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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Towards an Improved Baton Technique: The Application and Modification of Conducting Gestures Drawn from the Methods of Rudolf, Green and Saitō for Enhanced Performance of Orchestral Interpretations

Lee, Ki Sun January 2008 (has links)
Since the early nineteenth century, a conductor has led orchestras in concert, rather than the concertmaster or the composer from a keyboard instrument. There is no theory about the function of the conductor or technique for conducting an orchestra or choir in that early period. Early conductors probably imitated the bow motions of the concertmaster, who was the leader of the group of instrumental players. The increasing importance of conducting resulted in conductors who not only cued to indicate entrances and cut offs as the concertmaster did, but also helped the musicians to understand his musical interpretation and play as a unified musical body. The establishment of this new role soon required the training of future generations of conductors and eventually conducting textbooks, with guidelines and other educational material for the apprentice conductor. In this paper, the author explores the historical background of conducting technique and the development of conducting textbooks in the twentieth century. Three conducting textbooks were chosen representing different approaches: Max Rudolf's The Grammar of Conducting; Elizabeth A. H. Green The Modern Conductor; and Hideo Saitō The Saitō Conducting Method. The author analyzes the conducting theory presented in each textbook and pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of the three schools. He then suggested integrates beat patterns, combining elements from them, proposes more effective conducting gestures for his interpretation of the music. The focus for these integrated beat patterns is on the physical gestures and patterns of the right hand, not left hand gestures or specific expressive gestures. Chapter 2 summarizes the characteristics of the three conducting theories. Chapter 3 analyzes the basic characteristic motions of each school. Chapters 4 through 6 propose adaptations of conducting gestures, drawing from the three schools to interpret challenging sections of the examples: Marche royale from Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky, Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, and the Ouverture: Die Hebriden by Felix Mendelssohn. For the most effective performance of the author s interpretations, proposed integrated beat patterns are suggested for the phrases shown in the musical examples. Some of the beat patterns are presented in diagrams to show the integrated beat pattern, derived from the author s synthesis of the basic five motions of the three schools adapted from the three schools.
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Efficacy of long-term and short-term residential substance abuse treatment modalities

Burgess, John Robert, Martin, E. Davis. January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.95-102).
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Designing a ministry which builds relationships between South Airline Baptist Church and unchurched new homeowners

Goodwin, Lediun Jerome, January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-213).
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Equipping the deacons at Stevendale Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in conflict management skills to provide a positive environment for church growth

Wilson, Richard Earle, January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-235).
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"Jeden za všechny a všichni za jednoho, ale musí to dávat smysl" Etnografie fanoušků mažoretkového sportu / "All for one, one for all, but it needs to make sense" Etnography of majorettes sport fans

Soukup, Anna January 2019 (has links)
Baton twirling is a sport industry with a specific fan base. The fan community typically consists of parents and supporting friends of the baton twirling children. Baton twirling represents a significant socializing environment for both children and their enthusiastic parents and friends - fans. The social status and the role of fans within this community are subject to a symbolic capital in the form of experience and knowledge of "how-to-do-it". During the training and competition period, the hierarchy is changing within the group of fans that were monitored, which provides the community members with either a dominant or, alternate, subordinate position. The changing of the "leaders" in the role of the fans' base brings along high emotions and usually also short-term conflicts in social interactions. In other situations, a hierarchy is not created and the group members perceive each other as equal and support each other in the achievement of their common goal. The researcher has been exposed to the environment she describes and to the emotions and tensions existing therein, and she has separated her own personal perceptions, attitudes and biases with the aim to correctly reflect her experience in the research. The ethnographic research of an athlete's group, or its fans' base, respectively, has...
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Equipping Christians at University Baptist Church to use a dialogical model to foster spiritual growth among persons alienated from God

Froelich, Carey D. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-141).
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Δομές δεικτοδότησης και υπολογισμός ερωτημάτων εύρους κ-διαστάσεων σε κατανεμημένα περιβάλλοντα / Indexing structures and computation k-dimensional range queries in distributed environments

