Essays on DJ

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

Isoforms of Dj-1 / Park7 Protein and Gp100

Isoforms of DJ-1 / Park7 protein and gp100 DJ-1 is simply a multifunctional protein that has a very crucial importance in oxidative stress, synucleinopathies such as Parkinson disease and cell death. Levels of DJ-1 generally decreases in cerebrospinal fluid, but they do not have a different composition in human plasma especially with patients with Parkinson illness. The total amount of DJ-1 has their attributes in the red blood cells, and they have the potential of being biomarkers of the Parkinson disease. In determining whether DJ-1 can be used as a biomarker of PD severity or PD diagnosis, we check on its abundance ...

Introduction

A turbulent jet is a source of energy and momentum in a fluid tank. A jet is considered fully turbulent at a jet laminar for Rej below about 100 and Reynolds number Rej above about 1’000 – 2’000. Therefore, the limit between a turbulent jet and laminar is around the Reynolds number of 3’000 and the significant characteristics of the jet are its discharge and momentum flux.

Eq. 2; Qj = vjAj – jet volume flux Rej = vjdjv = jet Reynolds number Frj = vj√g'dj = densimetric jet Froude number

Where;

Vj is the jet velocity at entry point Aj is the tank ...

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Appendix 14 Travel Grant Proposal to Egypt Introduction There are many reasons why Egypt is ideal place to study music. Firstly, Egypt has historical significance in world history and a study of its culture and music would help establish a link between modern culture and the cradle of civilization. Music in Egypt became a much relevant subject during the pharaonic period. Throughout this period, music formed a significant aspect of the Egyptian way of life. Majority of musicians assumed various positions in the Egyptian ...

In the current years, there are controversies that surround the American media regarding the hip-hop music that the artist produces. Starting from the East coast there are rivalries that shadows the murders of most rap artist such as Tupac, and B.I.G. most of the politicians have to blame the rappers for making most youths to be violent. Nevertheless, most people criticize that the rappers are not the cause of violence influence to the youths, but rather the hip-hop stars like Herc. Hip-hop music has raised more concern after people came keenly to listen to it. It is considered to ...

Hip-hop is a youth subculture, consisting of several interconnected components: fashion, graffiti, art, DJs, rap, and breakdance. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion and slang. Hip-hop originally appeared in the South Bronx in the 1970s (12 November 1974, to be exact), and has become a part of youth culture in many countries around the world. Since the late 1990s the underground street culture with sharp social orientation, gradually became a part of the music industry, and by the middle of the first decade of this century, a subculture of hip-hop has become «fashionable» and «mainstream». However, despite this, there are plenty of ...

Islamic, Culture, Tradition, and Theology

Wiz Khalifa is one of the most popular DJs in the Hollywood today. Aside from being a Hollywood DJ, Wiz Khalifa is also known as a popular record artist. Most of his songs are rap, party, and hip hop songs. This is why he is such a prominent icon for young people and even adults who are a fan of hip hop music. By now, based on the number record hits he has released and his numerous partnerships and jams with other prominent Hollywood recordings artists, composers, and even bands, it can already be said that he is already a successful man. He ...

Instruction Name –

Hip-hop music is a genre of music that comprises of schematic rhythmic music and generally involves rapping, and is characterized by four fundamental stylistic elements; breakdancing, DJing, MCing, and graffiti. Besides these four primary elements, other elements such as sampling and beatboxing are also used in hip-hop music. Hip-Hop music evolved as a component of the hip-hop culture during the 1970s. The history of the evolution and reinvention of hip-hop music is interesting. Hip-hop music traces its roots to African-American music, and finally to African music. The griots belonging to West Africa are a faction people that specialize as storytellers, musicians, ...

- Memphis is the home of the music genre rock n roll. An example to support this is the observation one of the genre pioneers came from the place. He grew up there and requested bar owners to let him in their clubs so that he could listen to their music. - Sam Phillips was behind the sun Records. The studio gave the people a platform to air their view and oppression through the music. The studio did not discriminate and thus was a voice of the minority and civil rights. - A. the musical style of Elvis Presley ...

Profitability ratios

Gross profit margin =Gross profit/Net sales The formulae used in the calculations are listed in the appendix. ("Growth, Profitability, and Financial Ratios for Myer Holdings Ltd (MYR) from Morningstar.com," n.d.)

