뮤지컬 "드림걸즈" 뮤지컬넘버의 극적 기능에 관한 연구 : 커더스 테일러의 넘버를 중심으로

문성환 경성대학교 대학원 2010 국내석사

A good way to become a great musical actor is having a wide understanding about musical theater music. An actor with good musicality can always have great presence on stage. Actors from other fields constantly analyze the script to understand the writers intention and to complete the character. likewise, Musical theater actors have a score to analyze. The composer intends the flow(through-line) and the emotions of the music to reach the audience through the actor's singing. Therefore, without an exact analyze on a given score, both the singing and acting would be meaningless. Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called "The Dreams", who become music superstars. Dreamgirls opened on December 20, 1981 at the Imperial Theatre, and was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical, and won six. Musical <Dreamgirls>, the first re-made show in the world was produced in Korea and had 162 shows from February till August 2009, being in the spotlight in of the industry. Being the vocal trainer of the production, I had spent about an year with the actor who played Curtis Taylor, the leading male role. Through that process, I was able to discover the intention of the composer of the music. And that was start of my research on the dramatic effect of musical numbers. There are three distinctive theatrical functions in the music of Curtis Taylor's musical numbers. To start, the actor has to build and complete the character through the music. There are rhythms that explain the scene on the score, and the beat helps to show the through line of the emotion. Key signature and other musical signs all work together as well. Analyzing the key changes helps to understand the tone and the arrangement of the music. So observing the Key signature, Rhythm, and other musical signs can encourage the actor's acting to be honest. Secondly, the actor can discover the personality through the score. For example, Curtis' vocal range os set within a certain range which enables the Dreams' voices to stand out, and this set-up describes the character more clearly. Lastly, each musical number of different actors is organically related to each other and is make into a bigger story. In a nut shell, a musical performer should have a good understanding on the score and when all the things said above are fulfilled, the audience who come to the theater would have a much more satisfying being drawn into the drama. And eventually, this would result in a higher understanding of the show for audience, and the overall level of the theater goers would increase. I hope more theoretical studies on the not only the script but on the score can contribute to the development in the musical theater industry.

Quenched narrow-line laser cooling of calcium-40 with application to an optical clock based on ultracold neutral calcium atoms

Curtis, Elizabeth Anne University of Colorado at Boulder 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

I describe a novel method of laser cooling that utilizes extremely narrow (<1 kHz natural linewidth) atomic transitions to cool and trap neutral atoms. To effectively cool using these narrow lines we introduce quenching of the excited state to speed up the decay process of the long-lived excited states. This allows rapid cooling of the atoms before they can escape the trap. In this dissertation, methods of quenched narrow-line laser cooling are explored through simulations and experiments using <super>40</super>Ca atoms, reducing atomic temperatures from ∼2 mK, accessible through standard Doppler-cooling methods, to 10 μK, in three dimensions. Further cooling is performed in one dimension, producing distributions in the hundreds of nanokelvin range. The impetus for the development of second-stage cooling of calcium lies with our concurrent development of an optical frequency standard based on the narrow <super>1</super><italic>S</italic>₀ → <super> 3</super><italic>P</italic>₁ intercombination line at 657 nm (456 THz) in neutral <super>40</super>Ca. Compared to the present microwave-based standards, an optical transition used as the basis for an atomic frequency standard has the potential to improve the stability by over 3 orders of magnitude. Absolute frequency measurements that we have performed of the Ca 456 THz transition relative to the Cs primary standard show that the accuracy of the present system is limited due to frequency shifts caused by the residual velocity (70 cm/s) of the Doppler cooled calcium atoms. The use of micokelvin temperature atoms achieved with quenched narrow-line cooling can potentially increase the accuracy of the standard by more than an order of magnitude, and opens the way for the other improvements to the standard, such as clock spectroscopy performed on atoms that have been loaded into an optical lattice.

Adult daughters' perceptions of closeness in the mother-daughter relationship: Do nonevents influence how we feel?

