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Journal articles on the topic "Human-composed"

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Higazi, Abd Al-Roof, Andrew Mazar, Jieyi Wang, Nancy Quan, Robert Griffin, Regina Reilly, Jack Henkin, and Douglas B. Cines. "Soluble Human Urokinase Receptor Is Composed of Two Active Units." Journal of Biological Chemistry 272, no. 8 (February 21, 1997): 5348–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.272.8.5348.

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Régnier, M., A. Patwardhan, A. Scheynius, and R. Schmidt. "Reconstructed human epidermis composed of keratinocytes, melanocytes and Langerhans cells." Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 36, no. 6 (November 1998): 821–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02518889.

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Steffens, Melanie, Friederike Göpel, Anaclet Ngezahayo, Carsten Zeilinger, Arne Ernst, and Hans-Albert Kolb. "Regulation of connexons composed of human connexin26 (hCx26) by temperature." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 1778, no. 5 (May 2008): 1206–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.01.016.

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Ogata, Akira, and Shinji Deguchi. "Novel Preparation of Grafts Composed of Human Alveolar Bone Periosteal Cells." Nihon Shishubyo Gakkai Kaishi (Journal of the Japanese Society of Periodontology) 48, no. 3 (2006): 192–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.2329/perio.48.192.

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Chopek, Michael W., Jean Pierre Girma, Kazuo Fujikawa, Earl W. Davie, and Koiti Titani. "Human von Willebrand factor: a multivalent protein composed of identical subunits." Biochemistry 25, no. 11 (June 3, 1986): 3146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi00359a012.

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Dianzani, Ferdinando, Guido Antonelli, Elisabetta Riva, Ombretta Turriziani, Laura Antonelli, Stephen Tyring, Daniel A. Carrasco, et al. "Is Human Immunodeficiency Virus RNA Load Composed of Neutralized Immune Complexes?" Journal of Infectious Diseases 185, no. 8 (April 15, 2002): 1051–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/340043.

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Kurashige, Motoki, Kiyoshi Nishimoto, and Tetsuya Miyoshi. "Human Machine Interface composed of Force Sensors for Omni-directional Vehicle." Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) 2002 (2002): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmermd.2002.77_4.

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Stoll, Christoph, Jelena L. Holovati, Jason P. Acker, and Willem F. Wolkers. "Liposomes composed of unsaturated lipids for membrane modification of human erythrocytes." Molecular Membrane Biology 28, no. 7-8 (January 2011): 454–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687688.2011.622304.

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Djebali, Sarah, Julien Lagarde, Philipp Kapranov, Vincent Lacroix, Christelle Borel, Jonathan M. Mudge, Cédric Howald, et al. "Evidence for Transcript Networks Composed of Chimeric RNAs in Human Cells." PLoS ONE 7, no. 1 (January 4, 2012): e28213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028213.

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Raglio, Alfredo, Paola Baiardi, Giuseppe Vizzari, Marcello Imbriani, Mauro Castelli, Sara Manzoni, Francisco Vico, and Luca Manzoni. "Algorithmic Music for Therapy: Effectiveness and Perspectives." Applied Sciences 11, no. 19 (September 23, 2021): 8833. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11198833.

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This study assessed the short-term effects of conventional (i.e., human-composed) and algorithmic music on the relaxation level. It also investigated whether algorithmic compositions are perceived as music and are distinguishable from human-composed music. Three hundred twenty healthy volunteers were recruited and randomly allocated to two groups where they listened to either their preferred music or algorithmic music. Another 179 healthy subjects were allocated to four listening groups that respectively listened to: music composed and performed by a human, music composed by a human and performed by a machine; music composed by a machine and performed by a human, music composed and performed by a machine. In the first experiment, participants underwent one of the two music listening conditions—preferred or algorithmic music—in a comfortable state. In the second one, participants were asked to evaluate, through an online questionnaire, the musical excerpts they listened to. The Visual Analogue Scale was used to evaluate their relaxation levels before and after the music listening experience. Other outcomes were evaluated through the responses to the questionnaire. The relaxation level obtained with the music created by the algorithms is comparable to the one achieved with preferred music. Statistical analysis shows that the relaxation level is not affected by the composer, the performer, or the existence of musical training. On the other hand, the perceived effect is related to the performer. Finally, music composed by an algorithm and performed by a human is not distinguishable from that composed by a human.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human-composed"

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Lima, Anderson Silva, and Andreas Blixt. "Investigating the possibility of bias against AI-computercomposed music." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19963.

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This study explores how respondents perceive human-composed music and AI-computer-composed music. The aim was to find out if there is a negative bias against AI-computer-composed music. The research questions are 1. How is AI-computer-composed music perceived compared to human-composed music? 2. Are there prejudices towards AI-computer-composed music? If yes, what are the prejudices? Four participants took part in a qualitative experiment and a semi-structured interview. Two music pieces were used as artifacts, one was human-composed, and the AI-computer AIVA composed the other. The results showed that although the researchers have not revealed to the participants if they had chosen the AI-computer-composed song or the human-composed song as their favorite, all the participants strongly believed that their favorite song was human-composed. Thus, indicating a bias towards human-composed music The results also showed that the two music pieces were not perceived to have the same characteristics or evoke the same emotions; furthermore, there was some skepticism, whether an AI-computer-composed song could recall the same emotions as a human-composed song. However, none of the respondents explicitly expressed negativity towards AI-computer-composed music.
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Nascimento, Fernando. "Estudo in vitro da microabrasão de resinas compostas, amálgama, esmalte dentário humano e bovino." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2006. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/16866.

