Derrick Tilton Vail was born in Cincin­ nati, Ohio, May 15, 1898, the son of Der­ rick and Delia Harriss Vail and the middle of five children. During his adolescent years he resented this position as his two older brothers continually ganged up to make him babysit for the two younger sisters (fig. 1). He went to a very small private school where he was a member of every athletic team—an accompl...

Tremolo is a technique to produce the same note continuously in short spans, and an important for musical performance on mandolin. However, it not easy beginners master this technique, nor even expert players perform wide range of expressions. There no unified view proper behavior tremolo playing, there are examples measured behavior. In study, we hand movements during playing One test subject ...

Hydroponics has become a popular production technology for leafy greens in greenhouses. However, year-round of cool-season remains challenging due to costly heating and cooling during winter summer seasons, depending on location. Therefore, the objective this study is investigate effect nutrient solution deep-water hydroponic systems performance several green vegetables. Two experiments season ...

JCB • VOLUME 172 • NUMBER 4 • 2006 482 M itochondria are passed from cell to cell, as shown by Jeffrey Spees, Scott Olson, Mandolin Whitney, and Darwin Prockop (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA). Prockop’s group stumbled across this remarkable ability while studying bone marrow stem cells (MSCs), which were particularly social in culture, often touching each other and then backing off. Small ...

The Japanese Fan The folding fan is probably one of the representative images that most commonly dwell in the gallery of picturesque metaphors of Japan. Whether in the hands of a beautiful geisha or a valiant samurai, the fan is one of those objects that the external gaze has understood as peculiar of Japanese culture and that more successfully made an impact on the construction of the myth of ...

figure of a woman, is lining up a billiard shot, while the figure of a man…stands dreaming in a doorway, " writes artist-printmaker Peter Milton (b. 1930). He is describing the photograph by Gertrude Kasebier in 1908, which inspired his print Mary's Turn. " …it was the drama of the purposeful woman and the pensive man which established the direction Mary's Turn was to take " (1). The pensive ma...

ion level. In both tasks, the participants were asked to start browsing from an entity classified at a classification low level, i.e. a concrete musical instrument (bouzouki and electric guitar, respectively). Participants clicked much more on entities from instrument classifications in Task 1 than in Task 2 (high significance, Wilcoxon test, W=74, p<0.005). Similarly, participants clicked much...

The Start of a Journey I am riding in the front seat of a tiny Ford Icon, taking in the leftsided passenger view as we bump along narrow dirt roads. The driver is cheerfully unperturbed as he navigates various obstacles in our path: children, motorists, stray dogs, cycle rickshaws, carts of bright red tomatoes. By the end of my trip, my mind—and stomach—will be desensitized to the labyrinth of ...

serenade op. 24 from arnold schoenberg has been written in 7 movements for 7- person ensemble between 1921-1923 including clarinet and bass clarinet (woodwinds), mandolin, guitar, violin, alto and cello(stringed instrument). movements of this work have some been arranged symmetrically by composer.  the 4th movement of this collection named sonnet has features such as singer accompanied with orc...