William Allaudin Mathieu (born in 1937) is a consummate musician, pianist, composer, author, and teacher — and, my view, one of the most influential musicians his generation. In early twenties he composed music for Kenton Ellington Big Bands, was founding musical director famed Second City Chicago (Improv Theater) pioneer 1960s application theater improvisation games into sphere. He author four...

Given the sophisticated nature of the blast phenomenon in relation to structures, it is of significance to accurately investigate the structure behavior under blast loads. Due to its rapid and transient nature, blast loading is one of the most important dynamic loadings on the structures. Since masonry materials are widely used as the partition and bearing walls in the existing and newly-built ...

In the energy spectrum of an occlusion sequence, the distortion term has the same orientation as the velocity of the occluding signal. Recent works claimed that this oriented structure can be used to distinguish the occluding velocity from the occluded one. Here, we argue that the orientation structure of the distortion cannot always work as a reliable feature due to the rapidly decreasing ener...