Καπλάνης, Αθανάσιος 24 November 2014 (has links)
Ανέκαθεν, η ανάγκη του ανθρώπου για πληροφορία ήτανε μια από αυτές που φρόντιζε να ικανοποιήσει όσο το δυνατόν πληρέστερα. Η πληροφορία είναι σε όλες τις περιπτώσεις ένα πολύτιμο εργαλείο στην λήψη αποφάσεων και οι άνθρωποι γρήγορα αντιλήφθηκαν την σημασία της, ειδικότερα μάλιστα στην σύγχρονη εποχή στην οποία μέσω της επιστήμης της Πληροφορικής δόθηκε η δυνατότητα σε μεγάλο μέρος του κοινού να έχει πρόσβαση σε τεράστιο όγκο δεδομένων, τα οποία μέσω της σωστής επεξεργασίας μετατρέπονται σε πληροφορία. Αυτό που πλέον αποτελεί πρόκληση, η οποία μας καλεί σαν επιστήμονες της Πληροφορικής να αντιμετωπίσουμε, είναι η εύρεση και στην συνέχεια η εφαρμογή καινούργιων μεθόδων γρήγορης και ανέξοδης συλλογής, αποδοτικής αποθήκευσης και εποικοδομητικής ανάλυσης δεδομένων, έτσι ώστε να γίνουν πληροφορία ποιοτική, πλούσια και με σημαντική χρηστική αξία. Στις μέρες μας, η ανάπτυξη του κλάδου τόσο των κατανεμημένων συστημάτων όσο και του διαδικτύου, μας έχουνε δώσει την δυνατότητα να χρησιμοποιούνται χαμηλοί σε απαιτήσεις υπολογιστικοί πόροι για να επεξεργάζονται παράλληλα μεγάλο όγκο δεδομένων. Ο κλάδος της Πληροφορικής που ασχολείται εκτενώς με αυτά τα συστήματα είναι τα ομότιμα συστήματα ή αλλιώς p2p συστήματα και ο κατανεμημένος υπολογισμός. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως στόχο να βρίσκει σε κατανεμημένο περιβάλλον σημεία στις δύο διαστάσεις. Ορίζεται, δηλαδή, ένας χώρος από κ – διαστάσεις που είναι το πλέγμα (grid), στον οποίο ο χρήστης προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει σημεία που τον ενδιαφέρουν δημιουργώντας έτσι ερωτήματα εύρους. Το σύστημα θα ψάχνει να βρει το αποτέλεσμα στο ερώτημα αυτό για να καταλήξει σε ποιο από τα άλλα ορθογώνια τμήματα του πλέγματος εμπλέκεται και στην συνέχεια αυτά (τα τμήματα) θα επιστρέφονται. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, το πλέγμα μας χωρίζεται σε τετράγωνες περιοχές και κάθε κόμβος του κατανεμημένου δικτύου αναλαμβάνει να φιλοξενήσει τα σημεία της κάθε τετράγωνης περιοχής. Όλοι αυτοί οι κόμβοι οργανώνονται σε ένα hadoop cluster και τα δεδομένα εισάγονται στην κατανεμημένη βάση δεδομένων HBase που βασίζεται στην αρχιτεκτονική του BigTable της Google File System. Ο τρόπος που οργανώνονται τα δεδομένα στην HBase είναι κατανεμημένος και γίνεται χρήση των B+ -δέντρων. Η χρησιμότητα των B+ -δέντρων σε συνδυασμό με το κατανεμημένο πλαίσιο εργασίας του Hadoop, έγκειται στο γεγονός ότι με την χρήση των απαραίτητων εργαλείων τόσο της HBase όσο και του Hadoop FS, μπορούμε να γνωρίζουμε σε ποιόν κόμβο του hadoop cluster είναι αποθηκευμένοι οι ζητούμενοι κόμβοι του B+ -δέντρου και έτσι να επιτυγχάνεται η γρήγορη ανάκτηση των αποτελεσμάτων σε ένα ερώτημα εύρους. Η διάρθρωση της εργασίας έχει ως εξής: Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μια εισαγωγή στις έννοιες του κατανεμημένου υπολογισμού πάνω σε κατανεμημένα περιβάλλοντα. Στο δεύτερο γίνεται μια αναφορά στα ομότιμα δίκτυα (p2p) και πιο συγκεκριμένα αναλύεται το δίκτυο επικάλυψης του BATON που έχει δενδρική δομή όμοια με αυτή του Β+ -δέντρου. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρεται μια υλοποίηση δεικτοδότησης και απάντησης σε ερωτήματα εύρους στο Νέφος Υπολογιστών με χρήση βασικών δομών δεδομένων B+ -δέντρου. Επίσης, η ART Autonomous Range Tree δομή παρουσιάζεται η οποία μπορεί να υποστηρίξει ερωτήματα εύρους σε τόσο ευρείας κλίμακας σε μη κεντρικοποιημένα περιβάλλοντα και μπορεί να κλιμακώνεται σε σχέση με τον αριθμό των κόμβων, καθώς και με βάση τα στοιχεία που είναι αποθηκευμένα. Η ART δομή ξεπερνά τις πιο δημοφιλείς μη κεντρικοποιημένες δομές, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Chord (και μερικοί από τους διαδόχους του), του ΒΑΤΟΝ (και τον διάδοχό του) και των Skip-Graphs. Στο τέταρτο και πέμπτο κεφάλαιο, αντίστοιχα, γίνεται μια αναφορά στα βασικότερα σημεία της αρχιτεκτονικής και της λειτουργίας του Hadoop Framework και της HBase. Στο έκτο κεφάλαιο, βρίσκεται η περιγραφή της υλοποίησης της παρούσης διπλωματικής εργασίας μαζί με τους αλγορίθμους και τον τρόπο λειτουργίας τους. Στο επόμενο γίνεται η αξιολόγηση των πειραματικών αποτελεσμάτων της παρούσης διπλωματικής εργασίας καθώς, και το τι συμπεράσματα προκύπτουν μέσα από την αξιολόγηση. Τέλος, στο τελευταίο και όγδοο κεφάλαιο γίνεται η αποτίμηση της διπλωματικής εργασίας, καθώς αναφέρονται τα βασικά της μέρη, όπως επίσης και πιθανές προεκτάσεις που θα βελτίωναν την απόδοση του συστήματος. / Traditionally, the human need for information was one of those seeking to satisfy as much as possible. Information is in every way a valuable tool in decision making and people quickly realized its importance, especially in modern times, when the Information Technology gave the public access to the vast volume of data, which can be further processed into information. What seems to be now a challenge that IT specialists have to