Das an Kostbarkeiten reiche Dresdner Kupferstich‐Kabinett verwahrt in seinem Bestand auch ein außergewöhnliches Konvolut von Vestiarien zu Dresdner Opernaufführungen. Unter ihnen stellt der prächtig in rotes Leder eingebundene Band „L’Olimpiade“ wiederum eine kleine Preziose dar.

This study aims to explore the boundaries and creative possibilities of composing and improvising music with a base in sampled saxophone fragments inside of Ableton Live. The study have included things as: exploring different sound design techniques, manipulation of saxophone samples, composing and rearranging music as well as rehearsing with a band and trying different concepts and approaches to performing the music in a live situation. The work includes creating polytonal sample instruments built inside of Live and the creation of more texture based ones as well. This work also resulted in composing 6 different compositions and the rearranging of an earlier composition to match the aesthetic character of the other ones. I’ve also tried to stretch the linear boundaries of Ableton Live with a more rubato based approach to composing to see what possibilities the program had to handle that type of context.As a composer I’ve early on created an aesthetic vision of what I wanted this sample based music to sound like and tried to very precisely recreate what I’ve heard inside of my head in detailed sketches in Ableton Live using midi instruments together with the sampled textures and instruments. I then realised that a great deal of the final task of this study was to bring this vision to the ensemble and make them play the music in a way that resonated with what I’ve heard when I composed it.

Udder inflammation, whether caused by bacterial, physical, or neurological means, usually results in the secretion of milk that is abnormal in character.

The following paper is the result of making a study of the vegetation of a selected region along Lake Erie at Turkey Point, by observations, field notes and collections of botanical specimens together with information and records acquired by examination of provincial institutional and private herbaria and by a survey of the literature. The field work was carried out during the summer of 1938. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Child abuse is highly prevalent in the United States, as prior research has shown that 21% of the child population reports experiences of sexual abuse, 28% experience physical abuse, and 11% are emotionally abused. Many studies have assessed the prevalence and consequences of child abuse, but fewer have considered the differences between individual experiences of childhood abuse. The current study investigates possible differences between nonclinical and clinical samples, specifically with regard to victim-perpetrator relationships. We hypothesize that clinical inpatient samples experience greater rates of abuse than a nonclinical sample, and also that participants from clinical samples experience more abuse by family members than those in a nonclinical setting. Our sample (N=521; 53% female; 78% Caucasian) Page 60 2016 Appalachian Student Research Forum consists of participants who report a history of childhood emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse in samples of university students (n=342), randomly-selected forensic adult inpatients from a maximum- and intermediate-security psychiatric facility (n=90), and youth males receiving treatment for sexual misconduct in residential care (n=89). Data were self-reported in the study of university students and retrieved from archival records in the latter two samples. Within the subsample, 69% experienced emotional abuse, 54% had been physically abused, and 45% were sexually abused during childhood. Chisquare analyses were conducted to examine the occurrence of familial versus nonfamilial perpetrators of physical and sexual abuse between two subsamples (clinical inpatient samples versus nonclinical university sample). Individuals with a history of sexual abuse in the clinical sample were more likely than those in the nonclinical sample to be sexually abused by family members,  2 (1, N=230)=11.67, p = .001. Additionally, individuals who were physically abused in the clinical sample were more likely to have been physically abused by relatives than those in the nonclinical sample,  2 (1, N=235)=7.94, p = .005. In contrast, physically abused participants in the nonclinical sample were significantly more likely than those in the clinical sample to be physically abused by nonfamily members,  2 (1, N=235)=19.10, p = .000. There was no significant difference in the likelihood of experiencing extrafamilial sexual abuse between the clinical and nonclinical samples,  2 (1, N=230)=1.96, p = .162. Our results suggest that there are significant differences between the experiences across the subsamples in this study. Additional analyses will include further investigation of the various types of perpetrators (e.g., mother, father, acquaintance, etc.) between the subsamples. Future directions and limitations will be included.

Relative clauses are grammatical constructions that are of relevance in both typical and impaired language development. Thus, the accurate identification of these structures in child language samples is clinically important. In recent years, computer software has been used to assist in the automated analysis of clinical language samples. However, this software has had only limited success when attempting to identify relative clauses. The present study explores the development and clinical importance of relative clauses and investigates the accuracy of the software used for automated identification of these structures. Two separate collections of language samples were used. The first collection included 10 children with language impairment, ranging in age from 7;6 to 11;1 (years;months), 10 age-matched peers, and 10 language-matched peers. A second collection contained 30 children considered to have typical speech and language skills and who ranged in age from 2;6 to 7;11. Language samples were manually coded for the presence of relative clauses (including those containing a relative pronoun, those without a relative pronoun and reduced relative clauses). These samples were then tagged using computer software and finally tabulated and compared for accuracy. ANACOVA revealed a significant difference in the frequency of relative clauses containing a relative pronoun but not for those without a relative pronoun nor for reduce relative clauses. None of the structures were significantly correlated with age; however, frequencies of both relative clauses with and without relative pronouns were correlated with mean length of utterance. Kappa levels revealed that agreement between manual and automated coding was relatively high for each relative clause type and highest for relative clauses containing relative pronouns.

