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Journal articles on the topic "Turdus merula"
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Snow, D. W. "TERRITORY IN THE BLACKBIRD TURDUS MERULA." Ibis 98, no. 3 (June 28, 2008): 438–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1956.tb01428.x.
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BRAZIL, Mark, and Tsutomu SUZUKI. "Blackbird Turdus merula new to Ishikawa Prefecture." Japanese Journal of Ornithology 37, no. 1 (1988): 33–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3838/jjo.37.33.
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KUTKIENĖ, L., P. PRAKAS, D. BUTKAUSKAS, and A. SRUOGA. "Description of Sarcocystis turdusi sp. nov. from the common blackbird (Turdus merula)." Parasitology 139, no. 11 (July 20, 2012): 1438–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031182012000819.
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SUMMARYCysts of Sarcocystis species were found in 24 of 44 (54·5%) examined blackbirds (Turdus merula). Under the light microscope, only 1 morphological type of cyst was found in all birds investigated. Ribbon-shaped cysts were long (the largest fragment found amounted to 7 mm) and of different thickness (25–206 μm). A cyst wall reached up to 3·5 μm and had finger-like protrusions. Under the transmission electron microscope, a single cyst isolated from 1 blackbird was studied. The cyst wall was 2·5–4·4 μm thick, had club- or irregularly-shaped and sometimes branched protrusions that differed in size. The content of cysts was divided into large chambers by septa. Orange segment-shaped cystozoites were 6·2 × 1·4 (5·5–7·2 × 1·2–1·5) μm. This type of cyst wall has never been described in Sarcocystis species isolated from birds, thus far. The results of 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA and ITS–1 region sequences showed that S. turdusi was most closely related to S. columbae, S. calchasi, S. wobeseri, S. cornixi and Sarcocystis sp. ex Accipiter nisus parasitizing birds. Phylogenetic results suggest that predatory birds are the most probable definitive hosts of S. turdusi.
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Carpegna, Franco, Giovanni Soldato, and Roberto Toffoli. "Breeding bird communities in an area of the Northern Apennines (Piedmont, NW Italy)." Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia 88, no. 2 (June 18, 2019): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rio.2018.388.
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During the Spring of 2011, we studied the bird community in an area of Val Borbera, in the province of Alessandria (NW Italy). In the study area, situated at an altitude between 655 and 1700 m a.s.l., we conducted 110 points count ten minutes each in four microhabitats (agricultural areas, shrubs, forests, and prairies). In total, we surveyed 72 species, of which 51 were passerine and 21 non passerine. The most abundant species were Sylvia atricapilla, Phylloscopus collybita, Apus apus, and Turdus merula. In the agricultural areas, we detected a total of 50 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Turdus merula were the most abundant). In the shrubs, we detected 30 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Fringilla coelebs, Phylloscopus collybita, Turdus merula, Erithacus rubecula were the most abundant). In the forest areas, we found 45 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Fringilla coelebs, Phylloscopus collybita, Turdus merula, Erithacus rubecula were the most abundant), and in the prairies, we detected 48 species (Alauda arvensis, Anthus campestris, Sylvia atricapilla, Turdus merula, Anthus trivialis, Sylvia communis were the most abundant). Compared to the other macro habitats, the agricultural areas have a significantly high abundance and richness in species, which highlights the importance of the agricultural mosaics in the Piedmont and mountain areas. The data which has been collected so far confirms the important role of this area, given the presence of some species which are rare at a regional scale.
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Bayram, Caner, and Derviş Özdemir. "Karatavukta (Turdus merula) Neurocranium’un Makro–Anatomik Olarak İncelenmesi*." Atatürk Üniversitesi Veteriner Bilimleri Dergisi 14, no. 3 (December 25, 2019): 284–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17094/ataunivbd.526726.
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Dijkstra, Eelco, Jan Komdeur, and Cor Dijkstra. "Adoption of young in the Blackbird Turdus merula." Ibis 139, no. 1 (June 28, 2008): 174–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04519.x.
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Diehl, Peter. "Radiotelemetrische Untersuchungen der Herzfrequenz singender Amseln (Turdus merula)." Journal of Ornithology 133, no. 2 (April 1992): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01639911.
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Kalani, H., F. Kalani, R. Faridnia, N. Pestechian, M. A. Mohaghegh, F. Mirzaei, M. Sharif, and A. Daryani. "The first report of Morishitium vagum (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) in Turdus merula in Iran." Helminthologia 52, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 293–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/helmin-2015-0045.
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Abstract This paper describes a trematode isolated from the air sacs of a common blackbird (Turdus merula) by the authors in Qaemshahr city, Mazandaran province, north of Iran. The specimens were in the best form to make whole-mounts for species identification. The identified species was Morishitium vagum (Morishita 1924) Witenberg 1928, belonging to the family Cyclocoelidae Stossich 1902, according to morphologic and morphometric characters, as explained in references. This is the first report of a species belonging to the family Cyclocoelidae in Iran, and the first report of this type-species isolated from Turdus merula in the world.
