John Harbison and his music

Tempo ◽

10.1017/s0040298200005131 ◽

1996 ◽

pp. 7-11

Author(s):

Mike Seabrook

Keyword(s):

Human Activities ◽

Music History ◽

Value For Money ◽

John Harbison ◽

Strong Feeling ◽

To Come

At any point in history there are always a few solid, value-for-money composers who ignore all vogue and convention and just quietly get on with the job of composing the music that is inside them, waiting to be written down. Abjuring all fashions and trends, all movements and isms, they defy the bizarre human compulsion to categorize and pigeon-hole and lump into groups. I have a strong feeling that it is these unclassifiable, dogged individualists who carry the flag of music history forward: who form the handful of composers by whom each epoch is remembered and represented in centuries to come. While second-guessing posterity is one of the more fatuously pointless of human activities, it is a reasonable certainty that John Harbison is one such figure.

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Introduction

Unfelt ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501747120.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

James Noggle

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Strong Feeling ◽

To Come

This introductory chapter discusses the peculiar combination of the unfelt emergence and motions of strongly felt feelings, which appears all over eighteenth-century writing. The usages express something deep but inexplicit about how affect was understood in the eighteenth century, how feeling, passions, the emotions, and even perception itself were seen subtly to come into existence and move people. Instead of drawing attention to itself as an especially significant, well-defined concept or idea, a word like insensibly occurs almost in passing in the period's writing. But this unstudied casualness, far from rendering its meaning insignificant, holds a key to its power. A scarcely noticed but crucial and consistent set of gestures to an affect that cannot be felt: that is the terrain this book explores. Instead of indicating a mere lack of feeling—an affective blockage, impassivity, stupefaction—insensibly unfolding processes initiate and build strong feeling or make it possible.

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PERANCANGAN WEBSITE APLIKASI PENJUALAN RESTORAN AYAM KEPRABON

JBASE - Journal of Business and Audit Information Systems ◽

10.30813/jbase.v2i2.1728 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ignatius Adrian Mastan

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Human Activities ◽

Human Life ◽

New Members ◽

Left Behind ◽

To Come

The development of information technology has increased in all aspects of human life. All human activities today have used information technology and are getting easier, one of which is the transaction of ordering food in restaurants. Buyers do not need to come to the restaurant to make a purchase transaction, by using a smartphone they can open a website to order and buy food by online. With the increasingly sophisticated information technology, every business must be able to compete with success in the same business so as not to be left behind and displaced by others.<br />The restaurant that needs this sales application is the Ayam Keprabon Restaurant. Ayam Keprabon Restaurant has 45 outlets in several cities, namely: Jakarta, Depok, Tangerang, South Tangerang, Bekasi, and Bogor. With this Website-Based Sales Application, buyers can view restaurant profiles, food & beverage menus, make orders, make payments, check order delivery status, register new members, place reservations. With this site-based sales application, it can increase sales and increase the competitiveness of Ayam Keprabon Restaurant with competitors who have implemented information technology in their business.

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How Will Climate Change Affect the United States in Decades to Come?

Eos ◽

10.1029/2017eo086015 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Donald Wuebbles ◽

David Fahey ◽

Kathy Hibbard

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United States ◽

Human Activities ◽

The United States ◽

Drought Frequency ◽

Sea Levels ◽

Government Report ◽

To Come

A new U.S. government report shows that climate is changing and that human activities will lead to many more changes. These changes will affect sea levels, drought frequency, severe precipitation, and more.

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2020 Annual Procurement Report

10.22617/spr210082-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Financial Management ◽

Asian Development Bank ◽

Value For Money ◽

Development Bank ◽

Quality Outcomes ◽

Asian Development ◽

The Pacific ◽

To Come ◽

Policy Guidance ◽

Forward Looking

This report provides an overview of procurement activities supported by the Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department (PPFD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2020. It covers key areas where PPFD provides policy, guidance, and support to ADB developing member countries to create procurement solutions that help deliver value for money and quality outcomes across Asia and the Pacific. The report includes a reflection on achievements, while also presenting a forward-looking perspective on priorities and focus areas for PPFD and ADB’s procurement in the years to come.

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Suitability Of Pshdar Environment To Yielding Rice

Journal of Raparin University ◽

10.26750/vol(8).no(1).paper18 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 433-466

Author(s):

Lanja Salah Abdulla

Keyword(s):

Economic Geography ◽

Human Activities ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

Environmental Suitability ◽

Human Attention ◽

The Earth ◽

To Come ◽

Agricultural Geography ◽

Suitable Location

Agriculture Geography is one of the economic Geography branches, agriculture is considered one of the important things that attracted the human attention since their existence which was the cause of the human civilization. Agriculture Geography study the natural phenomena, water, air, soil, and vegetation that cover the earth surface, which is considered as a principle of agriculture production and it may differ from location to another, the agricultural production is a function of the human activities. Knowing the agricultural principles is considered as approve of having human activities within the human geography. This research aims at carrying out an agricultural geography analysis to check the environmental suitability of Pshdar District in producing rice, the investigation has been done in the period 2015 to 2020. The study has been made on the main resource of food that is consumed by the residents of this district. Many maps and tables have been used in this research with the aid of numerous references in order to come up with some recommendations, we have concluded that the study area is rich of human and natural resources which can become a very suitable location for rice production if it is paid some attention.

