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Cecil Sharp In Virginia: A Website
No full textLiz Milner (George Mason University) 7011 Donna Circle Annandale, VA 22003-1806 (703) 658-0957 (H) [email protected] Extreme Appalachia Presentation Proposal: Cecil Sharp in Virginia, a Website The year 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Cecil Sharp’s folksong collecting trip in Virginia. In the course of the trip, Sharp photographed his informants and the places they lived and worked. These photos are available on the internet, but they lack context. My website, Cecil Sharp in Virginia (https://cecilsharpva.wordpress.com/) curates these photographs.
The website: Provides biographical and genealogical information about Sharp’s informants and their relationships to one another Integrates Sharp’s photos and diary entries with timelines, maps and web links to recreate his journey. Significance: Mapping Sharp’s journey provides a better understanding of his achievement. By using dynamic mapping, the wide range of his travels becomes instantly clear.
Matching the photographs of the singers with their biographies and their songs helps differentiate each singer and locate them in time and space. Many versions of the same songs were collected in different communities. Noting where the songs were collected and how they changed in the course of their travels helps to reveal how songs were disseminated. Applying digital genealogy techniques to the data also helps elucidate family relationships and artistic influences among the singers.
Conclusion: Sharp’s desire to differentiate himself from the antiquarians and present his ideas as scientific may have been the source of his decision to omit photographs and anecdotal information about his informants from English Folk-Songs of the Southern Appalachians.
The incorporation of Sharp’s photographs and diary entries with maps of his journey through Appalachia provides contextual information that enriches our understanding of early 20th century culture in Appalachia and also enhances our appreciation of Sharp and Karpeles’ arduous journeys and their tremendous achievement.
Relevant Literature
Primary Sources
Karpeles, Maud. 1967. Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sharp, Cecil James. 1907. English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions. London: Simpkin & Co. Ltd. Sharp, Cecil James. 1932. English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Edited by Karpeles, Maud; repr. 1960. London:Oxford University Press, 1960. Sharp, Cecil James. n.d. Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries: 1915-1918. Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Website, http://www.vwml.org/vwml-projects/vwml-cecil-sharp-diaries; Accessed 4/3/2016 6:03:56 PM
Secondary Sources
Eisenfeld, Sue. 2014. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal. University of Nebraska Press. English Folk Dance & Song Society. 2004. Dear Companion: Appalachian Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection. Edited by Mike Yates, Elaine Bradtke and Malcolm Taylor. London:English Folk Dance & Song Society. Gold, John R., and George Revill. 2006. Gathering the Voices of the People: Cecil Sharp, Cultural Hybridity, and the Folk Music of Appalachia. GeoJournal 65, no. 1/2: 55–66. Harker, Dave. 1985. Fakesong: The Manufacture of British Folksong:” 1700 to the Present Day. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England: Open University Press. Whisnant, David E. 1983. All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Yates, Mike. 1999. Cecil Sharp in America: Collecting in the Appalachians. Musical Traditions, Stroud, Glos, England, UK, http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sharp.htm. Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy. 1988. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Author Biography
Liz Milner is a student in George Mason University’s Graduate Folklore Program. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Service from American University, Washington, D.C. As an independent scholar she has written about topics that range from quackery in Tudor England to the career of Appalachian dulcimer virtuoso Ralph Lee Smith. She presently works in the Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library’s historical archive
A model of the glacial retreat of upper Rennick Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
No full textThc morphology of the Lichen Hills in the upper section of Rennick
Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica, is summarised as follows: (a) a top surface on the volcanic rocks with scattered erratic blocks; (b) an exhumed Kukri Peneplain, sculptured with roches moutonnées with striae and crescentic gouges on which lie moraines and patches of drin of mainly volcanic rocks; (c) a granitic bedrock eroded by glaciers into sharp peaks and cirques, on top of which there is a glacial drift attributable to ancient
blue-ice areas higher than those obscrved at present and which may be correlated with the Terra Nova drift (Late Wisconsin); (d) various Holocene ice-cored moraines that are pushed to the lee side of the nunataks and are often bandecl in strips of clifferent lithology. The banels of the Holocene moraines are related to the rock complexes that became exposed from the ice during the lowering of the surface of the glacier. Analysis of the lithology
and pattern of the supraglacial debris, as well as of the blue-ice areas, allows us to construct a depositional model for the moraines, and to relate the glacial drift to blue-ice
areas existing since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The proposed model shows the different stages of recession of upper Rennick Glacier that are also valid for similar situations
observed in northern Victoria Land. A surface lowering of upper Rennick Glacier of several hundred metres shows that significant changes have occurred at the Pacific edlge of the East Antarctic ice sheet since the LGM
Characteristics and effects of motivational music in exercise