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the resistance the microabrasion of composed resins, amalgam, human and bovine dental enamel. A microabrasion apparel was used (Calowear Tester) whose main characteristic is to evaluate the wear of the surface of the materials. Being the abrasive wear a process of multiple risks, the resistance to the wear can be intimately related to the resistance to the risk. Like this, of ownership of the resistances the microabrasion was possible compare them the resistances to the wear of the standard minerals of the scale of hardness Mohs. Seven universal resins were used (Charisma, Esthet X, Filtek Supreme, Filtek Z250, Herculite XRV, Tetric Ceram and Z100), two universal resins compacted (Filtek P60 and Surefil) and two laboratory resins (ArtGlass and Cristobal); an amalgam with high copper tenor (GS80); third ten human molars and ten incisive bovine. After the preparation of the samples, they were submitted to the microabrasion test with application of load of 0,16 N tends aqueous dispersion of alumina as abrasive for 1 minute. This process generated impressions that were measured being used an image analyzer. Of ownership of these measured the Analysis of Variance was applied for p <0,05 and test of Tukey. The results showed different resistance levels the microabrasion for the rehearsed materials what allowed classify them orderly in agreement with his/her resistance the microabrasion. The human enamel obtained the smallest wear. Among the restoring materials the amalgam and Filtek Supreme presented larger resistance to the wear. In relation to hardness Mohs the dental enamels and the amalgam presented hardness Mohs 5 (Apatite) while the resins composed hardness Mohs 4 (Fluorite). The results showed that the evaluation of the resistance the microabrasion of the materials compared the resistance to the wear of the standard minerals of the scale of hardness Mohs, it can contribute to an effective classification of those materials being used of measured no subjective.
O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a resistência a microabrasão de resinas compostas, amálgama, esmalte dentário humano e bovino. Foi utilizado um microabrasômetro (Calowear Tester) cuja principal característica é avaliar o desgaste superficial dos materiais. Sendo o desgaste abrasivo um processo de riscamento múltiplo, a resistência ao desgaste pode estar intimamente relacionada à resistência ao risco. Assim, de posse das resistências a microabrasão foi possível compara-las as resistências ao desgaste dos minerais padrões da escala de dureza Mohs. Foram utilizadas sete resinas compostas universais (Charisma, Esthet X, Filtek Supreme, Filtek Z250, Herculite XRV, Tetric Ceram e Z100), duas resinas universais compactáveis (Filtek P60 e Surefil) e duas resinas laboratoriais (ArtGlass e Cristobal); um amálgama com alto teor de cobre (GS80); dez terceiros molares humanos e dez incisivos bovinos. Após o preparo das amostras, elas foram submetidas ao teste de microabrasão com aplicação de carga de 0,16 N tendo dispersão aquosa de alumina como abrasivo durante 1 minuto. Este processo gerou impressões que foram medidas utilizando-se um analisador de imagem acoplado a um banco metalográfico. De posse destas medidas foi aplicada a Análise de Variância para p< 0,05 e teste de Tukey. Os resultados mostraram diferentes níveis de resistência a microabrasão para os materiais ensaiados o que permitiu classificalos ordenadamente de acordo com sua resistência a microabrasão. O esmalte humano obteve o menor desgaste. Dentre os materiais restauradores o amálgama e Filtek Supreme apresentaram maior resistência ao desgaste. Em relação a dureza Mohs os esmaltes dentários e o amálgama apresentaram dureza Mohs 5 (Apatita) enquanto as resinas compostas dureza Mohs 4 (Fluorita). Os resultados mostraram que a avaliação da resistência a microabrasão dos materiais comparada a resistência ao desgaste dos minerais padrões da escala de dureza Mohs, poderá contribuir para uma efetiva classificação desses materiais utilizando-se de medidas não subjetivas.
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Springer, Marco [Verfasser]. "Effects of the regulators of pigmentation 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, kojic acid and arbutin on newly developed cocultures and skin equivalents composed of HaCaT cells and human melanocytes / Marco Springer." Aachen : Shaker, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1170530249/34.

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Drake, Scott, and n/a. "A well-composed body: anthropomorphism in architecture." University of Canberra. Design & Architecture, 2003. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060713.101839.

