Wonderful Moment Research Articles

Mio ben ricordati by Franz Schubert and Mikhail Glinka: Concerning the Problem of “the Personal” and “the Alien”

Mio ben ricordati is one of Pietro Metastasio’s popular operatic texts that was set to music by many composers, including Franz Schubert and Mikhail Glinka. The reason for comparison was not only the closeness of their compositions during the time of their creation (respectively, 1820 and 1828), but also the similarity of the situations of their lives: both composers, when achieving mastery of the basics of music, studied with Italian teachers, both composed masterpieces in the field of vocal miniature works in their native languages. The article attempts to place Schubert’s canzona and Glinka’s arietta in the context of the tradition of the musical manifestation of Mio ben ricordati that had developed by their time, revealing their common and specialized features, as well as to compare the works of the two composers with each other, to determine the degree of their closeness to their Italian prototypes and the peculiarities of the style of the original author of the text. Thus, from the perspective of form, Glinka’s arietta turns out to be more traditional than Schubert’s canzona, but at the same time, in some peculiarities of its melody and tonal-harmonic plan, it forms a prototype of the composer’s later, more famous romance I Recall a Wonderful Moment. In Schubert’s musical interpretation of Mio ben ricordati, individual moments of the poetic text are especially emphasized that were clearly important for Metastasio, and techniques characteristic of the art of Italian opera are applied – namely, the parallel minor/major keys (chiaroscuro) and the harmonic color of the lowered harmonic second degree. On the other hand, both composers use the triple meter, bring in repetitions in the text, traditional for the arias of Mio ben ricordati, and also rely on the periodicity intrinsic to Rossini’s works.

Assessment of gene pool of black currant Federal Horticultural Center for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery by resistance to currant gall mite in the Bryansk Region

Since controlling currant gall mite (Cecidophyopsis ribis Westw.) is a challenging and ineffective task, developing genetic resistance to the pest is one of the main priorities in breeding programs for Ribes nigrum both in Russia and abroad. The task was assigned at the FSBSO “Federal Horticultural Center for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery” to combine efficiently the positive economic and biological traits of previously developed varieties with resistance to phytophagous pests in hybrid progeny. The study evaluates the genetic collection and hybrid material of black currant for resistance to currant gall mite, as well as identifies the most promising parent pairs for mite-resistant progeny. The research objects included 107 varieties of various genetic origins, 30 of which were of foreign breeding. An assessment of the genetic collection carried out for ten years (since 2012) during the seasons of mass manifestation of the currant gall mite and reversion, is presented. Approximately 1,200 seedlings, planted in 2017, were studied. The methodologies for studying fruit, berry, and nut crops were used to assess the degree of incidence of the currant gall mite. The statistical processing of experimental results was performed using the Microsoft Excel program. As a result, the genetic sources and donors of resistance to the currant gall mite were identified (Barmaley, Dar Smolyaninovoi, Kipiana, Svityazyanka, Chernooka, Wonderful Moment, Ben Hope, Big Ben, etc.). The promising combinations of crosses were identified based on the yield of seedlings resistant to Cecidophyopsis ribis: Ben Hope×Kipiana, Ben Hope×Dar Smolyaninovoi, Kipiana×Dar Smolyaninovoi, Barmalei×Dar Smolyaninovoi, Ben Tirran×Kipiana, 9-28-1/02×Bryansk Agate, Dar Smolyaninovoi×33-27-1, 33-27-1×Kipiana. In the progeny of these parental forms, the selected forms were identified (3-63-01, 3-63-02, 9-197-3, 3-16-1, 7-28-01, 8-123-1), which combine resistance to the currant gall mite with large fruits and tolerance to fungal diseases.

