Steve Larson Associate Professor of Music University of Oregon School of Music [email protected] I am interested in the search for musical patterns -not so much because I want to find particular patterns, but because I want to understand musical meaning and I believe that musical meaning is something that listeners create when they relate musical patterns to one another, and when they ...

Planning United States military procurement commits a significant portion of our nation’s wealth and determines our ability to defend ourselves, our allies, and our principles over the long term. Our military pioneered and has long used mathematical optimization to unravel the distinguishing complexities of military capital planning. The succession of mathematical optimization models we present...

Utility construction projects have great opportunities for simulation applications in construction. This paper describes the special purpose tunneling simulation template developed based on the tunneling operations performed at the City of Edmonton Public Works Department for shielded tunnel boring machines. The tunneling operations are described, then the tunnel template and its components are...

This work is about two ‘generation problems’ for classic Optimality Theory, chain shifts and saltations. The issues OT posed by traditional analyses of saltations have led to various embellishments the theory, typically in form novel constraint types. Reiss (2021a,b) proposes a general solution problem that relies more directly on different assumptions representations than constraints. Specific...

Decision making using the methodologies and analysis generated by cost engineering function is widely considered good practice across industry, as a way to support both technical decisions fundamental business decisions. One persistent challenge for professional engineer present data information decision makers mix of audiences. Data visualisation therefore an important element ensure that pres...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate information on the practice and associated ill effects of sword swallowing. DESIGN Letters sent to sword swallowers requesting information on technique and complications. SETTING Membership lists of the Sword Swallowers' Association International. PARTICIPANTS 110 sword swallowers from 16 countries. RESULTS We had information from 46 sword swallowers. Major complic...

The vast majority of biologists engaged in evolutionary studies interpret virtually every aspect of biodiversity in adaptive terms. This narrow view of evolution has become untenable in light of recent observations from genomic sequencing and population-genetic theory. Numerous aspects of genomic architecture, gene structure, and developmental pathways are difficult to explain without invoking ...

This paper presents a mathematical description of style in speech and singing. These styles are represented as a set of portable prosodic features along with a set of rules to choose where the features are to be applied. Speakers and singers make creative choices to express their personal style, which may involve specific accent shapes, phrase curves, or (similarly) musical embellishment. There...

The Highland piping tradition requires the performer to learn and accurately reproduce a diverse array of ornaments, which can be a daunting prospect to the novice piper. This paper presents a system which analyses a player’s technique using sensor data obtained from an electronic bagpipe chanter interface. Automatic recognition of a broad range of piping embellishments allows real-time visual ...

A formal model of performance, interaction, and improvisation is described using mutually recursive processes. The recursion captures feedback, mutual recursion captures interaction between players (or larger entities), and the architecture of the recursive network captures hierarchies of interaction. With this model various classes of interaction can be categorized based on the internals of th...