Penny Lane Research Articles

Places they remember: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.

Three popular songs of enormous cultural significance are ‘In My Life’, ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, all released by the Beatles in the 1960s and all set in the same part of Liverpool. In an original investigation, this article looks into the growth of that part of the city from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s, examining the changes to the landscape. This was as the initially rural environment gave way to a typical twentieth-century townscape of houses, roads, parks and schools. The memories of people who resided there are related and these along with old maps, photographs, newspaper articles and census details are examined to give a sense of the lived-in location that inspired the lyrics of Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The phenomenon of palimpsest – ancient features slightly visible underneath modern ones – is applied to this study of the location and a new concept of inverse palimpsest – the old consciously superimposed on the new – is put forward in a novel approach to landscape analysis.

КВАНТОВОЕ МАШИННОЕ ОБУЧЕНИЕ НА БАЗЕ БИБЛИОТЕК PENNYLANE НА ПРИМЕРЕ ЭКОНОМЕТРИЧЕСКОГО МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ КОТИРОВОК ВАЛЮТНОЙ ПАРЫ USD/RUB

The article is devoted to econometric calculations using quantum machine learning technologies and PennyLane libraries. The features of Penny Lane integration into the Google Colab development environment are considered. An econometric model has been created to predict the behavior of the USD/RUB currency pair in order to determine its satisfaction with the values laid down in the framework of the execution of the government budget.

Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Using Classical-Quantum Transfer Learning Approach and Probability Model

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus that causes lesions on the retina that affect vision. Late detection of DR can lead to irreversible blindness. The manual diagnosis process of DR retina fundus images by ophthalmologists is time consuming and costly. While, Classical Transfer learning models are extensively used for computer aided detection of DR; however, their maintenance costs limits detection performance rate. Therefore, Quantum Transfer learning is a better option to address this problem in an optimized manner. The significance of Hybrid quantum transfer learning approach includes that it performs heuristically. Thus, our proposed methodology aims to detect DR using a hybrid quantum transfer learning approach. To build our model we extract the APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection dataset from Kaggle and used inception-V3 pre-trained classical neural network for feature extraction and Variational Quantum classifier for stratification and trained our model on Penny Lane default device, IBM Qiskit BasicAer device and Google Cirq Simulator device. Both models are built based on PyTorch machine learning library. We bring about a contrast performance rate between classical and quantum models. Our proposed model achieves an accuracy of 93%–96% on the quantum hybrid model and 85% accuracy rate on the classical model. So, quantum computing can harness quantum machine learning to do work with power and efficiency that is not possible for classical computers.

Floral pigment-scent associations in eight cut rose cultivars with various petal colors

The associations between petal pigments and scent compounds of Rosa hybrida were determined in eight commercial cultivars with different petal-colors, visually classified as four petal-color groups: ‘Beast’ and 'Marilyn Monroe' in white (W), ‘Good Time’ and ‘Penny Lane’ in yellow (Y), ‘Ahoi’ and ‘Pink Condor’ in pink (P), and ‘Pearl Red’ and ‘Vital’ in red (R). The petal pigments were distinct by visual petal color polymorphs. Yellow petals contained only carotenoids and unusually large amounts of β-carotenes as their primary pigments, whereas white ones included minimal levels of carotenoids. As expected, pink and red flowers had cyanin as the major anthocyanin. The amount of cyanin in petals was significantly higher in the red petals. Unlike petal pigments, the scents were abundant in white and yellow flowers, containing both phenolic and terpene compounds. The pink and red flowers, on the other hand, were scented with only phenolics as represented by 2-phenylethanol and 3,5-dimethoxytoluene, which existed in all eight cultivars. The amount of detected scent was up to six times higher in the white or yellow flowers than in the pink or red ones. A principal component analysis (PCA) with all detected pigments and scents resulted in classifying eight cultivars as three independent groups: (GI) ‘Beast’, (GII) ‘Good Time’, ‘Penny Lane’, and ‘Marilyn Monroe’, and (GIII) ‘Ahoi’, ‘Pink Condor’, ‘Pearl Red’, and ‘Vital’. ‘Marilyn Monroe’ (W) belonged to GII with yellow cultivars, not to GI with ‘Beast’ (W). The PCA coordinates of pink and red cultivars were so close that they belonged to the same group, GIII. With this information, we know that rose petal colors may differ in terms of their pigment and scent profiles.

