Reedmaking is as integral to oboists’ skills as performers and teachers as any other element of their musical study. Reeds regulate almost all aspects of oboists’ music making, including pitch, line, and tone. But reedmaking is also the part of oboists’ professional training least integrated with their overall music education. Currently available resources on oboe reedmaking are written for the practitioner, and tend to be technical rather than pedagogical in nature. They do not cater to oboists’ varying backgrounds in reedmaking; nor do they take into account a given student’s unique physiology, technique, or variations in the instruments themselves. Indeed, techniques for teaching reedmaking have barely changed since the oral tradition of the nineteenth century. Given these shortcomings, there is great opportunity for instructional reexamination and intervention in the teaching of reedmaking. This dissertation blends reedmaking’s pedagogical traditions with principles from L. Dee Fink’s theory of “significant learning” into a useful, task-based guide for oboe professors in modern collegiate settings. First, it surveys historical writings on reedmaking and reedmaking pedagogy from the invention of the oboe to present day. It then examines relevant data and narratives about typical modern reedmaking pedagogy in the context of higher education. Third, it envisions reedmaking curricula based on significant learning principles. Finally, it explores broader implications for the oboe studio, other performance studios, and the expansion of a literature of reedmaking pedagogy.

Recent years have seen dramatic growth in Internet usage and an increasing convergence between Internet and wireless communications. There has also been renewed interest in iteratively decoded low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes due to their capacity approaching performance on AWGN channels.

This essay explores current methods, procedures and philosophies surrounding oboe reed-making via a survey conducted in 2009 amongst college-level oboe professors. By relying on the results of the survey, it seeks to identify a unifying approach to American reed-making pedagogy by establishing common concerns and experiences of educators and presenting a snapshot of the development of oboe reed design in American universities and colleges with particular attention given to developments during the tenure of those surveyed ending with 2009.

One major problem plaguing reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.), a high yielding perennial grass, is its poor seed retention. Folded leaf progeny plants from a cross involving a seed-retaining clone were observed in a space-planted nursery. The objectives of this study were to determine whether the folded leaf trait was associated with higher seed retention and other agronomic traits. The inheritance of this trait was also investigated through crosses performed and evaluated in the field and greenhouse. Under solid stand conditions, highly significant differences (p < 0.01) existed between folded and flat leaf polycross progeny entries for heading date and seed retention percentage. Under space-planted conditions folded leaf plants were significantly different (p < 0.05) from flat leaf plants for height, head length, panicle number and growth habit. Widely divergent segregation ratios led to the rejection of the proposed model of inheritance -- disomic inheritance with duplicate gene action.

Thesis (M.S.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2008. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Diss. phil.-hist. Bern (kein Austausch). / andere Ausgabe: Concrete language. Literaturverz.

Σχεδόν όλα τα σύγχρονα τηλεπικοινωνιακά συστήματα, τα οποία προορίζονται για μεταφορά ή αποθήκευση δεδομένων, έχουν υιοθετήσει κώδικες διόρθωσης λαθών για την αύξηση της αξιοπιστίας και τη μείωση της απαιτούμενης ισχύος εκπομπής. Μία αρκετά συχνά χρησιμοποιούμενη επιλογή είναι οι κώδικες Reed Solomon που έχουν την υψηλότερη δυνατή ελάχιστη απόσταση μεταξύ των κωδικών λέξεων για δεδομένη διορθωτική ικανότητα. Στην εργασία αυτή μελετήθηκαν οι ιδιότητες των κωδίκων αυτών, έγινε ανάλυση των διαφόρων αλγορίθμων αποκωδικοποίησης και ο σχεδιασμός σε FPGA των λειτουργιών κωδικοποίησης και αποκωδικοποίησης. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, έγινε εκτενής χρήση του συνθέσιμου μικρελεγκτή της Xilinx, του Picoblaze για τα δύο συστήματα που αφορούν τον κώδικα RS (255,239), υιοθετώντας μια παράλληλη αρχιτεκτονική για τον αποκωδικοποιητή, έχοντας ως στόχο μια οικονομική ως προς τους χρησιμοποιούμενους πόρους υλοποίηση. Η αρχιτεκτονική αυτή τροποποιήθηκε με σκοπό την επίτευξη υψηλότερης ταχύτητας λειτουργίας, αυξάνοντας το χρησιμοποιούμενο hardware. Ο σχεδιασμός υλοποιήθηκε σε ένα Virtex4 της Xilinx, χρησιμοποιώντας εργαλεία της Xilinx και διαπιστώθηκε η ορθή του λειτουργία χρησιμοποιώντας αντίστοιχα bit-accurate μοντέλα που αναπτύχθηκαν σε Matlab. / -

The purpose of this study is to trace the development of the oboe and its use from the primitive double reed instruments to the oboes of the Baroque Period. Toward the end of this period the oboe became thoroughly established as an important section in the symphony orchestra and has remained so to the present time.

N/A / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)