scholarly journals Rethinking Music Learning in the New Normal

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Chiao-Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Spread Of Infection

Over the past few months, the pandemic has led to many changes across the world. What used to be a part of our daily routines (e.g., strolling in the park) suddenly becomes risky and dangerous. As many states issued stay-at-home orders to avoid unnecessary travel and potential spread of infection caused by close contact, many schools closed and migrated lessons to online platforms. Schools teachers are now expected to explore remote teaching resources to create engaging learning experiences. As many described the current situation as an impasse, I propose that this slowing down of time may be an opportunity for us to rethink what values and beliefs we bring into our classrooms. What really matters in music learning? I end this column with some ideas for your consideration as you plan for the next year’s curriculum.

scholarly journals Motley Crew: Overview of the Currently Available Phage Diversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Zrelovs ◽  
Andris Dislers ◽  
Andris Kazaks
Keyword(s):  
Complete Genome ◽  
Phage Genome ◽  
Gene Products ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Bacteriophage Genome ◽  
Biological Entities

The first complete genome that was sequenced at the beginning of the sequencing era was that of a phage, since then researchers throughout the world have been steadily describing and publishing genomes from a wide array of phages, uncovering the secrets of the most abundant and diverse biological entities known to man. Currently, we are experiencing an unprecedented rate of novel bacteriophage discovery, which can be seen from the fact that the amount of complete bacteriophage genome entries in public sequence repositories has more than doubled in the past 3 years and is steadily growing without showing any sign of slowing down. The amount of publicly available phage genome-related data can be overwhelming and has been summarized in literature before but quickly becomes out of date. Thus, the aim of this paper is to briefly outline currently available phage diversity data for public acknowledgment that could possibly encourage and stimulate future “depth” studies of particular groups of phages or their gene products.

Chapter II. the World Overseas

1966 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Rates Of Growth

There was some slowing down of the growth of industrial production as a whole during the summer months though the overall tendency continues firmly upwards (table 13).France, Italy and Japan are still expanding rapidly, though in the case of France not so rapidly as in the past. In most other countries, apart perhaps from Norway, rates of growth are declining. The United Kingdom is the most prominent of this group, but the slowdown in Germany is becoming quite marked.

Assessing Music Learning Through Composition

2019 ◽  
pp. 610-628
Author(s):  
Clint Randles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Media ◽  
Music Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Summative Feedback

The proliferation of the use of new media and creativities are expanding the ways that humans engage creatively with music in the twenty-first century. As teachers and researchers, our methods of assessing these creativities need to expand as well. In this chapter the author points to some of the ways that music education has traditionally conceived of both creativity and the measurement of compositional activity in the classroom. However, it should be clear that formative, summative, feedback, diagnostic, and evaluative assessment are all necessary and vital to understanding and justifying the place of composition learning in music education, and that we as a profession have not done an adequate job of it in the past. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, Finland, and Australia, have done a better job of creating curricular space for composition than the United States. The rest of the world can learn from these successes.

scholarly journals The Environment of the Covid-19 is a New Physics Illness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Janos Vincze ◽  
◽  
Gabriella Vincze-Tiszay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Irreversible Change ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Conferences And Congresses

In our opinion in the past 16 months a new mental illness showed up throughout the world, and we can safely conclude that among all the mental illnesses it rose to first place when it comes to the numbers. As a result, people neglect the way they dress, their own appearance, exact timelines, and schedules have become meaningless, and “social complacency” has become prevalent. Some specific changes in everyday life: drastic setbacks in the classic educational forms; teleworking became dominant; trips abroad disappeared; there are no more visits to relatives and friends; lack of conferences and congresses with in-person interaction; lack of public cultural events: theater, opera, performance, cinema etc. etc. People’s personalities tend to solidify between the ages of 26 and 28 and change very little after.If a serious environmental change occurs (eg unemployment, divorce, homelessness, imprisonment, several years of study abroad, etc.), if this condition is permanent and there is no possibility of close contact with the family and lasts this period lasts for more than a year, an irreversible change appears in one’s personality. The epidemic breaks down middle-aged people who have already developed a set of values and who work schedules they are already used to. People in such a situations cannot return to their old selves. This is a social, global stress. If this pandemic passes, new laws start to gaining ground, a new code of ethics may need to be written for this disease as well

scholarly journals Bridging Hmong/Miao, Extending Miaojiang: Divided Space, Translocal Contacts, and the Imagination of Hmongland

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Weidong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

AbstractOver the past several decades, the Hmong communities scattered around the world and their co-ethnic Miao ethnic group in China came into close contact. This paper explores the nature and dynamics of this encounter as well as the connections and ties that have been rediscovered and reestablished between the Hmong in diaspora and the Miao in China, two groups long separated by time and distance, and the impact and implications this entails. Based on three-month fieldwork in the Hmong/Miao communities across Southwest China and Southeast Asia, this paper examines the ever increasing movement of people and materials, as well as symbolic flows on the one hand, and connections and linkages between different localities on the other hand. It discusses how this new fast-changing development contributes to a new translocal imagination of Hmong community, re-territorialization of a new continuous Hmong space, a Hmongland encompassing Southwest provinces of China and northern part of Southeast Asian countries, and what it means to the Hmong/Miao people in the region. It further discusses how the emerging translocal imagination of the Hmong/Miao community will produce unique translocal subjects and how it interacts with the nation-states they belong to.

