Many musical instruments have interfaces which emphasise the pitch of the sound produced over other perceptual characteristics, such as its timbre. This is at odds with the musical developments of the last century. In this paper, we introduce a method for replacing the interface of musical instruments (both conventional and unconventional) with a more flexible interface which can present the in...

A novel computationally highly e cient realization of sharp symmetrical bandstop FIR lter is proposed. The new structure is derived using the frequency-response-masking technique, where the bandedge-shaping lter is derived from half-band lter by substituting each delay of the half-band lter by M delays. The masking lters are unconventional. They are quadrature lters derived from linear combinat...

a semi-micromechanical multilaminate model is introduced here to predict the mechanical behavior of soils. this model is like a bridge between micro and macro scale upon the satisfaction of minimum potential energy level during any applied stress/strain increments. the concept of this model is based on a certain number of sampling planes which constitute the elastic-plastic behavior of the soil...

This paper seeks to add to our understanding of how the creative process might affect patent value by investigating the possible effect of a further, as yet unexplored characteristic, “leisure time invention,” where the main insight leading to the invention emerges when the inventor is not engaged in paid work. Leisure time inventions, if mentioned in the literature at all, are disparaged as be...

In the present study we investigate hemispheric processing of conventional and unconventional visual stimuli in the context of visual and verbal creative ability. In Experiment 1, we studied two unconventional visual recognition tasks-Mooney face and objects' silhouette recognition-and found a significant relationship between measures of verbal creativity and unconventional face recognition. In...

The symmetry properties and the general overview of the superconductivity theory in the itinerant ferromagnets and in materials without space parity are presented. The basic notions of unconventional superconductivity are introduced in broad context of multiband superconductivity which is inherent property of ferromanetic metals or metals without centre of inversion.

This is the second in a series of five articles providing a contemporary overview and introduction to unconventional dentistry (UD) and its correlation with unconventional medicine (UM). Dentists may provide unconventional services and use or prescribe unconventional products because of personal beliefs, boredom with conventional practice, lack of understanding of the scientific process or fina...

The continuous push towards improved technologies allows designers to resolve the naval architecture problems with a higher reliability and to optimize designs. In this process it becomes increasingly important to recognize that most statutes and the Industry practice at large have depended on a few criteria to cover a very large number of hazards. Tools such as hazard identification and risk a...

One of the relevant tasks of the teaching-learning process is that of evaluation. In this sense, estimating the academic performance exhibited by the final evaluation of a student, at the end of the current semester, has become of particular interest for students, parents, educators, educative managers and researchers alike. More specifically, the current paper is focused in determining whether...