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Taberner, Aina, Rosa Tamarit, and José A. Gil-Delgado. "Position of Blackbird (Turdus Merula) Nests in Orange Trees." Avian Biology Research 5, no. 4 (December 2012): 193–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3184/175815512x13529763129890.
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Snow, D. W. "THE BREEDING OF THE BLACKBIRD TURDUS MERULA AT OXFORD." Ibis 100, no. 1 (April 3, 2008): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1958.tb00362.x.
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Creighton, Emma. "Reproductive strategies in the European blackbird, Turdus merula." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340703.
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Desrochers, Andre. "Age and reproduction in European blackbirds, Turdus merula." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386029.
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Markland, Helen Maria. "Maternal investment in the European Blackbird Turdus merula." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613390.
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Bussche, Jens von dem. "Modelling the spatial distribution of blackbird (Turdus merula) and ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) in Switzerland." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1401/.
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To characterise the habitat preferences of ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) and blackbird (T. merula) in Switzerland, we adopt species distribution modelling and predict the species’ spatial distribution. We model on two different scales to analyse in how far downscaling leads to a different set of predictors to describe the realised habitat best. While the models on macroscale (grid of one square kilometre) cover the entire country, we select a set of smaller plots for modelling on territory scale. Whereas ring ouzels occur in altitudes above 1’000 m a.s.l. only, blackbirds occur from the lowlands up to the timber line. The altitudinal range overlap of the two species is up to 400 m. Despite both species coexist on macroscale, a direct niche overlap on territory scale is rare. Small-scale differences in vegetation cover and structure seem to play a dominant role for habitat selection. On macroscale however, we observe a high dependency on climatic variables mainly representing the altitudinal range and the related forest structure preferred by the two species. Applying the models for climate change scenarios, we predict a decline of suitable habitat for the ring ouzel with a simultaneous median altitudinal shift of +440 m until 2070. In contrast, the blackbird is predicted to benefit from higher temperatures and expand its range to higher elevations.Unter Verwendung von Habitatmodellen beschreiben wir die Habitatpräferenz von Amsel (Turdus merula) und Ringdrossel (T. torquatus) in der Schweiz. Mit Hilfe verschiedener Klimaszenarien prognostizieren wir zudem die künftige potentielle Verbreitung beider Arten. Zur Beschreibung eines eventuell auftretenden Skalensprungs, d.h. einer Änderung in der Beschreibungskraft der Variablen auf verschiedenen räumlichen Ebenen, erstellten wir Modelle auf zwei unterschiedlichen Skalen. Während das Modell auf Makroskala mit einer Maschenweite von einem Quadratkilometer die gesamte Schweiz abdeckt, erstellten wir zudem eine Auswahl an Untersuchungsgebieten auf Revierebene. Ringdrosseln zeigen ihren Verbreitungsschwerpunkt in der subalpinen Lage, während Amseln vornehmlich das Tiefland und die Tallagen besiedeln und nur vereinzelt in hohe Lagen vordringen. In einem Gürtel von ungefähr 400 Höhenmetern siedeln beide Arten parallel.Trotz dieses auf der Makroskala erkennbaren Überschneidungsbereiches konnten wir in unserer Untersuchung auf Revierebene, von einer Ausnahme abgesehen, keine Koexistenz beobachten. Kleinräumige Unterschiede in der Habitatstruktur, insbesondere in der Vegetationsbedeckung scheinen demnach für die Habitatselektion von maßgeblicher Bedeutung zu sein. Auf Makroebene hingegen wurde der Einfluss klimatischer Variablen deutlich, die neben der Höhenlage auch dort typische Vegetationsstrukturen widerspiegeln. Wie die Klimaszenarien zeigen, nehmen geeignete Ringdrosselhabitate bei steigenden Temperaturen ab und die Art weicht im Mittel um 440 m in höhere Lagen zurück. Für Amseln scheint sich eine zunehmende Erwärmung jedoch positiv auszuwirken, während das Verbreitungsgebiet im Tiefland beibehalten wird, dringt sie von den Tälern ausgehend zunehmend in höhere Lagen vor.
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Préault, Marina. "Sélection sexuelle et qualité individuelle chez le merle noir (Turdus merula)." Paris 6, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA066268.
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Magrath, Robert David. "Hatching asynchrony and brood reduction in the blackbird, Turdus merula." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315079.
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Coiffait, Lisette. "Investigating the movements of migratory thrushes Turdus merula and T. iliacus using intrinsic markers and morphology." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/635.