scholarly journals The past, present, prospects and problems of improving the specifi c prevention of brucellosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
V. A. Korshenko ◽  
I. A. Shchipeleva ◽  
O. F. Kretenchuk ◽  
E. I. Markovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Morbidity Rate ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Zoonotic Infection ◽  
Commercial Preparation ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Morbidity Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
Safe Vaccine ◽  
Spread Of Infection

Brucellosis remains the most widespread zoonotic infection in the world. Th e spread of the infection is controlled by animals vaccination because the high morbidity rate of the population is associated with the spread of infection among livestock. Th e research is ongoing on a commercial preparation of an eff ective and safe vaccine for immunization of humans and animals against brucellosis. Th e review is devoted to the prospects and problems of improving the specifi c prevention of brucellosis. Th e authors analyzed scientifi c publications from various databases of electronic libraries, such as PubMed, e-library, CyberLeninka, etc.

NEGOTIATING THE ISRAELI–PALESTINIAN CONTROVERSY FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. L. SAATY ◽  
H. J. ZOFFER
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Specific Binding ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hierarchy Process

In most long-lasting conflicts, each party's grievances increase while the concessions they are willing to make decline in number, quality, and perceived value. Both parties lose sight of what they are willing to settle for, generally exaggerate their own needs, and minimize the needs of the other side over time. But, it is precisely the matter of trading that needs to be made more concrete and of higher priority for both sides, if a meaningful resolution is to be found. Without a formal way of trading off the concessions and packages of concessions, both sides are likely to suspect that they are getting the short end of the bargain. After the parties have agreed to a trade, very specific binding language about the terms of the agreement, clear implementation policies, and outside guarantors are needed. The worth of the concessions traded, as perceived by both the giver and receiver, need to be accurately determined and recorded. All of this requires going beyond verbal descriptions of the concessions to more broadly include their economic, social, geographic, humanitarian, and historical worth. It is critical that all of these need to be translated into priorities derived in terms of the different values and beliefs of the parties. Priorities are universal and include the diversity of measures in terms of which economic, social, and other values are measured. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a way to perform such an assessment with the participation of negotiators for the parties. It is a positive approach that makes it possible to reason and express feelings and judgments with numerical intensities to derive priorities. It has been used productively in the past to deal with the conflicts in South Africa and Northern Ireland and with other controversies throughout the world. With the assistance of panels of Israeli participants and Palestinian participants brought together in 2009 and 2010, AHP was applied for the first time to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. The process makes it clear that moderation in different degrees by both sides is essential to arrive at acceptable agreements on concessions proposed and agreed upon by both sides. AHP makes it possible to evaluate moderate and extreme viewpoints and determine their effect on the trading of concessions. The results obtained encourage us to advocate its use in the negotiation process.

scholarly journals SLOW TOURISM IN VOJVODINA – MOTIVES AND GOALS OF CONSUMERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Dragan Đuranović ◽  
Slavica Tomić ◽  
Ksenija Leković ◽  
Dražen Marić
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Novelty Seeking ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Return ◽  
The Republic

Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world characterized by numerous new forms aimed at satisfying the sophisticated needs of the modern consumer. In such circumstances, the concept of slow tourism is gaining in importance with emphasized need for slowing down the pace of life. Slow tourism offers a solution to this need. In developing countries, this concept frequently tied with sustainable tourism, is linked to social movements such as: “slow food” (authentic, local food), “slow cities” (environmentally responsible and peaceful environment) and “slow transportation” (local buses and trains). The aim of the paper is the explanation of this phenomenon from the perspective of consumers. The authors conduct research based on a model consisting of: six general slow tourism motivations (relaxation, self-reflection, escape, novelty-seeking, engagement and discovery), two universal goals of slow tourism (revitalization and self-enrichment) and travel outcomes (satisfaction, future return intention and recommendations). The sample included 320 respondents from the territory of the Republic of Serbia who have visited some of the destinations in Vojvodina labeled as “slow place” in the past two years.

scholarly journals The Environment of the Covid-19 is a New Physics Illness

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Janos Vincze ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Irreversible Change ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Conferences And Congresses

In our opinion in the past 16 months a new mental illness showed up throughout the world, and we can safely conclude that among all the mental illnesses it rose to first place when it comes to the numbers. As a result, people neglect the way they dress, their own appearance, exact timelines, and schedules have become meaningless, and “social complacency” has become prevalent. Some specific changes in everyday life: drastic setbacks in the classic educational forms; teleworking became dominant; trips abroad disappeared; there are no more visits to relatives and friends; lack of conferences and congresses with in-person interaction; lack of public cultural events: theater, opera, performance, cinema etc. etc. People’s personalities tend to solidify between the ages of 26 and 28 and change very little after.If a serious environmental change occurs (eg unemployment, divorce, homelessness, imprisonment, several years of study abroad, etc.), if this condition is permanent and there is no possibility of close contact with the family and lasts this period lasts for more than a year, an irreversible change appears in one’s personality. The epidemic breaks down middle-aged people who have already developed a set of values and who work schedules they are already used to. People in such a situations cannot return to their old selves. This is a social, global stress. If this pandemic passes, new laws start to gaining ground, a new code of ethics may need to be written for this disease as well.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

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