“Carrying the organ” – the thing on the portative, Part 1

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Dziewiecki
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Music ◽  
Pipe Organ ◽  
Full Size ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Important Discrepancy ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Portable Instruments ◽  
High Level ◽  
Organ Builders

The present article is aimed at outlining the history and form of instruments known as portatives. Its continuation will be a paper devoted to discussing technical issues connected with designing and constructing Opus 1 Portative built by the author. The portative is an instrument belonging to the family of keyboard aerophones. It is the smallest representative of the pipe organ family – both in terms of its sound range and size. As there are not many historical instruments preserved to this day, we draw information on their form and use from how they are depicted in art. It is a testament of the evolution of portatives and their popularity – from the first mentions about them from the beginning of the 12th century to the16th century when their significance lessened. This drop in popularity of these instruments was probably connected with their technical limitations noticed at that time, the fact that they were unable to meet the requirements of the evolving music and they became ousted by other portable instruments. The construction of the portative is similar to the construction of the full-size pipe organ. We can notice the occurrence of similar components, only in a simplified and smaller form. An important discrepancy is a different treatment of air system – the portative usually has only one wedge bellow operated by the player, which allows to very precisely control the air pressure, and that is connected with the dynamics and tone colour of sound produced by the pipes. This results in playing music characteristic of portatives, i.e., similar to vocal music having greater phrasing capacities as compared to playing the full-size pipe organ. Despite the decline of interest in portatives, which could be noticed in the 16th century, nowadays portatives have been regaining popularity with musicians and organ builders. They all want to build instruments with a high level of historical accuracy as well as create portatives with modern features. Examples of the first trend can be found in Marcus Stahl’s workshop, whereas the instrument built by me follows the second trend. A great model of a portative combining both ideas is one constructed by Bartosz Żłóbiński.

scholarly journals The Legend of Ahalya: A Midnight Imposter at the Hermitage

2021 ◽  
pp. 263183182110404
Author(s):  
Somasundaram Ottilingam ◽  
TR Suresh ◽  
Vijaya Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
Sexual Gratification ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Level

Ideally, domestic life in ancient India is presented as agam in Tamil and samsaran in Sanskrit. Pride of place is given to the women and her marital fidelity is placed on a high level and is considered absolutory non-negotiable. Adultery in the male or female and sexual gratification from the prostitute are condemned. The legend of Ahalya is from the epic Ramayana by Valmiki in Sanskrit and modified by the Tamil poet, Kambar, as Ramavataram in 12th century CE. The seduction by Indra and passive acceptance by Ahalya are mentioned. Male and female marital fidelity should be observed in the family for its mental health and proper child rearing.

Compact specification of polar codes

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
R. A. Morozov ◽  
P. V. Trifonov
Keyword(s):  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Polar Codes ◽  
Practical Relevance ◽  
Memory Consumption ◽  
Full Size ◽  
The Family ◽  
Erasure Probability ◽  
Binary Erasure Channel

Introduction:Practical implementation of a communication system which employs a family of polar codes requires either to store a number of large specifications or to construct the codes by request. The first approach assumes extensive memory consumption, which is inappropriate for many applications, such as those for mobile devices. The second approach can be numerically unstable and hard to implement in low-end hardware. One of the solutions is specifying a family of codes by a sequence of subchannels sorted by reliability. However, this solution makes it impossible to separately optimize each code from the family.Purpose:Developing a method for compact specifications of polar codes and subcodes.Results:A method is proposed for compact specification of polar codes. It can be considered a trade-off between real-time construction and storing full-size specifications in memory. We propose to store compact specifications of polar codes which contain frozen set differences between the original pre-optimized polar codes and the polar codes constructed for a binary erasure channel with some erasure probability. Full-size specification needed for decoding can be restored from a compact one by a low-complexity hardware-friendly procedure. The proposed method can work with either polar codes or polar subcodes, allowing you to reduce the memory consumption by 15–50 times.Practical relevance:The method allows you to use families of individually optimized polar codes in devices with limited storage capacity. 

