‘Fate Leads the Willing, and Drags the Unwilling’

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87
Author(s):  
Judah M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Basis ◽  
International Network ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
The Core ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Untapped Resource ◽  
Music Tradition

In this article, I explore the role that Austrian-born musicologist/composer Eric Werner (1901–1988) cultivated as a representative of musical Wissenschaft des Judenthums in postwar America. I focus here on the diary that Werner kept between 1955 and 1957 – a heretofore untapped resource – which chronicles his efforts to build intellectual refugee networks while simultaneously helping to restart an international network of Jewish music discourse spanning America, Europe and Israel. Music, in Werner’s view, required a scientific basis for study from which authentic practices could be rebuilt. Thus, while Werner relied on revitalising cantors as vessels of Jewish music, he viewed musicology as the core discipline from which Jewish music ‘tradition’ could arise.

scholarly journals Mechanism of Compound Houttuynia Mixture as an Anti-COVID-19 Drug Based on Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1934578X2110167
Author(s):  
Xing-Pan Wu ◽  
Tian-Shun Wang ◽  
Zi-Xin Yuan ◽  
Yan-Fang Yang ◽  
He-Zhen Wu
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Docking ◽  
Target Prediction ◽  
Interaction Network ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Network Pharmacology ◽  
Chemical Components ◽  
Active Components ◽  
Discovery Studio ◽  
The Core ◽  
Pathway Annotation

Objective To explore the anti-COVID-19 active components and mechanism of Compound Houttuynia mixture by using network pharmacology and molecular docking. Methods First, the main chemical components of Compound Houttuynia mixture were obtained by using the TCMSP database and referring to relevant chemical composition literature. The components were screened for OB ≥30% and DL ≥0.18 as the threshold values. Then Swiss Target Prediction database was used to predict the target of the active components and map the targets of COVID-19 obtained through GeneCards database to obtain the gene pool of the potential target of COVID-19 resistance of the active components of Compound Houttuynia mixture. Next, DAVID database was used for GO enrichment and KEGG pathway annotation of targets function. Cytoscape 3.8.0 software was used to construct a “components-targets-pathways” network. Then String database was used to construct a “protein-protein interaction” network. Finally, the core targets, SARS-COV-2 3 Cl, ACE2 and the core active components of Compound Houttuyna Mixture were imported into the Discovery Studio 2016 Client database for molecular docking verification. Results Eighty-two active compounds, including Xylostosidine, Arctiin, ZINC12153652 and ZINC338038, were screened from Compound Houttuyniae mixture. The key targets involved 128 targets, including MAPK1, MAPK3, MAPK8, MAPK14, TP53, TNF, and IL6. The HIF-1 signaling, VEGF signaling, TNF signaling and another 127 signaling pathways associated with COVID-19 were affected ( P < 0.05). From the results of molecular docking, the binding ability between the selected active components and the core targets was strong. Conclusion Through the combination of network pharmacology and molecular docking technology, this study revealed that the therapeutic effect of Compound Houttuynia mixture on COVID-19 was realized through multiple components, multiple targets and multiple pathways, which provided a certain scientific basis of the clinical application of Compound Houttuynia mixture.

scholarly journals The Music Traditions of the Ashkenazi Jews and Radical Jewish Culture: A Brief Outline of the Definitions and Content of Jewish Music in the Past and Nowadays

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Luiza Zapiór
Keyword(s):  
Ashkenazi Jews ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Music Tradition

The main purpose of this paper is to describe John Zorn’s approach to klezmer music and Jewish music tradition in general. The text has been divided into shorter sections. The first part of the article is dedicated to providing an overview of problems concerning the definition of Jewish music. The second part focuses on analysing klezmer motifs in John Zorn’s selected works and Jewish symbols present in the visual component of his recording projects. The last section contains a summary and conclusions.

Forage diversity, conservation and use.

