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The Shape of Sound project is a site-specific installation and performance exploring how movement affects the sounds that we hear by creatively interpreting the anatomy of the inner ear. Using qualitative research methods such as Experiential Anatomy and inductive thematic analysis, this study asks how the historic and acoustic past of Coventry’s Anglican Chapel can co-curate contemporary installation and performance. This paper expands on the process, namely, the practice of visualizing the cochlea and embodied interaction. The relationship between sound and history created by the installation and performances housed within the Anglican Chapel (Coventry) is examined. These processes facilitated engagement with soundscapes in the immersive experience of the project. The researchers utilise the artist’s, performers, visitors, audiences’, and workshop participants’ reflections on the installations, performances, and workshops that have taken place in Coventry (United Kingdom) in 2021–2022. The project found that experiencing a space through creative or arts-based methods can prompt visitors to experience soundscapes. Combined with their affective experience, participants benefited through guidance towards a deeper understanding of the place and surroundings. The concluding section discusses the future of the project in the context of the sound signature of spaces housing the Carthusian order of monks.

Los retos del sindicalismo magisterial en el siglo XXI se reconocen variados, dadas las reformas constitucionales en materia educativa que han acotado su actuar desde 2013; así, el objetivo del presente documento es exponer algunos retos que se presentan para el Sindicato de Maestros al Servicio del Estado de México. Para lo anterior, ha sido necesario rastrear históricamente la gestación de sindicatos en México y su fundamento normativo desde su ley sustantiva contenida en el artículo 123 de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y su ley adjetiva: la Ley Federal del Trabajo. Se apunta a la necesidad de revalorizar la labor docente a partir de la gestación de mejores condiciones laborales de contratación y en el servicio.

Abstract Projections of changes in tropical cyclone (TC) characteristics under climate change are of great interest to those affected by TCs. In a recent paper, Knutson et al. combined a large number of previous results to produce projections consisting of distributions of possible future TC frequencies, intensities, and rainfall rates. These distributions provide a great resource for users of TC information. However, to apply the distributions to impacts models may require the user to solve a number of technical challenges including modeling correlations, fitting distributions, interpolation, and converting the projections to properties at landfall. I consider the frequency and intensity changes, and implement solutions for each of these challenges using a combination of recently published research and a new methodology. This allows me to produce a dataset of TC projections that give frequency changes as a function of landfall region and intensity. Mean intensity changes can then be derived from frequency changes. The projections are presented in a format that allows them to be used in impacts models without further processing. The interpolation and landfall adjustments tend to increase the frequency changes. As a result, my projections give increasing mean frequencies of hurricane-strength landfalling TCs in four out of six global basins, with mean frequencies increasing by up to 16% for a 2°C increase in global mean surface temperature. My projections are highly uncertain, but include uncertainty estimates. They are designed to be a useful resource for anyone interested in possible future TC frequencies and intensities.

Abstract Building risk models for present‐day climate requires an understanding of recent climate trends. To estimate the climate change driven component of recent rainfall trends in Europe, we introduce a novel methodology for combining trend estimates from observed data, a climate model ensemble and a default trend of zero. The methodology weights the different trend estimates based on their uncertainty and consistency with observations. We find that the methodology puts low weights on the observational estimates of recent rainfall trends because they are so uncertain and puts higher weights on the trends estimated using the climate model ensemble mean and the default trend of zero. This demonstrates the value of ensemble simulations of past climate for this application. The methodology we describe establishes a probabilistic framework for estimating uncertain climate change trends based on combining estimates from observed data and climate models and could be applied in many other situations.

This article examines two performances, Othello in Kathakali and The Magic Hour, concentrating the analysis around two different choices made around a single action: the killing of Desdemona. While Desdemona is killed in the Kathakali Othello, in The Magic Hour this does not occur. The argument in this article differs from a critique that suggests Othello in Kathakali, created by Sadanam Balakrishnan and performed by the International Center for Kathakali in New Delhi, fails to nuance the inherent misogyny in the original Shakespearean text while improvising on its own conventions. A sustained counter argument is presented, which suggests that the design of the performance has enough new elements, fresh codes and reinvented conventions to address the political/racial theme of the story, and that any misogyny inherently lies not in the creator’s intentions, but rather in the Shakespearean text itself. The Magic Hour, on the other hand, negotiates the misogyny in the Shakespearean text more directly and, by choosing not to kill Desdemona, transforms the murder sequence into a scene of liberation, of moksham.

Every generation has playwrights as representational voices. The 1960s provided Brian Friel, Tom MacIntyre, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy and Frank McGuinness while in the late 1990s Marina Carr, Conor MacPherson, Enda Walsh, and Mark O’Rowe emerged. With the evolution of the ‘theatre maker’ and the ‘actor/writer’, has theatre forgotten its most important asset, the ‘Playwright’? This Chapter by artistic director Geoff Gould makes a strong statement about the lack of support from the Arts Council, the Abbey, and other Irish theatre companies in nurturing and developing the new generation of playwrights, making their current position untenable.

The paper presents the application of ultrasonic guided waves for fatigue crack detection in metallic structures. The study involves a simple fatigue test performed to introduce a crack into an aluminium plate. Lamb waves generated by a low-profile, surface-bonded piezoceramic transducer are sensed using a tri-axis, multi-position scanning laser vibrometer. The results demonstrate the potential of laser vibrometry for simple, rapid and robust detection of fatigue cracks in metallic structures. The method could be used in quality inspection and in-service maintenance of metallic structures in aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering industries.

This paper reports the development of high power excimer lasers with enhanced spatial and temporal coherence. These excimer lasers are applicable to writing fiber Bragg gratings by interferometric or phase-mask techniques. An excimer laser with a novel unstable resonator will be analyzed with respect to its suitability to the production of passive fiber optic components and in terms of production flexibility, efficiency, and reliability. A survey of applicability of this tool to short and long period fiber Bragg gratings will be presented.