This paper addresses the need to utilize precision measurement techniques in the the creation of new performance instruments and interfaces. Discussed within is the design and construction of a new violin interface, the Hyperbow, which serves as a £rst demonstration of how a violin bow might be made capable of measuring the most intricate aspects of violin technique–the subtle elements of physi...

Bow-tie diagrams are emerging as a very useful tool to depict and maintain an up-to-date, real-time, working risk management system embedded in daily operations. They are a proven concept in the worldwide offshore industry. These diagrams provide a pictorial representation of the risk assessment process. This article introduces the bow-tie concept to the downstream and chemical process industri...

There has been an increasing attention to the effect of hull roughness on ship resistance and powering. In conventional studies, surfaces have treated as uniform rough while real ships' hulls are exposed heterogeneous fouling accumulation. The work described here presents experimental investigation into resistance. A series towing tests were conducted using a model Wigley with various condition...

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers are nowadays being prominently used for the manufacture of new generation semiconductor devices. In order to maximize the device yield, the device industry is seeking SOI wafers that meet very stringent wafer specifications such as very low wafer bow and warp. An SOI wafer can undergo severe process-induced stresses during its manufacture leading to significant...

Typically, in textual document classification the documents are represented in the vector space using the “Bag of Words” (BOW ) approach. Despite its ease of use, BOW representation cannot handle word synonymy and polysemy problems and does not consider semantic relatedness between words. In this paper, we overcome the shortages of the BOW approach by embedding a known WordNet-based semantic re...

In light of the promising results obtained by driving a lowcomplexity digital waveguide (DW) violin model with synthetic bowing gestures , we currently explore the possibilities of combining DW and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) frameworks to construct refined, yet efficient physical models of string quartet instruments. We extend previous approaches by combining a finite-width bow-string...

We determine the ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional half-filled Hubbard model with on-site (nearest-neighbor) repulsive interaction U (V) and nearest-neighbor hopping t using the density-matrix renormalization group technique. Based on the results of the excitation gaps, Luttinger-liquid exponents, and bond-order-wave (BOW) order parameter, we confirm that the BOW phase appears i...

A review text is normally represented as a bag-of-words (BOW) in sentiment classification. Such a simplified BOW model has fundamental deficiencies in modeling some complex linguistic phenomena such as negation. In this work, we propose a dual-view co-training algorithm based on dual-view BOW representation for semisupervised sentiment classification. In dual-view BOW, we automatically construc...

Lossless bowed strings have usually been thought to possess a motion discovered by Helmholtz in 1863. However, it was shown [Acustica 44, 194-206 {1980)] by the author that a more complicated standing wave motion, the $ motion, exists on such strings provided both the bowing distance and bowing force are above certain minimum values. This paper explores S-motion harmonics which give arise to wa...

This paper presents the results of two recent pilot experiments conducted to investigate the performance of a realtime physical violin model using bowing parameters generated by a real player. In each of these two experiments, the calibrated bowing parameters of bow force, bow speed, and bow position (bow-bridge distance) are mapped to the calibrated inputs of the physical model in order to exa...