Music Theory, Cultural Transfer, and Colonial Hybridity by Thomas Christensen

“…In this introductory essay, a number of cautionary reminders are suggested for any historian seeking to trace the reception of European music theory outside of its traditional borders. …”
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Television in and After the Archive: Catalogues, Databases, Interfaces and Other Ways to Organize Audiovisual Records by Giulia Taurino, Georgia Aitaki

“…This editorial essay introduces the VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture Special Issue on how algorithmic curation mediates archival practices and influences the management, preservation and accessibility of television content. …”
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“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…This is a form of documentary theatre that stages theatre’s other – events and experiences as they are lived by actual people and rendered in witness testimonies that are transcribed word-for-word, edited into a play, and performed by actors. This essay examines four permutations on the verbatim mode: Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care of Baby (2007); and three pieces from a co-authored series of short plays on the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA (9/11), Decade (2011) – Samuel Adamson’s Recollections of Scott Forbes , Simon Schama’s Epic, and Alexandra Wood’s My Name is Tania Head. …”
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A Method Based on Elastic Mechanics for Judging Compound Hard Roof and Its Application by Haiyang Wang, Xiang Chen, Yanmin Zhou, Binwei Xia, Jie Wang, Shulei Zhao, Jialiang Liu

“…To solve the long-standing problems of only considering partial factors and large deviation from the actuality when identifying compound hard roof, a mechanical model of compound hard roof based on elastic mechanics is built, from which the stress field distribution equations of compound hard roof are formed and the judging criteria of compound hard roof have been set up. In this essay, 8101 Working Face of Tashan Coal Mine in China is the research object for criteria and analysis of compound hard roof, and the result is testified by similar model tests. …”
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Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Spectrum of Findings on Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Pankaj Gupta, Anindita Sinha, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Anupam Lal, Uma Debi, Babu R. Thapa, Niranjan Khandelwal

“…Focal liver lesions, most commonly nodular regenerative hyperplasia, are an important clue to the underlying condition. This pictorial essay covers imaging characteristics in abdominopelvic region.…”
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The Wandering Jew as Monster: John Blackburn’s <i>Devil Daddy</i> by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

“…In his 1796 gothic novel, <i>The Monk</i>, Matthew Lewis creates a new strand of the Wandering Jew tradition, a gothic Wandering Jew, a being transformed from wonder to horror through association with centuries of antisemitic accusations against Jews as agents of conspiracy, ritual murder, nefarious magic, and disease. This essay argues that a variation on the representation of the gothic Wandering Jew, which began with Coleridge’s <i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>, further adapts the legend to make the Wanderer not a sign of redemption, but the monstrous cause of catastrophe not only for himself, but for those he encounters. …”
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Das galante Modell als kreativer Raum by Johannes Raiser

“…Neben der Hervorhebung satztechnischer Besonderheiten in Beethovens Quartett zeigt der Text auch Möglichkeiten der analytischen Anwendung beider Methoden. // This essay provides a detailed analysis of interrelations between the structural, harmonic and motivic features in the slow introduction to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartet in e{{bvorz}} major, op. 74 (Harp). …”
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Designing an effective educational toy: incorporating design-thinking in the design classroom by Natalie Houston, Ferney Manrique, Shi Mo, Wang Ruoqian, Ji Wenjing, Lu Yuting

“…The key findings emphasise the effective implementation of design principles in developing a product that not only fulfils safety and educational requirements but also provides novel learning experiences. The essay continues by recommending the wider implementation of these concepts in the creation of educational toys to encourage improved learning outcomes and the development of skills in children.…”
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Enhancing IoT Network Security Through Digital Object Architecture-Based Approaches by Mahmood Al-Bahri, Wasin Alkishri, Falah Y. H. Ahmed, Marwan Alshar'e, Sanad Al Maskari

“…The objective is to reduce the number of service messages exchanged between internetwork parts and decrease network latency. The essay finishes by examining some strategies for modernizing DOA in order to improve the quality of service. …”
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Native American Voices: Decolonial Perspectives on Selected Texts of Alexie and Momaday by Dr. Sadia Akram, Dr. Sadia Nazir, Saira Akhter

“…The slippery frontier position of American Indians is not separatist but conversational that subverts stereotypes and, simultaneously, acknowledges difference. This essay principally explores how cross-reading Native American subversive texts can serve as a tool for cross-cultural communication. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…These scholars began to interrogate the policies of the imperial administration toward ethnic and national groups in the borderlands from the imperial administrative perspective. In this essay, I geographically circumnavigate the borderlands of the Russian Empire through secondary studies published since the 1980s to understand how scholars have reinterpreted these policies since gaining access to the imperial administrative perspective. …”
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Agricola und das Verkehrte. Zum Umgang mit satztechnischen Idiosynkrasien in Musik des späten 15. Jahrhunderts by Markus Roth

“…In diesem Zusammenhang wird der Begriff der ›mi contra fa-Latenz‹ vorgeschlagen, um den grundsätzlichen Problemen der Musica ficta zu begegnen. // This essay, starting with the Kyrie I of the Missa Sine Nomine, is dedicated to some remarkable compositional idiosyncracies of Alexander Agricola (1446–1506), of whom his contemporaries attested the talent of “turning things in an unexpected manner” (Hulrich Brätel 1536). …”
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Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…Abstract This essay provides a concise impression of the many contemporary attempts to revitalize futures thinking. …”
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead by James Schatz

“…When the opportunity to contribute a short essay about Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez presented itself in the context of this wonderful birthday celebration my immediate reaction was por supuesto que sí! …”
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Truly emergent? A critique of ‘third space’ in cross-cultural context by Michael Begun

“…Bhabha discusses his own conception of third space in response to questions about his ground-breaking 1988 essay ‘The commitment to theory’, in which he appears to first introduce the term ‘third space’ in a relevant context. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative.…”
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An Attempt to Account for Distributed Cognition in Translating the Poetry of Juhan Viiding by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov

“…The significant role that social connections and public reception play in Viiding’s creative work is illustrated by an essay by Elo Viiding, a poet and Juhan Viiding’s daughter, in which she describes nine types of reader of Juhan Viiding’s poetry, each of which creates their own distinct ‘Juhan Viiding’. …”
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Towards Transformation of the Nigerian Youths: The Place of Yoruba Popular Music by Kayode Olusola

“…The song lyrics by the old juju, fuji, apala, sakara, and Pop musicians are found to be more effective because of the Yoruba cultural concepts and moral values inherent in them. This essay concludes that music has an affective mechanism that positively influences the lives, personalities, and world-views of Nigerian youths in general if properly channeled towards a positive dimension. …”
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Current Trends of Nanobiosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics by Naumih M. Noah, Peter M. Ndangili

“…Biosensors are very critical components of point-of-care devices since they are directly responsible for the bioanalytical performance of an essay. As such, they have been explored for their prospective point-of-care applications necessary for personalized health care management since they usually estimate the levels of biological markers or any chemical reaction by producing signals mainly associated with the concentration of an analyte and hence can detect disease causing markers such as body fluids. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…These scholars began to interrogate the policies of the imperial administration toward ethnic and national groups in the borderlands from the imperial administrative perspective. In this essay, I geographically circumnavigate the borderlands of the Russian Empire through secondary studies published since the 1980s to understand how scholars have reinterpreted these policies since gaining access to the imperial administrative perspective. …”
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