Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996. / Issued also on microfilm. Includes tables. Sponsor: Franceska Smith. Dissertation Committee: Kathleen Loughlin. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-245).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

abstract: As an organist, church musician, and educator, Clifford Demarest (1874-1946) was a prominent figure in New York during the first half of the twentieth century. However, prior to this thesis, Demarest's place within the history of American music, like that of many of his contemporaries, was all but neglected. This research reveals Clifford Demarest as an influential figure in American musical history from around 1900 to his retirement in 1937. Led by contemporary accounts, I trace Demarest's musical influence through his three musical careers: professional organist, church musician, and educator. As a prominent figure in the fledgling American Guild of Organists, Demarest was dedicated to the unification of its members and the artistic legitimacy of the organist profession. As the organist and choir director of the Church of the Messiah, later the Community Church of New York (1911-1946, inclusive), Demarest played an integral part in the liberal atmosphere fostered by the congregation's minister, John Haynes Holmes (1879-1964). Together Holmes and Demarest directly influenced the nascent National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and supported luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Influential figures such as Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Augustus Granville Dill (1881-1956), Egbert Ethelred Brown (1875-1956), and Countee Cullen (1903-1946) were inspired by the liberal environment in the Church of the Messiah; however, prior to this research, their connections to the church were unexplored. As the music supervisor of Tenafly High School and later, for the state of New Jersey, Demarest influenced countless students through his passion for music. His compositions for student orchestras are among the earliest to elevate the artistic standards of school music ensembles during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Archival sources such as church records, letters, and newspaper editorials, are synthesized with current research to characterize Demarest's place in these three professional orbits of the early twentieth century. His story also represents those of countless other working musicians from his era that have been forgotten. Therefore, this research opens an important new research field – a window into the dynamic world of the American organist. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Music 2014

This thesis focuses on investigating and creating an application for filtering user-generated content. The method was to examine how profanity and racist expressions are used and manipulated to evade filtering processes in similar systems. Focus also went on to study different algorithms to get this process to be quick and efficient, i.e., to process as many names in the shortest amount of time possible. This is because the client needs to filter millions of new uploads every day. The result shows that the application detects profanity and manipulated profanity. Data from the customer’s database was also used for testing purposes, and the result showed that the application also works in practice. The performance test shows that the application has a fast execution time. We could see this by approximating it to a linear func-tion with respect to time and the number of names entered. The conclusion was that the filter works and discovers profanity not detected earlier. Future updates to strengthen the decision process could be to introduce a third-party service, or a web interface where you can manually control decisions. Execution time is good and shows that 10 million names can be pro-cessed in about 6 hours. In the future, one can parallelize queries to the database so that multiple names can be processed simultaneously. / Denna avhandling fokuserar på att utreda och skapa en applikation för filtrering av användargenererat innehåll. Metoden gick ut på att undersöka hur svordomar samt rasistiska uttryck används och manipuleras för att undgå filtrerings processer i liknande system. Fokus gick även ut på att studera olika algoritmer för att få denna process att vara snabb och effektiv, dvs kunna bearbeta så många namn på kortast möjliga tid. Detta beror på att kunden i detta sammanhang får in miljontals nya uppladdningar varje dag, som måste filtreras innan använding. Resultatet visar att applikationen upptäcker svordomar i olika former. Data från kundens databas användes också för test syfte, och resultatet visade att applikationen även fungerar i praktiken. Prestanda testet visar att applikationen har en snabb exekveringstid. Detta kunde vi se genom att estimera den till en linjär funktion med hänsyn till tid och antal namn som matats in. Slutsatsen blev att filtret fungerar och upptäcker svordomar som inte upptäckts tidigare i kundens databas. För att stärka besluten i processen kan man i framtida uppdateringar införa tredje parts tjänster, eller ett web interface där man manuelt kan styra beslut. Exekverings tiden är bra och visar att 10 miljoner namn kan bearbetas på cirka 6 timmar. I framtiden kan man parallellisera förfrågningarna till databasen så att flera namn kan bearbetas samtidigt.

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An American singing prodigy escapes to Russia following the death of his bandmate and stays after his last close relative – his mother – dies. It’s the late 1990s and he’s found a new home. After a decade in obscurity he makes a comeback by joining a Russian musical collective, but when they embark on a tour during the events in Crimea in 2014, accusations swirl about his past as a democracy promoter for a U.S.-funded NGO in Vladivostok. Condemned by the media as a spy, he’s eventually denounced by Rokko – the man who rediscovered him, mentored him, and became his best friend – a hybrid like him, someone with a toehold in both Russian and American cultures. He returns to the U.S. where he is also viewed warily, for he responds to criticisms of Russia by encouraging a nuanced understanding of the country at a time when there’s no patience for it. He is left without the one thing he’d always searched for: a home.

