Commentary on Bach v. Longman (1777)

A case, initiated by two composers, Johann Christian Bach and Karl Friedrich Abel, concerning whether or not printed music fell within the protection of the Statute of Anne 1710 (uk_1710). Lord Mansfield holds that published music is protected as ‘writing' within the terms of the legislation.
The commentary explores attitudes to the protection of music throughout the eighteenth century on the part of publishers, composers and musicians, and in particular the use of the printing privilege by some composers to secure the right to publish their work, and the efforts of the music publishers to secure legislative protection in the mid-eighteenth century.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to escape the impossible community of the Kailyard – provincial, retrogressive, Christian, Scotland-as-Brigadoon – MacDiarmid fashioned an equally impossible if conflicting community, profoundly singular yet ultimately spiritual, that nonetheless contained residual Kailyard archetypes. The argument is traced through examination of MacDiarmid’s attitude to the Kailyard; work relating to the small communities in which he lived and wrote, and to cities; and the question of his anti-Englishness.

Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough : with a selection from his letters and a memoir /

Mode of access: Internet.

Desigualdade de rendimento no Alentejo do Antigo Regime: Arraiolos, Avis e Portalegre (1690-1725)

A desigualdade era um dos elementos estruturantes da sociedade do Antigo Regime. Partindo desta ideia central, propõe-se neste trabalho determinar a desigualdade de rendimento dos contribuintes dos concelhos de Arraiolos, de Avis e de Portalegre, todos na província do Alentejo, integrando-os na problemática da variabilidade de rendimento das sociedades europeias pré-industriais. As fontes nucleares para este trabalho são os registos de pagamento do imposto da décima, contribuição direta e universal talhada para fazer face às despesas da Guerra da Restauração e que perdurou até ao final do Antigo Regime, sendo profundamente alterado durante a monarquia constitucional. Incidindo sobre diversos tipos de rendimento, consubstancia uma fonte de grande importância para o estudo da economia pré-industrial.

Map index, upper section, flood hazard analyses, Assunpink Creek watershed, Mercer and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey /

Shows "Stream reaches analyzed" and "Map location & plate number."

Acidic substrata potential map : [Mercer County, New Jersey] /

"This map estimates the potential of encountering a sulfide bearing geologic substratum beneath the soil."

Mercer Co., N.J. : N4007.5-W7428.5/18.5 x 29 : 1981 /

"May 1985."

A interpretação de Copenhague e os estados relativos de Hugh Everett III : o problema do realismo científico

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília,Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, 2015.

Aspectos socioeconómicos del delito en Costa Rica: 1725-1850

IntroducciónHace tiempo ha venido fortaleciéndose un movimiento entre historiadores y sociólogos, para lograr una mejor apreciación del fenómeno de la criminalidad en diversos  contextos sociales y políticos. Dentro de nuestro campo de estudio, la historia latinoamericana, la publicación del novedoso estudio del Dr. Richard Greenleaf, basado en al documentación de la Inquisición mexicana bajo Zumárraga, marcó un punto importante en la creciente convicción de que el delito y los delincuentes forman una parte digna de estudio de cualquier sociedad y mas aun en una como la colonial española, con sus pretensiones absolutistas tanto en la esfera secular como en la religiosa. Esta tendencia a considerar fuentes no convencionales ha sido de mayor utilidad par todos aquellos investigadores creadores de una historia menos elitista, oficialista y estrechamente política, es decir, para la nueva historia social, sean cuales fuesen los temas específicos dentro de este contexto.

Ihwg-μnir: A Miniaturised Near-infrared Gas Sensor Based On Substrate-integrated Hollow Waveguides Coupled To A Micro-nir-spectrophotometer.

A miniaturised gas analyser is described and evaluated based on the use of a substrate-integrated hollow waveguide (iHWG) coupled to a microsized near-infrared spectrophotometer comprising a linear variable filter and an array of InGaAs detectors. This gas sensing system was applied to analyse surrogate samples of natural fuel gas containing methane, ethane, propane and butane, quantified by using multivariate regression models based on partial least square (PLS) algorithms and Savitzky-Golay 1(st) derivative data preprocessing. The external validation of the obtained models reveals root mean square errors of prediction of 0.37, 0.36, 0.67 and 0.37% (v/v), for methane, ethane, propane and butane, respectively. The developed sensing system provides particularly rapid response times upon composition changes of the gaseous sample (approximately 2 s) due the minute volume of the iHWG-based measurement cell. The sensing system developed in this study is fully portable with a hand-held sized analyser footprint, and thus ideally suited for field analysis. Last but not least, the obtained results corroborate the potential of NIR-iHWG analysers for monitoring the quality of natural gas and petrochemical gaseous products.