In unison, the members of the University of Maryland School of Nursing acknowledge the devastating impact of structural racism and other forms of structural oppression on our country, communities, and School. We recognize the ways our institution was not, and still is not always, a welcoming and supportive place for all its constituents. Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and people of color (BILPOC) have too often been the victims of oppression, incivility, racism, and discrimination. As a community, we oppose racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, ageism, and discrimination based on religion, heritage, ideology, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status.
In unison, we advocate for a School that intentionally creates positive change to address structural oppression. This change requires strategic planning, collaboration, and accountability; silence, delayed action, retaliation, and victim blaming are not tolerated. This also requires eliminating bias in our curriculum, policies, and procedures and working side by side with our community members to advocate for police reform and equity in education, housing, and health care. We will have courageous conversations about structural oppression and work to create positive change.
In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the same time. Rhythmic unison is another term for homorhythm.[1]
Equality is never found in consonances or intervals, and the unison is to the musician what the point is to the geometer. A point is the beginning of a line, although, it is not itself a line. But a line is not composed of points, since a point has no length, width, or depth that can be extended, or joined to another point. So a unison is only the beginning of consonance or interval; it is neither consonance nor interval, for like the point it is incapable of extension.[4]
In orchestral music unison can mean the simultaneous playing of a note (or a series of notes constituting a melody) by different instruments, either at the same pitch; or in a different octave, for example, cello and double bass (all'unisono). Typically a section string player plays unison with the rest of the section. Occasionally the Italian word divisi (meaning divided, abbrev. div.) marks a point where an instrumental section, typically the first violins, is to be divided into two groups for rendering passages that might, for example, include full chords. Thus, in the divisi first violins the "outside" players (nearer the audience) might play the top note of the chord, while the "inside" seated players play the middle note, and the second violins play the bottom note. At the point where the first violins no longer play divisi, the score may indicate this with unison (abbrev. unis.).
When an entire choir sings the main melody, the choir usually sings in unison. Music in which all the notes sung are in unison is called monophonic. In a choir with two or more sections, such as for different vocal ranges, each section typically sings in unison. Part singing is when two or more voices sing different notes. Homophony is when choir members sing different pitches but with the same rhythm. Polyphony is when the chorus sings multiple independent melodies.
On synthesizers, the term unison is used to describe two or more oscillators that are slightly detuned in correspondence to each other, which makes the sound fatter.[clarification needed] This technique is so popular that some modern virtual analog synthesisers have a special oscillator type called "super saw" or "hyper saw" that generates several detuned sawtooth waves simultaneously.[citation needed]
I installed Unison via MacPorts on Mac OSX Sierra. I've read some tutorials online, and now want to write my own profile to set up the synchronization. Sadly, I can't find the .unison folder where the profiles are stored in.
I'm fairly certain that you have to make your own .unison directory and profiles. The .unison directory should be in the home directory, so mkdir /.unison. Otherwise, the default path of the directory is stored in the UNISON environment variable. See this entry in the Unison manual for more info. And then see the Unison tag wiki page for some sample profiles.
Humans interact in groups through various perception and action channels. The continuity of interaction despite a transient loss of perceptual contact often exists and contributes to goal achievement. Here, we study the dynamics of this continuity, in two experiments involving groups of participants (\(N=7\)) synchronizing their movements in space and in time. We show that behavioural unison can be maintained after perceptual contact has been lost, for about 7s. Agent similarity and spatial configuration in the group modulated synchronization performance, differently so when perceptual interaction was present or when it was memorized. Modelling these data through a network of oscillators enabled us to clarify the double origin of this memory effect, of individual and social nature. These results shed new light into why humans continue to move in unison after perceptual interruption, and are consequential for a wide variety of applications at work, in art and in sport.
Humans and other animals often cooperate in small or large ensembles, for anti-predation, for producing a collective performance, or sometimes just for entertainment. Among all sorts of cooperative behaviours, synchronization in space and/or in time of the members of the group is particularly present in the human repertoire. It is often rooted in perceptuo-motor synergies in which proximal (e.g., postures, breaths) or distal (e.g., gazes, voices, hands, legs) parts of the body are delicately locked, for brief or long periods of time, in frequency and in phase1,2. This is the case where a collective performance is produced, for instance in sport (e.g., team rowing or synchronized swimming3), in dance or in music (performing a ballet, playing in a quartet4), during marches and parades5, or even at work (collective hoeing, see6). In these and other examples, moving in unison is either the goal or clearly contributes to it, and results from both (i) personalized characteristics and (ii) the way individuals are coupled together.
Implementations of the FAT32 filesystem may have limitations not only on the lengths of individual file names, but also the length of full path names of the file (160 characters, I think?). When Unison is in the process of syncing, it performs its work in a new subdirectory, increasing the total path name length of your files. If your files are already pushing the limits of FAT32, your unison operation may abort. Giving your files or directories shorter names may help to avoid this problem.
File modification times are rounded to the nearest two-seconds on FAT32, but not on NTFS. So syncing between NTFS and FAT32 while preserving modification times may result in the file properties of all your files being updated on every synchronization. This may be corrected in a future update of unison by ignoring such 1-second differences.
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