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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyIntroduction: In studies of pulse wave analysis, single-channel sensors only adopt single temporal pulse signals without spatial information to show pulse-feeling patterns.
Chao Chen +8 more
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Of epistemic tools: musical instruments as cognitive extensions [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the differences in the design and performance of acoustic and new digital musical instruments, arguing that with the latter there is an increased encapsulation of musical theory.
Magnusson, Thor
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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L’instrument de musique : réflexions sur le geste, l’écoute et la création
Methodos, 2011 Musical sound is fundamentally vibration, and the character of that vibration depends on the instruments employed in the making of sound. To be faithful to the instruments envisaged by a composer of a musical work isn’t simply a matter of authenticity ...
Jerrold Levinson
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Music performance and the mediality of the musical instrument: an Activity Theory perspective [PDF]
, 2010 Music performance is all about the expressive communication of artistic ideas. To express these ideas to an audience, musicians depend on their musical instrument.
Leman, Marc +2 more
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Probabilistic Lesion Mapping to Optimize Thalamotomy Targets for Focal Hand Dystonia
Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective Focal hand dystonia (FHD) severely impairs task‐specific motor control, yet the optimal surgical target for stereotactic intervention remains uncertain. This study aimed to identify the precise thalamic lesion site associated with symptomatic improvement and to clarify its network connectivity. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 164 patients
Masahiko Nishitani +12 more
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Arts, 2017 This paper presents a new analytical approach, the Golden Method, to enhance sound-hole size and location in musical instruments of the lute family in order to obtain better sound damping characteristics based on the concept of the golden ratio and the ...
Soheil Jafari, Mohammad Mahdi Karbasbaf
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An investigation into the efficacy of methods commonly employed by mix engineers to reduce frequency masking in the mixing of multitrack musical recordings [PDF]
, 2015 Studio engineers use a variety of techniques to reduce frequency masking between instruments when mixing multi-track musical recordings. This study evaluates the efficacy of three techniques, namely mirrored equalization, frequency spectrum sharing and ...
Dewey, Christopher +1 more
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