A high-resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (10m meshed grid) has been integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). So far, 50m-meshed DEM by the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ) is widely used for various GIS applications such as constructing 3D systems in Japan. 50m DEM covers all over the area of Japan, which has 0.1-meter resolution in a vertical direction. The spatial resoluti...

People believe what they can see. The Poles exist as a frozen dream to most people. The International Polar Year wants to break the ice (so to speak), open up the Poles to the general public, support current polar research, and encourage new research projects. The IPY officially begins in March, 2007. As part of this effort, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the British Antarctic Survey (BA...

Rapid yet accurate measurement of the I activity in the thyroid gland as well as in the air, water and vegetation may have an important role in obtaining quantitative information on internal doses for the people living in the vicinity of nuclear facilities shortly after an accidental release of radionuclides (1-2). Whole body counting technique is still the standard method for measuring radionu...

In order to make use of analysis and low noise design techniques one requires a knowledge of the noise performance of circuit elements, circuits and complete systems in order to determine whether they meet the specifications or not. Also to judge the effort of noise decreasing procedures in circuits one need to be able to measure the noise level. If high precision noise measurement is required ...

Musical meters vary considerably across cultures, yet relatively little is known about how culture-specific experience influences metrical processing. In Experiment 1, we compared American and Indian listeners' synchronous tapping to slow sequences. Inter-tone intervals contained silence or to-be-ignored rhythms that were designed to induce a simple meter (familiar to Americans and Indians) or ...

Enculturation is known to shape the perception of meter in music but this is not explicitly accounted for by current cognitive models of meter perception. We hypothesize that the induction of meter is a result of predictive coding: interpreting onsets in a rhythm relative to a periodic meter facilitates prediction of future onsets. Such prediction, we hypothesize, is based on previous exposure ...

Automatic meter analysis aims to annotate a recording of a metered piece of music with its metrical structure. This analysis subsumes correct estimation of the type of meter, the tempo, and the alignment of the metrical structure with the music signal. Recently, Bayesian models have been successfully applied to several of meter analysis tasks, but depending on themusical context, meter analysis...

For the medical linear accelerators (linac) that utilize more than 10 MV of photon energy, components inside linac head become radioactivate during 10–15-year operating cycle. Prior to disposal, radioactive waste must be evaluated for activity, and same procedure should followed linacs. In Republic Korea, regulation methodology radioactivity evaluation is not established yet. this study, we emp...