ATHENS: NEW CAPITAL OF TRADITIONAL GREEK MUSIC: TESTIMONIES ON MUSICAL LIFE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Athens: New capital of traditional Greek music: Testimonies on musical life at the beginning of the twentieth century

During its long Byzantine and Post-Byzantine history Constantinople was the center for church art in general, but especially for music.This old city on the Bosporus maintained its prime position until the beginning of the 20th century when, because of new political and social conditions, the Greek people started to acquire their independence and fr

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Ethical Considerations of Using ChatGPT in Health Care

ChatGPT has promising applications in health care, but potential ethical issues need to be addressed proactively to prevent harm.ChatGPT presents potential ethical challenges from legal, humanistic, algorithmic, and informational perspectives.Legal ethics concerns arise from the unclear allocation of responsibility when patient harm occurs and from

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Approximate equations for circular hinge stiffnesses

Flexure hinges are widely used for very high precision mechanisms, such as a high precision linear guide, a nano positioning stage, a robot hand and etc., because of no gap and no friction.Regarding circular hinge stiffnesses, Paros and Weisbord derived exact solutions, but they are unwieldly because of the complexity.Simpler equations are preferre

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Conductive, Anti-Corrosion, Self-Healing Smart Coating Technology Incorporating Graphene-Based Nanocomposite Matrix

Chromate conversion coatings have been in service for decades providing robust corrosion protection to a wide variety of aluminum alloys.However, it is also known that anti-corrosive coatings containing Cr6+ contributes to DNA damage, cause cancer and are not environmentally friendly.Consequently, regulatory restrictions over the use Cr6+ were esta

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