Academic literature on the topic 'Studies and exercises (Progressive rock)'

The Open Civil Engineering Journal, which is one of the most relevant international journals in civil engineering area, wishes to promote the latest researches in engineering structures. This special issue contains 8 invited outstanding articles covering a wide range of topics. We have assembled recent studies in the field of several typical structures, attempting to provide a glimpse into the wide range of engineering problems. It is expected that the special issue will benefit researchers and engineers who are interested in the design of protective structures and stimulate the research interests in this important an d promising area of civil engineering. A brief overview of each article published in this special issue is provided here. In “Experimental Study on Assembled Monolithic Concrete Shear Walls Built with Precast Two-way Hollow Slabs” , Zhijuan Sun et al. present a quasi-static experiment on one reinforced concrete shear wall and two shear walls built with precast two-way hollow slab. Test result shows that the new type of shear walls experienced the loading process from the whole wall to the portioned wall due to the internal and vertical joints of the wall body, which can be applied in practical construction. In “Study on Metering Scheme of Seismic Experiment for Shear Wall Built with Precast Hollow Slab” , Zhijuan Sun et al. present the measuring scheme of shear wall deformation and steel strain. The special mechanical characteristic of the shear wall built with precast two-way hollow slab is the relative deformation of the concrete on both sides of vertical joint. The study shows that the measuring methods of shear wall deformation and relative deformation are reasonable and feasible. In “Experimental Study on Precast Concrete Shear Walls with Different Hollow Slabs” , Qinyan Zhao et al. present a test on two shear walls built with precast two-way hollow slab with different details. The study shows that brittle shear failure can be avoided and the failure behaviors tend to evolve from integral wall to the combination of wall and columns. Also, compressive capacity of walls can be affected by the dimension of transverse holes. In “Test Study on Strength and Permeability Properties of Lime -Fly Ash Loess Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles”, Zhiquan Zhang and Yufen Zhang present a study on the engineering behaviors of lime-fly ash loess using uniaxial compressive test, fast direct shearing test and permeability test. Test data show that uniaxial compressive strength of lime-fly ash loess has good water stability and freeze-thaw stability, and can be applied in permafrost subgrade. In “Unloading Phenomena Characteristics in Brittle Rock Masses by A Large-scale Excavation in Dam Foundation”, Changgen Yan et al. investigate a large-scale excavation around the foundation of the dam. The characteristics of unloading rock masses were described with the acoustic wave velocity monitoring method. The unloading deformation has a direct temporal dependence, and increases quickly during the first 90 days, then with a slower rate from 90 to 180 days, and after that the unloading deformation will be small enough to be neglected In “A Review on Progressive Collapse of Building Structures” , Hao Wang et al. assess the recent studies on the progressive collapse of building structures from experimental study, numerical simulation and theoretical analysis. The design methods to prevent progressive collapse for building structures are also discussed. In “Damage Identification of Continuous Rigid Frame Concrete Bridge”, Shengnan Huang et al. present a large-scale experimental study on safety monitoring methodology for continuous rigid frame concrete bridge. Two load stages and ten different load steps were simulated to test various scenario of long-term loading and different levels of overload. Curva ture mode method was adopted to detect the damage during the exercises. In addition, the Finite-Element Analysis (FEA) was utilized, and the experimental recurring was verified positively through FEA model. In “Corrosion Monitoring Using Embedded Piezoelectric Sensors”, Lei Qin et al. develop a new type of corrosion detection technique for reinforced concrete. The technique used piezoelectric sensors to detect the ultrasonic signals during corrosion. The state of bonding layer of concrete and steel bar could be monitored. It can also detect the initial of corrosion and cracking of bonding layer. I am grateful to all the authors and reviewers for the contribution and support during the course of editing this special issue. Their prompt responses have made it possible for us to publish this special issue on time.

Going for the One was a good rebirth of Yes at that time, to find its feet and really know what it wanted to do. And we made ‘Awaken’ . . . (Morse 1996, p. 58).Since the release of their third recording, The Yes Album, in March 1971, the music of the English band Yes has been associated with the rock music substyle called ‘progressive rock’. The first two Yes albums showcase a very capable, inventive group of musicians who drew freely from the multitude of sounds around them, emulating aspects of the various musical styles they found engaging. However, it was not until they composed the works appearing on The Yes Album that the band coupled this eclecticism with a quest for originality to develop a voice highly idiosyncratic when judged against prevailing popular music styles. Subsequent albums reveal a predeliction for experimentation and expansion, and successful record sales in both the UK and US encouraged further development in the same direction. Although not members of the ‘first wave’ of progressive rock bands, Yes became ‘codifiers’ and for many, especially later detractors, the flagship of the ‘progressive' fleet. Before I go on to describe and illustrate, through the analysis of a particular song, aspects of Yes's musical language, I will briefly describe the environment in which it appeared and flourished.