2020 ◽  
pp. 423-449
Author(s):  
Jean Hanson ◽  
Rainer Schultze-Kraft ◽  
Michael Peters ◽  
Peter Wenzl ◽  
Ahmed Amri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Plant Genetic Resources ◽  
Gene Bank ◽  
International Network ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Forage Diversity

Abstract This chapter outlines the scientific and development impacts of forage diversity conservation, characterization and distribution work under the international network of forage collections in CGIAR. The focus for the future will continue to be on the core operations that are essential to conserve and manage the diversity with increased emphasis on those that will ensure efficiency and value for money in gene bank operations. In addition to these essential activities, there are opportunities to be more forward and outward looking and to link with activities in the Livestock CRP and the Excellence in Breeding Platform, as well as to contribute to the global system of plant genetic resources, support the FAO Global Plan of Action and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Tradycje muzyczne Żydów aszkenazyjskich a Radical Jewish Culture: definicje i treści dawnej i współczesnej muzyki żydowskiej

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Luiza Zapiór
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Music Tradition

Jewish Music and Radical Jewish Culture: A Brief Outline of the Definitions and Content of Jewish Music in the Past and Nowadays The main purpose of the article is to describe John Zorn’s approach to klezmer music and Jewish music tradition in general. The text was split into shorter paragraphs. The first part of the article is dedicated to providing an overview of the problems concerning the definition of Jewish music. The second part focuses on analysing klezmer motifs in John Zorn’s selected works and Jewish symbols present in the visual layer connected with his works. The last paragraph contains a summary and conclusions.

Repetition, Speech, and Authority in Steve Reich’s “Jewish” Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
Robert Fink
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
Talking Heads

Steve Reich’s “Jewish” works are logocentric to the core and thus, for all their sonic exuberance, culturally conservative. Beginning with experimental tape works like It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and My Name Is (1967), and blossoming into extended speech-driven multimedia “operas,” Reich doggedly explored his sense that the human voice transmitted something like prophetic Truth, tracing out his own path from the patriarchal tradition of Hebrew cantillation to the “self-presence” that philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau found at the origin of human language. As a composer, Reich put his musical ear (and his digital sampler) at the service of the logos, deriving both the visuals and the music of The Cave from distinctive speech patterns of its various “talking heads.” And yet, as Jacques Derrida famously noted, speech, music, and writing are not so easily separated—and the composer’s intent is exceeded by the complexity of his word-saturated operatic language.

System Dynamics Model of Urban Comprehensive Transportation System and its Control Strategy Simulation

2012 ◽  
Vol 461 ◽  
pp. 474-477
Author(s):  
Quan Li Huang ◽  
Jing Tao Yue ◽  
Yu Lan Ding
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Intelligent Control ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
System Dynamics Model ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
The Core

According to the establishment of the simulation model about urban integrated transportation system, this paper established kinematics model of the urban integrated transportation system by the core application of system dynamics theory, technical methods and special tools. This model provided a scientific basis and technical methods to intelligent control and Optimizing the decision-making for urban integrated transportation.

The Dynamic Construction Numerical Analysis of Large-Span Section, Long and Deep-Depth Tunnel

2012 ◽  
Vol 256-259 ◽  
pp. 1253-1257
Author(s):  
Hui Ming Bao ◽  
Xin Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Large Span ◽  
Initial Stress Field ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Soil ◽  
Deep Depth ◽  
Simulated Analysis ◽  
Soil Excavation

Using finite element principle, the numerical simulation analysis model of the tunnels with large-span, long and deep-depth was established. The killed cells excavated in part as, while supporting part as a unit was reactivated among the simulation analysis. The changing characteristics of the initial stress field, the circular soil excavation and supporting, the core soil excavation, as well as the down step excavation and supporting was simulated analysis during dynamic construction of the tunnel. Those will be provided a scientific basis for the safe construction.

scholarly journals Triptych: Genesis, Kavana, Sabbath

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Spatz ◽  
N. Eda Erçin ◽  
Caroline Gatt ◽  
Agnieszka Mendel
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Audiovisual Material ◽  
The Core ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Standard Documentation ◽  
The University ◽  
Music Recordings ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

These three video essays come out of a multi-year research project that attempts to rethink and redesign the relationship between embodiment and audiovisuality in the context of academic research. As one anonymous reviewer noted, they gesture towards “a new kind of research artifact, making a space somewhere between standard documentation and contemporary creative product.” All three of the video essays comprise footage taken from experimental practice or “laboratory” sessions conducted at the University of Huddersfield in summer 2017. During this period the core research team (Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel) undertook sustained practice research, working with and through a selection of Jewish music recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Records archive. Arising from the project’s aim to investigate contemporary identity through songwork, the three videos are linked by the provenance of their titles, each of which names a key concept in Jewish religious thought. However, in no case does the title of the video essay refer to an explicit focus of the documented practice. Rather, the titles were imposed afterwards as part of an editorial process that frames the selected audiovisual material in a particular way, relating it to my own perspective and to the research aims of the project. The relationship between the collaborative dynamics of the documented practice and its subsequent editorial framing raises many questions about the ethics and epistemology of embodied audiovisual research.

