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Article traces the decline of Portland\u27s jazz scene in recent years by telling t
No full textArticle traces the decline of Portland\u27s jazz scene in recent years by telling the story of the new generation of local jazz musicians. Chris and his brother Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest are both talented musicians who are having increasing difficulty finding places to perform and jam with other jazz players. Jim Pinfold laments the sad state of jazz in Portland and describes the few venues which still offer jazz on the their musical menu
The evolution of the jazz vocal song: what comes after the Great American Song Book?
No full textThis MA research project was originally motivated by the desire to explain the powerful dominance of standard songs from the Great American Songbook in the repertoire of jazz singers. This term refers to a large body of songs written in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and others, often as part of musicals, which have become the standard repertoire for singers in the jazz idiom. After all, many of these songs were written over 70 years ago and both audiences and singers seem happy with that fact. However, given the advance of instrumental jazz into new vehicles, it seems sensible to analyse and explain this domination of the singer’s repertoire, whilst at the same time, come up with some pointers to the future.
Initial findings suggest the following general conclusions. The Great American Songbook is still dominant in the jazz vocal repertoire, but there are a number of trends to show that some singers are keen to develop new ideas. The research has
found that there is a richness and variety in the contemporary jazz vocal. Whilst the domination of the Great American Songbook remains strong, there has been a major trend towards using popular songs from the 1960s to the present day, plus a body of original new songs, and lyrics being written for existing jazz tunes. Rock, folk and hip hop elements are present and a move away from a swing emphasis towards a more groove-based approach has been seen. However, in addition to new material, what has been noticed is an innovative approach to the actual performance of the song.
While some very competent exponents of the standard jazz song are filling halls and selling CDs, the flame of innovation is also thriving, in keeping with the great ability of jazz to absorb influences and reinvent itself. The portfolio of songs, submitted as part of the project, reflects this writer’s creative and musical take on the research and attempts to show the direction in which the jazz vocal song may be moving. The CD essentially contains rough demos of songs composed by the writer. They can be seen as frameworks for others to develop and interpret further
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector
No full textJet cross sections have been measured for the first time in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. The measurement uses an integrated luminosity of 17 nb−1 recorded at the Large Hadron Collider. The anti-k t algorithm is used to identify jets, with two jet resolution parameters, R=0.4 and 0.6. The dominant uncertainty comes from the jet energy scale, which is determined to within 7% for central jets above 60 GeV transverse momentum. Inclusive single-jet differential cross sections are presented as functions of jet transverse momentum and rapidity. Dijet cross sections are presented as functions of dijet mass and the angular variable χ. The results are compared to expectations based on next-to-leading-order QCD, which agree with the data, providing a validation of the theory in a new kinematic regime
RESTAURANT AND SUPERMARKET LOBSTER PRICE PERCEPTIONS, RESPONSES, AND STRATEGIES
No full textConsumer/Household Economics, Demand and Price Analysis,
New features in the vortex phase diagram of YBa2Cu3O7- delta
No full textMagnetic and transport measurements have been performed in high quality YBa2Cu3O7- delta single crystals. We demonstrate for the first time that the magnetization peak line in the phase diagram of YBa2Cu3O7- delta , Hp(T) exhibits an impressive similarity with the equivalent line for Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8. Our results show not only a similar temperature dependence but also an almost identical response to oxygen doping and a correlation to the multicritical point. At high temperatures we observe a previously unreported splitting of the magnetization peak
Moving beyond e-journals
No full textPaul Ayris explains to Elspeth Hyams why scholarly communication has moved beyond the debate on e-journals pricing and open access
Electrochemical studies in anhydrous formic acid
