This paper presents a hardware and software system for adding multiple touch sensitivity to the piano-style keyboard. The traditional keyboard is a discrete interface, defining notes by onset and release. By contrast, our system allows continuous gestural control over multiple dimensions of each note by sensing the position and contact area of up to three touches per key. Each key consists of a...

Recently, the development of robots other than industrial robots, including home robots, personal robots, medical robots, and amusement robots, has been brisk. These robots, however, have required improvements in their intellectual capabilities and manual skills, as well as further increases in user compatibility (Y. Takahashi, M. Asada (2003)). User compatibility in future robots is important ...

This research was conducted in the Lower Ping River Basin downstream of the Bhumibol Dam and the Lower Wang River Basin in Tak Province, Thailand. Most of the tributary streams of the Ping can be considered as ungauged catchments. There are 10pumping station installation at both river banks of the Ping in Tak Province. Recently, most of them could not fully operate due to the water amount in th...

We used pre- and post-restoration channel surveys of the Donner und Blitzen River, Oregon, to evaluate the effects of grade-control structures on channel morphology and baseflow habitat conditions for native redband trout and other aquatic biota. Six years after installation, we found that the channel had a smaller proportion of riffles and pools and less gravel substrate, combined with an incr...

Long-latency auditory-evoked magnetic field and potential show strong attenuation of N1m/N1 responses when an identical stimulus is presented repeatedly due to adaptation of auditory cortical neurons. This adaptation is weak in subsequently occurring P2m/P2 responses, being weaker for piano chords than single piano notes. The adaptation of P2m is more suppressed in musicians having long-term mu...

Recent piano teaching systems mainly rely on MIDI data. However, MIDI data contains only little information about the student‘s movement. Therefore, additional data channels can potentially be valuable for future piano teaching systems. In this paper we have examined the question, if inertial measurement sensors attached to the piano student‘s arm can provide information that could be relevant ...

The impacts of two factors on future regional-scale runoff were assessed: the external factor of climate change and the internal factor of a recently completed large-scale water resources project. A rainfall-runoff model was built (using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool, SWAT) for the Geum River, where three weirs were recently constructed along the main stream. RCP (Representative Concentrat...

There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fish...

side weirs are flow diversion devices that are widely used in irrigation, drainage and urban sewage systems. the present study focuses on the investigation of the effect of oblique side weirs on the discharge coefficient of a side weir under subcritical flow condition in rectangular channels. in this study 106 laboratory tests were conducted and the results were analyzed to find out the influen...