We describe the design of an instrument that can fully implement a new nanopatterning method called ice lithography, where ice is used as the resist. Water vapor is introduced into a scanning electron microscope (SEM) vacuum chamber above a sample cooled down to 110 K. The vapor condenses, covering the sample with an amorphous layer of ice. To form a lift-off mask, ice is removed by the SEM ele...

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The goal of this project is to separate three different instruments, namely guitar, cello and piano. The minimal goal is to train a Machine Learning algorithm with a moderate number of training samples in order to build a mathematical decision boundary to distinguish those three instruments. Certainly, the solution is supposed to be extensible in a way that without a lot of effort further instr...

Many types of Earth observing missions can benefit from having information systems that allow the mission platform and its instruments to quickly adapt to changing conditions. Such adaptability requires, of course, the ability to make intelligent decisions quickly, and a large number of researchers have been making great strides in this area in recent years. This paper discusses the fusion of t...

Tissue mechanical properties reflect extracellular matrix composition and organization, and as such, their changes can be a signature of disease. Examples of such diseases include intervertebral disk degeneration, cancer, atherosclerosis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and tooth decay. Here we introduce the tissue diagnostic instrument (TDI), a device designed to probe the mechanical properties ...

The expression gestural mapping is well imbedded in the language of instrument designers, describing the function from interface control parameters to synthesis control parameters. This function is in most cases implicitly assumed to be instantaneous, so that at any time its output depends only on its input at that time. Here more general functions are considered, in which the output depends on...

In this study we present morphing methods for musical instrument body models using DSP techniques. These methods are able to transform a given body model gradually into another one in a controlled way, and they guarantee stability of the body models at each intermediate step. This enables to morph from a certain sized body model to a larger or smaller one. It is also possible to extrapolate bey...

In the past few years, the idea of extending the Grid to cover also the remote access, control, management of instrument devices has been explored in a few initiatives. Existing tools lack in generality and require advanced specialized computer science knowledge, thus making them difficult to be broadly adopted in the scientific community. In this paper we present a new open source initiative t...

This is a report of a novel tactile musical instrument. This instrument is called "Multi Rubbing Tactile Instrument (MRTI2015)", using ten pieces of "PAW sensor produced by the RT corporation". Previous research was focused on "untouchable" instruments, but this approach is fully tactile "rub" and "touch". The ten PAW sensors are assigned on the surface of the egg-like plastic case to fit the t...