No full textAlthough anhydrous formic acid exhibits all the properties required by a solvent for ideal polarographic characteristics, no study of the dropping mercury electrode in this medium has hitherto been described. Formic acid besides having a high dielectric constant (56.1 at. 25ᵒC) and considerable ionizing properties, also exhibits a strong solvent action upon many organic compounds. Furthermore, it has been shown by Pleskov (2) to be a solvent with small complexing power, a feature which enhances its value for the examination of ions which are normally hydrated in aqueous solution. The above author also showed that the standard electrode potentials in formic acid, of the elements he studied, differed little from the values found in aqueous solution. Exceptional behaviour was shown by zinc and cadmium the potentials of which were displaced to more positive values. This shift was attributed to hydration of ions in aqueous solution as opposed to the absence of solvation in formic acid. The remaining electrochemical investigations in anhydrous formic acid have been confined to conductance measurements, the measurement of transport numbers and potentiometric titrations. The conductance measurements were made almost entirely by Schlesinger and his co-workers. The conductivities of ammonium, alkali and alkaline earth formates as well as hydrogen chloride solutions in anhydrous formic acid were measured together with the behaviour of mixtures of two salts containing a common ion. More recently, Lange has measured the conductance of potassium chloride in this solvent. Schlesinger and Bunting obtained values for the transference numbers of the formates of sodium potassium and calcium in formic acid. The outcome of these experiments was that anhydrous formic acid should be considered to be a highly acidic solvent; hydrogen chloride was, for example, found to be incompletely ionised, while salts such as the alkali and alkaline earth formates, which are bases in anhydrous formic acid, were highly ionized. A number of workers (10-15) have employed anhydrous formic acid as the medium for potentiometric titrations and conclude that "formic acid is more like water, then is such a solvent as acetic acid, in that solutions of salts give cryoscopic and conductivity values which correspond to extensive dissociation with respect to acidity and basicity, however, formic acid differs greatly from water, and solutions in it are even more deserving of the term superacid than those acetic acid solutions in which the pioneer work on the potentiometric investigation of strongly acid solvents was done". In view of the interesting properties shown by anhydrous formic acid, it was decided to investigate the electrochemical properties of this solvent, paying particular attention to its suitability for the reduction of electroreducible ions at a dropping mercury cathode
Measurement of the and production cross sections in multilepton final states using 3.2 fb of collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No full textSee paper for full list of authors - 22 pages plus author list + cover page (40 pages total), 8 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2015-22/International audienceA measurement of the and production cross sections in final states with either two same-charge muons, or three or four leptons (electrons or muons) is presented. The analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb. The inclusive cross sections are extracted using likelihood fits to signal and control regions, resulting in pb and pb, in agreement with the Standard Model predictions
The voice of authority : Evelyn Waugh's fiction
No full textA large part of the extant criticism of Evelyn Waugh's fiction is orientated
towards either a biographical or a literary-historical interest: there are
comparatively few detailed surveys of the novels themselves. This study
attempts such a survey, and in particular examines the tension which inheres
in the relationship of Waugh's poised, urbane narrators to the social and
moral chaos they depict. I have been interested in the source and management
of that poise, the testing, as it were to destruction, of a series of
narrative positions. There is a very modern equation to be observed in
Waugh's fiction, between the potentially anarchic mode of fiction and what
Waugh felt to be the actual anarchy of contemporary civilisation. His
novels can with interest be read in terms of a comic exploitation of this
equation, and subsequently, as the writer aged, of his attempts to evade
its logic, to discover a 'voice of authority'. Apparently secure narrative
stances are repeatedly undermined, and a succession of 'realities'
compromised - Tony Last's, William Boot's, John Plant's, Guy Crouchback's.
It is this awareness and exploitation of the reflexive quality of fiction,
and its use in disclosing the nature of his age which lends Waugh's writing
its real and enduring interest.
I seek to draw out this awareness through detailed examination of the
different novels' precise narrative stance, the source of their 'voice',
and have been largely content to let stand other commentators' descriptions
of Waugh's broader thesis. My method involves close attention to Waugh's
language, from the conviction that nuances of tone and the development of
marginal allusions and metaphors are the keys to many of his characteristic
effects
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