Kaukasische Aristokraten auf byzantinischer Karriereleiter

2015 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt
Keyword(s):  
First Crusade ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Family

AbstractThe family Aspietes from the (Armeno-Iberian) Pakourianos-Clan has as ancestor the Aspietes (here it is a first name!), who was one of the most important generals of emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Anna Komnene speaks highly of his military virtues and capacity during the war against Robert Guiscard (1081), but disparages him as commander in Cilicia and Western Syria shortly after the First Crusade. There is little doubt that this Aspietes is identical with the Aspietes Pakourianos attested on seals as κουροπαλάτης and πρωτονωβελλίσιμος. One of his sons married in the 12th century an unknown daughter of Andronikos Komnenos σεβαστοκράτωρ as we learn from the metrical legend of a seal. They became the parents of three or four sons who used the first name of the ancestor Aspietes as family name to specify their branchwithin the Clan of the Pakourianoi.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Family HELP Protocol: A Feasibility Project for a West Texas ICU

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Rebecca McClay
Keyword(s):  
Strong Support ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Family Presence ◽  
West Texas ◽  
The Family ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
High Level ◽  
Near Future

The purpose of this project was to determine if bedside intensive care unit (ICU) nurse buy-in to the Family Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) protocol was sufficient to make implementation feasible at one county hospital in West Texas. Surveys were anonymous with ballot box collection being available to the bedside ICU nurses for one week each. Questions were based on literature findings of expected outcomes, identified barriers and facilitators, Calgary Family Intervention Method framework domains, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Framework for program evaluation. Outcome measures were taken from the stated aims of the project and evaluated from paired baseline and summative survey questions. Survey participation was approximately half of nurses employed in the studied ICU. Analysis of the surveys showed a positive perception of family presence decreasing patient delirium symptoms, and a positive perception of the Family HELP protocol. The results described a high perception of family members as partners in care and high intention to implement the Family HELP protocol, indicating strong support of a full implementation of the protocol. The high level of bedside nurse buy-in present in this study has large implications for successful implementation of the Family HELP protocol in the near future, with sustainability and continued use supported by potential inclusion of the task in the electronic health record charting.

Academic Achievement of Female Students at College Level In Relation to Their Family Environment And Locale

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Nishta Rana ◽  
Shivani Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Female Students ◽  
College Level ◽  
Family Environment Scale ◽  
Environment Scale ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Level

Academic achievement is often considered as a key criterion to judge one's total potentialities and capabilities. Academic achievement has become a prime interest for the teachers, educationists, psychologists and parents to predict children's academic success which is considered to be an outcome of the learning environment and the family. The present study aimed at seeking the level of academic achievement of female students at the college level with respect to their family environment and locale. Random Sampling Technique was applied to draw the sample of 200 female students studying in the five-degree colleges of Jammu City (J&K) in the year 2015. Family Environment Scale (FES-BC) by Bhatia and Chadha (2012) was used for data collection. This tool has eight dimensions-Cohesion, Expressiveness, Conflict, Acceptance and Caring, Independence, Active-Recreational Orientation, Organisation and Control. The findings revealed that most of the female students were having an average level of academic achievement. Very few female students were found to have a high level of academic achievement. No significant differences in the level of academic achievement were found among female students in relation to their residential background, whereas significant differences were found in the family environment of female students with respect to the locality at the sub-scale “Acceptance and Caring” and “Active Recreational Orientation”. The value of the coefficient of correlation was found to be low, positive but significant at the 0.01 level of significance at the sub-scale “Cohesion” of Family Environment Scale. It shows that academic achievement and cohesion in the family are positively related with each other, however, the correlation is low.

scholarly journals Quality of life of elderly with alzheimer’s disease: a comparative study between the patient’s and the caregiver’s report

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keika Inouye ◽  
Elisete Silva Pedrazzani ◽  
Sofia Cristina Iost Pavarini ◽  
Cristina Yoshie Toyoda
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Quality Of Life Assessment ◽  
Patient Reports ◽  
The Family ◽  
Final Score ◽  
High Level

