian) near Hinton, AB, preserves dinosaur fossils associated with fluvial and lacustrine palaeoenvironments during a transgressive-regressive cycle within the Western Interior Seaway. Here, the first description of vertebrate remains, hadrosaurid footprints, and radiometric age constraints from the Brazeau Formation are presented. Multiple dinosaur elements were recovered from a new bonebed, including a left postorbital and a partial right postorbital representing Edmontosaurus sp. based on an enlarged postorbital fossa. These are the first dinosaur elements diagnosable to the genus level to have been described from the Brazeau Formation; vertebrate remains have not previously been described from this formation. Eight tephras lie between ~24 m and ~263 m above the Bennett Bonebed. Seven yielded statistically indistinguishable weighted-average laser ablation zircon 206Pb/238U dates between 70.14 ± 0.38 Ma (23.75 m) and 69.60 ± 0.35 Ma (~262.60 m). A Bayesian age-depth model based on the zircon U-Pb dates yields a bonebed age of 70.17 ± 0.42|0.38 Ma and a median sedimentation rate of ~450 m/My across the ~240 m of measured section. The age of the Bennett Bonebed is, therefore, equivalent to the upper Tolman Member of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, placing it in the middle Maastrichtian, ~1.3 Ma after Edmontosaurus regalis is proposed to have been extirpated from Alberta, and within the >2 Ma hiatus of the genus from the fossil record of northwestern North America.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
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