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The research programme had three principal objectives. First, the evaluation and extension of the extant conceptual framework pertaining to motivational music in exercise settings. Second, the development of a valid instrument for assessing the motivational qualities of music: The Brunel Music Rating Inventory-2 (BMRI-2). Third, to test the effects of motivational and oudeterous (lacking in both motivational and de-motivational qualities) music in an externally-valid setting. These objectives were addressed through 4 studies. First, a series of open-ended interviews were conducted with exercise leaders and participants (N = 13), in order to investigate the characteristics and effects of motivational music in the exercise setting. The data were content analysed to abstract thematic categories of response. These categories were subsequently evaluated in the context of relevant conceptual frameworks. Subsequently, a sample of 532 health-club members responded to a questionnaire that was designed to assess the perceived characteristics of motivational music. The responses were analysed across age groups, gender, frequency of attendance (low, medium, high), and time of attendance (morning, afternoon, evening). The BMRI-2 was developed in order to address psychometric weaknesses that were associated with its forbear, the BMRI. A refined item pool was created which yielded an 8-item instrument that was subjected to confirmatory factor analysis. A single-factor model demonstrated acceptable fit indices across three different pieces of music, two samples of exercise participants, and both sexes. The BMRI-2 was used to select 20 pieces of motivational music, which were delivered in a health club gymnasium. It was found that health club members (N = 112) exercised for longer under the condition of motivational music as opposed to oudeterous music (the club’s typical output); however, no differences were noted in terms of affective response. (Jun 2004)David Lloyd Leisure (part of Whitbread PLC
A Model of the Glacial Retreat in the Upper Rennick Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica
No full textThe morphology of the Lichen Hills in the upper section of Rennick Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica, is summarised as follows: (a) a top surface on the volcanic rocks with scattered erratic blocks; (b) an exhumed Kukri Peneplain, sculptured with roches moutonnees with striae and crescentic gouges on which lie moraines and patches of drift of mainly volcanic rocks; (c) a granitic bedrock eroded by glaciers into sharp peaks and cirques, on top of which there is a glacial drift attributable to ancient blue-ice areas higher than those observed at present and which may be correlated with the Terra Nova drift (Late Wisconsin); (d) various Holocene ice-cored moraines that are pushed to the lee side of the nunataks and are often banded in strips of different lithology. The bands of the Holocene moraines are related to the rock complexes that became exposed from the ice during the lowering of the surface of the glacier. Analysis of the lithology and pattern of the supraglacial debris, as well..
Development of a rotor model for the numerical simulation of helicopter exterior flow-fields
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 84-85).A numerical methodology is developed to model the effect of a rotor on the surrounding flow-field. The model calculates the time-averaged aerodynamic forces exerted on the air by the fan blades within the blade-swept region, and permits the user to specify blade properties such as cross-sectional profile and orientation at a particular radial and azimuthal location. The calculated forces are included as source terms within the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid, which are solved by the commercial CFD solver, FLUENT. The effects of turbulence are incorporated through the use of Launder and Spalding's k-g turbulence model. This method is selected as being the most efficient use of the resources available, giving the economic advantages of a steady simulation, while allowing radial and azimuthal variations of rotor characteristics. In order to validate the accuracy of the numerical model for both aligned and non-aligned inflow conditions, results are compared with experimental data reported for an axial flow fan. Agreement between experimental and numerical results is excellent to good. Fan static pressure rise is closely predicted by the numerical solution, while fan power consumption and fan static efficiency are under and over-predicted respectively. This error may be attributed to frictional losses not accounted for in the numerical model. These include physical rotational instabilities, leading to increased mechanical losses, and tip effects due to the clearance between the fan blade tips and the fan casing. Trends are nevertheless consistently predicted by the numerical model for inflow angles up to 45°, and for the range of blade pitch settings used. The adverse effect of off-axis inflow on the fan static pressure rise is numerically predicted, while fan power consumption is found to remain independent of inflow angle, as had been experimentally observed. The rotor model is finally integrated with the fuselage of the CIRSTEL (Combined Infra-Red Suppression and Tail rotor Elimination) prototype in an analysis of the helicopter exterior flow-field. No experimental data for this configuration was available for validation purposes. However, the model is used in the simulation of several common helicopter flight conditions. Results are presented graphically, and generally indicate good agreement with physically observed phenomena
Vericiguat for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction across the risk spectrum: an individual participant data analysis of the VICTORIA and VICTOR trials