AbstractProgressive rock of the early 1970s has been demonised as a nadir in the history of rock primarily because of the ambitions of progressive rock musicians. Critics have interpreted these ambitions as attempts to elevate rock music to the level of high art in order to gain cultural accreditation from an unspecified cultural elite. This interpretation is further compounded by the common notion that progressive rock’s subject matter is dominated more by individualistic quests for spirituality than by socio-political critique, resulting in a stereotype of progressive rock as apolitical, pretentious and conventionally upwardly mobile. Critics who have propagated this stereotype – including some musicologists – have misunderstood the countercultural politics of young musicians during this era and have overlooked the highly developed musical poetics of progressive rock that were in fact highly politicised. This paper examines four of the leading progressive rock bands of the early 1970s – Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, Genesis and Yes – and reveals the nasty side of progressive rock: a scathing criticism of rampant militarism and social conformity that runs counter to the prevailing narrative in which the genre is dismissed as an escapist fantasy with an elitist agenda.

AbstractThere has been a marked resurgence of interest in progressive rock music both commercially and critically, with a number of articles and books now reassessing its styles, meanings, politics and appeal. Despite this, there has been a tendency to define progressive rock through a ‘symphonic orthodoxy’ which preferences a limited, albeit highly successful, number of British groups operating in a relatively narrow sonic landscape. This article questions that orthodoxy by drawing on the lay definitions and understandings of fans to extend the definitions and geographies of progressive rock, and to characterise it as a European meta-genre. It examines the meta-genre's formative years at the beginning of the 1970s, and argues that progressive rock was inspired by the explorations of a European youth counterculture whose music was influenced by local socio-political and economic contexts, as well as by the music and attitudes of the American counterculture and of European Romanticism.

Discussion of the 1960s generally identifies progressive rock as the prime organ of communication within the counter-culture. At the same time, musical analysis of the genre is an underdeveloped field of study, including only an identification of musical characteristics (Willis 1978), Mellers' analysis of the Beatles (1973) and Middleton and Muncie's analysis of five representative songs in the Open University's course, Popular Culture (1981). As a particularly heterogeneous genre (compared with, for example, rock 'n' roll and r&b), definitions of progressive rock equally raise problems: to what extent does the variety of styles reflect the variety of radical movements contained within the overall term counter-culture; alternatively, given the variety of styles, can progressive rock be considered a single phenomenon and, if so, to what extent does it have musical codes in common?

The present study was conducted to determine the effects of devotional meditation (DM), defined as a period of prayer and quiet reading and pondering of biblical material, on physiological and psychological variables related to stress. It was hypothesized that religious persons engaging in DM experience physiological and psychological changes similar to those reported for persons using progressive relaxation (PR) exercises. Thirty-six participants, equally divided by sex into 3 groups: DM, PR, and a Wait List Control, underwent extensive psychophysiological assessment prior to and following a systematic introduction to either DM or PR. The hypothesis that DM could generate positive physiological and psychological effects similar to PR was partially confirmed. The results of the study are discussed in terms of the unique spiritual resources inherent among a Christian population that might foster physiological and psychological relaxation.

Harold Bloom's theory of poetic influence has been applied to studies of Western art music, but rarely to studies of popular music. This article investigates the applicability of his theory to the music of British progressive rock keyboardist Keith Emerson. It will be argued that, while Emerson's overtly intertextual music for The Nice cannot be well illuminated with this theory, Bloom can help us explore and interpret some delicate aesthetic aspects of the important style change from The Nice to Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP). Emerson felt the anxiety of The Nice's influence upon ELP, changed his style because of it, and led the new group to prog rock superstardom. Bloom's six revisionary ratios can indeed shed light on those subtle qualities which were necessary for a progressive rock ideology to be ‘mainstreamed’ and sold as commodity – qualities that resulted from a process of ‘misreading’.

Based on a sample of 28,360 albums identified by an online community devoted to progressive rock, this article examines factors that shape the retrospective consecration of music that operates beyond the mainstream. Drawing on previous work on fields of cultural production, genre trajectories, and creative careers, the article produces findings that both replicate and innovate. As in previous research, critical acclaim greatly enhances the likelihood of consecration; however, it is not mainstream critics but underground critics whose opinions are most influential and most consistent with popular appeal among the progressive rock audience. Likewise, although performers from the “first wave” of progressive rock and from the United Kingdom have an advantage in getting consecrated, a more recent wave of performers in the online era see higher odds of consecration and there is neither a significant advantage for U.S.-based performers nor a significant disadvantage for performers from the margins. Findings suggest that the relationship between different types of legitimation varies across fields and that in progressive rock—a field with a high degree of aesthetic solidarity—some sources of acclaim often thought of as being in competition are actually compatible.