The Role of Pruthkparnyadi Gana with special reference to Complications in Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a wonderful moment as to give birth to new live. Physiological changes during pregnancy may lead to complication of both mother and baby. Among these preeclampsia, eclampsia and epilepsy are major cause of maternal mortality in developed and developing countries causing perinatal morbidity and mortality with foetal growth retardation. In Ayurveda, complications in pregnancy are not mentioned specifically. Masanumasik Paricharaya for Garbhini (regimen for the pregnant woman) is mentioned, which helps to prevent and cure disease and maintain health of mother and foetus. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia mostly occurs after 20 weeks of gestation. During pregnancy mostly Madhura (sweet) Rasa drugs are used while in 6th and 7th month of pregnancy Acharya Sushruta has mentioned Gokshur and Pruthkparnyadi Gana additionally. Plants reviewed showed antiepileptic, anti-hypertensive, nootropic, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, rejuvenative, diuretics, and cardio protective properties, which are helpful in safe and natural management of complications in pregnancy. So there is definite role of above drugs. Hence an attempt has been made to elaborate the role of these drugs in complications during pregnancy.

From the earth to the plate, a unique experience

A group of toddlers in a childcare facility participated in the creation of an educational garden. For some time, they all lived at the rhythm of the different stages of the project, i.e. planting, waiting, harvesting and finally the preparation and consumption of the fruit and vegetables produced. Although this experimentation raised questions among the professionals, it also provided all the participants with some wonderful moments of sharing.

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To the Question of Multiple Translations: the Infinity of Hispanic Interpretations of K *** (I Remember a Wonderful Moment...)

To the Question of Multiple Translations: the Infinity of Hispanic Interpretations of K *** (I Remember a Wonderful Moment...)

Adaptation experience of some ornamental and fruit-berry plantlets to ex vitro conditions in the training and science center “Botanical garden” of Saratov State University n. a. N. G. Chernyshevsky

One of the quickways of vegetative plant reproduction is micropropagation. Receiving high results usingthis method is significantly limited by one of the most important stages – adaptation of plantlets to growing under ex vitroconditions, which completes the whole process of reproduction in vitro. To date, there are no universal technologies foradaptation plantlets to non-sterile conditions, which would suit all crops, determine the optimal humidity conditions, substrate, temperature and lighting. The article presents preliminary results of the study of the plantlets adaptive potential fora number of ornamental and fruit-berry crops in non-sterile conditions. The objects of the study were: Cotinus coggygria'Royal Purple'; Syringa vulgaris 'M-me Casimir Perier', 'А. Gromov', 'Sensation'; Pentaphylloides fruticosa L.; Weigelahybrida 'Eva Rathke', 'Candida'; Sorbus aucuparia 'Granatnaya'; Ribes nigrum 'Black Pearl', ' Bagheera', 'Elvesta', 'LittlePrince', 'Wonderful moment', 'Charovnica', 'Zusha', 'Tamerlan', 'Dachnica', 'Dessertnay Olkhina', 'Zagadka'; Lonicera edulis 'Gzhelka', 'Kamchadalka', 'Lazurnay', Moscowskay''.

A Smart System for Text-Lifelog Generation from Wearable Cameras in Smart Environment Using Concept-Augmented Image Captioning with Modified Beam Search Strategy

During a lifetime, a person can have many wonderful and memorable moments that he/she wants to keep. With the development of technology, people now can store a massive amount of lifelog information via images, videos or texts. Inspired by this, we develop a system to automatically generate caption from lifelog pictures taken from wearable cameras. Following up on our previous method introduced at the SoICT 2018 conference, we propose two improvements in our captioning method. We trained and tested the model on the baseline MSCOCO datasets and evaluated on different metrics. The results show better performance compared to our previous model and to some other image captioning methods. Our system also shows effectiveness in retrieving relevant data from captions and achieve high rank in ImageCLEF 2018 retrieval challenge.