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Since the writings of Vitruvius in the first century AD, the use of the human body as a metaphorical and symbolic referent has provided what is perhaps the most prolific trope for architectural theory. The image of �Vitruvian Man,� with limbs outstretched to touch the circle drawn from its navel, took on particular significance during the Renaissance, as architects such as Alberti, Filarete, di Giorgio, Colonna, and Serlio published their own interpretations of Vitruvius� Ten Books. For these writers, the body, as microcosm, was the best available means for representing the order of the cosmos, the world as a whole. Yet just as the idea of the body as architectural referent was being reinterpreted, the body itself was being transformed by Renaissance anatomy. The unity and integrity of the body was jeopardised as anatomists studied the body through the dissection of corpses. The published results of these studies, the most notable being Vesalius� De Humani Corporis Fabrica, were highly influential, with the anatomical methods of observation and partition emerging as the fundamental tenets of modern science. Several centuries later, the transformation of the body from a symbol of the world to an object amenable to scientific observation and control was all but fully realised, as the discoveries of Pasteur were put to use in the conquest of disease. These changing medical conceptions of the body led to concomitant transformations of the sense of self, as the body as object was increasingly divorced from the operations of the mind, in both its conscious and unconscious forms. This thesis will examine how these changing conceptions of the human body have been interpreted within architectural theory since Vitruvius. Beginning with the idea of ornament as trope of sacrifice, it will examine how interpretations of the relation between the body as whole and as part have affected ideas of architectural composition. Further, it will examine the ethical implications of the trope of building as body, such that a building which reflects the proportions of a �well-composed� body (Francesco di Giorgio), is itself an injunction to �composure,� or appropriate behaviour. It will argue that modern architecture, while rejecting classical anthropomorphism, was nonetheless influenced by ideas and practices arising from anatomy. Then, in contrast to the object-body of anatomy, the thesis will examine phenomenological and hermeneutical conceptions of the body, which interpret the body as lived. From Merleau-Ponty�s study of perception to Scarry�s reading of the significance of pain, the contribution of the body to the sense of self will be explored, giving rise to a renewed conception of anthropomorphism as the manifestation not only of human form, but of human sentience. Further, to the modern fragmentation of both the body and architecture will be opposed integrative strategies of selfhood, such as the formation of narrative identity (Ricoeur), the engagement with a community through practice (MacIntyre), and the idea of the �monstrous� body (Frascari). These strategies will be used to explore ways in which the form of the body can be understood other than in purely material terms, and how this is translated into architecture.
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Key, Matthew. "EnVRMent: Investigating Experience in a Virtual User-Composed Environment." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2235.

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Virtual Reality is a technology that has long held society's interest, but has only recently began to reach a critical mass of everyday consumers. The idea of modern VR can be traced back decades, but because of the limitations of the technology (both hardware and software), we are only now exploring its potential. At present, VR can be used for tele-surgery, PTSD therapy, social training, professional meetings, conferences, and much more. It is no longer just an expensive gimmick to go on a momentary field trip; it is a tool, and as with the automobile, personal computer, and smartphone, it will only evolve as more and more adopt and utilize it in various ways. It can provide a three dimensional interface where only two dimensions were previously possible. It can allow us to express ourselves to one another in new ways regardless of the distance between individuals. It has astronomical potential, but with this potential we must first understand what makes it adoptable and attractive to the average consumer. The interaction with technology is often times the bottleneck through which the public either adopts or abandons that technology. The goal of this project is to explore user immerision and emotion during a VR experience centered around creating a virtual world. We also aimed to explore if the naturality of the user interface had any effect on user experience. Very limited user testing was available, however a small user group conducted in depth testing and feedback. While our sample size is small, the users were able to test the system and show that there is a positive correlation between influence on the virtual environment and a positive user emotional experience (immersion, empowerment, etc.), along with a few unexpected emotions (anxiety). We present the system developed, the user study, and proposed extensions for fruitful directions for this work by which a future project may continue the study.
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Zielinska, Agata Pamela. "Studies in oocytes from three mammalian species demonstrate that meiotic kinetochores are composed of previously unidentified subdomains and reveal two novel mechanisms behind the maternal-age effect in humans." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285004.

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Poor egg quality is the leading cause of pregnancy loss and Down's syndrome. While even eggs in young women frequently contain an incorrect number of chromosomes and are therefore unlikely to give rise to a viable pregnancy, the incidence of chromosomally abnormal eggs increases strikingly with advancing maternal age. Why egg quality declines dramatically as women approach their forties remains one of the outstanding questions in developmental biology. This PhD thesis demonstrates how unforeseen features of kinetochore organization that are unique to meiosis render this cell division process in mammals particularly prone to errors. Firstly, my results uncovered an unexpected multi-subunit organization of the meiotic kinetochore, which is widely conserved across mammals and biases eggs towards errors. Secondly, I identified two independent mechanisms that predispose eggs from older women to aneuploidy. The first mechanism affects the fidelity of meiosis I. My analysis revealed that human oocytes challenge the paradigm that sister kinetochores are fully fused. Instead, I demonstrated that sister kinetochores disjoin as women get older, which promoted erroneous kinetochore-microtubule attachments. This in turn allowed chromosomes to rotate on the spindle and provided a mechanistic explanation for reverse segregation - a recently discovered meiotic error that is unique to humans. Secondly, I pioneered the use of super-resolution microscopy to study chromosome architecture in human eggs and discovered that individual kinetochores during meiosis II in mammals are composed of previously unidentified subdomains. In young females, these subdomains are joined together by cohesin complexes. With age, kinetochores fragment into two pieces. Fragmented kinetochores frequently attach merotelically to spindle microtubules, which predisposes aged eggs to errors. What severely hinders our progress in identifying causes of human infertility is that numerous features of human meiosis are not represented in mice. To overcome this challenge, I developed an experimental platform to mimic the age-related changes that occur in humans in oocytes from young mice. I achieved this by extending the applications of Trim-Away, a novel method to degrade endogenous proteins even in primary cells, to partially deplete proteins. Furthermore, I established a new experimental model system to study human-like aspects of meiosis in live non-rodent cells in real time: pig oocytes. Together, these results set foundations for new therapeutic approaches to extend reproductive lifespan by counteracting the age-related loss in kinetochore integrity that this study identified. Furthermore, partial Trim-Away and studying meiosis in pigs opens new directions for meiotic research.
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Books on the topic "Human-composed"

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Brown, Lisa. Is an international system composed of sovereign states compatible with the substantial realisation of human rights? Or are the concepts of state sovereignty and human rights mutually exclusive?. [s.l: The Author], 2004.

