in the sector of electricity production, the existence of investment resources limitation and environmental factors are the main factors that influence this process. the reduction of costs and the destructive impacts of environmental have been always mentioned by specialists. consequently, the drasticality of the environmental protection and the electric-energy production lead to focus on solar...

abstract: the experience of last earthquakes has shown the vulnerability of most of structures. this has been caused the speeding up of the seismic evaluation and retrofitting of projects in iran. in this regard, the instructions for seismic rehabilitation of the existing buildings have been published and are currently beiong used in the evaluation and retrofitting projects. the experience of r...

A prototype system, dubbed “Dactylize,” for collecting fingering data automatically from actual piano performances is described. The solution promises to be an economical and accurate tool for developing corpora related to piano fingering. Evaluation of an early prototype suggests accuracy over 99% at rates up to 12.5 notes per second.