Dieter Simons

Dieter Schnebel: Spiritual Music Today

This article presents an annotated English translation of the composer-theologian Dieter Schnebel’s seminal essay exploring music’s spiritual capacities. Speaking explicitly from his time and place, Schnebel considers compositional questions arising from the most advanced new music of European modernism. The approach is driven by insights derived from Marxist critical theory and the “new theolo...

Statement for Karl - Dieter Crisman

My current research is primarily in the mathematics of voting. This discipline lies at the interface of mathematics, political science, and economics, though it has connections to any field which could involve aggregation of preferences, such as statistics or psychology. It also is a proven, fertile field for undergraduate research. The math of voting, in its classical form, asks questions abou...

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Concepts of Object { Orientation yHans - Dieter

An object is a unit of structure and behavior; it has an identity which persists through change; objects communicate with each other; they are classiied by object types, collected into object classes, related by inheritance, and composed to form complex objects. In the rst part of the paper, this rich world of concepts and constructions is explained in an informal but systematic way, independen...

Dieter Blottner Æ Michele Salanova Æ

Prolonged immobilization of the human body results in functional impairments and musculoskeletal system deconditioning that may be attenuated by adequate muscle exercise. In a 56-day horizontal bed rest campaign involving voluntary males we investigated the effects of vibration muscle exercise (RVE, 2·6 min daily) on the lower limb skeletal muscles using a newly designed foot plantar trainer (G...