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Morris, Robert R. Submissions to the Joint Committee of The Presbyterian Church in Canada composed of members of the Committee on Doctrine and of the Board of Congregational Life that is preparing a report on human sexuality. Toronto: [s.n.], 1989.

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Morris, Robert R. Submissions to the Joint Committee of The Presbyterian Church in Canada composed of members of the Committee on Doctrine and of the Board of Congregational Life that is preparing a report on human sexuality. Toronto: [s.n.], 1989.

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Abraham, Erin Vanessia. Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983717.

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Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they reveal much about the ways those authors and, presumably, their audiences understood a variety of social phenomena. Offering new, more accurate translations of the penitentials than what has previously been available, this book delves into the potentialities addressed in these manuals for clues about less tangible aspects of early medieval history, including the innocence and vulnerability of young children and the relationship between speech and culpability; the links between puberty, autonomy, and moral accountability; early medieval efforts to regulate sexual relationships; and much more.
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Andò, Valeria. Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-513-1.

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This volume contains the first Italian critical edition with introduction, translation and commentary of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis. The tragedy, exhibited posthumously in 405 BCE, stages the first mythical segment of the Trojan War, namely the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of king Agamemnon, head of the Greek army, in order to propitiate the winds that should lead the navy to Troy. A tragedy of intrigue and unveiling, in which all the characters try to oppose the sacrifice, judged to be an impiety despite its sacred essence. It is therefore a tragedy without gods, in which characters of modest moral stature move, unstable, ready to sudden changes of mind, and among whom the protagonist stands out: the girl who, having overcome the dismay for the destiny awaiting her, voluntarily moves towards death on the altar, for a flimsy patriotic ideal and with the illusion of achieving immortal glory. Since the end of the eighteenth century, the text of this tragedy, handed over to us by the manuscript tradition, has been exposed more than others to a rigorous philological criticism that has broken its unity, through considerable expunctions of entire sections and sequences of verses. The volume traces the phases of this critical work, showing its methods – and sometimes its excesses – and choosing a balance line in the constitution of the text. The overall exegesis of the tragedy, which I propose in this study, consists in the belief that, despite the exodus being spurious, the finale, in view of which the entire dramaturgy was composed, still had to contemplate Iphigenia’s salvation. In fact, if the Panhellenic ideal of defence against the barbarians is now meaningless, and if a war of destruction, to begin with, needs the death of an innocent person, then this death must be transcended and the horror of human sacrifice must dissolve. It therefore seems that, once political current events become opaque, the poet’s research tends to create situations of great patheticism in an aesthetic setting of refined beauty.
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Ramsey, Grant. Trait Bin and Trait Cluster Accounts of Human Nature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823650.003.0003.

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Conceptions of human nature fall under two broad categories, trait bin accounts and trait cluster accounts. Trait bin accounts take there to be a special bin of traits, one composed of all and only those traits constituting our nature. For those arguing for a trait bin account of human nature, the challenge is to articulate what it is that marks a trait as being inside or outside the bin. I argue that trait bin approaches to human nature are misguided, that there is no good way of dividing human traits into those that are a part of our nature and those that are not. Instead, I argue for a trait cluster account, which sees human nature as the patterns of trait expression within and across human life histories and better aligns the concept of human nature with the human sciences.
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Smet, Stijn. Conflicts between Human Rights and the ECtHR. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795957.003.0003.

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This chapter proposes a structured balancing test for the resolution of human rights conflicts. The chapter first critiques the European Court of Human Right’s ad hoc balancing approach to human rights conflicts. Analysis of a pair of concrete judgments—Obst v. Germany and Schüth v. Germany—illustrates the shortcomings of that approach. The chapter then proposes an alternative, structured balancing test. The structured balancing test, composed of a limited set of seven balancing criteria, relies on comparison of the relative strength of reasons in favour of conflicting human rights to determine which right should prevail in a given conflict. By doing away with contested balancing notions, such as ‘weight’ and ‘scales’, the structured balancing test also aims to overcome the incommensurability challenge to balancing. The test is finally applied to Obst and Schüth to illustrate how its use could improve the Court’s adjudicatory practice.
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Cooper, David E. Daoism, Natural Life, and Human Flourishing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190456023.003.0005.

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The chapter begins with a discussion of Daoist virtues that lead to human flourishing and the Daoist conception of how a life goes well, what it shows about, and implies for, people’s relationship to the natural world of plants, animals, and environment. Humans are not distinct from these other life forms; rather, they are all “living beings” composed of qi (vital energy or life force). Qualities such as ziran (spontaneity or naturalness) lead to a relationship with animals characterized by care and nurture. According to the chapter, Daoists are more likely to be “responsible gardeners, farmers, and foresters” than “eco-warriors.” Nevertheless, the environmental ethic inspired by this tradition shows promise for creating real change in the world.
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Kraut, Richard. The Oyster and the Experience Machine. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828846.003.0001.

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An experientialist conception of well-being holds that well-being is composed of many goods, all of them experiential, but only one of which is pleasure. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Nozick’s idea of an “experience machine” is shown to support rather than undermine experientialism. Further, the richness of human experience can give our lives a special kind of superiority: human goods are incommensurably better than the low-level pleasures that might be felt in an oyster-like existence. J. S. Mill’s distinction between the quality and the quantity of good experience is a rejection of the claim of J. M. E. McTaggart that a sufficiently long-lived oyster-like life would be better than a far briefer human life.
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Massimini, Marcello, and Giulio Tononi. Inferring Consciousness Out There. Translated by Frances Anderson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728443.003.0008.