Commentary

- Profitability

Generally, profitability ratios give someone an idea on how the company is utilizing resources to make the profit.

Myer has a lower gross profit margin compared to David Jones. The gross profit, net profit margins for Myer decline over the two-year period, 2012 and 2013. During the same time, David Jones improves marginally on the margins. This is an indication of changing fortunes in the industry, where one company gains as the other declines. The two companies have a similar tax environment as tax expense ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28). However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

Vertigo case study

- Situational Analysis - Strategic analysis

Mission

Vertigo Chain Stores is devoted to providing an exceptional fashion environment, which gives the customers distinctiveness. The outlet is committed to excellent customer service, which keeps every customer on the cutting edge of fashion. Besides, the business is dedicated to operating at a profitable rate through minimizing costs and sound economic decisions.

Strategies

The Chain Stores will constantly change its appearance to stay in the step with the modern fashion trends of the global market. In addition, the business will always strive to provide real value and great service to our clientele and business ...

Usually, I do not go out on Sunday too much. But it was the very first day of summer, and as long as you are young (or feel that way) this day remains special and symbolical, to a certain degree. So, I called a couple of friends, and one of them proposed to go “Johnny Brenda’s,” a place located in Fishtown section of Philadelphia, on 1201 N. Frankford Ave. I checked what they had in store for today on the Internet. The poster read: “Stolen Memories, your soundtrack provided by DJ Greg Mungan.” The simplistic poster also promised diverse music, free ...

“Musical Instruments” American Culture

American music began its advancement with the seventeenth century Native Americans, and the instruments they played. Local American music was known to be profound and frequently used as a love or performed in a custom particular to their religion. The development, according to Brass proceeded when outsiders from the United Kingdom, France and Spain settled in the range, bringing with them new styles and instruments. African music conventions added to the inconceivable mixture of a musical society that formed America when slaves brought their instruments too. The Civil War created American music to get considerably more unpredictable, when warriors from inverse territories ...

Abstract

On an annual basis, children are known to spend more of their time on television watching than any other activity. In fact, television viewing can be considered as a hobby of most children. The entertainment programs presented on television attract the attention of most children causes addiction to them. The question that one may ask is, “Does television watching have any health concern?” A positive relationship is believed to exist between television watching and rates of obesity. Although it is still not clear the reasons behind it, studies have shown that the two are directly related. The proposed study, therefore, ...

Just like this decade, Hip Hop music has been very instrumental in expressing cultural aspects, political views, social perspectives and attitude towards a particular group in the 80’s. Criminal minded was widely considered to be the foundation of the hardcore rap, that announced its overall intentions with just a cover photo of its artists- Kris-One and Scott La Rock. These artists posed with weapons which was unheard musical gesture since the year 1987. Boogle Down production was a rap tailored to explain about the inner city violence and drugs. There existed no explicit mention of the real gangs who conducted the ...

Art and culture for a long time over the years has been expressed through forms such as music, lifestyles, beliefs, dressing among many other things that determine our day to day lives. Art and entertainment since time in memorial has formed part of our culture that has cut across many generations of different people from different places in the place world. With the increased globalization and innovations in the contemporary world, it has resulted to new forms of art and entertainment that have had a great influence and impact on a bigger number of the people, both old and young not only ...

America is a land of opportunities that is surrounded with various factors that have major opportunities which are globally recognized. As the superpower, the country enjoys the diversity in cultural practices that differ primarily from the hip hop, rap, poetry and other aspects of cultural diversity, which the country enjoys. Specifically, we can discuss on the hip hop as a genre of music which has affected a large number of people and has its base in the United States. Hip hop cultural movement is regarded to have introduced a couple of newer things, altered doctrines and brought understanding of self expression. The overall ...

Staffing and volunteers

The Christmas ball event will need to be planned in a manner that will enable proper alignment and staffing process. No matter what a business does, finding the right staffing level can be a challenging task. If you hire too many staff in an organization you will suffer from high costs with many workers doing nothing. If you hire to few people, the workers will be stressed and overworked and the productivity of the Company will be greatly affected(Schobernd et al. 2009). There will be staff that will work on the various events that will lead up to the event. ...