No full textInternational audienceBackground Following completion of the VICTORIA trial, vericiguat was approved for the treatment of worsening heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and received a class IIb recommendation in European and North American guidelines. The subsequent VICTOR trial evaluated the use of vericiguat in patients with HFrEF and no recent worsening. We aimed to assess the effect of vericiguat on clinical endpoints through pooled analyses of patientlevel data from the VICTORIA and VICTOR trials. Methods This prespecified, pooled individual participant-level analysis was conducted on data from two trials: VICTORIA, which was active from Sept 25, 2016, to Sept 2, 2019 in 42 countries, and VICTOR, which was active from Nov 2, 2021, to Feb 5, 2025 in 36 countries. The VICTORIA trial enrolled adult (aged ≥18 years) participants with HFrEF with recent worsening (defined as either hospitalisation for heart failure within the previous 6 months or outpatient use of intravenous diuretics within the previous 3 months) and increased NT-proBNP concentrations; the VICTOR trial had similar eligibility criteria but participants had no recent worsening of heart failure. Participants in both trials received contemporary background guideline-directed heart failure therapy as appropriate. The primary endpoint was a composite endpoint of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure (also assessed individually). This study is registered with PROSPERO, CRD420251065636. Findings Data from 11 155 patients (5050 in the VICTORIA trial and 6105 in the VICTOR trial) were included in the pooled analysis. The primary endpoint of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure occurred in 1446 (25•9%) of 5579 patients in the vericiguat group and 1556 (27•9%) of 5576 patients in the placebo group (hazard ratio [HR] 0•91 [95% CI 0•85-0•98]; p=0•0088), with similar reductions in its individual components of cardiovascular death (0•89 [0•80-0•98]; p=0•020) and hospitalisation for heart failure (0•92 [0•84-1•00]; p=0•043) as first events. Interpretation Vericiguat reduced the risk of hospitalisation for heart failure and cardiovascular death in patients with HFrEF across a broad range of clinical severity, including those receiving contemporary guideline-directed medical therapy. Vericiguat might be suitable as an additional treatment option for selected patients with HFrEF. Funding Merck Sharp & Dohme (a subsidiary of Merck) and Bayer.</div
Schooling for 'lesser beings'
No full textUsing Edward Said’s notion of ‘lesser beings’, it is argued that the political culture of schooling for Maori was and still is part of a pervasive Western European intellectual climate and culture which has a quite recent history, and which provided powerful support for the notion of Europe possessing a categorical superiority over all other continents, which in turn justified imperialism or neo-colonialism as civilising missions.
Racism and violence were endemic in colonialism and, despite the claimed moral high ground, were endemic in Aotearoa/New Zealand. War was eulogised in the Native School system more than once. The rise and demise of the World War II Maori War Organisation is illustrative of the rejection of Maori aspirations. There were still no Maori in the senior echelons of the Maori Department in 1972.
The Native, later Maori, School system was overtly designed to 'Europeanise' Maori children and therefore Maori society. Individualism was deeply embedded in English and set-tler thinking, whilst communal, ‘communist’ Maori society was to be destroyed.
The thesis examines images of colonialism, empire and imperialism in fiction and non-fiction, New Zealand and British, for adults and children, and notes the attitudes of think-ers like J S Mill and Darwin, of children’s authors Jules Verne and G H Henty, and of New Zealand author William Satchell. The images continue, pervasive and endemic, in recent adult novels. Science also played a role, as did history.
Ranginui Walker, who is Maori, is the only historian to have written a history of New Zea-land which addressed the issue of waste lands, an issue on which Pakeha historians have a blind spot. New Zealand encyclopedia do not index ‘waste land’ or ‘confiscation’. Only two Waikato histories deal adequately, or even accurately, with confiscation, the central episode in the history of the Waikato. Tourist material is equally illustrative.
The Native Schools section of the Education Department ran the Native Schools like a fiefdom, operating in legislative and regulatory black holes for the first thirty years and for much of the time after that. Teachers were moved around at will.
The practice of James H Pope, the first inspector of Native Schools, is closely and critically examined, and negatively assessed. His official writings were consistently derogatory of Maori, and his decisions in respect of Te Kopua Native School were at times detrimental to the pupils. Pope was a product of his times.
The Te Kopua record is closely scrutinised, and the practice of the Education Department is frequently found wanting. It is probable that the establishment of the school was aimed to destabilise King Country Maori, not to benefit the children. It is a story of Maori co-operation and contribution.
Part Two is a detailed partial biography of Te Kopua, it being argued that until there is a significant corpus of studies of Native Schools a valid history of the Native/Maori School system and of schooling for Maori is not possibl
Trading Behavior and Monetary Policy News
No full textThe author examines the patterns of trading behavior in the period surrounding monetary policy announcements. Utilizing a high-frequency dataset, with broker identifiers enabling classification of trades executed through institutional and retail brokers, the author investigates all trades submitted on the Australian Securities Exchange over the period of December 2007 to December 2014. The author identifies a rapid, asymmetric, price adjustment to the announcement, which is larger when the target rate decision results in lower-than-expected rates, and is accompanied by a sharp increase in market activity. Institutional brokers tend to execute trades more quickly following the announcement, and target more liquid large-cap stocks. Trades executed through institutional brokers appear to be more profitable, although profits are concentrated in buy trades. The evidence supports the notion that institutional investors have an advantage in processing the news resulting from target rate decisions
Attitudes towards gestational diabetes among a multiethnic cohort in Australia
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