Independent control of finger movements characterizes skilled motor behaviors such as tool use and musical performance. The purpose of the present study was to identify the effect of movement frequency (tempo) on individuated finger movements in piano playing. Joint motion at the digits was recorded while 5 expert pianists were playing 30 excerpts from musical pieces with different fingering an...

This study investigated the perception and production of legato ("connected") articulation in repeatedly ascending and descending tone sequences on a digital piano (Roland RD-250s). Initial measurements of the synthetic tones revealed substantial decay times following key release. High tones decayed faster than low tones, as they did prior to key release, and long tones decayed sooner than shor...

Abstract Algal bloom has been a persistent problem for both fresh and marine water, with no exception coastal reservoir (CR). Among the algal mitigations CR, shape optimisation to reduce occurrence frequently mentioned. However, there was literature found on actual study or process CR. Thus, this research done bridge gap, particularly second-generation Hydrodynamic model of MIKE 21 used, second...

Enhancing wetland characteristics in agricultural drainage ditches with the use of low-grade weirs, has been identified as a best management practice (BMP) to mitigate nutrient runoff from agriculture landscapes. A major objective of utilizing low-grade weirs as a BMP includes fostering environments suitable for the biogeochemical removal of nitrogen via denitrification. This study examined the...

Mixture Hierarchical Model Instead of assuming that vt is normally distributed, assume that vt comes from a mixture of normal distributions Intuition: Suppose for “genre tags” clusters around 0.25 and for “acoustic tags” clusters around 0.05 then if = 0.20, then vt might have two peaks at 0.05 and -0.15. 10,870 songs 2 tag vocabularies 71 genre and subgenre tags (e.g., “rock”, “delta blues”, “t...

Playing the piano requires one to precisely position one’s hand in order to strike particular combinations of keys at specific moments in time. This paper presents the first system for automatically generating three dimensional animations of piano performance, given an input midi music file. A graph theory-based motion planning method is used to decide which set of fingers should strike the pia...

Weirs, as overflow structures, are extensively used for the measurement of flow, its diversion and control in the open canals. Labyrinth weir due to more effective length than conventional weirs, allows passing more discharge in narrow canals. Determination the design criteria for the practical application of these weirs need more investigation. Weir angle and its position relative to the flow ...