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Student musicians' self- and task-theories of musical performance : the influence of primary genre affiliation [PDF]
, 2009 165 undergraduate music students studying in Scotland completed a 30-statement Q-sort to describe their self and task-theories of musical performance. Statements reflected the importance of effort, confidence, technical ability, significant others and ...
Allan Hewitt +9 more
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Revista X, 2021 This research aims at investigating TED Talks as a genre. The analysis focuses on its rhetorical structure, characterized by moves and steps and the communicative purposes of the genre. The corpus comprises 10 talks selected from the website TED Talks. The data are discussed in the light of Bhatia’s (1996/2004) and Swales’ (1990/2004) theories of genre.
José Augusto Simões de Miranda +1 more
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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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Linguistics and LIS: A Research Agenda [PDF]
, 2017 Linguistics and Library and Information Science (LIS) are both interdisciplinary fields that draws from areas such as languages, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, computer science, anthropology, education, and management. The theories and methods
Bolin, Mary K
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Beat histogram features from NMF-based novelty functions for music classification [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we present novel rhythm features derived from drum tracks extracted from polyphonic music and evaluate them in a genre classification task. Musical excerpts are analyzed using an optimized, partially fixed Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (
Lerch, Alexander +2 more
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Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 1997 L'A. met l'accent sur l'importance de la dimension institutionnelle dans la construction et l'interpretation des genres. Il s'attache a demontrer quelques-unes des strategies communicatives que mettent en oeuvre differents discours : sortant du champ strictement litteraire, il envisage tour a tour le discours promotionnel (publicite, offres d'emploi ...
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Of the three types of cytoskeleton known in animals—actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments—only actin and microtubules exist in plants. Both play important roles in cellular shaping, organelle movement, organization of the endomembrane system, and cell signaling.
Norman R. Groves +3 more
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Investigating musical performance: Commonality and diversity amongst classical and non-classical musicians [PDF]
, 2008 The research project 'Investigating Musical Performance: Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning' was devised to investigate how classical, popular, jazz and Scottish traditional musicians deepen and develop their learning about performance in ...
Creech, Andrea +9 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Socio-cognitive aspects of hedging in two legal discourse genres [PDF]
Ibérica, 2004 While there are many studies on hedging in a wide variety of disciplinary discourses, the field of Law, to date, has been largely overlooked. Moreover, most research on hedging approaches the phenomenon from either a textual or pragmatic perspective, and
Holly Vass
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