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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"drum"”.
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The Lambeg Drum in Ulster
The Lambeg drum and its performance technique form a subject about which very little is known. From experience gained by lecturing on the subject it is my impression that a large number of Ulster people know of the instrument by reputation but have never heard it. Those who have are mostly of the …
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The person image of the drum majorette
This study focuses on how drum majoretting may influence the person image of the adolescent girl. An attempt was made to determine or investigate the influence of relationship formation on the person image and whether drum majoretting influences relationship formation. The researcher also …
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Designing mobile multi-touch drum sequencing applications
… interface that affords a completely new form of drum sequencing. Based on ideas from Avant-guard music and embodied interaction, a technology probe was created and then evaluated by a wide range of users. We found that for users with no musical training, and for users with a large amount of …
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Youth and intersectional belonging in drum & bugle corps subculture
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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The drying of materials using an atmospheric drum dryer
… drying upon the surface of an internally heated drum. Continuous sheets such as paper and cloth are also dried this way. If the material is easily damaged by high temperatures it may be dried under a partial vacuum. Considering their adaptability, ease of operation, and relative efficiency of …
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Drum Sound Synthesis by Computer Simulation of the Wave Equation
… on the problem of generating the sound of a drumhead by computer solution of the wave equation using finite difference methods. The research is novel in that it takes into account the stiffness of the drumhead material, damping due to energy dissipation into the air and rim, mass loading of …
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Experimental and numerical investigation of vibratory drum interacting with layered elastic media
Includes bibliographical references.
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
This study examines Drum magazine's journalism from 951 to 1959. Many studies have primarily examined Drum and its role as a vehicle for the "Sophiatown generation" of fiction in the 1950s but this study instead concentrates on Drum's non-fiction reporting. It looks at both Drum's role in the birth …
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Granular flow modelling of rotating drum flows using positron emission particle tracking
… and operated in batch mode across a range of drum rotation speeds that span cascading and cataracting Froude regimes. After averaging the PEPT outputs into representative volume elements, subsequent continuum analysis of the flowing layer revealed a rich coexistence of flow regimes - (i) …
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A modernised man? : changing constructions of masculinity in Drum magazine, 1951-1984
This study explores changes in the way that Drum magazine constructed manhood from the first edition of 1951 to its sale in 1984. The exploration is undertaken from a feminist post modern perspective that sees gender as a social construct and masculinity as a complex and multifaceted identity that …
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The use of cast iron & steel briquetted borings in centrifuse brake drum iron
Thesis ()--Michigan Agricultural College, 1938
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"Popular Culture in South Africa: The Limits of Black Identity in ""Drum"" Magazine"
In my reflection, I consider how commoditized cultural images from a black diaspora extend the imaginative capacity of black South Africans to construct new identities. I argue that a black identity connects to a black diasporic identity and to an abstract modern identity. It finds its cultural …
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“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps
This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to …
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Advertising to low-income consumers: portrayals of women in Drum magazine advertisements 1981-2010
… message sources in advertisements appearing in Drum magazine 1981-2010, an important time period that captures South Africa's transition from Apartheid rule to a time when the equality of women has been recognised more formally.
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Modeling and simulation of a drum boiler-turbine power plant under emergency state control.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Red-headed Woodpecker Habitat Selection and Breeding Ecology on Fort Drum Military Installation, New York
… United States, I conducted a field study on Fort Drum Military Installation, New York where a small but regionally important population of 10--15 adult red-headed woodpecker pairs regularly breeds. From May to August 2012--2013 I surveyed the installation for red-headed woodpecker breeding …
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Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York
… cultural dynamics of maple syrup making at Fort Drum, New York, in the period between 1880 and 1940. This project combines a processual approach with an interpretive assessment, covering the social, economic and cultural contexts in which maple syrup was made at Fort Drum during the project …
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Global Conservation Status of Croaker and Drum (Family: Sciaenidae) and Role of the Maw Trade
<p>Understanding threats and drivers of extinction risk is critical to conserving marine biodiversity. Although marine bony fishes are some of the most diverse and abundant vertebrates in the world, overexploitation is the major threat to these taxa. Species in the family Sciaenidae are important …
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