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"We Tell Each Other Stories": Musical Dramaturgy in Craig Hella Johnson's Considering Matthew Shepard
No full textAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, the number of choral organizations which pay their members has increased greatly. Along with the emergence of these professional choirs, there is an increased focus on considering the audience experience. One of the ways that professional choral organizations are seeking to elevate the audience experience is through storytelling. Consequently, professional choirs are commissioning and performing oratorios with greater frequency. Considering Matthew Shepard, a modern chamber oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson, serves as an archetype of this new era of musical dramaturgy in choral music. Interviewing conductors of professional choirs and investigating practices in script-writing, the author applies modern concepts of narrative discourse to oratorio. The author explores musical dramaturgy within Considering Matthew Shepard using “action analysis” and suggests performance practices which highlight the musical dramaturgy within the work
Power and surveillance in YouTube's digital neighborhood: a case study of college students in the Bronx
No full textPower and Surveillance in YouTube’s Digital Neighborhood: A Case Study of College Students in the Bronx explores classic issues of power, surveillance and media use in the social-networking site YouTube. As articulated in its Empirical Model, this exploratory study utilizes a Cultural Studies approach and a Uses and Gratifications framework. These perspectives form the theoretical foundation for the research plan and mixed-method qualitative and quantitative research strategies structure the research protocol. Focus groups and a widely distributed survey were used to gather and analyze the raw data. In the Bronx YouTube study, the researcher posed the following research questions: ―What does posting on YouTube mean to users, ―Why or why don’t users post on YouTube, ―Do systems of power and surveillance operate within the YouTube digital neighborhood and if so, how do they operate and are users aware of them, and finally ―How does YouTube differ from other social networking sites? The study results indicate some potential areas for further research in terms of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. For instance, study participants were concerned about the privacy of their email address and financial information yet did not participate much in uploading videos themselves, nor were they concerned about gender, race, or education when correlated with YouTube DV’s. Study participants did, however, actively comment on other people’s videos and communicated with people they knew in real life (IRL) through YouTube’s SNS features. Study participants also expressed high-levels of concern about the collection and selling of their financial and email information by YouTube and its affiliates. Of particular note, the research results indicate that the Bronx YouTube study participants were aware of many online surveillance techniques utilized by YouTube, LLC and Google, actively protected themselves while in YouTube from that surveillance and even sought out specific ways to circumvent surveillance and seek opportunities to further their own personal or professional goals.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Matthew Ryan Cric
Cutting Ratio and Density
No full textCutting Ratio and Density data archive from:<br><br><b>Leaf processing behavior in Atta leafcutter ants: 90% of leaf cutting takes place inside the nest, and ants select pieces that require less cutting</b><br><br>Ryan W. Garrett, Katherine A. Carlson, Matthew Scott Goggans, Michael H. Nesson, Christopher A. Shepard, Robert M. S. Schofield <br
Perimeter to Area Ratio Preference Test
No full textPerimeter to Area Ratio Preference Test data archive from: <br><br><b>Leaf processing behavior in Atta leafcutter ants: 90% of leaf cutting takes place inside the nest, and ants select pieces that require less cutting</b><br><br>Ryan W. Garrett, Katherine A. Carlson, Matthew Scott Goggans, Michael H. Nesson, Christopher A. Shepard, Robert M. S. Schofield <br
Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric
No full textA 2016-2017 William Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Ryan Matthew Hintzman (Silliman College \u2717) for his essay submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature, Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric.” (Edward Kamens, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, advisor.)
Ryan Hintzman’s essay, Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric is a work of awe-inspiring erudition, vision, and ambition. Ranging far and wide among traditional and more recent theories of the lyric and moving boldly from 8th century poems in Japanese to 19th and 20th century poems in English, Hintzman articulates a distinctive notion of lyric (concerned with the poem’s self-knowing of its past and future, and its materiality or “thingness”) that is largely derived from readings of Romantic and post-Romantic poets (i.e. de Man\u27s work), but in a way that opens up new possibilities for reading premodern works and actually clarifies or extends the critical problems posed by Romantic/modernist texts. This is a profound accomplishment. This essay is as much about where its author has been as it is about where he—and literary studies at large—might go from here. Hintzman is both respectful of and dissatisfied with his forebears, as any possessor of a fertile critical mind should be. He will certainly go forward to pursue more readings and re-readings that will further complicate his conception of “how the poem works,” what it makes, what it does, and particularly with respect to the uta, the Japanese poem. I know of no more intelligent and compelling readings of the poems from the Man’yōshū than those presented by Hintzman in this essay (by a long shot). If his readings of Crane, Keats, Shelley, and Yeats stand as tall and strong as do his treatments of these very old and much worked-over Japanese poems, he will have shown a truly remarkable capacity that few scholars of any generation have been able to manage
Swamp dredge: Research into grunge
No full textFor this project I have researched grunge music and created a body of work influenced by this genre. During my extended contextual research into the genre, I looked at both the artists and producers. I wrote/co-wrote the songs, played some of the instruments and produced the recordings. These are now available for download on www.soundcloud.com/swampdredg
Determining pointe readiness in young adolescent female dancers: A systematic review