In 2018 ESA and NASA plan to send the ExoMars rover to the Martian surface. This rover is planned to have a suite of analytical equipment that includes a Raman spectrometer. In this context, an evaluation of Raman spectroscopy as an analytical tool for interplanetary studies is investigated. The preparation techniques for appropriate inorganic and organic mixtures are interrogated. Methods are investigated to optimize the homogeneity of over 50 samples involving mineral phases; calcite, gypsum and goethite and selected organic biomolecular systems; anthracene, naphthalene and beta-carotene. From mixtures produced of these organic and inorganic materials differences between homogeneity of the samples is observed. Different mixing techniques are investigated to reduce this, however all the samples display variation on a micron scale. To resolve this issue a grid system of 9 points is implemented on solid samples and solutions are used to produce standards. The standards are devised using a range of instrument validation parameters for comparison between commercially available spectrometers and the prototype instrument. From these standards a prototype instrument is optimized for data acquisition and an evaluation procedure for instrument performance is established. The prototype Raman spectrometer is evaluated to match the specifications of the spectrometer on board ExoMars rover. A range of astrobiological relevant samples are interrogated; geological samples, biomarkers, cellular systems and bio-geological inclusions. From these samples detection of organics is observed to be only possible, with Raman spectroscopy where organics are localised in high concentrations, upon grinding and mixing geological inclusions Raman spectroscopy is unable to detect the organic components. / Appendices 3 and 4 are full text of the articles which are referenced in the text, but the published copy is not allowed to be displayed under copyright restrictions and are not included with this online thesis.

<p> In the past decade, sites of hydrothermal activity along the Juan de Fuca Ridge have gained a growing amount of attention. Increased sampling has provided the materials for more detailed studies, including those collected from Axial Seamount, a large shield volcano on the central portion of the ridge. Axial Seamount is host to at least three active vent sites, one of which, along the northwest caldera wall, consists of recently active eruptive-fissures and nearby chimney-like spires. A sampled spire from this location and samples from other vent areas are described using reflected and transmitted light techniques. They have been found to consist of the sulphide phases sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, isocubanite, and galena. Jordanite and tetrahedrite-tennanite are also known to precipitate at these vent sites, but were not observed here. The most dominant non-sulphide minerals are amorphous silica and barite. Native sulfur, Fe and Mn oxides and a variety of sulfosalts may also be present. The complex textures in these samples reflect precipitation and growth from higher temperature fluids that are mixing with local ambient seawater. Fluid inclusions in sphalerite have revealed salinities in the 5.6 to 7.0 weight % NaCl range, with homogenization temperatures ranging from 214.8°C to 269.4°C. Temperatures of homogenization require pressure-corrections between approximately 9.0°C and 13.0°C, to set-up a range of trapping temperatures that lie between 211.8°C and 279.4°C. Fluid inclusions are also found in wurtzite, barite, and amorphous silica however, these would yield no data. Middle Valley is a sedimented rift valley that lies at the extreme north end of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. A number of hydrothermal sulphide mounds that lie atop the sediment pile have been sampled. The mineralogy is similar to that at Axial Seamount; however, the dominant sulphide phase at Middle Valley is pyrrhotite. Textural differences between the two sites are significant, a result of the traversing of hydrothermal fluids through a thick package of hemepelagic sediment at Middle Valley. Samples from Middle Valley are found to contain no measurable fluid inclusions in the sections available for study. Mineralogical and fluid inclusion studies are important methods that can be used to help solve the complex growth history of sulfides that are and have been accumulating at mid-ocean ridge vent sites.</p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Science (BSc)

<p> The estimators of the mean, standard deviation and group effects for one-way-classification experimental designs are obtained from type I censored samples. The bias and the variances and covariances of these estimators are evaluated. A test statistic is proposed for testing a linear contrast of the group-effects. Two numerical examples are presented.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

The following paper is the result of making a study of the vegetation of a selected region along Lake Erie at Turkey Point, by observations, field notes and collections of botanical specimens together with information and records acquired by examination of provincial institutional and private herbaria and by a survey of the literature. The field work was carried out during the summer of 1938. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)