Uma descrição sonora contemporânea do imagético tradicional armorial como subsídio para abordagens interpretativas do ciclo de canções “Visagem” de Nelson Almeida

This study suggests sonorous ambiences from the propose of images configured according to the description in “A Visagem da Moça Caetana” by Ariano Suassuna in order to create individual sonorous possibilities that may help musicians to play the piece. The cycle, composed in 1996 (for voice, viola, cello, bass clarinet/clarinet), is formed by three untitled songs. Its text is an excerpt from the “Folheto XLIV”, from the Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, and describes a sentence of death illustrated by symbols of the Armorial imagery, with neologisms and the peculiar accent from the Sertão in northeast Brazil. In addition to the analysis of technical difficulties to play, this study informs interpreters of the sonorous timbre and texture used by Nelson Almeida to describe tradition through contemporary musical language. The metaphors and transgressions of reason in Suassuna’s book were explored to create three image compositions so that they may lead interpreters to the sonorous description of the inanimate objects and the affections to which the poetry refers, expanding any technical-interpretative indications limited by musical notation. This research used the Visagem scores, the literature on the theme, discussions with the musicians that played the piece, interviews with Almeida, and composers’ reports. To illustrate the theory, the three images are available, printed as woodcut in cordel literature.

Parallel and Streaming Truth Discovery in Large-Scale Quantitative Crowdsourcing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. ARL and U.K. Ministry of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001, and by the NSF under award CNS-1213140. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or represent the official policies of the NSF, the U.S. ARL, the U.S. Government, the U.K. Ministry of Defense or the U.K. Government. The U.S. and U.K. Governments are authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.

Parallel and Streaming Truth Discovery in Large-Scale Quantitative Crowdsourcing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. ARL and U.K. Ministry of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001, and by the NSF under award CNS-1213140. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or represent the official policies of the NSF, the U.S. ARL, the U.S. Government, the U.K. Ministry of Defense or the U.K. Government. The U.S. and U.K. Governments are authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.

Die Jahrszeiten

von Joseph Haydn.

Fest-Chor zur Enthüllung des Mozart-Denkmals in Salzburg: aus Compositionen des Gefeierten

zusammengestellt, instrumentirt, und mit einem passenden Texte versehen von dessen Sohne W.A. Mozart..

Musical commonplace book : manuscript, [approximately 1790-approximately 1810]

Contains songs, partly from English operas, and instrumental music.

3 Lieder für eine tiefere Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte

Die Diebin mit der Rosenwange / Gedicht von G.E. Lessing - Vor dem Feinde / Gedicht von Adolf Gad -- Wie ist diese Welt doch so schön / Gedicht von L.R.

Ah' quest'amplesso, o cara: scena e duetto nella Cleopatra / manuscript, [approximately 1800]

del Sig:re Sebastiano Nasolini :

Validité et limite de la technique du GPS dans l'analyse de la tâche en football

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

A study of primary teeth restored by intracoronal restorations in children participating in an undergraduate teaching programme at Cork University Dental School and Hospital, Ireland

Aim: To study the outcomes for restored primary molar teeth; to examine outcomes in relation to tooth type involved, intracoronal restoration complexity and to the material used. Materials and methods: Design: Retrospective study of primary molar teeth restored by intracoronal restorations. A series of restored primary molar teeth for children aged 6-12 years was studied. The principal outcome measure was failure of initial restoration (re-restoration or extraction). Three hundred patient records were studied to include three equal groups of primary molar teeth restored with amalgam, composite or glass ionomer, respectively. Restorative materials, the restoration type, simple (single surface) or complex (multi-surface) restoration, and tooth notation were recorded. Subsequent interventions were examined. Data were coded and entered into a Microsoft Excel database and analysis undertaken using SPSS v.18. Statistical differences were tested using the c2 test of statistical significance. Results: Of the 300 teeth studied, 61 restoration failures were recorded with 11 of those extracted. No significant differences were found between outcomes for upper first, upper second, lower first or lower second primary molars. Outcomes for simple primary teeth restored by intracoronal restorations were significantly better than those for complex intracoronal restorations (P = 0.042). Teeth originally restored with amalgam accounted for 19.7% of the 61 failures, composite for 29.5%, while teeth restored with glass ionomer represented 50.8% of all restoration failures. The differences were significant (P = 0.012). Conclusions: The majority (79.7%) of the 300 restored primary teeth studied were successful, and 3.7% teeth were extracted. Restorations involving more than one surface had almost twice the failure rate of single surface restorations. The difference was significant. Significant differences in failure rates for the three dental materials studied were recorded. Amalgam had the lowest failure rate while the failure rate with glass ionomer was the highest.

