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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Feldman"”.
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A Comparative Analysis of Works by Morton Feldman
… in the career of American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987), the choice of these years determined by (a) Feldman's return to the use of purely traditional notation after many years of experimentation and (b) the date of the last work of less than ten minutes duration. This is accomplished …
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Accelerating NOvA's Feldman-Cousins procedure using high performance computing platforms
… NOvA uses the computationally intensive Feldman-Cousins (FC) procedure, which involves fitting thousands of independent pseudoexperiments to generate empirical distribution functions that are used to calculate the significance of observations. I, along with collaborators on NOvA and …
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A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950--1970
… such a rise in posthumous stature as has Morton Feldman (1926--1987), a composer who began his career in the shadow of his more famous colleague John Cage, but one whose creative voice is now regarded as among the most distinctive in American music since the Second World War. This dissertation …
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Morton Feldman's clarinet works: A study through the words of the note man
Morton Feldman's writings, lectures, and interviews reveal a unified and consistent compositional drive towards a static musical rhetoric, or, to use his term, Time Undisturbed. Essential to his outlook was the notion of orchestration as the primary compositional determinant: Feldman's starting …
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Time has turned into space and there will be no more time: The scenic late works of Morton Feldman
… studies the long, late works of Morton Feldman. Tackling this confusing body of work from an aural and experiential perspective, the dissertation develops a preliminary method for analysis and reflects on the unusual temporal experiences engendered by the music, including experiences of …
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Doctoral thesis recital (trumpet)
… -- Hot house / Tadd Dameron -- Joshua / Victor Feldman -- Libertango / Paquito D'Rivera.
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RESPONSES TO POSITIVE AFFECT: AN EXAMINATION OF POSITIVE RUMINATION AND DAMPENING
Recently, Feldman, Joorman, and Johnson (in press) proposed that differences in the ways individuals respond to positive affect (PA) might impact the length and intensity of PA episodes, perhaps leading to changes in long-term mental and physical health. Feldman et al. (in press) suggested that …
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How Successful is Homework Success for Children with ADHD?
… with academic functioning (DuPaul, 2007; Loe & Feldman, 2007; Raggi & Chronis, 2006; Rogers, Wiener, Marton, & Tannock, 2009) and tend to show more frequent and intense homework problems than their peers (Power, Karustis, & Habboushe, 2001). Traditionally, treatments for ADHD have included …
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Hedge funds and higher moment portfolio selection
… the findings of Davies, Kat and Lu (2003) and Feldman, Chen and Goda (2002) that Global Macro and Equity Market-Neutral strategies are crucial constituents in a fund of hedge funds portfolio. When comparing optimised multi-asset class portfolios including an allocation to hedge funds, the …
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Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role
… on the verdicts of lower courts. Bennett and Feldman (1981) have demonstrated that the well-formedness of the semantic structure of testimony determines its credibility. It has been shown that the comprehensibility of narrative discourse (testimony) is a reliable indicator of its …
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Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the T2K Experiment
… determined for both parameters</p><p>using the Feldman-Cousins procedure -- is for the normal hierarchy</p><p>0.428 < sin<super>2</super>θ<sub>23</sub> < 0.598 and</p><p>2.34×10<super>-3</super> eV<super>2</super>/c<super>4</super> < Δm<super>2</super><sub>32</sub> < …
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Validity Evidence For the Use of Holland's Vocational Personality Types In College Student Populations
… streamlining their college careers. Smart, Feldman and Ethington (2000) examined the Holland types as assessed through items present on the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey. Using both student and faculty data from a national sample, they argued that the …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… work - originally influenced largely by Morton Feldman and John Cage - developed as a result of my interest in just intonation and microtonality and through the influences of James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, and painters Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. The first section provides …
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Emotional labor in intercultural service encounters: An experience sampling study
… organizational goals (Hochschild, 1983; Morris & Feldman, 1996), exhibits a severe lack of studies examining intercultural service encounters (i.e., service episodes in which a provider from culture A delivers a service to a customer from culture B; Stauss & Mang, 1999). This dissertation posits …
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Gender and counterproductive work behavior (CWB): a personality-based explanatory model
… counterproductivity at work than do women (Ng, Feldman, & Lam, 2016). The present study proposes an explanatory model for the CWB gender gap, using personality traits (narcissism, sadism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional intelligence) and sex role orientation (agency and …
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Don't Take It Personally: An Exploration of Student Perceptions of Interpersonal Relationships In School Settings
… Discourse Analysis (Van Dijk, 1993), the Feldman Method (Feldman, 1995), and artistic elements and principles of design as interpreted by Kelehear (2006, 2008). Challenges encountered in this study are consistent with those reported in the literature on narrative inquiry and insider based …
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Effective teaching characteristics as perceived by ESL students and instructors
… who are teaching the classes (Barkhuizen, 1998; Feldman, 1988). The present study aims to highlight main findings of quantitative and qualitative research that examines any disconnect between students and instructors in the classroom. This study utilizes a mixed-methods design to examine the …
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Finger joint impedance control applications to investigate spasticity
… including Hajian and Howe. Results confirm Feldman's findings that stiffness and damping are relatively constant across levels of increasing applied force. Equilibrium angle R as presented by Feldman and represented by theta-not in this analysis was shown to be the driving control mechanism …
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Cognitive development and the acquisition of semantic knowledge in Northern Belize
… children’s L<sub>2</sub> (Standard English). The Feldman Colored Blocks Test was used to assess level of nonverbal cognitive development. The Semantic Strategies Test, developed for this research, was used to assess complexity of semantic organization. Analysis showed that there was no significant …
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HEALTH FACTORS AND THE TO-WORK, AT-WORK, AND TO-RETIRE GOALS OF OLDER WORKERS
… To-Retire), combining aspects of the works of Feldman (1994), Shultz and Wang (2007), and Kanfer, Beier, and Ackerman (2012), using archival data extracted through the National Heath and Retirement Study (HRS). A two-step hierarchical regression was conducted with age, gender, wealth, education …
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