Curtis, Angela Rothrock Virginia Commonwealth University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of nonevents on daughters' perceptions of mother-daughter closeness over time. In particular this study sought to determine whether changes in daughters' perceptions were influenced by those events that daughters rated as positive and expected but that had not yet occurred (nonevents). Participants included 60 daughters from the Time 1 study (Rothrock 2000), ranging in age from 26 to 69 as well as 46 newly recruited daughters between the ages of 18 and 29. Participants completed a questionnaire packet assessing their perceptions of closeness in the mother-daughter relationship as well as their perceptions (positive vs. negative), expectations (expected vs. not expected), and experiences (experienced vs. not experienced) regarding 35 life events. Cross-sectional analyses (n = 106) revealed that the majority of daughters had experienced at least one nonevent, with marital and parental nonevents being the most frequent. Age was negatively correlated with the number of all types of nonevents as well as those specific to marital and parental issues. Higher numbers of nonevents were associated with increased alienation in the relationship. Potential changes in perceived mother-daughter closeness over the five-year time period were examined using multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVAs)(n = 60). No significant differences were found between Time 1 and Time 2 closeness scores. Additional longitudinal analyses were conducted to examine the influence of roles and nonevents on closeness scores over time. A series of regression analyses was completed, finding no significant influence of daughters' roles (spouse, parent, or employee) on closeness. A second series of regression analyses was conducted to assess the influence of nonevents on closeness over time. Results indicated that the interaction of age, Time 1 closeness, and the number of new nonevents (those expected after age at Time 1) predicted change in perceived closeness for two of the three closeness measures. Specifically, older daughters with few nonevents grew closer to their mothers over time, while older daughters with high numbers of nonevents became less close to their mothers over time. Interestingly, younger daughters exhibited a different pattern, with increased closeness for those reporting more nonevents.

An analysis of the construct of efficacy on new teacher retention

Curtis, Karen C George Mason University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation researches the relationship that job satisfaction, collaborative relationships with mentors, general self-efficacy, teacher self-efficacy, and organizational efficacy have on new teacher retention. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed on the data gathered from four survey instruments: (1) Jerusalem and Schwarzer's General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (2001), which measures an individual's beliefs in his/her ability to organize and execute a course of action with an intended goal in mind; (2) Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk-Hoy's (2001b) Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale-Short Form, which measures teacher self-efficacy in the three areas of student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management; (3) Gruenert and Valentine's (1998) School Culture Survey, which measures organizational efficacy by examining the shared values/beliefs, the patterns of behavior, and relationships in the school; and (4) the General Information Questionnaire, an instrument created by the researcher that measures a teacher's intention to remain in the teaching profession along with independent item measures such as relationships with a mentor and job satisfaction. The General Information Questionnaire also collects demographic information such as education level, certification, teaching assignment, and personal information to be used generally to describe the participants. This instrument was created because no such instrument currently exists in the literature that measures these variables as each applies to retention. Multiple linear regression, t tests, and correlational research were performed on the collected data. Furthermore, minimal qualitative data were collected as teachers responded when asked why they would not return to teaching. The data conclude that job satisfaction is the most significant predictor of new teacher retention in the following year of teaching and after five years of teaching followed by teacher self-efficacy, organizational efficacy, collaborative relationship with a mentor, and general self-efficacy, respectively. General self-efficacy and collaboration with a mentor were not significant predictors of retention for new teachers in five years. Implications for these findings, as well as suggestions for future research, are discussed.

Steel Conversations, Emotional Kinesthetics: The Sculpture of Sokari Douglas Camp

Curtis, Susan J ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2017 해외박사(DDOD)

ABSTRACT: The dissertation surveys the career of the Nigerian-British sculptor, Sokari Douglas Camp, with an emphasis on how the sensorial qualities of her work engage audiences in her creative process. Her most famous sculpture, The Living Memorial to Ken Saro Wiwa, has been impounded by the Nigerian Customs Authority since September 2015 because, allegedly, it is “a threat to national peace.” When a sculpture generates this much fear in a governmental agency, it is clear the artist has created a formidable work. Three decades prior to this backhanded acknowledgement of the power of her work, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. explicitly honored Douglas Camp by choosing her to headline its grand opening in November, 1988. Bracketed by these transnational demonstrations of the significance of her work there stretches an oeuvre of more than 300 free-standing sculptures, relief panels, and steel “drawings”, more than 40 solo exhibitions, and a handful of catalog essays. A monograph on Sokari Douglas Camp is long overdue. The dissertation is organized around three qualities that have occupied Douglas Camp since her days at art school: Space, E(motion), and Surface. Chapter One considers how Douglas Camp places her work in the physical spaces of exhibition, and the virtual spaces of western art history, inserting herself and her art into visible positions. Chapter Two presents a chronology of Douglas Camp and her career, contextualizing the sculptural production with significant biographical and environmental events. Chapter Three draws on affect theory in its consideration of how Douglas Camp engages audiences by investing sculptures with emotional movement--or stasis. Chapter Four examines how her manipulation of sculptural surfaces stimulates the viewer’s haptic perceptions, and how she exploits lighted perforations or incised texts to draw viewers into the works. Fluctuations Douglas Camp’s commercial and critical success are correlated to the ability of her works to stimulate the full sensorium.