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This chapter describes a preliminary exploration in search of criteria for consciousness in the biological and physical world beyond the human skull, including dolphins, octopuses, parrots, bees, and computers. It argues that assessing the complexity of behavior and measuring the size of the brain may not provide a reliable estimate in animals. Likewise, it explains why some artificial systems, such as such as feed-forward deep learning networks, that are composed by many elements and that perform incredible feats, may not be conscious. Finally, it suggests that in the future precise empirical measurements of information integration may offer a valid tool to infer on the capacity of consciousness in non-human entities.
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Book chapters on the topic "Human-composed"

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Prouskas, Konstantinos, and Jeremy Pitt. "Co-ordinating Heterogeneous Interactions in Systems Composed of Active Human and Agent Societies." In Engineering Societies in the Agents World III, 199–212. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39173-8_15.

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Buonamici, Francesco, Monica Carfagni, Luca Puggelli, Michaela Servi, and Yary Volpe. "A Fast and Reliable Optical 3D Scanning System for Human Arm." In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 268–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70566-4_43.

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AbstractThe article discusses the design of an acquisition system for the 3D surface of human arms. The system is composed by a 3D optical scanner implementing stereoscopic depth sensors and by an acquisition software responsible for the processing of the raw data. The 3D data acquired by the scanner is used as starting point for the manufacturing of custom-made 3D printed casts. Specifically, the article discusses the choices made in the development of an improved version of an existing system presented in [1] and presents the results achieved by the devised system.
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Avanzini, Marco, Isabella Salvador, Elisabetta Starnini, Daniele Arobba, Rosanna Caramiello, Marco Romano, Paolo Citton, et al. "Following the Father Steps in the Bowels of the Earth: The Ichnological Record from the Bàsura Cave (Upper Palaeolithic, Italy)." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 251–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_14.

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AbstractThe chapter summarizes the new results of the Bàsura Revisited Interdisciplinary Research Project. The integrated interpretation of recent archaeological data and palaeosurface laser scans, along with geoarchaeological, sedimentological, geochemical and archaeobotanical analyses, geometric morphometrics and digital photogrammetry, enabled us to reconstruct some activities that an Upper Palaeolithic human group led inside a deep cave in northern Italy within a single exploration event about 14 ka calBP. A complex and diverse track records of humans and other animals shed light on individual- and group-level behaviour, social relationship and mode of exploration of the uneven terrain. Five individuals, composed of two adults, an adolescent and two children, entered the cave barefoot lightening the way with a bunch of wooden sticks (Pinus t. sylvestris/mugo bundles). While proceeding, humans were forced to move on all fours, and the traces they left represent the first report of crawling locomotion in the global human ichnological record. Anatomical details recognizable in the crawling traces show that no clothing was present between limbs and the trampled sediments. Our study demonstrates that very young children (the youngest about 3 years old) were active members of the human groups, even in apparently dangerous and social activities, shedding light on behavioural habits of Upper Palaeolithic populations.
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Kawabe, Yoshinori, Yoshifumi Hayashida, Kensaku Numata, Akira Hishigae, Akira Ito, and Masamichi Kamihira. "Production of Therapeutic Proteins Composed of Seven Dominant Human T Cell Epitopes Derived from the Japanese Cedar Pollen Allergens." In Basic and Applied Aspects, 209–14. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3892-0_34.

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Elhamer, Zineb, Reiji Suzuki, and Takaya Arita. "An Experimental Framework for Exploring the Social Dynamics of a Real-Time Physical Network Composed of Human Participants Using Beacon Technology." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 232–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73113-7_23.

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Yahara, Tetsukazu, Wataru Tanaka, Yukako Inoue, Jounghun Lee, Kun Qian, Firouzeh Javadi, Nariaki Onda, et al. "Decision Science for Future Earth: A Conceptual Framework." In Decision Science for Future Earth, 3–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_1.

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AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to review progress in our understanding of human behavior and decision-making relevant to future earth research agenda, and propose Decision Science as a hub of knowledge networks connecting disciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences with the practice of problem-solving. This review is composed of four sections. First, we describe the conceptual framework of “decision science for a sustainable society” and argue that evolutionary biology of the human nature is key to construct this framework. Second, we review how our group decision-making often fails due to various cognitive biases and argue that participatory approaches of co-design and co-production do not guarantee reasonable decision-making. Third, we review success stories of problem-solving in local communities and consider how we can connect those successes in local communities to successful national and global decision-making. Fourth, learning from both failures and successes, we argue that the adaptive learning of society is a process enabling us to transform our society toward a sustainable future. We review some positive global trends toward sustainability and consider the cognitive processes and behavioral mechanisms behind those trends that would provide clues for finding successful ways to transform our society.
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Behuet, Sabrina, Sebastian Bludau, Olga Kedo, Christian Schiffer, Timo Dickscheid, Andrea Brandstetter, Philippe Massicotte, Mona Omidyeganeh, Alan Evans, and Katrin Amunts. "A High-Resolution Model of the Human Entorhinal Cortex in the ‘BigBrain’ – Use Case for Machine Learning and 3D Analyses." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82427-3_1.