Adagio music effects in normal primigravidas labour reduced pain perception, the active phase of first stage labour duration, and serum cortisol in RSAB Harapan Kita Jakarta: A clinical trial

Introduction: Labour is suppose to be a joyful and wonderful moment in women reproduction period, nevertheless almost 60% primigravidas perceived severe labour pain. Adagio music could be relaxing and anxioalgolytic due to similarity tempo range to the normal respiratory rate and heartbeat (Relaxing and Anxioalgolytic Music). Theories of Fear–Tension-Pain, Beck Pain Chain, Gate Control, and Relaxation of Benson were theoretical frameworks for this study.

Жанрово-стилистическое своеобразие «Баллады о чудном мгновении» П.Г. Антокольского

Статья посвящена исследованию жанрово-стилистических особенностей «Баллады о чудном мгновении» П.Г. Антокольского (1896 – 1978 г.г.) в связи с проблемой эволюции жанра баллады Нового времени. Анализ рамочных компонентов (заглавия, эпиграфа произведения) позволяет сделать вывод о мифической сущности сюжета «Баллады о чудном мгновении», прослеживание интертекстуальных связей с жанровой традицией приводят к определению художественной природы произведения. Рассмотрение субъектной и пространственно-временной организации текста способствует жанровой идентификации, раскрывая взаимодействие традиций жанра с эволюционными изменениями, наметившимися в русской балладе ХХ века. Доказывается, что произведение П.Антокольского, которое поэт номинирует балладой, можно отнести к балладным стихотворениям – произведениям неканонической жанровой формы, возникшим как результат и следствие художественных потребностей новой литературной эпохи.

William Klunk: imaging Alzheimer's disease in vivo

William Klunk: imaging Alzheimer's disease in vivo

Implementation of the New Mission Affirmation:Together Towards Life

International Review of MissionVolume 103, Issue 1 p. 71-76 Ecumenical Conversation on Mission Implementation of the New Mission Affirmation: Together Towards Lif e Kenneth R. Ross, Kenneth R. RossSearch for more papers by this authorEva Christina Nilsson, Eva Christina NilssonSearch for more papers by this authorRoderick Hewitt, Roderick HewittSearch for more papers by this author Kenneth R. Ross, Kenneth R. RossSearch for more papers by this authorEva Christina Nilsson, Eva Christina NilssonSearch for more papers by this authorRoderick Hewitt, Roderick HewittSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 April 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/irom.12041Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume103, Issue1April 2014Pages 71-76 RelatedInformation

From Talk to Power: Application ofTogether towards Lifein Local Churches

While Together towards Life (TTL) offers a fresh and compelling statement of the meaning of mission and evangelism, it is delivered a dense and highly compressed text. The author of this article argues that order for TTL's rich propositional statements to be received and enacted by churches and agents of mission, they must be expressed familiar firms such as priers and songs, Bible studies and stories, pictures, and action points--Through the creation of toolkits that would offer a range of materials to be deployed as required. TTL's particular call for spiritual engagement accords with the changing landscapes of world Christianity, where new movements, especially the global South, have critiqued the cerebral and institutional forms that Christian faith has taken the West. The article concludes that the affirmation invites us to be in the to become part of the movement of the Spirit of God the life of the world, inspired by the passion that arises through the mission of God. the kingdom of God does not consist talk but power. 1 Corinthians 4:20 A pregnant moment The adoption, by the Central Committee of the WCC, of the new affirmation on mission and evangelism, Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism Changing Landscapes (TTL), September 2012 marks a wonderful moment the story of the worldwide church. (1) From across a very wide spectrum of world Christianity we have discovered that there is so much that we can say together about mission and evangelism. The importance of this achievement is highlighted if we consider what might have happened. The collusion of Christian mission with Western colonialism could have led to mission being completely discredited. The perception that mission involves an aggressive and oppositional stance, threatening peace and causing conflict, could have led to the quiet side-lining of mission and evangelism, with the WCC statement of 1982 gradually receding into distant memory. Instead we have a fresh and compelling statement that places mission and evangelism at the heart of the church's self-understanding. It frankly acknowledges the human error that has caused mission to be misunderstood or misused on occasion the past. It finds new direction and energy for mission by tracing it back to its origins the triune life of God and, particular, to the engagement of the Spirit of God with the life of the world. Rather than mission being about the aggrandizement of any community or interest group, its true nature is understood terms of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which brings the transforming love of God into the life of the world. Our calling is to discern where and how the Holy Spirit is working--and to join in. The evident reality that this Spirit-centred understanding of mission has struck a chord across such a wide spectrum of a still highly fragmented world church brings us truly to a moment of grace. Formed as we are by different histories, different theologies, and different spiritualities, we have found a point of convergence the Spirit-oriented vision of mission, which is set out TTL. For those who have mission and evangelism at heart it is a moment pregnant with possibility. This is cause for much thankfulness, but it is also a distinctly challenging situation--Will we take the opportunity it presents and make the most of it? Or will we fail to realize its rich possibilities? Specifically, will it remain the preserve of specialist scholars, professional mission functionaries, and ecumenical activists, or will it become a motivating power for the other 2,354,523,000 people who make up the world church? (2) It is safe to say that the great majority of the worldwide membership of the church have not heard of TTL. Nor are they likely to if it remains a text exclusively aimed at the specialist. Grassroots reception of the new affirmation In my own context I am responsible for a small network of churches on the west coast of Scotland. …