Interaction of sensorimotor signals in the rat vibrissa system

Curtis, John Chester University of California, San Diego 2008 해외박사(DDOD)

Sensory perception in natural environments involves the dual challenge to encode external stimuli and manage the influence of changes in body position that alter the sensory field. To examine mechanisms used to integrate sensory signals elicited by both external stimuli and motor activity, we trained rats to perform an active search task with a single vibrissa. We recorded neuronal activity in primary somatosensory cortex, along with vibrissa position and touch signals, as rats rhythmically swept their vibrissa in search of a target. A majority of neurons respond to touch and, critically, ∼20% are transiently excited only when contact occurs at a cell-specific phase in the whisk cycle. This response arises from a nonlinear interaction, consistent with gating by shunting synaptic inhibition, between vibrissa touch and a motion-derived signal that dynamically labels each neuron with a preferred phase. The observed response is likely to underlie estimation of object position in a head-centered reference frame as rodents search for vibrisso-tactile targets. More generally, our results delineate a computation that is likely to occur in all active sensorimotor systems.

Saccadic distractibility in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree biological relatives

Curtis, Clayton Eugene University of Minnesota 1999 해외박사(DDOD)

Among schizophrenia patients, performance deficits on antisaccade tasks are thought to reflect saccadic distractibility, a sign of prefrontal dysfunction. Two studies were conducted to evaluate this supposition. In study 1, 91 acute schizophrenia patients, 13 schizophrenia patients in full remission, 38 acute psychotic affective disorder patients, 108 first-degree biological relatives of the acute schizophrenia patients, and 104 nonpsychiatric controls, were administered antisaccade and prosaccade tasks. Both schizophrenia groups had an increased number of errors on the antisaccade task compared to the relative and affective group, who both had more errors than the controls. Regardless of clinical state, schizophrenia patients and their relatives show robust difficulties suppressing unwanted saccades during the antisaccade task. It is unlikely that saccadic distractibility was due to confounds such as interfering psychotic symptomatology, medication, or medication side effects. In addition, generalized problems with saccadic control could not account for their increased rate of reflexive errors on the antisaccade task. In study 2, 38 schizophrenia patients, 41 of their first-degree biological relatives, 23 psychotic affective disorder patients, and 30 non-psychiatric controls were administered three oculomotor tasks that varied in degree of requisite saccadic inhibitory load (fixation [low], fixation ion with distractors [medium], and antisaccade [high]). The presence of visible fixation stimuli and the significance of the distractors were parameters that varied the difficulty in suppressing unwanted saccades. The schizophrenia patients and their first-degree biological relatives showed robust evidence of increased saccadic distractibility that was most pronounced during high inhibitory load conditions. Together, these findings strongly suggest that saccadic distractibility is associated with the liability for schizophrenia.

Colorblind Christians: White Evangelical Institutions and Theologies of Race in the Era of Civil Rights