Business events management

Introduction Event management is a discipline involving the use of project management tools and techniques to create manage and bring to success festival and events. The process involve the study of the event to determine the target audience and design a theme that suites them. Operational and logistical technicalities are also developed to ensure the success of the event. Event management gets down to two questions concerning the kind of events to be developed and the planning and management processes that accompany such events. Events can be activities such as celebrations, education meetings, promotions and commemorations. Event planning and management ...

Introduction

Electronic dance music also known as dance music, EDM, or club music refers to a series of percussive electronic genres of music produced specifically for environment centered for entertainment purposes. The environments include the nightclubs and dance halls. The electronic dance music employs the use of disc jockeys produces with the core intention of being continuously heard in the natural context of a DJ set. The DJ mixes progressively one record to another using a synchronized mix/segue. Electronic dance music is classifiable under different genres that include techno, UK garage, dubstep, and electro house among other genres. These genes have played a great ...

Article Review: Introduction to Contracts

The article by Goldman Eric titled “Did Monster Energy Make a ‘Dope’ Contract with DJ Z-Trip Nope” was published in Forbes magazine on 5th November 2013 as a review of a case between Monster Energy and DJ Z-Trip and Beastie Boys. In the cases, Energy misinterpreted the meaning of the word “Dope” from DJ Z-Trip to mean that they could go ahead and publish Beastie Boys’ copyrighted material. In that respect, Energy relied on the misinterpreted word and assumed permission to use DJ Z-Trip’s “Megamix” remix in making a promotional YouTube video which then came as a surprise to the Beastie Boys whose ...

Introduction

‘Paint the Beat’ is an event aimed at promoting the art and music industry in Melbourne. The event plans at achieving this through collaborating local musicians and artistic painters to create their work of art through a different avenue of inspiration. As music is performed, the painter’s expression of its lyrics increases the audience’s understanding of the same. The guests enjoy the ambience of performance in a completely new light of artistic and musical expression, and also encouraging and supporting local artists and musicians. The event will be held on Thursday, 10 October 2013 at The Leveson, and ...

Don Juan (DJ) is a gentleman who spends his time seducing several women, flirting and dueling. He takes a challenge and even bets with a fellow young man, Don Luis, on who seduces the most number of ladies. A romantic DJ is portrayed in Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio, presenting a character who has transformed from a classical to a romantic figure. The play provides a romantic version of DJ, showing love even after life hence as variation of the classical Don Juan. He is a calculating seducer who manages to convince his bet opponent’s fiancée, Dona Ana de Pantoja, and later seduces a young nun, ...

Introduction

This paper will be focused on the hospital-acquired condition of surgical site infections (SSI) . Surgical site infections are considered preventable. Because such infections are considered preventable, there are legal consequences directly connected to such a condition. Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to represent a significant portion of healthcare-associated infections. The influence on illness, death, and cost of care has caused in surgical site infections reduction being recognized as a highest national importance in the United States Department of Health (D, 2008). One of the good news about the whole thing is that the mainstream of surgical site infections are mainly avoidable ...

Thesis Statement: There is an evident influence of Western culture on the GCC; more specifically, in the customs of language, daily life, and politics and economy.

Introduction

Globalization has helped nations develop mightier economies. In as far as the gulf countries are concerned, Globalization is a very important step towards sustainable economic growth and stability. The Gulf countries find themselves in a position where in they can use the globalization to their benefit. With globalization come the effects of globalization. It is an undeniable fact today that the western world is continuing to lead the economy despite emergence of oriental powers. So ...

Pop culture is a reflection of the influence of entertainment, sports and art on the society at large. What we wear and what we speak (or tweet) is majorly simulated by the trends prevalent in popular fields such as movies, music, theatre, sports etc. Popular arts have evolved, from what were classified as folk art and niche’ art earlier. The former was for the masses while the latter for those with a higher taste in complicated forms of the arts. Off late, however, the majority of art is based on the mass preference which is mostly simple and unsophisticated (also referred ...

