Luft in der Stimme - die funktionelle Dysodie

Neben virtuoser technischer Beherrschung spielt künstlerische Ausgestaltung der Stimme bei Profis eine grosse Rolle. Ihre Betreuung erfordert deshalb eine enge interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zwischen Phoniatrie, Logopädie, Gesangspädagogik und – nicht zuletzt – Psychologie.

Enseignement et recherche

Les questions de formation et de recherche concerneront désormais le département de l’économie avec la formation d’un Secrétariat d’Etat à la formation, à la recherche et à l’innovation (SEFRI). – De nombreuses mesures visant à promouvoir les formations MINT ont été prises. – L’arrêté fédéral sur la promotion musicale des jeunes a été approuvé par 77,2% des voix. – Le niveau de la maturité fédérale a été longuement débattu. – L’initiative sur les bourses d’étude a abouti. – La loi sur l’encouragement de la recherche et de l’innovation a été révisée, avec notamment comme objectif un Swiss Innovation Park.

Monte Carlo modeling of polarized light propagation: Stokes vs Jones - Part II

In this second part of our comparative study inspecting the (dis)similarities between “Stokes” and “Jones,” we present simulation results yielded by two independent Monte Carlo programs: (i) one developed in Bern with the Jones formalism and (ii) the other implemented in Ulm with the Stokes notation. The simulated polarimetric experiments involve suspensions of polystyrene spheres with varying size. Reflection and refraction at the sample/air interfaces are also considered. Both programs yield identical results when propagating pure polarization states, yet, with unpolarized illumination, second order statistical differences appear, thereby highlighting the pre-averaged nature of the Stokes parameters. This study serves as a validation for both programs and clarifies the misleading belief according to which “Jones cannot treat depolarizing effects.”

How Do Software Architects Specify and Validate Quality Requirements?

Software architecture is the result of a design effort aimed at ensuring a certain set of quality attributes. As we show, quality requirements are commonly specified in practice but are rarely validated using automated techniques. In this paper we analyze and classify commonly specified quality requirements after interviewing professionals and running a survey. We report on tools used to validate those requirements and comment on the obstacles encountered by practitioners when performing such activity (e.g., insufficient tool-support; poor understanding of users needs). Finally we discuss opportunities for increasing the adoption of automated tools based on the information we collected during our study (e.g., using a business-readable notation for expressing quality requirements; increasing awareness by monitoring non-functional aspects of a system).

Dicto: A Unified DSL for Testing Architectural Rules

Software architecture consists of a set of design choices that can be partially expressed in form of rules that the implementation must conform to. Architectural rules are intended to ensure properties that fulfill fundamental non-functional requirements. Verifying architectural rules is often a non- trivial activity: available tools are often not very usable and support only a narrow subset of the rules that are commonly specified by practitioners. In this paper we present a new highly-readable declarative language for specifying architectural rules. With our approach, users can specify a wide variety of rules using a single uniform notation. Rules can get tested by third-party tools by conforming to pre-defined specification templates. Practitioners can take advantage of the capabilities of a growing number of testing tools without dealing with them directly.

Dicto: Keeping Software Architecture Under Control

Dicto is a declarative language for specifying architectural rules using a single uniform notation. Once defined, rules can automatically be validated using adapted off-the-shelf tools.

Cantiques de Salomon Rossi : chants, psaumes et hymnes à 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 et 8 voix

Transcrits en notation moderne et publiés par S. Naumbourg

Choix de 22 madrigaux à cinq voix : avec accompagnement de chittarone, orgue, et basse continue ou à voix seules

Salomon Rossi. Transcrits en notation moderne d'après l'original imprimé à Venise (1600 - 1607) par Vincent d' Indy

Maria Malibran, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G01519

Jean Desiré Montagney Artot, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G02723