Curtis, Jesse Nathaniel ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Temple University 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation traces the history of black and white evangelical encounters between the 1960s and 1990s. In the crucible of these encounters, white evangelicals forged a new theology of race: Christian colorblindness. Drawing on biblical idioms and the rhetoric of spiritual unity, white evangelicals turned their back on white supremacist theologies even as they resisted black evangelical calls for a more thorough redistribution of power. In the ambiguous space between racist reaction and anti-racist Christianity, white evangelicals successfully expanded their movement and adapted to the changes the civil rights movement wrought. Professing to be united in Christ, they molded an evangelical form of whiteness while proclaiming colorblind intentions. Colorblind Christians embraced a politics of church primacy. They believed that conversion to evangelical Christianity, not systemic change or legal reform, was the source of racial progress. When people became Christians, their new identity as members of the Body of Christ superseded any racial identity. Black evangelicals could use such claims to press for inclusion in white evangelical institutions. But white evangelicals often used the same logic to silence black evangelical demands for reform. In these spaces of ostensible Christian unity, white evangelicals preserved whiteness at the center of American evangelicalism.The story of black and white evangelical encounters reveals an American racial order that was at once racial and religious. Colorblind Christians invites scholars of race to consider how religion shapes racial formation and encourages scholars of religion to think about how race structures religion. Using the archives of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, overlooked records from the most influential church growth initiative of the era, and rarely-examined sources such as student newspapers from white evangelical colleges, Colorblind Christians shows how white evangelicals shaped the American racial order and became successful religio-racial entrepreneurs in a time of rapid change. Using race strategically to grow their churches, white evangelicals invested in whiteness in the name of spreading a colorblind gospel. Black evangelicals promoted an alternative evangelical vision that placed racial justice at the center of the gospel. Their efforts to belong in American evangelicalism revealed the racial boundaries of the movement. By the end of the twentieth century, Christian colorblindness had helped to grow evangelicalism and enhance its political power, but it did so by coloring evangelicalism white. Black evangelicals, outsiders in their own religious tradition, continued to expose these often-invisible investments and pointed the way toward an evangelicalism beyond whiteness.

Molecular thermodynamics of proteins in aqueous solutions of concentrated electrolyte

Curtis, Robin Andrew University of California, Berkeley 2000 해외박사(DDOD)

This thesis is concerned with calculating the thermodynamic properties of proteins dissolved in aqueous electrolyte solutions. These solutions are commonly used for the preliminary purification step of target protein molecules from fermentation broths due to the selectivity and low cost of the process. In addition, salt-induced protein crystallization is a popular method for obtaining high quality crystals suitable for x-ray diffraction. To optimize these processes, we need to develop specific criteria for choosing conditions favorable for reducing the solubility of the target protein. Here, we seek to develop a molecular-thermodynamic description of protein solubility. Most molecular-thermodynamic models of aqueous protein solutions are based on a potential of mean force that is an effective protein-protein interaction where the positions of solvent molecules are averaged out. To model protein-protein interactions in concentrated salt solutions, we propose a potential of mean force analogous to the solvation potential used in protein folding. The potential is given by the free energy to desolvate the part of the protein surfaces buried by the protein-protein interaction. In this work, we measure osmotic second virial coefficients for ovalbumin, for lysozyme, and for a mutant lysozyme, as a function of salt concentration and pH. By fitting the proposed solvation potential of mean force to the measured osmotic second virial coefficients, we show that the primary effect of salt is to enhance hydrophobic forces between protein molecules. Protein solubility can be determined from simplified forms of the potential of mean force. To demonstrate this, we use an anisotropic potential of mean force determined from fitting osmotic second virial coefficients to correlate protein solubility. We extrapolate this potential to determine the solid-phase properties where we also include a term to account for the entropy change of crystallization. Quantitative agreement between the model and experimental data is obtained. Potential-of-mean-force models are cast in the McMillan-Mayer framework where the independent variables are temperature, protein concentration and the set of solvent chemical potentials. This is in contrast to the experimentally-friendly variables of the Gibbs framework (temperature, pressure, protein concentration, and salt molality). To match experimental data, the results of the models need to be converted to the Gibbs framework. Here, we perform the conversion for a sample calculation of protein cloud-point temperature curves.

Mentor training: Feasibility of a Web-based program to train mentors of distance dietetic management graduate students

Curtis, Suzanne Render Oregon State University 2001 해외박사(DDOD)

The purpose of this research was to evaluate a web-based training program for mentors of distance graduate students enrolled in a distance Master of Science Dietetic Management Program. The online training program was designed to consist of four modules focusing on mentoring skills, communication, research methods and university mandated guidelines for graduate students. Six mentors with advanced degrees, representing three regions of the country participated in this case study. Data collection was accomplished from answers, received by e-mail, to consistent questions identified in each module, a post-training program semi-structured telephone interview and a scenario, pairing mentors to practice mentoring skills in a realistic setting, received by email. Data were analyzed qualitatively, using <italic>QSR. NUD*IST</italic> as a tool to facilitate data organization. Emergent themes from the data included issues relating to the level of experience of the participants, technological issues, and outcomes and benefits of the training program to the mentors. The module perceived as most informative focused on research methods. The participants agreed the web-based training program was a viable method to train a mentor living in close proximity to a distance graduate student to assist the student with the research project required for the degree.