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Stable isotopes of carbon (813C ), nitrogen (615N) and hydrogen (62H ) and microsatellite markers were used in conjunction with morphological data, to test whether breeding origins of two migratory passerines the Blackbird Turdus merula, and Redwing T iliacus, overwintering in the UK & Ireland could be predicted, based on data collected at European breeding sites. Geographical trends of feather 62H and 613C values of birds sampleda t Europeanb reeding sites were useful for determining breeding origins of Blackbirds at a broad geographical scale. Genetic markers were useful for discriminating between the two Redwing races iliacus and coburni. Conversely, no genetic structure was found within the nominate race iliacus and there was only weak genetic structure in Blackbird populations, suggesting relatively high gene flow. These results indicate that genetic markers are of limited value for population assigm-nenot f either species. Mean wing length of breeding Blackbirds differed significantly between breeding regions, and was positively correlated with latitude, suggesting that wing length is potentially a useful variable for discriminating between Blackbirds of different breeding origin. It was predicted that combining techniques would prove substantially more useful for assigning individuals to their most likely origin, than any one technique used in isolation. For Blackbirds, the combination of 62H and 813C values with wing length proved to be the most effective combination of variables (and was more effective than using either stable isotopes or wing length alone), allowing 72.2% to 76.3% of breeding Blackbirds to be correctly and consistently assigned to one of three broad geographic regions (UK, Fennoscandia and Continent). For Redwings, using DNA markers alone, 94.5% of birds were correctly assigned to either the coburni or iliacus; the addition of stable isotopes produced only a marginal improvement. Useful insights into the contrasting migratory strategies of Blackbirds and Redwings were revealed. The lack of genetic variation within the nominate Redwing race indicates a lack of migratory connectivity. In contrast, weak genetic population structure in the Blackbird, and differences in stable isotope i ratios and wing length between birds sampled at different wintering sites, suggests that different parts of the UK & Ireland may receive differing proportions of migrant Blackbirds originating from different breeding sites. This suggestst hat migratory connectivity might be strongeri n this species. The approach of using multiple techniques may prove useful for other species about which less is known regarding breeding origins, which may be particularly relevant for species of conservati on concern. However, the most useful variable/combination of different variables for a study of migratory connectivity will vary, both according to the species, its geographical range, and the scale of resolution required, and a clear understanding of the ecology and physiology of the study species is essential.
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Chamberlain, Daniel. "The factors affecting reproductive success and breeding density in a rural population of blackbirds, Turdus merula L." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:640a7ef4-ef7c-49fc-87ec-dd3f4accd108.
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The aim of this thesis was to identify the factors determining reproductive success and breeding density in a rural population of blackbirds occupying contiguous woodland and farmland habitats. Once these factors were identified, an attempt was made to assess the quality of the two habitats in terms of reproductive success. Predation was the major factor affecting reproductive success. There were no significant effects of habitat on predation when habitat was defined as farmland, woodland and woodland edge. When defined in terms of nesting density, high density 'hot-spot' areas had significantly greater nesting cover and lower predation rates than territories in farmland or in the rest of the wood. Parents could adjust their provisioning rates according to chick demand. Consequently chicks in larger broods were not significantly different in weight to chicks in smaller broods. The seasonal change in clutch size is therefore well adapted to conditions for raising nestlings, although there was indirect evidence that female condition may limit clutch size early in the season. The nestlings were fed two main diet types, earthworms and caterpillars, the availability of the former being related to rainfall and temperature and the latter occurring in a seasonal peak. Nestlings fed on predominantly earthworm diets were significantly heavier, thus caterpillars are probably a lower quality prey. Starvation was a minor cause of nestling mortality. There was some evidence that farmland birds were more dependent on earthworms than woodland birds, and consequently only farmland broods showed a significant relationship between weight and rainfall. This conferred no disadvantage to farmland broods, although this may have implications for reproductive success in very dry years. Farmland breeders showed some characteristics of a population in a suboptimal habitat. Breeding density was low on farmland compared with woodland. This in part may have been due to lack of suitable nesting cover. An experiment with artificial nests indicated that predation would be proportionately higher on farmland if nesting density was increased. Year-to-year variations in density across the whole study site paralleled the relative harshness of the preceding winter. Food supplementation prior to the breeding season had no effect on subsequent breeding density or clutch size. It is concluded that farmland is potentially a sub-optimal habitat if subject to different conditions of weather or breeding density than those observed during the three years of this study.
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Grégoire, Arnaud. "Démographie et différenciation chez le Merle noir Turdus merula : liens avec l'habitat et les relations hôtes-parasites." Dijon, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003DIJOS039.
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L'incidence de l'anthropisation des habitats sur les populations naturelles est actuellement une préoccupation importante dans les domaines fondamentaux ou appliqués. Historiquement, la réaction des espèces face au milieu neuf et singulier que représentent les zones urbaines a été abordée au niveau communautaire. Cependant, si l'urbanisation a des conséquences au niveau des communautés, les pressions et contraintes s'exercent en premier lieu sur les populations et les individus qui les constituent. Le Merle noir Turdus merula est un oiseau originaire des forêts qui a colonisé les habitats urbanisés au XIXème siècle. Ce travail s'est intéressé à comparer des populations urbaines et forestières du Merle noir afin d'explorer leurs fonctionnements démographiques respectifs en liaison avec d'éventuelles contraintes propres aux différents habitats et en intégrant la dimension individuelle. En relation étroite avec ces préoccupations, la structuration génétique et morphologique a été envisagéeThe consequences of human-induced disturbances on wild populations is a stimulating topic raising fundamental as well as applied questions. The effects of urbanization on wild life have been initially studied at the community level. However, even if urbanization influences communities, the selective pressures occur first on populations and individuals. Consequently, it is also crucial to consider the ecological problems at the population level. The Blackbird Turdus merula has colonized urban landscapes in Europe since the middle of the 19th century and provides good opportunities to explore the influence of urbanization on population biology. The aim of this work was to compare urban and forest Blackbird populations in terms of different population characteristics (survival, reproductive success and dispersal) and selective contraints (parasites). Direct (i. E. Capture and census of individuals) and indirect methods (i. E. Genetic) were used in order to assess the dynamics of these populations
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Dominoni, Davide Michelangelo [Verfasser]. "Effects of artificial light at night on daily and seasonal organization of European blackbirds (Turdus merula) / Davide Michelangelo Dominoni." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2015. http://d-nb.info/110992304X/34.