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Exploring How Human Activities Disturb the Balance of Biogeochemical Cycles: Evidence from the Carbon, Nitrogen and Hydrologic Cycles

Research on World Agricultural Economy ◽

10.36956/rwae.v2i3.426 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Olalekan Morufu Raimi ◽

Abiola Ilesanmi ◽

Ogah Alima ◽

Dodeye E. Omini

Keyword(s):

Human Activities ◽

Search Strategy ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Biogeochemical Cycles ◽

Literature Analysis ◽

Long Term Changes ◽

Paper Review ◽

To Come ◽

Work Done

All around us today there is a clear evidence proof suggesting an observable influence by human on biogeochemical cycles which are likely to cause serious consequences for humanity. Activities of human affects the biogeochemical cycles, both directly as well as indirectly. If scholars were able to make clear the degree of how specific human actions is affecting the biogeochemical cycles, they (researchers) would be able to come up with ideas on how to better position toward suggesting strategies aimed at mitigating against disturbances that are worst. This paper aims at exploring how human activities affect the balance of biogeochemical cycles in relation to the Carbon, Nitrogen and Hydrologic Cycles. A literature analysis attempts to use a diversity of search engines such as Scopus, Researchgate, PubMed, Google Scholar, Summon, Hinari, CAB Abstract, OARE Abstract, Academia, Dimension, Mendeley, SSRN search strategy toward retrieving research publications, “grey literature” as well as expert reports from working group. This paper review some of the work done on this topic as well as locate the converging results of interest in all the studies as well as proffered solutions toward this menace with the purpose of forestalling future occurrence. Due to the actions of numerous human activities, the characteristics/features of several components of biogeochemical cycles are experiencing changes which are most likely led to long-term changes. It is essential to forecast the magnitude as well as degree of these changes so that the needed ameliorative actions could be originated well in time.

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

Canadian Yearbook of international Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international ◽

10.1017/s0069005800006652 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 263-290

Author(s):

J. Anthony VanDuzer

Keyword(s):

Free Trade Agreement ◽

Dispute Settlement ◽

Trade Agreement ◽

Minimum Standards ◽

The North ◽

State Behaviour ◽

Nafta Chapter 11 ◽

To Come ◽

The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

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Scanning Electron Microscopy-cuticular Lesions on the Roundworm Ascaris Suum

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010006756x ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 114-115

Author(s):

P. A. Madden ◽

W. R. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Freeze Drying ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Secondary Electron ◽

Distilled Water ◽

Freeze Dried ◽

Silver Paint ◽

To Come ◽

Scanning Electron

The intestinal roundworm of swine is pinkish in color and about the diameter of a lead pencil. Adult worms, taken from parasitized swine, frequently were observed with macroscopic lesions on their cuticule. Those possessing such lesions were rinsed in distilled water, and cylindrical segments of the affected areas were removed. Some of the segments were fixed in buffered formalin before freeze-drying; others were freeze-dried immediately. Initially, specimens were quenched in liquid freon followed by immersion in liquid nitrogen. They were then placed in ampuoles in a freezer at −45C and sublimated by vacuum until dry. After the specimens appeared dry, the freezer was allowed to come to room temperature slowly while the vacuum was maintained. The dried specimens were attached to metal pegs with conductive silver paint and placed in a vacuum evaporator on a rotating tilting stage. They were then coated by evaporating an alloy of 20% palladium and 80% gold to a thickness of approximately 300 A°. The specimens were examined by secondary electron emmission in a scanning electron microscope.

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The microstructure change of low-carbon electrical steels by residual aluminum

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100153403 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 286-287

Author(s):

C.K. Hou ◽

C.T. Hu ◽

Sanboh Lee

Keyword(s):

Annealing Treatment ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Electrical Steels ◽

Vacuum Degassing ◽

Spherical Inclusions ◽

Residual Aluminum ◽

Average Grain Size ◽

The Matrix ◽

Fine Size ◽

To Come

The fully processed low-carbon electrical steels are generally fabricated through vacuum degassing to reduce the carbon level and to avoid the need for any further decarburization annealing treatment. This investigation was conducted on eighteen heats of such steels with aluminum content ranging from 0.001% to 0.011% which was believed to come from the addition of ferroalloys.The sizes of all the observed grains are less than 24 μm, and gradually decrease as the content of aluminum is increased from 0.001% to 0.007%. For steels with residual aluminum greater than 0. 007%, the average grain size becomes constant and is about 8.8 μm as shown in Fig. 1. When the aluminum is increased, the observed grains are changed from the uniformly coarse and equiaxial shape to the fine size in the region near surfaces and the elongated shape in the central region. SEM and EDAX analysis of large spherical inclusions in the matrix indicate that silicate is the majority compound when the aluminum propotion is less than 0.003%, then the content of aluminum in compound inclusion increases with that in steel.

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