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Music education in England has been in a state of flux for a number of years due to the complexities and variability of its delivery. Many of the issues surrounding music education in England are associated with policy and practice in schools, and the complexities of funding and deployment of music activities. This creates contextual, structural and political boundaries, especially on partnership work that seeks to join up provision. This paper presents findings from a four-year longitudinal project that aimed to explore the role of partnership work between schools and out-of-school music providers. It also critiques structural issues and limitations of music education in England, offering new insight and resolutions. Methodologically there has been an emerging interest in diffractive approaches and the intra-actions they produce (Barad [2007] Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press; Haraway [2008] When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). An important part of the paper is to outline the importance of these novel methodologies that go beyond reflection and raise important questions regarding the role of diffractive and intra-active processes in education research projects. This is a novel consideration, which is pertinent for music education research internationally. The paper concludes with a reconceptualisation of partnership work, and new theoretical underpinnings for future partnerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on the topics discussed during the British Crystallographic Association's (BCA) 25th Annual Meeting at University of Kent, Canterbury is presented. Sir Roger Penrose became the Bragg Lecturer 2007 and delivered his talk entitled "Quasi-crystals and non- local assembly: a quantum theory foundations issue?" The whole programme was led by the chairmanship of Professor Lindsay Sawyer of Edinburgh University. The Exhibitors' Forum has become one of the must attend events at the meeting.

The article states that the Josephson effect is a macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics usually seen in superconductors, and that the observation of this effect in a gas of ultracold atoms demonstrates the underlying unity of solid and gaseous systems. Particular focus is given to the research article on the subject by S. Levy, E. Lahoud, I. Shomroni & J. Steinhauer that has been published in this issue. It is also informed that physicist Brian Josephson discovered the original version of this effect in 1962, when he was a young graduate student at the University of Cambridge, England, and it earned him a share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Standard Model constraints onwhich can be derived from thedecays are revisited in some depth. As experimental inputs, the,decays complemented by thedecays, the CP parametersand, and/or the value ofas determined by the global CKM fit are used. The constraints discussed here are model independent in the sense that they rely only on Isospin symmetry, following the Gronau-London proposal. A new bound onand the functionare introduced. While another bound applied toBABARresults is shown to imply thatis negative. The Grossman-Quinn bound is rediscussed. A close form expression is given foras a function of the measurements. Various scenarios for the future of the isospin analysis are explored. To probe the Standard Model theplane is introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on electron spin resonance (ESR) technology used in projects ranging from bird migration, quantum computing and protein structure determination. It is stated that the Centre for Advanced ESR was set up in 2006 in Oxford, England to host a variety of research projects across all disciplines. The article offers information on how ESR works.

Information about several papers discussed at the First Prometheus Trust Conference on Platonic tradition held in Glastonbury, Somerset in England in 2006 is presented. Martha Lyn talked about the two doves that flew from Egypt. Crystal Addey gave a presentation on the importance of polytheism and oracles of Platonic philosophy. John Spencer gave a discussion about a Platonic vision of contemporary quantum theory.

Reports on the quantum mechanics applied by physicists Barbara Forbes and Roy Pike to the classical acoustics of a simple organ pipe in London, England. Result of the perturbation analysis done on the organ pipe; Applications of the method developed by the physicists.

Discusses the contributions of England-based Cambridge University graduate Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac on the field of quantum mechanics. Uncanny ability to invent deep mathematical concepts that were new to physicists; Development of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics; Creation of quantum electrodynamics.

This paper presents the machine learning based machine translation system for Hindi to English, which learns the semantically correct corpus. The quantum neural based pattern recognizer is used to recognize and learn the pattern of corpus, using the information of part of speech of individual word in the corpus, like a human. The system performs the machine translation using its knowledge gained during the learning by inputting the pair of sentences of Devnagri-Hindi and English. To analyze the effectiveness of the proposed approach, 2600 sentences have been evaluated during simulation and evaluation. The accuracy achieved on BLEU score is 0.7502, on NIST score is 6.5773, on ROUGE-L score is 0.9233, and on METEOR score is 0.5456, which is significantly higher in comparison with Google Translation and Bing Translation for Hindi to English Machine Translation.

During the second half of the 19th century Julius von Sachs established the main principles of the photosynthetic production of sugars. From then, a growing number of biochemists and physiologists attended to the process, that appeared like a "black box", in order to detect what came in and what went out of it. The English group of Frederick Blackman gave a remarkable contribution in individuating the close connection between temperature, light and CO2 concentration. Later, the great importance of light was stressed by Otto Warburg, who evaluated the radiant energy necessary to the process in terms of quantum theory. The biochemical mechanism of photosynthesis was interpreted by the main European schools on the basis of Adolf Baeyer's suggestion which posed formaldehyde as the core of the process. Formaldehyde's theory hold engaged the biochemists for about fifty years although some voices rose up against it. However, nobody could put forward more coherent theories until the 1940s, when Sam Ruben and Martin Kamen individuated the cyclic pattern of the process. Ultimately, the first thirty years of the 20th century must be seen as a preliminary stage studded with light and shade even if, in spite of controversial trends, several findings of remarkable interest became to disclose that "black box" as we know today chlorophyll photosynthesis.