Validité et limite de la technique du GPS dans l'analyse de la tâche en football

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

In situ d18O and Mg/Ca analyses of ODP Site 143-865 samples

We report d18O and minor element (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) data acquired by high-resolution, in situ secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) from planktic foraminiferal shells and 100-500 µm sized diagenetic crystallites recovered from a deep-sea record (ODP Site 865) of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM). The d18O of crystallites (~1.2 per mil Pee Dee Belemnite (PDB)) is ~4.8 per mil higher than that of planktic foraminiferal calcite (-3.6 per mil PDB), while crystallite Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios are slightly higher and substantially lower than in planktic foraminiferal calcite, respectively. The focused stratigraphic distribution of the crystallites signals an association with PETM conditions; hence, we attribute their formation to early diagenesis initially sourced by seafloor dissolution (burndown) ensued by reprecipitation at higher carbonate saturation. The Mg/Ca ratios of the crystallites are an order of magnitude lower than those predicted by inorganic precipitation experiments, which may reflect a degree of inheritance from "donor" phases of biogenic calcite that underwent solution in the sediment column. In addition, SIMS d18O and electron microprobe Mg/Ca analyses that were taken within a planktic foraminiferal shell yield parallel increases along traverses that coincide with muricae blades on the chamber wall. The parallel d18O and Mg/Ca increases indicate a diagenetic origin for the blades, but their d18O value (-0.5 per mil PDB) is lower than that of crystallites suggesting that these two phases of diagenetic carbonate formed at different times. Finally, we posit that elevated levels of early diagenesis acted in concert with sediment mixing and carbonate dissolution to attenuate the d18O decrease signaling PETM warming in "whole-shell" records published for Site 865.

Reversibility Iteration Method to Understand Reaction Networks and to Solve Micro-Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis

Solving microkinetics of catalytic systems, which bridges microscopic processes and macroscopic reaction rates, is currently vital for understanding catalysis in silico. However, traditional microkinetic solvers possess several drawbacks that make the process slow and unreliable for complicated catalytic systems. In this paper, a new approach, the so-called reversibility iteration method (RIM), is developed to solve microkinetics for catalytic systems. Using the chemical potential notation we previously proposed to simplify the kinetic framework, the catalytic systems can be analytically illustrated to be logically equivalent to the electric circuit, and the reaction rate and coverage can be calculated by updating the values of reversibilities. Compared to the traditional modified Newton iteration method (NIM), our method is not sensitive to the initial guess of the solution and typically requires fewer iteration steps. Moreover, the method does not require arbitrary-precision arithmetic and has a higher probability of successfully solving the system. These features make it ∼1000 times faster than the modified Newton iteration method for the systems we tested. Moreover, the derived concept and the mathematical framework presented in this work may provide new insight into catalytic reaction networks.

Maude Object-Oriented Action Tool

MAIDL, André Murbach; CARVILHE, Claudio; MUSICANTE, Martin A. Maude Object-Oriented Action Tool. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. [S.l:s.n], 2008.

Utvärdering av effektkartläggning med MA/SIMM : Effektkartläggning som stöd vid val av teknik för att nå önskad effekt vid utveckling av ett mobilt intranät

Kravinsamling görs inför ett systemutvecklingsprojekt för att identifiera användarnas behov och önskade effekter med systemet. Ett problem för många system är att valet av teknik påverkas allt för mycket av vilka tekniker som finns i företaget och är i många fall förutbestämt, istället för att baseras på behov och krav som ställs på systemet. Effektkartläggning är en metod som kan användas för kravinsamling, men metoden har inte fokus på tekniska funktioner. Eftersom tekniken ofta är förutbestämd måste den beaktas redan under kravinsamlingen. Frågan är därför hur man kan använda effektkartläggning för att den ändå ska vara ett stöd vid val av teknik. Syftet med det här examensarbetet har varit att utvärdera metoden effektkartläggning genom en metodanalys enligt metoden MA/SIMM, för att ta fram ett förslag på hur metoden bör användas för att vara ett stöd vid val av teknik för applikationstyp och cms för att nå önskad effekt vid utveckling av ett mobilt intranät. För att kunna besvara syftet har två frågeställningar tagits fram:  Hur bör metoden effektkartläggning användas för att vara ett stöd vid val av teknik för applikationstyp och cms för ett mobilt intranät?  Vilka faktorer bör beaktas vid val av teknik för applikationstyp och cms för att nå önskad effekt vid utveckling av ett mobilt intranät? För att identifiera faktorerna har litteraturstudier och intervjuer genomförts. Resultatet av vilka faktorer som bör beaktas vid val av teknik är en lista på 13 faktorer som grovt kan delas in i faktorer för applikationstyp och cms. Metoden effektkartläggning har analyserats utifrån ett teoretiskt och ett situationellt perspektiv. Resultatet av metodanalysen visar att systemutvecklare bör involveras tidigare i processen, metoder som säkerställer att outtalade krav dokumenteras bör användas samt tre förändringar i effektkartans notation behövs för att effektkartläggning ska vara ett stöd vid val av teknik.