Under the excitation of strings, the wooden structure of string instruments is generally assumed to undergo linear vibrations. As an alternative to the direct measurement of the distortion rate at several vibration levels and frequencies, we characterise weak non-linearities by a signal-model approach based on cascade of Hammerstein models. In this approach, in a chain of two non-linear systems...

Huge resources are invested in metrology and standards in the natural sciences, engineering, and across a wide range of commercial technologies. Significant positive returns of human, social, environmental, and economic value on these investments have been sustained for decades. Proven methods for calibrating test and survey instruments in linear units are readily available, as are data- and th...

There have been significant advancements in the development of NiTi rotary instruments in recent years. This evolution is driven by market demand and the continuous improvement in the manufacturing process. Dentists have increasingly identified the features they deem essential on the endless journey towards a more perfect file. These features include flexibility, efficiency, safety, and simplic...

The dearth of females playing so-called masculine instruments has not gone unnoticed, but frameworks for investigating females’ participation have been driven almost entirely by a feminist agenda. A construct for studying gendered participation in music, employing a post feminist perspective is presented. As one of the major areas in which female participation does not match their male counterp...

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Measurements were two questions from the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders patient questionnaire, both the long and short forms of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, both the long and short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory, the Symptom-Driven Diagnostic System for Primary Care, the Medical Outcomes Study depression measure, and ...

Music performance has always been driven by performers with audience listening to the performance. The audience does not expect to interact with the performers or even participate in the performance. This paper presents an attempt to use computer-based instruments to support traditional musical instruments to deliver an interactive media music performance in Hong Kong where such kind of perform...

In this note, we propose to use sparse methods (e.g. LASSO, Post-LASSO, √ LASSO, and Post√ LASSO) to form first-stage predictions and estimate optimal instruments in linear instrumental variables (IV) models with many instruments, p, in the canonical Gaussian case. The methods apply even when p is much larger than the sample size, n. We derive asymptotic distributions for the resulting IV estim...

spécialité Modèles et instruments en médecine et biologie préparée au sein du projet iMAGIS, laboratoire GRAVIR, INRIA Rhône-Alpes dans le cadre de l'école doctorale Ingénierie pour le vivant présentée et soutenue publiquement par spécialité Modèles et instruments en médecine et biologie préparée au sein du projet iMAGIS, laboratoire GRAVIR, INRIA Rhône-Alpes dans le cadre de l'école doctorale ...

This paper situates NIME practice with respect to models of social interaction among human agents. It argues that the conventional model of composer-performer-listener, and the underlying mid-20 century metaphor of music as communication upon which it relies, cannot reflect the richness of interaction and possibility afforded by interactive digital technologies. Building on Paul Lansky’s vision...

Recent history suggests that many boom-bust cycles are naturally driven by linkages between the credit market and asset prices. Additionally, new structured securities have been developed, e.g., MBS, CDOs, and CDS, which have acted as instruments of risk transfer. We show that there is a certain non-robustness in the pricing of these instruments and we create a model in which their role in the ...