The relationship between the shapes of face and teeth has been analyzed for esthetic purposes and exploited commercially. The methodology to assess this correlation, described in the literature, does not enable reliable application of the concepts. Digital photos of face and incisors of 100 youths were measured with the software Image Tool 3.0 and classified as to shape. The same photographs we...

Effects of musical meter on memory retrieval in music performance were investigated. The range model, a formal model of memory retrieval in music performance, proposes that metrical similarity influences retrieval during sequence production. This assumption was tested by examining production errors in skilled pianists’ performances of novel musical pieces. Pieces were practiced to a note-perfec...

INTRODUCTION Determination of sex from an unknown human bone is an important role in forensic and anthropology field. The mandible is the largest and hardest facial bone, that commonly resist post mortem damage and forms an important source of information about sexual dimorphism. AIM To determine the sex of unknown human adult mandible using metrical parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS A rando...

Metrical phonology is a relatively successful theory that attempts to explain stress systems in language. This paper discusses a perceptron model of stress, pointing out interesting parallels between certain aspects of the model and the constructs and predictions of metrical theory. The distribution of learning times obtained from perceptron experiments corresponds with theoretical predictions ...

We propose a theory of deterministic chaos for discrete systems, based on their representations in symbolic history spaces Ω = (B ∞ , T ∆). These are spaces of semi-infinite sequences, as the one-sided shift spaces, but endowed with a more general topology T ∆ which we call a semicausal topology. We show that Ω is a metrizable Cantor set which embeds the chaotic attractor Λ. We discuss metrical...

A basic sense of the issues can be garnered from a look at Halle's one stated rule: “Shorten the head vowel of a branching foot.” This brief imperative fairly bristles with unasked questions. Why shorten rather than lengthen? indeed, why do anything at all? Why head rather than nonhead ? indeed, why not affect both? Why branching rather than nonbranching? indeed, why not operate on any foot? Ov...

This article presents a probabilistic model of polyphonic music analysis. Taking a note pattern as input, the model combines three aspects of symbolic music analysis— metrical analysis, harmonic analysis, and stream segregation—into a single process, allowing it to capture the complex interactions between these structures. The model also yields an estimate of the probability of the note pattern...

This study examines the interaction of metrical structure and tone sandhi in Ei (an endangered language spoken in Rongshui, Guangxi Province, China), focusing on tonal reduction conditioned by a foot-like prosodic structure. Our analysis shows that within a disyllabic domain, Ei tone sandhi, mainly in the form of tonal reduction, applies only to the first syllable and the second syllable remain...

The problem of combining expert advice, studied extensively in the Computational Learning Theory literature, and the Metrical Task System (MTS) problem, studied extensively in the area of On-line Algorithms, contain a number of interesting similarities. In this paper we explore the relationship between these problems and show how algorithms designed for each can be used to achieve good bounds a...

In this paper a general theory will be introduced that allows the description of a melodic surface i.e. a score-like representation of a melody in terms of local grouping, accentuation and metrical structures. Firstly, a formal model will be proposed that detects points of maximum local change that allow a listener to identify local perceptual boundaries in a melodic surface. The Local Botmdary...