Bipolar disorder is a severe, recurrent, and chronic mental disease associated with periods of mania and depression. It can result from environmental, genetic, or biological stress. Most researcher have put forward findings about the disorder and majority claim that it may result from the marriage of many diseases rather than a single disease. However, despite the several researches geared towards this disease, it has never been diagnosed among the people suffering from the disease. Bipolar disorder is associated with certain characteristic. For instance, most children especially boys bed wetting at night while asleep, while some have rapid and excessive day ...

Ogbar and Jeffery (pp 1) describe “Hip Hop” as one of the styles used by artist to sing. The style can also be defined as a culture due to the influence it has. Ogbar and Jeffery (pp 2) continue to argue that hip hop began in the 1970s in New York at a place called South Bronx. Dj Kool Herc is believed to be the founder of the new style of music. He used to rap while mixing during his parties. The hip hop culture continued growing and by the 1980s it had its own uniqueness. The common cultures associated with ...

Males of Asian descent have got an unpleasant rap in mainstream movies from all over the world. If they do not get depicted as a type of caricature, then they will often be stereotypes that they are humble as well as unassuming, the kind of people who will stick around somewhere in the background. Also, film directors view them as those who are especially not outgoing, and an exact antonym of the terms “handsome” and “sexy.” This kind of mentality perhaps became popular because there are extremely few famous Asians in the United States, from which most of the films ...

Abstract

In the United States sex trafficking is one of the most lucrative businesses. Women are exploited and are sold from different countries and transported from states to state like animals. The worst part of this atrocity is half of these women are children

Slave Sex Trafficking in the United States

The Bible states that the love of money is the root of all evil; these words still rings true in the United States. Living in an industrial society in the twenty-first century, one would think that with civilization comes integrity. Not only is slave trafficking present in the United States, it is a lucrative business.

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Introduction:

House and techno music has inspired a new culture and set of traditions and beliefs for the young people of today; similar to the way traditional religions such as Judaism, Islam and Christianity have for the lives of many individuals. So what is it that constitutes these traditional religions as ‘formal’ religions and not electronic music? One continually asks oneself this question accordingly and the answer is perhaps not as clear as one would think.

Through personal experience, song lyrics and the works of several scholars, The Religious Dynamics of Electronic Music” will analyze and evaluate electronic music and how ...

Menacekeys was born in Fort Worth, Texas. The oldest of two sons, he was raised by his father while his mom served a 12-year prison term for child-abuse for almost killing both his younger brother and him. Consequently, music was always an escape from the reality of his troubled childhood. He discovered a passion for the piano at age five, and learned various other instruments throughout his youth, including drums and saxophone.

At age 15, Menacekeys gained his first taste of the music business with an internship through a House and Electronic based group, Oracale of Dallas, TX (Inertia Records). However, near ...

Patients with Post-Stroke Hemiparetic Upper Limb

Abstract The US and Europe are both experiencing the coming of age of an elderly population which is prone to strokes and will need health care focused on post-stroke therapies. The most promising therapies are robot-assisted motion exercises coupled with Non-invasive Brain Simulations (NBS) such as Transcranial Magnetic Simulation (TMS). At this time the most attractive combination for both effective and affordable therapy is the use of simply designed, easily manipulated robot systems coupled with TMS. Since 2003 the area of neurorehabilitation has been growing with many effective and exciting designs in robotics. It hasn’t been very ...

Hip hop is a genre of music and art that has come, over the years, to define a significant portion of the African-American community, and many communities outside of those circles. Stemming from the South Bronx in the 1970s, it has sprung forth into a full-blown cultural phenomenon, defining popular culture to a great extent since its inception. Hip hop has a rich history, and is not shy from controversy or danger. In this paper, we will discuss the history and cultural impact that hip hop has had on American culture and beyond.

Hip hop music stems greatly from Jamaican traditions of reggae and ...

Introduction

Injections are among the most common health care procedures throughout the world but there is a general reluctance among some people to accept the injection without cleaning the location with alcohol swab. According to World Health Organization, there is a no need to routinely apply alcohol swab for the skin preparation before subcutaneous, intra-dermal and intramuscular injection. For the purpose of this survey, the term injection refers to intramuscular, intra-dermal and subcutaneous injections: it does not include intravenous or intra-articular injections. In medical health care, an injection is the introduction of a drug, vaccine, contraceptive or other therapeutic agent into the body ...