Ruskin's Scottish Heritage: A Prelude

Prelude to a Kiss

We consider expanding maps of the circle with an almost neutral fixed point c. In this setting the ergodic averages of a smooth observable A satisfy the Central Limit Theorem. If A(c) = 0 we show that the expectation and the variance behave as the square root of the multiplier of c times rapidly oscillating functions of parameters.

Transcription Prelude

A short music piece for solo piano, created from the synthesized output of an automatic transcription system developed by the authors, is presented in this paper. The piece was a result of a happy accident when attempting to port the Linuxbased automatic transcription system into the Windows OS. As an input, J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C Minor from the The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I was employed, ...

Ancient manuring practices pollute arable soils at the St Kilda World Heritage Site, Scottish North Atlantic.

The impact of ancient fertilization practices on the biogeochemistry of arable soils on the remote Scottish island of Hirta, St Kilda was investigated. The island was relatively unusual in that the inhabitants exploited seabird colonies for food, enabling high population densities to be sustained on a limited, and naturally poor, soil resource. A few other Scottish islands, the Faeroes and some...

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

A Prelude to Standard and Standardization in Educational Systems

education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings ineducational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education.Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situ...