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AbstractThe ‘BigBrain’ is a high-resolution data set of the human brain that enables three-dimensional (3D) analyses with a 20 µm spatial resolution at nearly cellular level. We use this data set to explore pre-α (cell) islands of layer 2 in the entorhinal cortex (EC), which are early affected in Alzheimer’s disease and have therefore been the focus of research for many years. They appear mostly in a round and elongated shape as shown in microscopic studies. Some studies suggested that islands may be interconnected based on analyses of their shape and size in two-dimensional (2D) space. Here, we characterized morphological features (shape, size, and distribution) of pre-α islands in the ‘BigBrain’, based on 3D-reconstructions of gapless series of cell-body-stained sections. The EC was annotated manually, and a machine-learning tool was trained to identify and segment islands with subsequent visualization using high-performance computing (HPC). Islands were visualized as 3D surfaces and their geometry was analyzed. Their morphology was complex: they appeared to be composed of interconnected islands of different types found in 2D histological sections of EC, with various shapes in 3D. Differences in the rostral-to-caudal part of EC were identified by specific distribution and size of islands, with implications for connectivity and function of the EC. 3D compactness analysis found more round and complex islands than elongated ones. The present study represents a use case for studying large microscopic data sets. It provides reference data for studies, e.g. investigating neurodegenerative diseases, where specific alterations in layer 2 were previously reported.
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Martínez, A., and J. J. Jiménez. "Tracking Organs Composed of One or Multiple Regions Using Geodesic Active Region Models." In Recent Advances in the 3D Physiological Human, 37–52. London: Springer London, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-565-9_3.

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Sajid Arshad, Muhammad, Waseem Khalid, Rabia Shabir Ahmad, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad, Saira Safdar, Safura Kousar, et al. "Functional Foods and Human Health: An Overview." In Functional Foods [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99000.

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Functional food is a whole ingredient or a part of food that used as food for specific therapeutic purposes. It is divided into two wide categories: Conventional and modified functional foods. Conventional functional Foods are composed of natural or whole-food ingredients that provide functional substances while modified functional is food or food products in which add additional ingredients for specific health purposes. Plant-based food such as fruits, vegetables, herbs, cereals, nuts and beans contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and phenolic compounds that play a functional role in the human body against chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular and GIT-related disease. Some other foods or food products like juices, dairy products, fortified eggs and seafood are composed of functional components. Fish contain omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) that are played a functional role in heart health and brain development.
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Çalı, Başak. "20. Regional protection." In International Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198767237.003.0020.

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This chapter discusses regional systems of human rights protection. The complementary nature of these systems to the efforts of the UN is discussed. However, there is also competition. This chapter maps the regional human rights treaties and declarations in different parts of the world and compares their scope with the International Bill of Rights, composed of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The regional human rights institutions are also discussed. The interpretive tools adopted by regional human rights bodies are considered. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the future prospects for interaction between regional and UN human rights institutions, in particular, in light of the recent developments that have been undertaken by the League of Arab States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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Conference papers on the topic "Human-composed"

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Mizumoto, Takahiro, and Shigeru Akamatsu. "Integrated visual human tracking system composed of omni-directional and PTZ cameras." In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icspcc.2011.6061658.

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Wagner, Matt B., M. B. E. Gregory J. Gerling, and Jacob Scanlon. "Validation of a 3-D Finite Element Human Fingerpad Model Composed of Anatomically Accurate Tissue Layers." In IEEE Haptics Symposium 2008. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/haptics.2008.4479922.

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Martin, John T., and Virginia L. Ferguson. "Regional Similarities in the Mechanical Properties of the Human Umbilical Artery." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-206800.

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The human umbilical cord (UC) bridges the blood flow gap between baby and mother, protecting the blood supply in a way that allows the fetus freedom to move within the amniotic sac. Once the blood supply has been oxygenated by the maternal blood pool via the placenta, the umbilical vein (UV) provides a transport pathway to the fetus. Two umbilical arteries (UA) return the blood supply to the pool to eliminate CO2 and other metabolic wastes [1]. The walls of the UA’s and UV are made up of an intima composed a single layer of large, elongated endothelial cells [2], and a media composed of randomly distributed smooth muscles cells, collagen, elastin, and ground substance. These vessels are unique in that their adventitia is absent and substituted by Wharton’s jelly, a mucoid connective tissue.
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Wang, Yin Jie, Chao Ting Chen, Jiun Jung Chen, Sou Peng Yeh, and Wen Jong Wu. "Flexible patch composed of PZT thin-film on stainless steel foil for energy harvesting from low-frequency human motions." In SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, edited by Jerome P. Lynch. SPIE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2084782.

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Briggs, Brandi N., and Virginia L. Ferguson. "Mechanical Properties of Spontaneously and Artificially Ruptured Human Amnion." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53860.

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The chorioamnion (CA) is the sac that surrounds the fetus in utero. It is comprised of two layers: the inner fibrous amnion, mainly composed of collagen and the thick cellular chorion1. CA is an exceptionally tough material, yet is the only material in the human body that is designed to mechanically fail2. Past studies have focused on the events associated with rupture such as the puncture force3,4,5,6,7, delamination stress8,9, elastic stiffness10,11, failure energy7,10,12, and failure force10,11. However, few have investigated pre-failure behavior4,13 to understand contributions to different modes of CA rupture.
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Mohamedali, Khalid A., Lawrence H. Cheung, Yu Cao, and Michael G. Rosenblum. "Abstract 3874: A novel human fusion protein composed of the serine protease Granzyme B and VEGF121to target the vasculature of solid tumors." In Proceedings: AACR 103rd Annual Meeting 2012‐‐ Mar 31‐Apr 4, 2012; Chicago, IL. American Association for Cancer Research, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2012-3874.

