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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"left hand"”.
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The effect of left-hand training on piano performance
… of this study was to determine the effects of left-hand training on piano performance among college students with no piano background. A pilot study and an expanded study were conducted over a two year period. Volunteers for each study were randomly assigned to either a control group or a …
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The physiological learning process underlying the development of left-hand technique in violinsts
In violin pedagogy, the left hand has often been referred to as the artisan and the right hand the artist of the violinist. This general approach to the playing of the violin sheds light on the importance that must be placed on the development of a sound left-hand technique from an early stage. …
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Analysis of right-turn lane length in left-hand traffic countries at signalised intersections of urban roads
… of the right turn lane length of urban roads in left-hand traffic countries, such as Australia, UK and India (left-turn lane length in right-hand traffic countries such as USA), at signalised intersections encounters two main geometric features namely, deceleration length and storage length. The …
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Pianism Reimagined: an analytical inquiry of left-hand piano through the career and commissions of Paul Wittgenstein
Proliferation of the concert repertoire for piano left-hand in the early 20th century is predominantly accredited to the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein. Resolved to cultivate a musical career despite the amputation of his right arm in WWI, Wittgenstein commissioned some of the most eminent …
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To Conceal or Reveal: left-hand pianism with particular reference to Ravel's Concerto pour la main gauche and Britten's Diversions
… techniques associated with music for the left hand and the circumstances of its performance, thereby allowing a much clearer appraisal than has previously been available of canonic works for the medium. Leopold Godowsky's transcriptions of Chopin's Etudes, op. 10 and op. 25, in which the …
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Hypercube diagrams for knots, links, and knotted tori
… cube number distinguishes the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and maximal rotation number from the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and minimal rotation number. Finally, there is a generalization of cube …
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Prism adaptation in a case of cerebellar agenesis
… on two separate occasions, twice using his left hand, and once using his right hand. He wore prism goggles while pointing to a vertical line at each of nine target locations in baseline, exposure, and postexposure conditions. The position of his finger was recorded after each response. In …
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Effect of Hand Dominance on Rate of Learning and Bilateral Transfer.
… generally have a dominant and a nondominant hand. Dominance refers to the ability to perform a task better with a particular hand [Hand preference does not necessarily mean hand dominance] (Rigal, 1974). For example, a child may show tendencies to be left hand dominant; however, his parents …
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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
… Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano pieces from Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): the 1930 Concerto pour la Main Gauche. Ravel’s war experience was not as dramatic as Wittgenstein’s, but it still affected him personally, professionally and artistically; his involvement …
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The Effects of the Phenomenon of the Psychological Refractory Period Upon College Athletes and Non-Athletes
… 1. There is no significant difference of single left hand reaction times between the athlete and non-athlete groups. 2. There is no significant difference of single right hand reaction times between the athlete and non-athlete groups. 3. There are no significant differences of the refractory time …
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A Two-Year Classical Guitar Ensemble for Pre-College Educational Settings
… sequentially with regard to both right and left-hand technical, notational, and ensemble concepts. An evaluation of each work's representation of the aforementioned concepts is provided with illustrated excerpts from the music scores. This collection of works is presented in a logical and …
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A study of the relationship between hand preference and motor ability in secondary school pupils
… in an effort to determine whether or not left-handed students achieve as high pro- ficiency as do right-handed students in secondary school subjects which require motor ability. This problem came to the attention of the writer after he had examined the pre- vious writings in the general …
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Implementation techniques for rewriting and narrowing
… to solve queries by narrowing, i.e. using the left-hand sides of rules to identify subterms with instances to which rules apply, and repeating the process until instantiations of the variables are constructed that can be shown by rewriting to satisfy the query.
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Improving gesture recognition through spatial focus of attention
… that when spatial attention is focused on the hands, gesture recognition improves significantly, particularly when the channels are fused using a sparse network. We propose an architecture (FOANet) that divides processing among four modalities (RGB, depth, RGB flow, and depth flow), and three …
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Experimental Evaluation of Wheel-Rail Interaction
… -2.0 to 2.0 degrees, representing a right- and left-hand curve. Lateral traction increases at a high rate with increasing AoA between 0.0 – 0.5 degrees, and increases at a slow rate beyond 0.5 degree. Similarly, longitudinal traction reduces at a high rate for smaller AoA and at a slower rate …
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Milton and the Zohar
… Five continues with an investigation of the left-hand path or sitra-ahra focusing on: hell as a locality; hell as a psychological reality within the individual; hell as the 'shadow' within the subconscious; the left-hand path and judgement; Satan, Samael and Hitler; the chariot of paternal …
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Navy SEAL Prosthetic Hand
… mainly on myoelectrically controlled electric hands despite a majority of upper extremity amputees actively choosing body powered devices. Myoelectric hands utilize a small electric pulse generated in muscles when flexing as a signal to the hand to close. Finger flexion in these devices is …
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The Effects of Divided Attention on Speech Motor, Verbal Fluency and Manual Motor Task Performance
… beginning with the same letter), and right- and left-handed motor tasks (placing pegs and washers in a peg board) in isolation and in concurrent conditions. Speech kinematic data revealed that during concurrent performance of manual tasks, lip displacement and peak velocity decreased, while sound …
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