The culture wars of the Montreal Olympics†

The Montreal Olympics are often remembered for their extravagant mismanagement and unfulfilled expectations, usually attributed to the city's flamboyant Mayor Drapeau. But the events themselves were quite successful, and while it took sports leaders almost a decade to bounce back from the devastating financial burdens and other complications of the Games, they were eventually able to take advantage of the social investment and spirit of Montreal 1976 to make Quebec one of the most progressive regions of Canadian sport and physical activity. It is a reminder that Olympic legacies may have long fuses. This paper places the difficulties of the Montreal Olympic organizers in the context of a bitter clash of nationalisms and a deep-rooted debate about the purposes of sport across Canada. Both controversies served to divide the governments responsible for funding Canadian sport, undermine public confidence in the Games and cloud the memory of the Games' accomplishments. The lesson is that the evaluation of Games and their legacies are deeply structured by the political, social and economic context. While the Montreal Games created a wonderful moment of festive intercultural celebration, they did not unblock the dominant cultural rigidities of the host community.

‘A manner beyond courtesy’: Two Concepts of Wonder in Coleridge and Shelley

Wonder’s locus classicus within the English literary tradition is found in the final act of Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale when the statue of a wife killed by jealousy is called to life before her chastened husband. There is music to whet the audience’s appetite for the incredible but it competes with their growing knowledge that she isn’t really dead and that it is all a trick played out on Leontes to reinforce the matter of trust. Despite or perhaps because of this, it remains a wonderful moment. This is at once a rather critically prosaic statement – the scene is by turns inexplicable, touching and marvellously artful –and also a more complex thought, since as it stresses the false magic of theatre, the scene forces the audience to reckon with its own relationship with theatrical experience as a whole. For if the audience is asked tacitly to bear witness to an illusion in which Leontes is tricked into believing in the incredible, then they are also going along with a trick that stresses their own compact with the techniques of a theatrical spectacle that has been hoodwinking them all along: everything to which they have been witness from the start is itself, of course, a fictive illusion. One solution would be to walk straight out of the theatre but a wonder of art in general is the speed with which its various audiences are prepared to settle back into further illusions just as the terms of the last ones have been revealed. It is not a fool’s trust however and, for this reason, the scene that I am describing is only an extraordinary example of what happens throughout acts of engagement with art in all its forms – appropriately so since it is at the heart of a play that is all about the dangers of doubt. If so much of aesthetic experience is dependent upon the one kind of wonder – the sudden surprise of the soul in which the audience is taken away from itself into a peculiar form of faith in a new reality presented by signs and sounds – then a different kind of wonder emerges in the kinds of thought that take place once the experience is past, when the audience is moved to ask critically just what has taken place and why it matters to them to understand this. Although the two may often be in an uncertain tension, it is my contention here that as wonder is kept in play both as a visceral emotion and as a philosophical force, it is the bedrock of an ethical engagement with art. Romantic criticism, and in particular the thought of Coleridge, to which I shall turn in a moment, is helpful in drawing out the tension that I describe. There is nothing original in the observation that Shakespeare had wonder (and its connection with theatricality in general) much in mind in his late plays, especially in his female characters, (Hermione, Miranda,

What Keeps Us Going?