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Ahmed, Salman, Lukman Irshad, and H. Onan Demirel. "Computational Prototyping Methods to Design Human Centered Products of High and Low Level Human Interactions." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98450.

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Abstract Incorporating human factors engineering guidelines early in design has the potential to reduce the cost and product lead-time to market. Also, products that go through strict ergonomics assessments are associated with better comfort and safety ratings. However, designers are often caught in the dilemma of what prototyping method to use when assessing product ergonomics early in design. This is especially problematic during the conceptual design phase before the physical prototypes are available or built. In this research, we explore the computational prototyping dilemma for early design ergonomics assessments from both fidelity and human-product interaction perspectives. In this paper, three computational prototypes with different fidelity levels (low, medium-, and high-fidelity) are compared in their adequacy for evaluating designs that comprise low- to high-levels of human-product interactions. We used three computational prototyping strategies: (1) Method #1 is a low-fidelity methodology based a digital sketchpad tool; (2) Method #2 is a medium-fidelity methodology consisted of computer-aided design and digital human modeling; and, (3) Method #3 is a high-fidelity methodology composed of computer-aided design, digital human modeling, and surrogate modeling. In order to perform computational ergonomics analyses using above approach, we selected a generic wall mounted cabinet design and a simplified Boeing 767 cockpit model as case studies to illustrate designs that require low- and high-levels of human-product interactions. Our preliminary results show that low-, medium- and high-level prototyping strategies produce similar ergonomics outcomes when evaluating low-level human-computer interaction (e.g., cabinet model). On the other hand, both low- and medium-fidelity (Method #1 and Method #2) prototyping strategies are limited in terms of providing detailed information about human performance when compared to high-fidelity prototyping (Method #3) in evaluating designs with high-level human-computer interaction (e.g., cockpit model).
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Ramos, Marilia A., Alex Almeida, and Marcelo R. Martins. "Revisiting the FPSO São Mateus Accident From a Human Reliability Perspective Using Phoenix HRA Methodology." In ASME 2020 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2020-18911.

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Abstract Several incidents in the offshore oil and gas industry have human errors among core events in incident sequence. Nonetheless, human error probabilities are frequently neglected by offshore risk estimation. Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) allows human failures to be assessed both qualitatively and quantitatively. In the petroleum industry, HRA is usually applied using generic methods developed for other types of operation. Yet, those may not sufficiently represent the particularities of the oil and gas industry. Phoenix is a model-based HRA method, designed to address limitations of other HRA methods. Its qualitative framework consists of three layers of analysis composed by a Crew Response Tree, a human response model, and a causal model. This paper applies a version of Phoenix, the Phoenix for Petroleum Refining Operations (Phoenix-PRO), to perform a qualitative assessment of human errors in the CDSM explosion. The CDSM was a FPSO designed to produce natural gas and oil to Petrobras in Brazil. On 2015 an explosion occurred leading to nine fatalities. Analyses of this accident have indicated a strong contribution of human errors. In addition to the application of the method, this paper discusses its suitability for offshore operations HRA analyses.
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Goudarzi, Ali M., Hossein Kheirollahi, Mohammad Fazeli, and Misagh Imani. "Determining of Optimized Mechanical Characters for Designing of an Artificial Ankle." In ASME 2014 12th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2014-20223.

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Investigating the mechanical behavior of a healthy human ankle shows that it can be simulated by a mechanism composed of simple elements such as spring, and actuator. Hence, appropriate design of this mechanism can be resulted to an artificial ankle that can help amputees properly. Researches show that whatever the biomechanical behavior of artificial ankle is similar to that of natural ankle, it can be used by consuming less energy. Considering biomechanical behavior of normal ankle in a walking gait, required parameters for designing of an artificial ankle composed of springs and electromechanical actuator will be determined. Finally, to verify the suggested model, a prototype will be materialized and tested.
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Wang, Chensheng, Xiaochun Wang, Joris S. M. Vergeest, and Tjamme Wiegers. "On the Stereoscopic Composition of Wide Baseline Stereo Pairs." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-86357.

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Wide baseline cameras are broadly utilized in binocular vision systems, delivering depth information and stereoscopic images of the scene that are crucial both in virtual reality and in computer vision applications. However, due to the large distance between the two cameras, the stereoscopic composition of stereo pairs with wide baseline is hardly to fit the human eye parallax. In this paper, techniques and algorithms for the stereoscopic composition of wide baseline stereo pairs in binocular vision will be investigated. By incorporating the human parallax limitation, a novel algorithm being capable of adjusting the wide baseline stereo pairs to compose a high quality stereoscopic image will be formulated. The main idea behind the proposed algorithm is, by simulating the eyeball rotation, to shift the wide baseline stereo pairs closer to each other to fit the human parallax limit. This makes it possible for the wide baseline stereo pairs to be composed into a recognizable stereoscopic image in terms of human parallax with a minor cost of variation in the depth cue. In addition, the depth variations before and after the shifting of the stereo pairs are evaluated by conducting an error estimation. Examples are provided for the evaluation of the proposed algorithm. And the quality of the composed stereoscopic images proves that the proposed algorithm is both valid and effective.
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Reports on the topic "Human-composed"

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Lane, M. J. Construction of a human genome library composed of multimegabase acentric chromosome fragments. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/5686936.