Different growing conditions can modulate metabolites content during post-harvest of Viola cornuta L. edible flowers

Edible flowers are inflorescences traditionally used in various part of the world to enrich sweet and savoury recipes. The flowers of Viola spp. were appreciated since the Romans, and today the fresh products are now incorporated as ingredients in different culinary preparations. In this work, cultivation of potted Viola cornuta L. cv. Penny Lane was performed in greenhouse with different environmental conditions (basal heating, additional LED lighting and moisture management) and therefore the biomass production (number of flowers per square meter and plant dimension per pot) was assessed. The plants are characterised by flowers with dark purple and orange petals in the same corolla. The shelf-life of detached flowers was studied in post-harvest conditions at 0 and 4 days of cold storage at 4°C (polyethylene boxes, 12/12 h light/dark condition) to simulate the condition of I gamma products. Sugars and secondary metabolites were analysed. Basal heating seems not to increase flower number but could contribute to reach a well-balanced simultaneous presence of different antioxidant molecules (polyphenols, anthocyanins, carotenoids). Our data highlight that the short cold storage under light condition lead to an increase in the content of total polyphenols and antioxidant activity, although a general reduction in pigments and sugars is observed.

Liverpool's Urban Imaginary: The Beatles and Tourism Fanscapes

Destinations continually seek creative ways to market their destination by celebrating popular histories or individuals. For Liverpool, there is one band with such international recognition that the city seeks to capitalize on. Popular Beatles fanscapes are woven into the fabric and narrative of Liverpool and they are part of the city’s unique music identity. Geographers (Kruse), destination marketers (Whang, Yong, and Ko), popular culture experts (Julien), and cultural historians (Stark) have conducted previous academic research acknowledging the Beatles. However, no study has positioned the Beatles alongside literatures that unite tourism with authenticity and fanscapes using co-constructed autoethnography. This paper utilizes a method of autoethnography to critically position meanings that align with place identity and authenticity, along with tangible and intangible heritage—thereby creating sentiment of popular memory. The four members of the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are from Liverpool and in many ways are synonymous with the city as they are embedded in the story of Liverpool since they became famous in the 1960s (Cohen). To attract Beatles fans from around the globe, destination managers, planners, and private stakeholders have found creative ways to display and disseminate sites and places of and for the Beatles. Notable spaces and places around Liverpool include: The Cavern Quarter, Hard Days Night Hotel, The Beatles Story (in the Albert Dock), John, Paul, Ringo, and George Statues in Pier Head, Magical Mystery Tour, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, John Lennon Airport, as well as numerous features hidden in the city, each memorialize the Beatles as part of the city’s urban imaginary and popular music culture. This study critically explores these spaces and places of popular fandom, developed as an autoethnography (of the authors who are Beatles fans and new Liverpool residents). I (first-author) critically reflect on experiences as they relate to tourism and Liverpool’s urban imaginary. The co-authors (second-author and third-author) help reinforce, confirm, and challenge place meanings, popular imaginaries, and the consumption of the Beatles. Conceptually this paper contributes to the popular culture studies literature by focusing on a band, fanscapes and the urban imaginary, using a critical self-reflective approach and personal experiences while referring to academic literature on placemaking and authenticity.

Watching <i>The Pain of Others</i>

"Watching The Pain of Others" is a videographic diary that narrates my intellectual, affective and bodily experiences as I researched the film The Pain of Others (Penny Lane, 2018). The video stands as the story of a research journey and as a performative audiovisual experiment where viewers are invited to reflect upon their own spectatorial mechanisms.