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Stephan, Burkhard. Die Amsel, Turdus merula. 2nd ed. Hohenwarsleben: Westarp Wissenschaften, 1999.
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Woolfolk, Anita E. Psikologi pendidikan. UUM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789830685663.
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Buku ini memberikan panduan kepada mereka yang terlibat secara langsung mahupun tidak langsung dalam bidang pendidikan. Bagi pelajar jurusan pendidikan tahun pertama, buku ini merupakan pengenalan kepada teori dan idea utama yang membentuk psikologi pendidikan.Di samping latar psikologi yang dihuraikan secara panjang lebar, buku ini turut mengutarakan panduan menerapkan prinsip psikologi pendidikan di dalam kelas.Teksnya yang menyeluruh amat berguna dalam memahami minda pelajar dan melihat implikasinya dalam pendidikan.Selain itu, turut disertakan esei yang ditulis sendiri oleh para guru dalam menangani masalah sehari-hari dalam pengajaran. Buku ini juga merangkumi topik tentang pembangunan manusia, kepelbagaian dalam pembelajaran, teori pembelajaran, motivasi, strategi pengajaran yang berkesan dan persekitaran, serta penilaian pembelajaran pelajar.
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Ayub, Osman. Empangan Tugal. UUM Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672064848.
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Tiada siapa dapat membayangkan Empangan Tugal balak menenggelamkan Kampung Jeram, Kampung Ketitir, Kampung Enggang, Kampung Merbau dan Kampung Parit Pandak. Dengan tenggelamnya semua khazanah dalam kampung-kampung tersebut, musnahlah juga panorama alam semula jadinya; keindahan flora dan fauna yang memukau dan tiada gantinya. Bagaimana pula dengan penduduknya? Rata-rata mereka tidak menolak pembangunan, namun apabila pembangunan meminta mereka mengorbankan kehidupan tradisi yang diwarisi turun temurun, timbullah tentangan yang tidak berbelah bagi, baik dalam kalangan ahli parti kerajaan, Parti Perpaduan Bangsa (PBB) mahupun parti pembangkang; Parti Seruan Maulana (PSM). Namun baik apa pun tindakan diambil, keputusan kerajaan tidak dapat dikalahkan. Projek Empangan Tugal tetap berjalan mengikut jadual. Setiap tentangan berjaya dipatahkan kerana kerajaan dengan perancangan rapi telah menyediakan kemudahan kepada semua penduduk di sebuah penempatan baharu yang lengkap dengan segala prasarana.
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Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar, Mohd Taib Ariffin, Ismail Ishak, Jamaludin Mustafa, and Rosli Mohamed. Penggunaan strategi daya tindak di kalangan bekas penagih dadah. UUM Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9832870348.
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Buku ini memuatkan kajian tentang Strategi Daya Tindak (SDT) yang sering digunakan oleh bekas penagih dadah selepas mereka mengikuti program pemulihan atau yangsedang dalam program pengawasan Agensi Dadah Kebangsaan (ADK). Secara khususnya,buku ini meneliti bentuk dan kekerapan strategi yang digunakan untuk melindungi diriseseorang penagih dadah bagi menjauhi tabiat mengunakan dadah selepas menerima rawatan. Buku ini mengandungi lima bab yang merngkumi tajuk Bab Satu - Strategi DayaTindak , Bab Dua - Kajian Strategi Daya Tindak, Bab Tiga - Strategi Daya Tindak Pengih Dadah, Bab Empat - Perubahan Strategi Daya Tindak Selepas Rawatan, Bab Lima -Rumusan kajian. Selain membincangkan implikasi pada teori dan amalan, buku ini turut memuatkan bersama borang soal selidik dan prosedur perintah bagi menjalani program jagaan lanjutan dan pengawasan.Akhir sekali, buku ini turut melaporkan hasil kajian yang dilakukan untuk meneliti penggunaan strategi ini dalam kalangan penagih dadah.
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Dreyfus, Hubert L. On Expertise and Embodiment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806639.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses the role of the body in the constitution and development of expertise. It begins by briefly presenting the five-stage model of expertise, developed by Dreyfus and Dreyfus. The main argument here is that we acquire our everyday coping skills in five stages, going through which we develop increasingly refined discriminations in our everyday experience. The chapter then seeks a better understanding of the role of embodiment in skill acquisition and, for this purpose, turns to phenomenological thinkers like Heidegger, Merlau-Ponty, and Todes. Heidegger has very little to say about embodiment, while Merlau-Ponty accords the body an important role in perceiving and dealing with the world. The phenomenological account is concluded with exploring the work of Todes, for whom the particular structure and capacities of the human body provide culturally invariant conditions for the intelligibility of human forms of life.
