French Higher Music Education System

The study provides a characteristic of the French model of higher musical education with a pronounced national specificity, which consists of a special division into levels, or cycles, with its own system of naming academic degrees, awarding diplomas, etc. The authors revealed that the organization of a complex “organism” of the musical education system, presented in a variety of types of public and private institutions, is based on the principle of complementarity of curricula and the identity of competitive examinations. The phenomenon of the high status of university music education is especially noteworthy. Although until recently it concerned mainly musicology and pedagogy, in the last two decades, obtaining an academic degree approved by the higher conservatory together with the university has become prestigious for musicians of various specialties, including concert performers.

Genesis1:11™

Genesis1:11™ is a distant places plantation and forestation-supporting high-technology concept including but not limited to semi-capsuled ecosystems and various physical and precision software tools making it possible to inject microorganisms and to grow plant roots into extraterrestrial soils contributing to a sustainable future for the humankind in remote places (especially terraforming Mars) having extreme climatic and environmental conditions. In this paper main characteristics and utilization areas of Genesis1:11™ Rocket Capsule and technical specifications of Genesis1:11™ Rooting Pot are being discussed without claiming completeness, including a demonstration how a complex organism like a plant might provide a useful and simple host for large number of microbes.

Quantifying consciousness using quantum uncertainty in the brain

In this paper, we will argue that even though we cannot define consciousness, we can quantify it using free will, and quantum uncertainty is in turn a good measure of such a free will. We will also demonstrate that this quantum uncertainty increases with coupling, and thus with neurological complexity. Thus, we will be able to quantify consciousness using quantum uncertainty, and show that the higher amount of consciousness for complex organism would be a direct product of enhanced quantum uncertainty in brain.

Theoretical Understanding of the Culture Phenomenon

The article deals with the theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of culture, which began in Antiquity. It is noted that in the process of formation of cultural Sciences, there was a search for not only differentiating cultural determinants, but also its invariable components, General laws and laws of its development were established. For example, in contrast to evolutionism, representatives of cyclical theory and functionalism considered any culture as a value and did not consider it possible to determine its place on the evolutionary scale. Functionalists showed that any culture is a complex organism, so it is impossible to divide them into primitive and highly developed ones.

Clock-in, clock-out: circadian timekeeping between tissues

Life evolved in the presence of alternating periods of light and dark that accompany the daily rotation of the Earth on its axis. This offered an advantage for organisms able to regulate their physiology to anticipate these daily cycles. In each light-sensitive organism studied, spanning single-celled bacteria to complex mammals, there exist timekeeping mechanisms able to control physiology over the course of 24 hours. Endowed with internal timekeeping, organisms can put their previously stored energy to the most efficient use, selectively ramping up biological processes at specific times of day or night according to when they will be needed. Humans have evolved to be more active during the day (diurnal), likely due to the increased opportunities for foraging or hunting in our evolutionary past, and this daily activity is accompanied by an up-regulation of genes involved in metabolism to increase the energy available for such behaviours. Remarkably, this happens without conscious thought—due to a complex organism-wide signalling apparatus known as the circadian clock network, which conveys time information between cells and tissues.

Whitehead’s Highly Speculative Lectures on Quantum Theory

Ronny Desmet endeavors in this chapter to examine Whitehead’s theory of quantum theory and primates as found in his Harvard lectures using Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism as a starting point while refusing to abandon the idea of continuous space-time, using wave equations as his mathematical vehicle. The chapter contains sections detailing Whitehead’s alternative theory of gravitation, his paradigm of the electron as a complex organism, and his reaction to Niels Bohr’s model of the atom. The chapter concluded that Whitehead wanted a complete reconceptualisation of the atom in terms of atomic structures of vibrations, intending to leave behind all remnants of the materialistic theory in favour of an organic theory.

Dressed for Success?

A translation of a book is not just a faithful conversion of its text from one language to another. The translation is a regeneration of the entire complex organism of the book which often radically alters its paratextual apparatus. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014) is a book that has not only challenged the current capitalist economic model but has also revolutionized the idea of a bestseller. A comparison of the paratexts of its French and English editions demonstrates how a skilful and purposeful visual repackaging of a book, deploying a different paratext, without any cuts or alterations to its text, can radically transform it, make the translation attractive to a wider audience, and ultimately be a contributing factor in its success.

Typological features of water structures of the Railway in West Siberian Urban territories

The railway construction was a new phenomenon for Russia and was not sufficiently studied from a technological point of view. Primarily, climatic and geographical factors were the main problems in the process of the Trans-Siberian Railway construction. Severe winter, permafrost, mountainous, abundant forest terrain created certain difficulties during the construction phase. Therefore, the builders were forced to violate the nature integrity and lay the railway lines along the most profitable routes. The railway line was naturally chosen, first it should pass through large settlements, and secondly, the important factor was the location of the station near the water source for the uninterrupted operation of locomotives. But together with technological progress, this system was evolved into a complex organism, which parts were modernized, and some of them turned into inefficient structures that are collapsing and polluting the environment.

Market and Company Dimension in the Internet Age

The analysis and the study of market and company dimension takes on a particular interest for those who analyze and study the set of problems typical of company economy. The starting point, nowadays, is the verification, from most experts openly shown, of the strict correlation of the two phenomena and, actually of their mutual influence. The analysis of these ones assumes a particular attention in light of what is happening in front of our eyes. Those which appeared irrefutable certainties are now completely put into play again, very often, for determined aspects, completely overturned in regard to the previous certainties. Our effort will consist in a detailed study of the two phenomena included in the great world of internet. The company is a very complex organism. It consists of the organization in its inner of a set of functions, which have to be dimensioned one to the others to obtain a mutual functionality and a harmonic development. The organization of the company functions is a binding necessity for adherence of them to the needs and expectations of market to which the company turns its attention and interest. This combination of functions with the chosen external environment represents the focal point of our interest. It is well clear that the changes which intervene either in one or in other environment, that must combine, necessarily produce some variations that assure the lingering of harmony already reached in the two sections.