Roundtable: Wild Sounds and Women's Voices

This roundtable discussion was conducted on October 19, 2016 with, Chris Stults and Genevieve Yue, the programmers for the fall 2016 Flaherty NYC program Wild Sounds during the Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency with Sandra Kogut. We were joined by filmmakers Mary Helena Clark, Penny Lane, and Aura Satz. Wild is a technical term for an audio recording done independently of the main shoot. It is recorded without being synchronized to an image, though it may be synchronized later, in postproduction. For our Flaherty NYC program, the notion of a wild sound, with its connotation of autonomy and a relation to an image track that is not necessarily subordinate to it, offered a conceptually rich way of considering the placement and use of women's voices in film. The series explored the variety of ways in which women are heard in film, drawing on the gendered distinction between women's voices, closely allied with the body and pre-linguistic sound, and those of men, associated with the making of meaning, as theorized by Michel Chion, Kaja Silverman, and Adriana Cavarero. Against the dominant structures privileging male speech over female sounds, Wild Sounds explored the affective, sensorial, and political dimensions of women's voices. The notion of wild sound also offered a way of subverting the documentary expectation of sync sound realism and opened the practice to more experimental forms. The filmmakers who joined us for the roundtable, all of whom have used voice and sound in unconventional ways, represent the heterogeneity of documentary form today. Indeed, we chose this group because their innovative uses of sound are very at the heart of their redefinition and expansion of contemporary documentary practice.

Resenha: a pitada de pimenta de Paul McCartney em The Lives of John Lennon de Albert Goldman; bastidores do disco Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Resenha sobre o capítulo Paul grinds pepper do livro The Lives of John Lennon (1988) de Albert Goldman, que traz dados relevantes, pouco conhecidos e polêmicos sobre os bastidores do disco LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, lançado pelos Beatles em 1967 e o disco compacto com as faixas Penny Lane e Strawberry Fields forever, também lançado em 1967. Traz também o contexto histórico que precedeu a mudança estética mais radical da carreira dos Beatles, especialmente as gravações dos discos Rubber soul (1965) e Revolver (1966).

Morphological and Biochemical Characterization of Chrysanthemum

Ten large flowered chrysanthemum cultivars, viz., 'Beat Rice May', 'Beauty', 'Casa Grande', 'Jet Snow', 'John Weber' , 'Miss Maud Jeffries', 'Penny Lane', 'Shanker Dayal', 'Snow Ball' and 'S.S. Arnold' from National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, were evaluated for morphological and biochemical characterization. Morphological data were recorded on vegetative and floral characters. Biochemical characterization included analysis of anthocyanins, carotenoides, chlorophyll content (chlorophyll a, b and total) and flavonoids. Results on morphological and biochemical parameters clearly indicated distinctness among cultivars with reference to differences in morphological characters and chemical composition of pigments.

Em meus olhos e ouvidos: música popular, deslocamento no espaço urbano e a produção de sentidos em lugares dos Beatles

Meu propósito é investigar como a música popular, através de trocas culturais que marcam a construção de identidades atribuídas a grupos e lugares, define vínculos e fronteiras no tecido urbano, ao mesmo tempo em que evidencia as trajetórias traçadas pelos músicos que o atravessam. Para tanto, optei pelo estudo formal e contextual de Strawberry Fields Forever e Penny Lane, canções dos Beatles que produzem sentidos sobre "lugares" e que congregaram memórias e identidades construídas em sua experiência como citadinos no deslocamento desde seu passado em Liverpool ao presente de então em Londres.

Song: N‐A‐D (to the tune of “penny lane”)*

Song: N‐A‐D (to the tune of “penny lane”)*

Components of resistance to Liriomyza trifolii in Chrysanthemum morifolium and Chrysanthemum pacificum

In three experiments, Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. cultivars and C. pacificum Nakai, were exposed for four days to adult flies of Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess). The flies fed on all plants and laid eggs which were allowed to developed in a leafminer free greenhouse. Feeding level and oviposition varied between genotypes. The largest differences between entries were visible in the percentage of larvae that reached the pupal stage. In the most susceptible C. morifolium cultivar 97% of the larvae pupated against 1% in the most resistant cultivar ‘Penny Lane’. C. pacificum Nakai was also resistant with larval survival rates of 12%, 2% and 0% respectively in three consecutive experiments. Breeding prospects and areas for further study are discussed.