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Mohamed, Khadijah, and Ahmad Shamsul Abd Aziz. Undang-undang harta intelek di Malaysia. UUM Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9833282067.
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Harta Intelek merupakan ciptaan hasil pemikiran kreativiti seseorang individu seperti kerja penulisan, muzik, lakaran reka cipta, reka bentuk program komputer, pangkalan data dan sebagainya. Ciptaan ini merupakan harta yang boleh memberi pulangan kepada pemiliknya yang mempunyai hak eksklusif untuk mengeksploitasi ciptaan mereka. Hak ini diiktiraf dan dilindungi undang-undang. Di Malaysia, undang-undang harta intelek merangkumi enam bahagian iaitu hak cipta, cap dagangan, paten, reka bentuk perindustrian, reka bentuk, susun atur litar bersepadu dan petunjuk geografi.Buku ini mengupas setiap satu perkara secara komprehensif. Prinsip undang-undang,peraturan dan prosedur bagi melindungi hak ini dihuraikan dengan jelas dan mudahdifahami. Tuntutan ganti rugi dan remedi serta kes-kes yang diputuskan oleh mahkamah berhubung isu ini turut dibincangkan. Secara keseluruhannya, buku ini amat berfaedahuntuk semua golongan pembaca khususnya pelajar undang-undang, penulis, penerbit, pereka cipta, peniaga, peguam, ahli akademik, penyelidik dan mereka yang ingin mengetahui tentang undang-undang harta intelek.
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Rondel, David. Breaking the Impasse. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680688.003.0005.
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This chapter calls attention to the problematic reductivism and eliminativism endemic among egalitarians of both “vertical” and “horizontal” leanings. Citing many examples, the chapter shows that there is widespread and persistent disagreement about which egalitarian idea—vertical or horizontal, roughly speaking—is the fundamental or overarching one and which idea is merely derivative or epiphenomenal. The argument in this chapter is that we should reject the central premises upon which such disagreement turns: that equality is a single idea, that it has a fundamental locus, and that there is a singular or primary route to the achievement of a genuinely egalitarian society.
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Ameen, Fendi. Lambaian Goodwill Bridge: Sebuah kisah cinta keluarga di Tanah Ratu. UUM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670876368.
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Perjalanan menuntut ilmu di bumi asing dalam suasana baharu yang penuh cabaran boleh menjadikan seseorang itu gagal atau berjaya, bergantung kepada kemampuan masing-masing. Ramai yang pulang dengan tangan kosong atau menghabiskan pengajian separuh jalan dan ramai juga yang pulang dengan kejayaan.Novel ini mengisahkan Malik, seorang tutor dari Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) yang mengikuti pengajian PhD dalam bidang computer security di Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.Setelah dua tahun berada di bumi Queensland (Tanah Ratu), Malik bersua dengan seorang pelajar perempuan di universiti yang sama, pada suatu musim dingin di atas jambatan pejalan kaki yang sibuk, merentangi South Bank ke kampus QUT yang terletak di Gardens Point.Pertemuan itu telah menarik Malik kepada soal cinta, ketika beliau sedang memberi tumpuan kepada pengajiannya yang masih berbaki kira-kira dua tahun. Pelbagai cabaran muncul dalam hidup Malik, antara cintanya kepada Maiza dan pengajian yang sedang diikutinya. Pun begitu, Malik dapat menempuhi dengan jayanya. Sementelah, kedua-dua ibu-bapa mereka merestui hubungan cinta yang terjalin.Dugaan demi dugaan dihadapi oleh kedua-duanya.Cinta bidadari Inggeris yang fasih berbahasa Melayu turut mengocakkan riak Sungai Brisbane menjadi gelombang ganas, seganas hempasan badai di pantai Coral dalam perhubungan mereka. Akhirnya Malik dan Maiza berjaya disatukan di bawah ikatan perkahwinan.Mereka hidup bahagia dan berjaya dalam pelajaran.Sekembalinya ke tanah air, Malik terperangkap dalam gelora janda muda dan cinta dari seorang pelajar menelusuri keindahan Jambatan Bestari di Putrajaya.Gelora belum reda dalam rumah tangga mereka.Maiza tabah untuk kekal bersama Malik demi mengenangkan nasib Mia, anak perempuan mereka yang menghidapi autisme dan amat memerlukan kasih Malik.Malik menerima pengajaran dari perbuatannya, apabila diserang sejenis penyakit saraf.Apakah kesudahannya?
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Yusof, Ab Aziz. Politik organisasi dalam penilaian prestasi realiti atau persepsi. UUM Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9839559850.
