Current discourse on a “historically informed music theory” focusses the 15th to 18th century, while 19th and 20th centuries are rarely considered in this context. Rather, nineteenth- twentieth-century theory is frequently representative of “systematic” musictheoretical concepts. Nineteenth-century effectively seems be separated from eighteenth-century by categorical rupture that can traced ori...

Low-lying excitations of neutron-rich nuclei with halo and skin structures have raised intriguing issues. The distribution of the transition strength in the continuum of such nuclei may reflect the twofold structure that is composed of a core and a surrounded cloud of very diffuse valence neutron(s). For instance, the Coulomb dissociation experiments on halo nuclei have revealed a concentration...

The article centers on Enchafèd Flood: Romantic Iconography of the Sea, a series Page-Barbour Lectures delivered by W. H. Auden at University Virginia in 1949, which he analyzed and late nineteenth-century images sea, contrasted with desert, giving partisan interpretation Melville’s selected prose (Moby-Dick particular). As his reconsideration iconography is underpinned political agenda, this I...

We design a neural network model of first language acquisition to explore the relationship between child and adult speech sounds. The model learns simple vowel categories using a produce-and-perceive babbling algorithm in addition to listening to ambient speech. The model is similar to that of Westermann & Miranda (2004), but adds a dynamic aspect in that it adapts in both the articulatory and ...

Financial regulation is most effective when it targets the origins of the problem it seeks to remedy. This is akin to the medical adage: treat the cause, not the symptom. Identifying the causal factors driving distress in financial markets is no easy task. One complication is that the cause might lie in non-financial markets. New research on the financial crisis highlights this point. Attempts ...

GARLAND E. ALLEN, Life science in the twentieth century, New York and London, John Wiley, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 258, illus., £6.30 (£3.55 paperback). The author's aim is to present a general history of biological ideas as they came out of the nineteenth century to create the experimental, analytically rigorous and interpretative life science as we know it today. He recognizes the need to deal wit...

Pirogov returned to Dorpat as Professor of Surgery, and was thence transferred to the St Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy, where appalling conditions prevailed, with no operating room and with corrupt medical attendants who transferred dressings and bandages from one patient to the next, and adulterated the food and medicine. Unfortunately Pirogov's time was running out when he reached t...

historical dimensions of one of these questions; the implications of instrumental diagnosis. He charts the rise of the major diagnostic instruments of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and chronicles their gradual and not always enthusiastic adoption by the medical profession. He vividly illustrates both the profound diagnostic possibilities of such instruments and the more constant...