A family is a community of people who are related to each other through associations established by blood or marriage. The phenomenon family/kinship constitutes dimension the context, which means atmosphere/environment formation for folk poetry. It has been pointed out researchers that there several basic influences in "poet-minstrel tradition", culture-art-literature tradition formed poets and...

This paper presents results from a rational reconstruction project that is aimed at exploring the creative potential of Scott Turner’s 1993 MINSTREL system. In particular, we investigate the properties of Turner’s original system of Transform-Recall-Adapt Methods (TRAMs) and analyze the performance of an alternate TRAM application strategy. In order to estimate the creativity of our reconstruct...

A critical reassessment of the reception of early jazz in Britain Abstract The Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s visit in 1919-20 has been well documented as the beginning of jazz in Britain. This article illuminates a more complex evolution of the image and presence of jazz in Britain through consideration of the cultural and musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and black mu...

The visual inspection of crystallization experiments is an important yet time-consuming and subjective step in X-ray crystallography. Previously published studies have focused on automatically classifying crystallization droplets into distinct but ultimately arbitrary experiment outcomes; here, a method is described that instead ranks droplets by their likelihood of containing crystals or micro...

This paper demonstrates that the figure of St. Francis Assisi, as expounded by Bonaventure in his work Legenda Major (Major Legend), cannot be understood without certain philosophical and theological keys. Following an expository methodology, we point to Saint a aesthetic model. In this sense, focus on five characterisations found Legend, introducing their meaning, well significance Bonaventure...