This paper aimed to compare the reports of patients and caregivers about how they perceive quality of life (QoL) in general and each of its dimensions in elderly with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The participants were elderly diagnosed with AD (n=53) attended by the Exceptional Medication Program in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo; and their respective family caregivers. The QoL measures were obtained through the Quality of Life Assessment Scale on Alzheimer’s Disease. The results showed statistically significant differences in the “memory” (p<0.05) and “you in general” (p<0.005) dimensions. Regarding the final score, the average in the patient’s version was 29.32 points (sd=6.27), against 28.33 points (sd=5.58) in the family version, p>0.100. Although the relative and patient reports were not identical, the results pointed to a high level of consistency among information.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUAL-TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONALITY OF CANDIDATES TO PARENTS IN SUBSTITUTE FAMILIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Vishtalenko ◽  
◽  
Emma Andreasyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Most researchers of socialization processes agree that the primary socialization carried out in the family is crucial. The phenomenon of the family was considered in terms of psychological, sociological, anthropological, philosophical, biological and cultural approaches. Now the question of surrogacy is being studied in terms of the psychology of the life path of the individual; as manifestations of the meaning of life, will, responsibility; as a world of the subjective, where is always something more. Many scientists pay attention to the methodology, organization, functioning of foster families; the problems of lifestyle of orphan children in general, and in particular – in a professionally foster family. Scientists have considered the motivation of the adopted child into the family and some socio-psychological characteristics of parents. However, there are almost no studies of some individual-typological features that dysfunctionally affect family relationships, although these features may be the reason for the denial of the family's ability to be a substitute. The relevance of the study is due to the need of supplement the structural and semantic components of the psychological diagnosis of potential parents in foster families. The empirical study was conducted on the basis of the Odessa Regional Center for Social Services for Families, Children and Youth, a territorial division of the Odessa Regional State Administration. In testing took a part about 30 applicants for foster parents. With the help of Individual-typological questionnaire LM Sobchyk (ITO) there was created an average statistical portrait of candidates for the role of parents in foster families. They are characterized by a high level of extraversion (48.6%); average level of rigidity (82.9%), aggression (54.3%), anxiety (82.9%), introversion (71.5%), lability (74.3%), sensitivity (62.9%), spontaneity (60%). All these qualities positively characterize all members of the sample and confirm their reliability as potential parents in foster families. These conclusions can be used by psychologists in the selection of candidates for the role of foster parents in foster families, as well as in psychological counseling.

scholarly journals Portrait of a Russian Homeschooler’s Family: Results of an Online Poll

Discourse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
M. N. Yashina
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Total Data ◽  
High Level

Introduction. The practice of obtaining family education has become a fashionable trend in our country in recent years. Despite the growing popularity among the population, we have not yet received enough scientific understanding of this form of training. The purpose of the article is to describe the social portrait of families who have chosen a family form of education for a child. The scientific novelty of the work is due to the empirical data presented in it, which have a dynamic nature of observing the studied object.Methodology and sources. The methodological basis for the study was the conflict approach and the principles of a radical humanistic approach to education in the interpretation of I. Illich. The empirical basis of the study is the results of three surveys of parents o f c hildren f rom 6 t o 1 8 y ears o ld w ho are o n f amily e ducation. S urveys w ere implemented from 2016 to 2020, according to the same methodology and tools. To collect data, a questionnaire for an online survey was developed, which was distributed on social networks, mainly in VKontakte communities dedicated to family education. The total data set includes 443 respondents.Results and discussion. According to surveys, children in family education grow up in full families, where the parent's ode has a high level of education, the mother, as a rule, does not work or has the possibility of a free schedule and is a teacher for the child. The main source of income in the family is the father. The total income of the family, which averages from 40 to 60 thousand rubles per month. In the family, most often two children, one of whom is in family education. Family education is mainly provided with primary school children.Conclusion. The peculiarity of studying family education not only in our country, but also in the world is the lack of accurate statistics on the number of children of homeschoolers. In this regard, only non-random samples are possible in the implementation. The portrait of Russian homeschoolers differs from American ones, in particular in the level at which family education is implemented, the place of residence of families, and their income.

scholarly journals REGULARITIES AND FORMING FACTORS OF THE CHILDREN’S MORBIDITY RATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY (THE LITERATURE REVIEW)

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darya B. Mirolyubova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The Body ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Morbidity Rate ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Learning Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Medical Effectiveness ◽  
High Level

There was shown the significance of leading risk factors for the development of adverse changes in the body, forming the high level of the morbidity rate in children: biological (the character of the course of pregnancy and parturition), social and environmental (diet, living and learning conditions, standards of living of the family, a culture of the healthcare), medical (effectiveness of preventive, health and therapeutic work in children’s groups). There was determined the necessity of a differentiated approach to the evaluation of the role and contribution of factors for groups of the various age.

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