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Buku ini mengemukakan persiapan yang akan dihadapi oleh penilai bagi menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan yang ada kalanya di luar batasan moral, etika, akhlak, polisi,prosedur dan peraturan kesan daripada perlaksanaan sistem penilaian prestasi.Sehubungan itu, pihak yang terlibat dalam sistem ini, hendaklah peka dan lebih berwaspada apabila berhadapan dengan isu-isu pengurusan pada abad ke-21 yang lebih terdedah kepada maklumat-maklumat terkini, kepekaan terhadap perundangan,dan keprihatinan terhadap kualiti persekitaran di tempat kerja. Buku ini disediakankhusus untuk pengurus dan kakitangan awam, sektor swasta, badan-badan bukan kerajaan, ahli akademik dan golongan profesional, yang sentiasa dihambati pelbagai permasalahan dalam penilaian prestasi. Selain itu, pelajar Institut Pengajian Tinggi(IPT) juga disarankan membaca buku ini kerana mereka akan turut menghadapi masalah yang sama pada masa hadapan.
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Yusof, Ab Aziz. Penilaian prestasi konsep dan pelaksanaan. UUM Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9839559583.
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Setiap organisasi perlu mengetahui bahawa penilaian prestasi terhadap pekerja bukanlah satu tugas yang menyenangkan bagi setiap pengurus.Pengurus terpaksa menghadapi dilema, ketidakpastian, dan risiko kesan daripada setiap keputusan yang diambil semasa proses penilaian prestasi. Terdapat tendensi pekerja akan menganggap bahawa penilaian prestasi bukan sebagai isu utama jika dinilai secara lembut.Sebaliknya, jika penilaian prestasi dilakukan secara tegas, akan mengakibatkan kekecewaan, perseteruan dan konflik.Oleh itu, penilaian prestasi perlu ditangani sebaik mungkin agar semua pihak akan mendapat faedah, hasil daripada perlaksanaannya.Buku ini disediakan khusus untuk pengurus dan kakitangan awam, sektor swasta, badan-badan bukan kerajaan, ahli akademik dan golongan profesional, yang mempunyai masalah dalam penilaian prestasi.Selain itu, pelajar IPT juga disarankan membaca buku ini kerana mereka akan turut menghadapi masalah yang sama pada masa hadapan.
Book chapters on the topic "Turdus merula"
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Blöser, Claudia. "Enlightenment Views of Hope." In Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope, 61–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46489-9_4.
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Abstract This chapter discusses accounts of hope found in the works of important Enlightenment thinkers: René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. The paper’s guiding questions are: Where are discussions of hope located within these thinkers’ works? Do the authors provide an account of what hope is? Do they ascribe a certain function to hope? Most authors of the Enlightenment, with the exception of Kant, write about hope in the context of a general account of the passions. Their characterization of hope closely resembles the “standard definition” of hope in contemporary debates. According to this definition, hope consists of a desire and a belief in the possibility, but not the certainty, of the desired outcome. It turns out, however, that Descartes, Hobbes, and Hume advocate a stronger evidential condition for hope than is common today: According to their view, we do not hope for what we take to be merely possible, no matter how unlikely it is; we hope for what we take to be more likely. Kant’s account differs from the other ones in important respects: He does not treat hope as an affect and he does not require a probability estimate, but grounds hope in faith.
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Beere, Jonathan. "Faking Wisdom." In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 57, 153–90. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850847.003.0005.
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In the Sophist, Plato makes the Eleatic Visitor define sophistic as an expertise (τέχνη), in stark contrast to the account of sophistic in the Gorgias. This paper focuses on the almost entirely overlooked problem of what it could mean for sophistic to be an expertise. Sophistic, in the Sophist, is the ability to appear wise (without being so). This paper argues that sophistic counts as an expertise because the sophist can explain the causes of sophistic success and failure in terms of a true but incomplete account of wisdom as irrefutability. The account of wisdom as irrefutability is true, but it turns out that irrefutability, too, can be real or merely apparent. The full account of wisdom must include an account of true, by contrast with merely apparent, refutation. The knowledge of true refutation turns out to be identical with the knowledge of forms and their exclusion relations. Recent arguments of Lesley Brown’s that sophistic is not, by Plato’s own criteria, an expertise, are rebutted. The paper’s positive account of sophistic as an expertise relies on the distinction between likenesses (proportion-preserving copies) or appearances (proportion-distorting copies). This distinction, which has no parallel in earlier dialogues, makes it possible to see how there can be an expertise of producing merely apparent Fs without knowledge of what is really F.
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Judd, Charles M., Leaf Van Boven, Michaela Huber, and Ana P. Nunes. "Measuring Everyday Perceptions of the Distribution of the American Electorate." In Improving Public Opinion Surveys. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151458.003.0013.
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This chapter investigates perceptions of policy and partisan polarization through the use of an interactive histogram procedure (in which respondents were asked to raise and lower bars to reflect what they perceived to be the distribution of the public on some issue). The chapter discusses how respondents handled this task, as well as the reliability of the estimates it provided. Respondents were able to use this novel method to report their perceptions and to do so in ways that were not merely the result of projecting their own attitudes. The chapter then turns to a set of important issues in political perception that these data permit us to address.
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Meyer, Susan Sauvé. "Why Pleasure and Reason are not the Good." In Plato's Philebus, 55–70. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803386.003.0004.