A research on the law of acupoint differentiation and application in Essential Prescriptions Worth A Thousand Gold using network analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Fan ◽  
Shuang Gao ◽  
Wanshan Song ◽  
Jiachun Xu ◽  
Shuang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Acupuncture Point ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Carpal Bone ◽  
Acupuncture Points ◽  
The Core ◽  
Acupuncture And Moxibustion ◽  
The Law ◽  
Selection Of

Objective: Through the method of network analysis, the acupuncture prescriptions recorded in Essential Prescriptions Worth A Thousand Gold (EPWATG) were investigated, and the laws of acupuncture point use were discussed.<br/> Methods: Literatures, including acupuncture prescriptions in EPWATG, were collected and screened, according to the method of differentiating prescriptions based on the diseased part. Microsoft Excel 2010 was used to establish a database of prescriptions for head and neck diseases, chest and flank diseases, abdomen diseases, lumbosacral diseases and limbs diseases, and a network of acupoint compatibilities was constructed using the Cytoscape software. Using the network analysis method, the commonly used acupoint compatibilities and core acupoints of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment for various parts of diseases and syndromes in EPWATG were excavated.<br/> Results: The commonly used acupoint compatibilities in EPWATG prescriptions for the treatment of head and neck diseases are Tianzhu and Taodao, Hanyan and Houding, and Baihui and Xinshu, and the core acupoints are Tianzhu, Benshen, Kunlun, Zhongzhu, Zutonggu, Fengchi and Shangguan. The commonly used acupoint compatibilities for the treatment of chest and flank diseases are Ququan and Xiangu, Rangu and Taixi, and Yanggu and carpal bone, and the core acupoints are Zhangmen, Feishu, Tanzhong, Yunmen, Jimen and Zhongfu. The commonly used acupoint compatibilities for the treatment of abdominal diseases are Gongsun and Taibai, Shuigou and Dazhui, and Dazhui and Shixuan, and the core acupoints are Tanzhong, zhangmen, Pishu, Ganshu, Laogong and Taixi. The commonly used acupoint compatibilities for the treatment of lumbosacral diseases are Xialiao and Shangliao, Danshu and Geshu, and Dazhu and Shentao, and the core acupoints are Dachangshu, Weizhong, Weiyang, Chengfu and Eight-liao. The commonly used acupoint compatibilities for the treatment of four limbs diseases are Dubi and Shanglian, Dubi and Xialian, and Shanglian and Xialian, and the core acupoints are Xuanzhong, Zusanli, Fuliu, Sanyinjiao, Shanglian, Xialian and Shugu.<br/> Conclusion: The selection of acupuncture points in EPWATG follows the law of acupoint selection based on the meridians and diseased parts. This also focuses on the selection of acupoints of the bladder meridian of foot Taiyang and specific acupoints. This provides a scientific basis for clinical acupuncture and moxibustion treatment.

“Wishing your Family, Chrysler, and the Government an Abundance of Happiness for Christmas and the New Year”: The Chrysler Bailout and the Strange Persistence of New Deal Liberalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
Scott Ward
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Textile Mills ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
The Core ◽  
Federal Intervention ◽  
Drying Up ◽  
The Government

In terms of industrial decline, Chrysler was just another death rattle among the blast furnaces sputtering throughout the Midwest, the dimming hum of shuttering textile mills up and down the Piedmont, and Appalachian coal towns drying up into nothing. Yet, it was more than just layoffs and bankruptcies; it appeared to be the end of what the New Deal Order had accomplished in postwar America—stable employment and rising wages coupled with economic growth. Indeed, since World War ii, Chrysler had been near the core of that very New Deal liberalism. Like its counterparts in mass-production industry, Chrysler had made its peace with organized labor and submitted to routinized collective bargaining. The seeds of that bargaining, especially in the auto industry, set the pattern for organized and unorganized workers across the nation. The tacit partnership of the federal government, big business, and organized labor that formed the core of New Deal liberalism established the pattern of collective bargaining, routinized industrial production, Cold War consensus, Democratic Party power, federal intervention into the economy, and affluence that would define postwar American life.

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