AbstractThis paper examines the performances of Taiwanese American Jack Hsu and his New Jersey-based progressive erhu-rock band The Hsu-nami, in transnational contexts fraught by ethnonationalism and race. Through an ethnographic approach, this paper highlights the band's depoliticising practice to deflect the geopolitics across the Taiwan Strait. It also discusses how Hsu adapts the musical and gender ideologies in rock music culture to diffuse racial ideologies surrounding his ethnicity and instrument. Finally, an analysis of the band's deployment of cultural diplomacy discusses pragmatic multiculturalism, a mode that reflects the tension between rock music's ostensibly counter-cultural front and its commercial foundation.

ObjectiveTo investigate the clinical outcomes after hamstring tendon autograft ACL reconstruction (ACLR) with accelerated, brace-free rehabilitation.DesignSystematic review according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines.Data sourcesEmbase, MEDLINE Ovid, Web of Science, Cochrane CENTRAL and Google scholar from 1 January 1974 to 31 January 2017.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesStudy designs reporting outcomes in adults after arthroscopic, primary ACLR with hamstring autograft and accelerated, brace-free rehabilitation.ResultsTwenty-four studies were included in the review. The clinical outcomes after hamstring tendon autograft ACLR with accelerated brace-free rehabilitation were the following: (1) early start of open kinetic exercises at 4 weeks in a limited range of motion (ROM, 90°−45°) and progressive concentric and eccentric exercises from 12 weeks did not alter outcomes, (2) gender and age did not influence clinical outcomes, (3) anatomical reconstructions showed better results than non-anatomical reconstructions, (4) there was no difference between single-bundle and double-bundle reconstructions, (5) femoral and tibial tunnel widening occurred, (6) hamstring tendons regenerated after harvest and (7) biological knowledge did not support return to sports at 4–6 months.ConclusionsAfter hamstring tendon autograft ACLR with accelerated brace-free rehabilitation, clinical outcome is similar after single-bundle and double-bundle ACLR. Early start of open kinetic exercises at 4 weeks in a limited ROM (90°−45°) and progressive concentric and eccentric exercises from 12 weeks postsurgery do not alter clinical outcome. Further research should focus on achievement of best balance between graft loading and graft healing in the various rehabilitation phases after ACLR as well as on validated, criterion-based assessments for safe return to sports.Level of evidenceLevel 2b; therapeutic outcome studies.

This chapter rejects any a priori division between finding facts and determining values. It takes as its starting point the basic proposition of science and technology studies that, in the policy domain, resolving matters of fact inevitably entails resolving questions that are part of politics. Epistemic and normative orders are, in this respect, coproduced. From this standpoint, delegation to experts—authorizing the few to know for the many—is not simply a question of deciding who knows best about the factual matter at hand. It involves a characterization of the public's intellectual capacity, in particular its ability to understand and critique exercises of expert judgment. During the hundred or so years since the end of the Progressive era, two broad movements have sought to balance the demands of scientific and political representation in the United States. One is a wide-ranging effort to create administrative forums and processes through which laypeople can access and question technical information, and thus enjoy greater parity with experts. The second is a characterization of the political subject as hampered by built-in cognitive biases and unable to recognize its own interests, let alone to further them through rational action.

This paper focuses on investigating the effects of soil-structure interaction (SSI), higher modes, and damping on the response of a mid-story-isolated structure founded on multiple soil layers overlying bedrock. Closed-form solutions were obtained for the entire system, which consists of a shear beam type superstructure, seismic isolator, and multiple soil layers overlying bedrock, while subjected to ground motion. The proposed formulations simplify the problem in terms of well-known frequency and mechanical impedance ratios that can take into account the effects of SSI, higher modes, and damping in the entire system, and be capable of explicitly interpreting the major dynamic behavior of a mid-story-isolated structure interacting with the multiple soil layers overlying bed rock. The SSI effects on the dynamic response of a mid-story-isolated structure as a result of multiple soil layers overlying bedrock were extensively investigated through a series of parametric studies and physically explained by virtue of derived formulations. In addition, the results of numerical exercises show that higher damping provided by the isolator may provoke higher mode response of the superstructure; that the lower structure below the isolator may have significantly larger deformations compared to those of the upper structure above the isolator; and that isolator displacements may be amplified by the SSI effects while compared to those of mid-story-isolated structures with fixed-base.