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Lane, M. J. Construction of a human genome library composed of multimegabase acentric chromosome fragments. Progress report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10136534.

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Tweet, Justin S., Vincent L. Santucci, Kenneth Convery, Jonathan Hoffman, and Laura Kirn. Channel Islands National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). National Park Service, September 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2278664.

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Channel Island National Park (CHIS), incorporating five islands off the coast of southern California (Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island), has an outstanding paleontological record. The park has significant fossils dating from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene, representing organisms of the sea, the land, and the air. Highlights include: the famous pygmy mammoths that inhabited the conjoined northern islands during the late Pleistocene; the best fossil avifauna of any National Park Service (NPS) unit; intertwined paleontological and cultural records extending into the latest Pleistocene, including Arlington Man, the oldest well-dated human known from North America; calichified “fossil forests”; records of Miocene desmostylians and sirenians, unusual sea mammals; abundant Pleistocene mollusks illustrating changes in sea level and ocean temperature; one of the most thoroughly studied records of microfossils in the NPS; and type specimens for 23 fossil taxa. Paleontological research on the islands of CHIS began in the second half of the 19th century. The first discovery of a mammoth specimen was reported in 1873. Research can be divided into four periods: 1) the few early reports from the 19th century; 2) a sustained burst of activity in the 1920s and 1930s; 3) a second burst from the 1950s into the 1970s; and 4) the modern period of activity, symbolically opened with the 1994 discovery of a nearly complete pygmy mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa Island. The work associated with this paleontological resource inventory may be considered the beginning of a fifth period. Fossils were specifically mentioned in the 1938 proclamation establishing what was then Channel Islands National Monument, making CHIS one of 18 NPS areas for which paleontological resources are referenced in the enabling legislation. Each of the five islands of CHIS has distinct paleontological and geological records, each has some kind of fossil resources, and almost all of the sedimentary formations on the islands are fossiliferous within CHIS. Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island, the two smallest islands, are primarily composed of Miocene volcanic rocks interfingered with small quantities of sedimentary rock and covered with a veneer of Quaternary sediments. Santa Barbara stands apart from Anacapa because it was never part of Santarosae, the landmass that existed at times in the Pleistocene when sea level was low enough that the four northern islands were connected. San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island have more complex geologic histories. Of these three islands, San Miguel Island has relatively simple geologic structure and few formations. Santa Cruz Island has the most varied geology of the islands, as well as the longest rock record exposed at the surface, beginning with Jurassic metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks. The Channel Islands have been uplifted and faulted in a complex 20-million-year-long geologic episode tied to the collision of the North American and Pacific Places, the initiation of the San Andreas fault system, and the 90° clockwise rotation of the Transverse Ranges, of which the northern Channel Islands are the westernmost part. Widespread volcanic activity from about 19 to 14 million years ago is evidenced by the igneous rocks found on each island.
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Cox, Jeremy. The unheard voice and the unseen shadow. Norges Musikkhøgskole, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.621671.

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The French composer Francis Poulenc had a profound admiration and empathy for the writings of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. That empathy was rooted in shared aspects of the artistic temperament of the two figures but was also undoubtedly reinforced by Poulenc’s fellow-feeling on a human level. As someone who wrestled with his own homosexuality and who kept his orientation and his relationships apart from his public persona, Poulenc would have felt an instinctive affinity for a figure who endured similar internal conflicts but who, especially in his later life and poetry, was more open about his sexuality. Lorca paid a heavy price for this refusal to dissimulate; his arrest in August 1936 and his assassination the following day, probably by Nationalist militia, was accompanied by taunts from his killers about his sexuality. Everything about the Spanish poet’s life, his artistic affinities, his personal predilections and even the relationship between these and his death made him someone to whom Poulenc would be naturally drawn and whose untimely demise he would feel keenly and might wish to commemorate musically. Starting with the death of both his parents while he was still in his teens, reinforced by the sudden loss in 1930 of an especially close friend, confidante and kindred spirit, and continuing throughout the remainder of his life with the periodic loss of close friends, companions and fellow-artists, Poulenc’s life was marked by a succession of bereavements. Significantly, many of the dedications that head up his compositions are ‘to the memory of’ the individual named. As Poulenc grew older, and the list of those whom he had outlived lengthened inexorably, his natural tendency towards the nostalgic and the elegiac fused with a growing sense of what might be termed a ‘survivor’s anguish’, part of which he sublimated into his musical works. It should therefore come as no surprise that, during the 1940s, and in fulfilment of a desire that he had felt since the poet’s death, he should turn to Lorca for inspiration and, in the process, attempt his own act of homage in two separate works: the Violin Sonata and the ‘Trois Chansons de Federico García Lorca’. This exposition attempts to unfold aspects of the two men’s aesthetic pre-occupations and to show how the parallels uncovered cast reciprocal light upon their respective approaches to the creative process. It also examines the network of enfolded associations, musical and autobiographical, which link Poulenc’s two compositions commemorating Lorca, not only to one another but also to a wider circle of the composer’s works, especially his cycle setting poems of Guillaume Apollinaire: ‘Calligrammes’. Composed a year after the ‘Trois Chansons de Federico García Lorca’, this intricately wrought collection of seven mélodies, which Poulenc saw as the culmination of an intensive phase in his activity in this genre, revisits some of ‘unheard voices’ and ‘unseen shadows’ enfolded in its predecessor. It may be viewed, in part, as an attempt to bring to fuller resolution the veiled but keenly-felt anguish invoked by these paradoxical properties.
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