Still, that moment of political creation, those years when men and women came alive as articulate and passionate agents of their own destiny—that is a time of supreme human value. It doesn’t matter that it isn’t permanent, so long as we understand that it is recurrent. It will happen again. It will bring important social gains, which may or may not build toward greater gains. If they do build, if the benefits of political action accumulate over time, that is the slow grinding. But left politics is also something else. It includes those wonderful moments when human capacities are suddenly revealed and we get a glimpse of what is possible…beyond what is possible right now. And that’s what keeps us going.

A tale of two callings

First, I want to thank Ralph for that wonderful presentation. After listening to all that, I can hardly wait to hear what I am going to say. Preparing these Kober Medal presentations requires a tremendous amount of work. When I first asked Ralph if he would do me the honor of making these remarks, he asked if I had any guidelines I wanted to give him. I responded: Ralph you know that I would want something simple and modest — not overly ostentatious or hagiographic — no matter how long it takes.

Balance, Safety, and Passion: Three Principles for Academic Leaders

Mywork as Chair of a department of psychiatry has taught me three principles that seem to be fundamental to the role of academic leader. They include maintaining a balance in responding to the needs and input of faculty members, creating a safe place for learners to explore and grow, and helping both faculty members and trainees to find a career-sustaining passion. The first principle is balance. Each of us can recall those rare and wonderful moments of enlightenment that punctuate our lives. One of mine came on a trip to Italy with my daughter and her Latin club. In Rome, we visited the remarkable Villa Borghese museum, which houses an impressive array of the sculpture work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Already drawn in by the swirling vortexes of motion that Bernini creates with each of his pieces, I found myself standing before his “Escape from Troy” (circa 1619). In this piece, he depicts Aeneas fleeing the battle (2). He is not alone in his journey. On his back, he carries Anchises, his aging father. Clinging to his legs is his son, Ascanius, yet a mere boy. At that moment, I recognized myself in Aeneas, and identified with his predicament. At home were parents negotiating the final journey of their lives, dependent on me, my wife, and other caregivers for safe passage, even as our children were holding on to us until their legs were strong enough to run alone. Our challenge was to weigh the needs of all of them in the balance and decide how much of ourselves to give to each one. In later years, having moved into my role as Chair, I have drawn strength and guidance from the truth conveyed by Bernini in this piece. In countless ways, an academic leader is thrust into the role of seeking a balance between the influence of the wisdom of the past (older faculty members) and the idealism of the next generation (younger faculty members and trainees). Anchises is holding the Penates (family household gods), which represent the knowledge and traditions that give our current experiences context and meaning. Ascanius clings with his free arm to the sacred fire of the hearth that is symbolic of the passion and energy of youth that spurs us on to change and renewal. How to honor and validate the contributions of senior faculty while encouraging and incorporating the ideas of the newest members of our field is surely one of our great challenges as academic leaders. Similarly, we are also called upon to humanely manage the integrity of the aging “Anchiseses” in our departments who may have lost a step or two, while, at the same time, minimizing the negative impacts of impetuous “Ascaniuses.” No department can thrive without at least a modicum of new blood, but no department can afford to invest in every creative whim put forward by residents and junior faculty. A second principle I have found to be important as an academic leader is establishing a culture of safety. Early in my career, during a faculty discussion of why a resident was struggling to learn, one of my earliest mentors, Walter Ricci, commented that one of the biggest obstacles to learning is the fear of humiliation (Ricci W: personal communication). His words stopped me in my tracks. If he was correct, then centuries of hallowed medical teaching tradition would be called into question. Not long after this moment of truth, another mentor, Jerry Kay, published an article in JAMA describing medicine’s time-honored—and misguided—use of humiliation as a teaching tool (3). He confirmed Dr. Ricci’s assertion that good teachers beget good students by creating a learning environment where it Received October 4, 2010; accepted December 8, 2010. Dr. Munro is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City. Address correspondence to Stuart Munro, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1000 East 24th Street, KS City, KS 66217; stuart.munro@ dmh.mo.gov (e-mail). Copyright © 2011 Academic Psychiatry