Thesis (MScAgric)--Stellenbosch University, 2012 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ruminal pH is the rumen condition that varies most. Studying the cause and effect of diurnal variation offers a means of improving ruminal conditions for rumen micro-organisms with subsequent improvements in fibre degradation, milk yields and milk composition. A research project was conducted to test the following hypothesis: feeding 6 kg (as is) concentrate per cow/day in different weight ratios, divided in a morning and an afternoon allocation, will result in an improved ruminal pH profile and a concurrent increase in fibre fermentation, milk yield and improved milk composition. The project was conducted at the Outeniqua Research Farm in the Southern Cape of South Africa. A randomized block design was used and two phases, viz. ryegrass phase and a kikuyu phase, were applied. Each phase was conducted during the growing season of the grass specie used as pasture. A rumen study and a production study were done in each phase. The rumen study used six cannulated multiparous cows per treatment, testing rumen pH, volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentration, in sacco degradation of neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and dry matter (DM). The production study used 42 multiparous cows, blocked according to days in milk (DIM), parity and milk yield, and cows were randomly divided into three treatment groups. The study tested milk yield, milk composition and changes in body weight (BW) and body condition score (BCS). Treatments consisted of a maize based concentrate supplement (6 kg per cow/day, as is) being fed to cows on pasture in different weight ratios between morning and afternoon allocation. Treatments used in the production study were: Concentrate fed: 5 kg during morning; 1 kg during afternoon • Concentrate fed: 4 kg during morning; 2 kg during afternoon • Concentrate fed: 3 kg during morning; 3 kg during afternoon The first and the last treatments mentioned above were used in the rumen studies. Results of the rumen study of the ryegrass phase showed no differences in ruminal pH between treatment means. The time (h) spent below the critical ruminal pH, i.e. 5.8, was of short duration (2.92 to 3.42 hours). The concentration of certain VFA’s differed at times, but the differences were not reflected in graphs and data of the ruminal pH. No differences were observed in in sacco NDF and DM degradation between treatment means. Similar results were mostly obtained in the kikuyu phase. No differences were found in either daily maximum, minimum or mean ruminal pH between treatment means. Though time (h) spent below the critical ruminal pH was of a long duration (7.1 hours) it did not differ between treatments. No differences were observed between treatment means for in sacco NDF and DM degradation. Results of the production study of the ryegrass phase showed no differences in milk yield or milk composition between treatment means. The same was observed in the kikuyu phase except that milk fat was higher in the treatment group that received the 3:3 kg ratio treatment. The fact that treatments did not differ in terms of milk yield and milk composition in the production studies can be attributed to no differences between treatments in terms of rumen parameters observed in the rumen studies. Thus, feeding a higher proportion of concentrate in the morning relative to the afternoon for a total of 6 kg per cow/day does not affect ruminal pH, fibre digestion or milk production. Based on the results of both phases it can be concluded that the null hypothesis should be rejected. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die invloed van kragvoer voedingsstrategieë op rumen parameters, melkproduksie en melksamestelling van Jerseykoeie op raaigras- (Lolium multiflorum) of kikoejoe- (Pennisetum clandestinum) weidings. Die invloed van kragvoer voedingsstrategieë op rumen parameters, melkproduksie en melksamestelling van Jerseykoeie op raaigras- (Lolium multiflorum) of kikoejoe- (Pennisetum clandestinum) weidings. Behandelings toegepas in die produksiestudie het bestaan uit ‘n kragvoeraanvulling met ‘n mieliebasis wat aan koeie op weidings gevoer is in verskillende gewigsverhoudings tussen oggend- en middagvoeding, as volg: Behandelings toegepas in die produksiestudie het bestaan uit ‘n kragvoeraanvulling met ‘n mieliebasis wat aan koeie op weidings gevoer is in verskillende gewigsverhoudings tussen oggend- en middagvoeding, as volg:

Joe Louis Clark was the principal of Eastside High School (EHS) located in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to explore Mr. Clark’s leadership style as principal of EHS, and to investigate from the point of view of Mr. Clark’s former students, teachers, and administrators what, if any effect, his leadership style had at EHS, as well as on his students, teachers, and administrators’ lives during and subsequent to their time at EHS. I conducted this investigation by giving voice to my classmates, teachers, administrators and myself. I graduated from EHS during Mr. Clark’s tenure and I am a member of his first graduating class in 1986. When Mr. Clark arrived as principal, EHS was characterized by large numbers of students living at or below the poverty line, overcrowded classrooms, and outdated resources. Additionally, there were issues such as: high dropout rates, drugs, teenage pregnancy, violence towards students and teachers. In an attempt to raise the students’ Minimum Basic Skills Test scores and eliminate the violence at EHS, Mr. Clark was hired as the principal. Through face-to-face and telephone semi-structured, open ended in-depth interviews with twenty-two participants, I uncovered personal views of Mr. Clark’s leadership style. Mr. Clark used a leadership style that was characterized by the informants as autocratic, directive, charismatic and caring. The voices of his students, teachers, and administrators speak volumes about the strategies he developed that made an impact on their lives in addition to reforming EHS.

