Chicago Music City

Chicago Music City compares the strength and vitality of music industries and scenes across the United States. Sociologists, urban planners, and real-estate developers point to quality of life and availability of cultural amenities as important indicators of the health and future success of urban areas. Economic impact studies show the importance of music to local economies. This publication compares Chicago's musical strength with the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., focusing on 11 comparison cities: Chicago and its demographic peers, New York and Los Angeles, and eight other cities with strong musical reputations -- Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and Seattle

Found in Translation: A Phenomenology of Translation

Congreso Internacional celebrado en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid del 24 al 26 de septiembre de 2012Effective philosophical discussion requires an awareness of the nuances of language and the process of translating between different modes of communication. In this increasingly globalized academic forum, many feel that today’s linguistic challenges are more extreme than those of the past. Yet translation has been a necessary part of the work of philosophy for centuries, whether translating from Greek to Latin or German to Spanish. Because of this, I would like to explore the relationship between translation and philosophy by undertaking a phenomenology of translation. By investigating the way in which translation affects the growth of philosophers, we may be able to come to some understanding of how translation informs philosophy as a field and find out what qualities make a translation good

Resonance phenomena in ultracold dipole-dipole scattering

Elastic scattering resonances occurring in ultracold collisions of either bosonic or fermionic polar molecules are investigated. The Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic representation of the two-bodydynamics provides both a qualitative classification scheme and a quantitative WKB quantization condition that predicts several sequences of resonant states. It is found that the near-threshold energy dependence of ultracold collision cross sections varies significantly with the particle exchange symmetry, with bosonic systems showing much smoother energy variations than their fermionic counterparts. Resonant variations of the angular distributions in ultracold collisions are also described.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, revtex4, submitted to J. Phys.

Social Patterns in Physical Infrastructure: Associations between Socioeconomic Status and Walkability

Studies analyzing the relationship between socioeconomic status and physical infrastructure of a city are inconsistent in findings but agree on racial and class disparities. Utilizing walkability (Walk Score) as a measurement for physical infrastructure, this thesis aims to understand the relationship between socioeconomic status and the walkability of a city. The Socio-Ecological framework suggests that environmental experiences are correlated with the social functioning of a community. Thus, socioeconomic status has a significant impact on the quality of one’s built environment. Using housing data from the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) and Walk Score, a series of quantitative analyses were conducted to understand the relationship between factors of socioeconomic status and walkability. Findings suggest educational attainment, race, home ownership and income are significantly correlated with walkability. Additionally, the presence of intersecting characteristics associated with low and high socioeconomic status suggest racial and wealth differences in walking accommodations. Future research should aim to include more racial groups, and broaden the operationalization of relevant variables to get a more comprehensive understanding of spatial disparities

Data-driven Models for Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Aircraft Engines and Hard Disk Drives

Failure of physical devices can cause inconvenience, loss of money, and sometimes even deaths. To improve the reliability of these devices, we need to know the remaining useful life (RUL) of a device at a given point in time. Data-driven approaches use data from a physical device to build a model that can estimate the RUL. They have shown great performance and are often simpler than traditional model-based approaches. Typical statistical and machine learning approaches are often not suited for sequential data prediction. Recurrent Neural Networks are designed to work with sequential data but suffer from the vanishing gradient problem over time. Therefore, I explore the use of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for RUL prediction. I perform two experiments. First, I train bidirectional LSTM networks on the Backblaze hard-disk drive dataset. I achieve an accuracy of 96.4\% on a 60 day time window, state-of-the-art performance. Additionally, I use a unique standardization method that standardizes each hard drive instance independently and explore the benefits and downsides of this approach. Finally, I train LSTM models on the NASA N-CMAPSS dataset to predict aircraft engine remaining useful life. I train models on each of the eight sub-datasets, achieving a RMSE of 6.304 on one of the sub-datasets, the second-best in the current literature. I also compare an LSTM network\u27s performance to the performance of a Random Forest and Temporal Convolutional Neural Network model, demonstrating the LSTM network\u27s superior performance. I find that LSTM networks are capable predictors for device remaining useful life and show a thorough model development process that can be reproduced to develop LSTM models for various RUL prediction tasks. These models will be able to improve the reliability of devices such as aircraft engines and hard-disk drives