No full textThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by J. Michael Ryan Publishing Inc. in Journal of Dance Medicine & Science on 15/09/2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.12678/1089-313X.121522b The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.Dancing 'en pointe' is an integral aspect of ballet for female dancers who start pointe training in young adolescence. The primary objective of this review was to investigate the screening tests used to determine pointe readiness in young adolescent female dancers, and the secondary objective was to determine the injuries associated with pointe training. The search engines Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were mined using Medical Subject Heading terms "pointe", "pointe readiness", "injury", "young", "adolescent", "female", "dancer" and a manual search of relevant articles was conducted. Inclusion criteria included: females; aged 8-20 years; pre-pointe, training en pointe; pointe-related injury. Search strategy followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The following data were extracted; first author, year of publication, study design, participant size, mean age, testing, outcome, and general notes of each study. Risk of bias was evaluated using the Research Triangle Institute Item Bank (RTI-IB). Eight cross-sectional studies met the inclusion criteria. Results suggested topple, airplane, sauté, and relevé tests are statistically better determinants of pointe readiness than chronological age alone. Utilising these methods alongside age, strength, body maturation, range of motion (ROM), and teacher evaluation could provide an all-round insight into a dancer's readiness for pointe. However, the included studies had contradictory outcomes with regards to pointe-related injury and the review's conclusions are limited by methodological design
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Blocking adaptations to stress and inflammation in pancreatic cancer
No full textPancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal malignancies, with a five-year survival rate under 13%. While nearly all cases harbor activating mutations in KRAS, progression from early lesions to invasive carcinoma depends on additional selective pressures, particularly chronic inflammation and tissue injury, that reprogram epithelial cells toward a stem-like, stress-tolerant state. Understanding how these rare events occur, and how established tumors adapt to environmental and therapeutic stress, is critical for improving early detection and treatment outcomes.Chapter 1 reviews the foundational genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironmental drivers of PDAC, with emphasis on epithelial plasticity, clonal selection, and adaptive signaling through JAK/STAT3. This synthesis highlights key shortcomings of current molecular subtyping frameworks, which capture static tumor features but fail to account for dynamic adaptive states that influence prognosis and therapeutic resistance.Chapter 2 presents original research identifying integrin αvβ3 as a downstream effector of inflammation-driven STAT3 activation. Using preclinical PDAC models, we show that αvβ3 acquisition requires both inflammatory signaling and a permissive chromatin state, enabling stemness, stress tolerance, and tumor initiation. These findings form the basis for the STRESS gene signature, which stratifies tumors by their reliance on STAT3-driven enhancer programs and identifies patients most likely to benefit from STAT3-targeted therapies.Chapter 3 addresses why most KRAS-mutant precursor lesions fail to progress, revealing that inflammation selectively induces αvβ3 in a subset of dedifferentiated epithelial cells to confer survival in non-permissive microenvironments and drive malignant transformation.Together, these studies link inflammation, epigenetic state, and integrin-mediated signaling to PDAC initiation and progression, providing a mechanistic and translational framework for identifying high-risk disease and targeting adaptive programs across disease stages
IT as a mechanism to build trust and foster collaborative innovation in the buyer-supplier relationship
No full textThesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80).As companies attempt to remain competitive throughout increasing market forces, many firms develop key operational strategies to differentiate themselves. One method that many companies such as Amazon, Dell, and Toyota, have established a competitive advantage through is supply chain management (SCM). One aspect of a disciplined and effective SCM program is supplier management, both from a risk and cost perspective. In this paper, the author explores an area oftforgotten when dealing with suppliers: trust. During a research project at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Andover, Massachusetts, the author strove to learn how the dynamic of trust in a buyer-supplier relationship affects the companies' interactions, and how SCM leaders can influence this dynamic. First, through an examination of the available literature, the author presents an alternative view of the buyer-supplier relationship, viewed through the lenses of game theory and behavioral economics, in order to develop an impetus for change. Using an existing information-sharing information technology (IT) platform at Raytheon, along with extensive surveys of Raytheon suppliers and employees, the author answers the question: Can trust be built through sharing information in a systematic process through an IT platform? Results of the analysis show that there is a distinct possibility for companies to build trust with their suppliers through "opening up" and sharing information, which will ultimately facilitate collaborative innovation between the two organizations. In determining the types of information to share, the author generalizes the most useful type of information into categories applicable across various industries. Mainly, suppliers most desire and can utilize information that allows them to make more accurate and timely decisions, and likewise abhor information sharing and requirements that add burden to their workday. When determining which suppliers to share information with, companies need to develop some form of objective criteria to rank the potential impact of engaging specific suppliers. As each company's individual cases will differ, the author outlines a process to select Raytheon suppliers as an example of a methodology that others can follow.by Matthew R. Hamilton.S.M.M.B.A
Microstructural evolutions, phase transformations and hard magnetic properties in polycrystalline Ce–Co–Fe–Cu alloys Author links open overlay panel
No full textThis work focuses on systematic studies of Ce–Co based 1:5 permanent magnet alloys of CeCo4.4-xFexCu0.6 and CeCo3.9-xFexCu1.2 (x = 0, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, 1.8) by varying Co:Fe. The overarching aim of this manuscript is to elucidate the hard-magnetic properties through a better understanding of phase formation by the structural, microstructural, and magnetic properties in these materials. Improved mutual solubility of Fe in the 1:5 phase has been observed with an extended homogeneity range by Cu substitution. For both composition series, Fe contents of x ≤ 0.6 show a homogeneous microstructure with a single 1:5 phase and good magnetic properties. The composition region 0.6 < x ≤ 0.9 appears to be near the boundary of solubility and evolution of other phases. At x = 1.8, it is found that the homogeneous 1:5 phase and magnetic hardness deteriorated due to the evolution of secondary phases such as 2:17, 2:7, and Fe–Co. The addition of Fe improved both the magnetization and Curie temperature via increased effective exchange interactions, while an increase in Cu content enhanced coercivity.This is a manuscript of an article published as Gandha, Kinjal, Rakesh P. Chaudhary, Matthew J. Kramer, Ryan T. Ott, Durga Paudyal, and I. C. Nlebedim. "Microstructural evolutions, phase transformations and hard magnetic properties in polycrystalline Ce–Co–Fe–Cu alloys." Materials Chemistry and Physics 286 (2022): 126179.
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126179.
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