face is finding and implementing new methods of fast and inexpensive data collection, efficient storing of data and constructive data analysis, in order to turn them into quality, rich and useful information. Nowadays, the devel-opment of both the field of distributed systems and the Internet gave us the possibility of using computational resources with low requirements for simultaneous processing of large amounts of data. The IT field that deals extensively with these systems are peer-to-peer systems (p2p) and distributed computing. The present dissertation aims at finding points in a distributed environment in the two-dimensional space. A space of k – dimensions is defined, i.e. the grid, in which the user tries to identify points of interest creating range queries. The system will search to find the result in this question to come up with the rectangular section of the grid that is involved and then these sections will be returned. More specifically, the grid is divided into square areas, and each node of the distributed network will accommodate points of each square area. All these nodes are organized into a hadoop cluster and the data is imported into the HBase distributed database based on BigTable architecture of the Google File System. In HBase data is organized in a distributed way and B+ -trees are used. The utility of B+ -trees in conjunction with the distributed framework of Hadoop lies on the fact that using the necessary tools of both HBase and Hadoop FS we can know in which hadoop cluster node the requested B+ -tree nodes are stored and thus achieve fast results retrieval in a range query. The structure of the project is as follows: The first chapter is an introduction to the concepts of distributed computing over distributed environments. The second is a reference to peer-to-peer networks (p2p) and more specifically the BATON overlay network, which has a tree structure similar to that of the B+ -tree, is analyzed. The third chapter deals with an indexation and answering implementation on range queries in the Computer Cloud using B+ -tree basic data structures. Also, ART Autonomous Range Tree structure is presented which can support range queries in such large-scale decentralized environments and can scale in terms of the number of nodes as well as in terms of the data items stored. ART outperforms the most popular decentralized structures, including Chord (and some of its successors), BATON (and its successor) and Skip-Graphs. In the fourth and fifth chapter respectively a reference is made to the main points of Hadoop Framework and HBase architecture and operation. The sixth chapter is the description of the implementation of this dissertation together with the algorithms and how they operate. The next chapter is the evaluation of the experimental results of this dissertation and of the conclusions that derive from the evaluation. Finally, the eighth and last chapter is an overview of the dissertation, mentioning its basic parts, as well as possible extensions that would improve the system performance.
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Equipping Christians at University Baptist Church to use a dialogical model to foster spiritual growth among persons alienated from God

Froelich, Carey D. January 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-141).
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Equipping Christians at University Baptist Church to use a dialogical model to foster spiritual growth among persons alienated from God

Froelich, Carey D. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-141).
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The Southern review: A history and appraisal

Unknown Date (has links)
"In writing the organized report of the findings an effort will be made, first, to present a historical sketch of the Review with background information explaining some of its whys and wherefores; secondly to introduce its editors, their work and accomplishment; and thirdly, to call the attention of the reader to the scope, magnitude, and performance of the Southern Review itself. In the course of examination of the journal some exercises in patience were performed; i. e., a listing of all contributors, the number of the contributions that each made and the volumes in which these contributions appeared; and a chart showing the contents of each volume; i. e., the number of the different types of essays included, and the number of poems, short stories, and book reviews published. These, as of possible interest to someone other than this writer, will appear in Appendix I and Table I, respectively"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1952." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Robert G. Clapp, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49).

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