No presente experimento, foi testada a inclusão do éster isopropílico do análogo de metionina (HMBi) no concentrado de vacas Holandesas (HPB) e vacas ½ HPB ½ Jersey mantidas em pastagens de capim Elefante, com o objetivo de atingir relação entre lisina e metionina de 3:1 na proteína metabolizável. As variáveis avaliadas foram a produção e composição de leite. A massa de forragem e as composições nutricional e morfológica da pastagem também foram avaliadas. Foram utilizadas 16 vacas HPB e 12 vacas ½ HPB ½ Jersey, com aproximadamente 150 dias em lactação no início do período experimental. A pastagem de capim Elefante foi manejada em sistema rotacionado com dois dias de ocupação e período de descanso variável, determinado pela altura do dossel de 1m para a entrada dos animais no piquete. A pastagem foi adubada com 80 kg de N por ciclo de pastejo. As vacas experimentais faziam o pastejo no primeiro dia de ocupação e animais extras do rebanho realizavam o repasse no segundo dia de ocupação de cada piquete, garantindo que o resíduo pós pastejo ficasse em torno de 40 cm. A pastagem continha em média 22% de PB, 66% de FDN e 71,5% de DIVMS. O concentrado foi fornecido individualmente, na dose média de 6,6 kg de MN por vaca/dia com base na relação 1 kg de concentrado para cada 3 kg de leite, estabelecida no início do período experimental. O concentrado era idêntico entre os tratamentos, com exceção da inclusão ou não do éster análogo da metionina (HMBi). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi em crossover (2x2), dois tratamentos e dois períodos. Exceto os dados de contagem de células somáticas, os dados foram analisados pelo PROC MIXED (SAS® versão 9.1.3, 2003). Para os dados de células somáticas foi utilizada uma distribuição de Poisson, sendo analisados sob abordagem de modelos lineares generalizados. Não foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas para produção de leite (16,20 x 16,49), produção de leite corrigido para 3,50% de gordura (16,34 x 16,61), concentração de gordura no leite (3,57 x 3,57%) e concentração protéica no leite (3,12 x 3,13%), respectivamente para as vacas do grupo controle e as que receberam HMBi. Vacas ½ HPB ½ Jersey, apesar do menor peso corporal e menor consumo de concentrado, produziram leite com maior teor protéico que vacas HPB, e produziram a mesma quantidade de gordura e de proteína láctea. / In this trial, was tested the inclusion of isopropyl ester of methionine analogue (HMBi) in the concentrate of BWH cows and ½ BWH ½ Jersey cows kept in pastures of Elephant grass, with the goal of achieving lysine: methionine ratio of 3:1 in metabolizable protein. Variables analyzed were milk production and composition. The forage mass and the nutritional composition and morphology of the pasture were also evaluated. 16 Holstein cows and 12 ½ WBH ½ Jersey cows, with approximately 150 days in milk at the beginning of the trial period were used. The Elephant grass pasture was managed by rotational system with two days of occupation and variable rest period, determined by the sward height of 1m at the entry of animals in each paddock. The pasture was fertilized with 80 kg N per grazing cycle. The experimental cows were grazed in the first occupation day and extra animals of the herd grazed on the second occupation day of each paddock, ensuring the post grazing residue to be around 40 cm. The pasture contained on average 22% of CP, 66% of NDF and 71.5% of IVDDM. The concentrate was provided individually, the average dose of 6.6 kilograms of MN per cow per day, based on 1 kg of concentrate for every 3 kg of milk, established at the beginning of the trial period. The concentrate was similar among treatments, except for the inclusion or not of methionine ester analog (HMBi). The experimental design was a crossover (2x2), two treatments and two periods. Except the somatic cell count, the data were analyzed by the PROC MIXED (SAS ® version 9.1.3, 2003). For SCC data was used a Poisson distribution, and examined under approach of generalized linear models. There were no statistically significant differences in milk production (16.20 x 16.49), 3,50% fat corrected milk production (16.34 x 16.61), milk fat concentration (3.57 x 3.57%) and milk protein concentration (3.12 x 3.13%) respectively for cows from the control group and those receiving HMBi. Cows ½ BWH ½ Jersey, despite the lower body weight and lower concentrate intake, produced milk with higher protein content than cows BWH, and produced the same amount of milk fat and protein.