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When Socrates argues early in the Philebus (20b–23b) that (1) neither pleasure nor knowledge is “the good,” the issue is not whether pleasure or knowledge is the only good thing but rather whether either is the unconditional source of value in a life (a much stronger thesis than hedonism). Nor is his conclusion here merely provisional, for the rest of the dialogue turns to address two further questions: (2) whether pleasure or knowledge is the efficient cause of the good life, and (3) which of the two is more akin to “the good.” His argument for (1) invokes three features of “the good” (sufficiency, completeness, and motivation) that Aristotle will later deploy, but differently.
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Boghossian, Paul, and Timothy Williamson. "Williamson on the A Priori and the Analytic." In Debating the A Priori, 78–85. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851707.003.0004.
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This essay criticizes Williamson’s attempt, in his book, The Philosophy of Philosophy, to undermine the interest of the a priori–a posteriori distinction. Williamson’s argument turns on several large claims. The first is that experience often plays a role intermediate between evidential and merely enabling, and that this poses a difficulty for giving a theoretically satisfying account of the distinction. The second is that there are no constitutive understanding–assent links. Both of these claims are subjected to detailed scrutiny. In particular, it is argued that Williamson’s case of the deviant logician, Simon, fails to constitute an intelligible counterexample to the status of conjunction elimination as an understanding–assent link for ‘and’.
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Yates, David C. "Introduction." In States of Memory, 1–28. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673543.003.0001.
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The Introduction situates the thesis within current scholarship and explores its broader implications, particularly with regard to Herodotus, panhellenism, and the influence of Philip and Alexander the Great on the later Persian-War tradition. Yates also provides a brief introduction to memory theory through a review of five key concepts: the definition of collective memory, the relationship between power and memory, the nature of memorial communities, memory as narrative, and the transmission of memory over time. This review is not exhaustive, however, and is intended merely as a primer for concepts that appear throughout the book. The Introduction then turns to a discussion of the methodological challenges of applying memory theory to the ancient world and ends with an outline of the chapters.
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McComas, Alan J. "Single Units and Grandmother Cells." In Sherrington's Loom, 141–60. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190936549.003.0009.
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This chapter turns to a more recent discovery in the human hippocampus, that of “concept” (or “grandmother”) cells. These grandmother cells are neurons that code for multiple aspects of the same person or object. The prediction that specific recognition cells were present in the brain had been made many years previously by vision scientists in Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Especially relevant for an understanding of conscious mechanisms was the observation that merely thinking about a person or image could increase the impulse firing rate of the corresponding concept cell, even when the person or image was no longer being seen. At about the same time Jerzy Konorski, in Warsaw, had argued for the existence of similar neurons (“gnostic units”) serving a number of functions.
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Carroll, Ross. "‘Too Solemn for Laughter’?" In Uncivil Mirth, 151–81. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691182551.003.0006.
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This chapter turns to a group of critics on the fringes of the Scottish Enlightenment who deployed ridicule for a very different political cause: the campaign against the Atlantic slave trade. William Dickson, Alexander Geddes and James Tytler all set out to expose defenders of African slavery as not merely mistaken but contemptible, and their arguments as an absurd affront to humanity. Taking their cue from Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, the form of ridicule they often adopted was a mock endorsement of the very pro-slavery arguments they sought to discredit. In adopting this rhetorical strategy, the chapter argues, these abolitionists found that some prejudiced or self-interested claims on behalf of slavery could not be countered by argument alone and that presenting them as beneath refutation was essential to defeating them.
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Möllers, Christoph. "Legality, Legitimacy, and Legitimation of the Federal Constitutional Court." In The German Federal Constitutional Court, 131–96. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793540.003.0004.
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This chapter takes up the daunting question of the Federal Constitutional Court’s legitimacy. It scrutinizes possible bases of such legitimacy, carefully assesses each one, and shows them all to be problematic. The investigation approaches the topic with a three-part distinction. It begins with the legality of the Court and, therefore, the question to what extent the assumption that the Court is bound to law, and merely applies the law, appropriately describes its actual practice. After that it takes a look at the legitimacy of the Court in terms of the factual social acceptance of its decision-making practice. Finally, and most extensively, the investigation turns to the normative justification of the Court by asking about good reasons for its present institutional configuration. In a concluding reflection, the chapter examines the interrelation of the above-mentioned elements.
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Prainsack, Barbara. "The Patient Researcher." In Personalized Medicine. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479814879.003.0002.
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Policy makers and practitioners alike emphasize that the realization of personalized medicine requires “activated patients,” and some go as far as saying that the survival of our health care systems will depend on it. This chapter shows that in the era of digital health, “activated patients” are not merely expected to obtain information on their health and manage their own health risks but are also supposed to contribute data and information. This expectation is built into the very infrastructures of digital health and medicine, which turns patients into contributors to the personalization of their own health care, and to research, by default. Do those patients who cannot or will not participate miss out on the benefit of personalization, or can it be a blessing to be below the digital health radar? And what new practices and patterns of exclusion emerge in the context of these developments?