Dr. Andrei Yakovlev: Visionary, Leader, Iconoclast

Dr. Andrei Yakovlev: Visionary, Leader, Iconoclast

"To Bring All Loves Home": An Interview with Jamie O'Neill

“To Bring All Loves Home”:An Interview with Jamie O’Neill Marc C. Conner Jamie O'Neill (b. 1962) has written three novels: Disturbance (1989), Kilbrack (1990), and the award-winning At Swim, Two Boys (2001). Disturbance and Kilbrack are relatively short and focus mainly upon a single character in a small community; At Swim, Two Boys, in contrast, is a long, sweeping, deeply historical novel, whose technique and style might best be described as modernist in the vein of Joyce's Portrait. The rendering of voice and consciousness is complex and tightly connected to the novel's major theme of coming-of-age within and against the tide of historical crisis. O'Neill has come to be regarded as one of the most gifted of contemporary Irish novelists; the novelist's sheer delight and virtuosity in language shows in such passages as this: His moment had come the first week of their swimming together, that magical moment when the mind lets go and the body is released. You'll find it, MacMurrough had promised him, you'll feel it when you do. Then he slipped into the pool one time, and something the way he moved, with an ease, almost a grace, MacMurrough could see he did not strive against the water. Rather, the water had received him and he joined a little in its fluency.1 I met with O'Neill at his home in Moycullen, County Galway, on April 30, 2005. We spoke for nearly four hours, from which the following interview is drawn. * * * MC: You wrote your first two novels in the 1980s, and then worked on your third for over a decade. What changed between Kilbrack and the writing of At Swim, Two Boys? JO: Well, I think there is that onus of being published. Once that was out of the way I wasn't desperate to be published anymore. I knew the sun still rises in the East even though you are published. So it didn't make a big deal. For instance, I sold the rights to At Swim when I was about halfway through, and they started [End Page 66] saying, you know, "We don't want any sex," and "We want it to be no more than 80,000 words," and worst of all, "We want it finished by Christmas." So I actually took a loan out of the bank and bought the rights back, which was a very brave thing to do, because I didn't know if I'd have something to give them. MC: You must have been really committed to writing the book you wanted to write. JO: Well, I had spent about six years on it by then, and I hadn't got very far—but I knew where it could go, where I wanted it to go. I just couldn't bear the idea of someone coming in at the end and saying, you've got to reshape it. Because when Kilbrack was edited, there was a wonderful moment where the editor had said, "I want you to get rid of two characters," and I said "Which two characters?" and she said "It doesn't matter." [Laughs.] I didn't want to go into that sort of business, I wanted to be sure. It was one of the nice things about At Swim, Two Boys. It's something I can still look back on and say, you know, that's okay, that's the way I'd still write it—or, I wish I could still write like that. MC: All your novels are quite rich in the evocation of place—some place, like the sea, become many things: enchanted and mythical and threatening. There is also the exactness of the Forty Foot, and Glasthule streets, and places in Dublin. . . . JO: It's the same with a lot of the dialogue. I was thinking more [that] I could convince people that I was right about things that could be checked up or in the spoken language, that authority would transfer to my story. So that it would become believable. There were times, you know, when the tides were exactly right for each occasion—so much...