The geography of yam cultivation in southern Nigeria:Exploring its social meanings and cultural functions

Background: Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a very important common food crop in West Africa. Beyond its food and nutritious values, the ownership and cultivation of yam have many cultural, religious, and social meanings, which may vary between specific ethnic groups and regional areas. This study explored the diverse social, cultural, and religious perspectives associated with yam and its cultivation in southeastern Nigeria. Methods: We used a comparative approach and utilized in-depth, semistructured interviews, local narratives, and our experiential background to understand the similarities and differences in the local notions of yam and their impacts on the general societal structure across three ethnic regions in southeastern Nigeria. We discussed the findings on a thematic basis to reflect the social and cultural issues associated with the ownership and cultivation of yam. The themes ranged from religious practices, impact on social status, and gender relations. Results: We found no significant differences in the incidence of local perceptions and practices between the study areas. Conclusion: This study has demonstrated the importance and functions of yam crop in structuring the social, economic, religious and cultural fabric of the society

Differential patterns in comparative education discourse

This dissertation study argues that 'policy advice formation', as a discourse development, is a differentiated hybrid resultant from merger between comparative education and policy studies disciplines. Through discourse analysis based on John Creswell's format, this study identifies revisions, restatements and shifts in emphasis of theories, methodological models and challenge topics of comparative education and policy studies. Findings which display the development of policy advice formation' discourse. In conclusion, this study found differential patterns seemingly formed because of collaborative affects of standardization in education science knowledge expressed within discourse

Some Effects Of The Federal Reserve System On The American Economy

The Federal Reserve System is considered by many people to be a mysterious organization because most people have only a vague idea of the functions and operations of the Federal Reserve System. The purpose of this study is to study the organization of the Federal Reserve System and to investigate the effects that the system has upon the American economy. In seeking the origin of the reform legislation known as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the economic historian usually begins with the year 1893, It was that year that the panic and the depression brought to American bankers, businessmen, and statesmen a realization of the weaknesses of the American banking system. In a very real sense, the people of this country began to look in the direction of foreign systems to discover the reasons for their superiority. The complacency which had marked American banking thought was severely shaken

Incorporating Project Management and Sustainability

Prosjektledelsesindustrien har evne til å påvirke bærekraft og bærekraftig utvikling sterkt, men mangler ofte merket i virkeligheten. Dette er ofte knyttet til den langvarige ideen om at prosjektlederne bare skal være opptatt av å oppfylle sine forpliktelser i forhold til jernstrikken. Derfor vurderes kun kortsiktige effekter av prosjektene de leverer, ofte. Dette papiret tar opp det teoretiske grunnlaget for prosjektledelse og prosjektleveranse sammen med utfordringene og potensielle evner industrien står overfor i å inkorporere bærekraftig praksis i prosjektledelsesmetodikk. På samme måte påvirker lover og forskrifter ofte prosessene og utgangene som prosjektet ansetter og leverer. Derfor vil dette papiret også undersøke i hvilken grad disse lovene påvirker prosjektets suksess.The project management industry has the ability to greatly affect sustainability and sustainable development, but often misses the mark in reality. This is often linked to the long-standing idea that project managers are to only be concerned with fulfilling their obligations in regard to the iron triangle. Hence, only short-term effects of the projects they deliver are often considered. This paper will address the theoretical basis for project management and project delivery along with the challenges and potential abilities the industry faces in incorporating sustainable practices into project management methodology. Likewise, laws and regulations often influence the processes and outputs which project’s employ and deliver. Therefore, this paper will also examine the extent to which these laws affect project success.