Conference papers on the topic "Turdus merula"
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Chang, Yau-Zen, Kao-Tin Hung, and Hsin-Yi Shih. "Optimizing the Swiss-Roll Recuperator of an Innovative Micro Gas Turbine by a Surrogate Neural Network and the Multi-Objective DIRECT Algorithm." In ASME Turbo Expo 2008: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2008-50762.
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Micro-turbines are promising high power-density engines for distributed generation. In this paper, an optimization process is proposed to design a Swiss-roll type recuperator used to recover the exhaust heat of a micro gas turbine. The recuperator is a counter-flow spiral plate heat exchanger, composed of two flat plates wrapped around each other. There are several design parameters to be optimized, including the number of turns, channel width, plate thickness, and mass flow rate. The complex interconnections of these design parameters make it difficult to analyze the process and select adequate parameter combination to build a recuperator with the highest effectiveness and lowest pressure drop. In order to reduce the number of numerical analysis in the optimization process, a neural network is employed as surrogate model, and a multi-objective DIRECT (DIviding RECTangle) algorithm, named as MO-DIRECT, is developed. After merely 5 iterations, with 3 representative sets selected from the Pareto front for convergence test during each iteration, we were able to find a min-max solution with prediction error lower than 4%. Also, only 24 numerical simulations are required to achieve the results, and only 2,313 steps were conducted in the MO-DIRECT search, rather than 35,343 required in an exhaustive search.
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Zhu, Yifei, Shixiao Fu, and Jianqiao Wu. "The Analysis of the Extrapolation Method Used in Typical Structures of Jacket Platforms." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-41553.
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Acquiring the hot spot stress (HSS) in dangerous points of the structure (normally the welding seams of the structure) is the foundation of the offshore platform fatigue strength design. Because of the fact that it is very difficult and unpractical to install sensors in the welding seams, the most widely used method of acquiring the HSS currently is extrapolation, a method that obtains the HSS by extrapolating from stress of distant points. In order to figure out the feasibility of the method of extrapolation as well as the best ways to implement extrapolation in real practice, it is important to carry out numerical calculation of welded tubular joints in advance. To study the tubular joints, the finite element method (FEM) is the most widely adopted approach. In previous studies, shell elements are utilized to simulate tubular joints instead of solid elements concerning the difficulty. However, shell element simulation merely simulates the mid-surfaces of the tube walls so that shear stress in the direction of tube thicknesses are ignored, making the calculation of the stress concentration factor (SCF) inaccurate. In this study, the recommended ways of simulating the tubular Y- and T-joints are displayed and then the comparison of calculation results between different weld type, different mesh situations as well as different elements are given in order to bring up advice on numerical calculation for the study of extrapolation. The results of numerical calculation show that the extrapolation results are more accurate when we only consider the change of parameter α (chord length-to-chord radius ratio) and also, it is suggested to do the fitting in the area of 2t-4t away from the welding seam. These suggestions are verified by applying the method of extrapolation to a real jacket platform, which turns out that the fitting degree of extrapolation is very pleasant.
Reports on the topic "Turdus merula"
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Crispin, Darla. Artistic Research as a Process of Unfolding. Norges Musikkhøgskole, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.503395.
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As artistic research work in various disciplines and national contexts continues to develop, the diversity of approaches to the field becomes ever more apparent. This is to be welcomed, because it keeps alive ideas of plurality and complexity at a particular time in history when the gross oversimplifications and obfuscations of political discourses are compromising the nature of language itself, leading to what several commentators have already called ‘a post-truth’ world. In this brutal environment where ‘information’ is uncoupled from reality and validated only by how loudly and often it is voiced, the artist researcher has a responsibility that goes beyond the confines of our discipline to articulate the truth-content of his or her artistic practice. To do this, they must embrace daring and risk-taking, finding ways of communicating that flow against the current norms. In artistic research, the empathic communication of information and experience – and not merely the ‘verbally empathic’ – is a sign of research transferability, a marker for research content. But this, in some circles, is still a heretical point of view. Research, in its more traditional manifestations mistrusts empathy and individually-incarnated human experience; the researcher, although a sentient being in the world, is expected to behave dispassionately in their professional discourse, and with a distrust for insights that come primarily from instinct. For the construction of empathic systems in which to study and research, our structures still need to change. So, we need to work toward a new world (one that is still not our idea), a world that is symptomatic of what we might like artistic research to be. Risk is one of the elements that helps us to make the conceptual twist that turns subjective, reflexive experience into transpersonal, empathic communication and/or scientifically-viable modes of exchange. It gives us something to work with in engaging with debates because it means that something is at stake. To propose a space where such risks may be taken, I shall revisit Gillian Rose’s metaphor of ‘the fold’ that I analysed in the first Symposium presented by the Arne Nordheim Centre for Artistic Research (NordART) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in November 2015. I shall deepen the exploration of the process of ‘unfolding’, elaborating on my belief in its appropriateness for artistic research work; I shall further suggest that Rose’s metaphor provides a way to bridge some of the gaps of understanding that have already developed between those undertaking artistic research and those working in the more established music disciplines.