Highly compact micro-machined coplanar bandpass filters based on end-coupled half-wavelength and quarter-wavelength resonators topologies have been investigated. Simple gap and interdigitated capacitive discontinuities have been modeled through an appropriate technique and have been implemented in order to achieve low loss and narrow bandpass membrane micromachined filters. Excellent performanc...

Female and male athletes often crate a relationship between their performance and their actual selfconfidence. Poor performances are explained with a lack of self-confidence and good performances with strong self-confidence. The purpose of this presentation is to elaborate the validity of these common sense explanations based on a literature review. First, we describe the postulates of self-eff...

In spite of a large technical literature, an efficient climate control of a greenhouse remains a very difficult task. Indeed, this process is a complex nonlinear system with strong meteorological disturbances. The newly introduced “model-free control” setting is employed here. It is easy to implement, and has already shown excellent performances in many other concrete domains. Successful experi...

Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct, which includes difficulties in identifying and expressing feelings and an externally-oriented cognitive style. We investigated the effects of alexithymia and its subscales on recall and recognition rates for neutral, joy, disgust and anger words. We found that the alexithymia-factor difficulties identifying feelings was negatively associated ...

We recapitulate a series of studies of the perceptual role of low levels of background noise in quiet spaces for music listening. These include structured listening exercises in two quiet music rooms – Jordan Hall in Boston and the EMPAC Concert Hall in Troy, NY – wherein background noise levels were electronically manipulated while subjects listened critically to live and recorded music in the...

This study contributes to our understanding of which factors predict raters’ policies for combining performance components into an overall job performance rating. We used a work-roles framework to examine the effects of rater source and team-based culture. The sample consisted of 612 individuals in three job categories (317 nurses, 168 personnel recruiters and 127 sales representatives). Respon...

Significance of stocking density in broiler production i.e. production performance, vitality and health condition of chickens, was established at the beginning of development of industrial poultry production. However, considering intensive development of selection work and creation of more productive genotypes which, at the same time, were more demanding in regard to rearing conditions, the cur...

Several algorithms for tracking and for primary and secondary vertex reconstruction have been developed by the ATLAS collaboration following different approaches. This has allowed a thorough cross-check of the performances of the algorithms and of the reconstruction software. The results of the most recent studies on this topic are discussed and compared.

This paper explores the roles of technical and musical familiarity in shaping audience response to digital musical instrument (DMI) performances. In an audience study conducted during an evening concert, we examined two primary questions: first, whether a deeper understanding of how a DMI works increases an audience’s enjoyment and interest in the performance; and second, given the same DMI and...

formances with some improvisational performers is explored. An investigation of the problems of past systems is carried out with the aim of supporting improvisations not only for performances but also for compositions reflected on the structure of music. In addition to this, the improvisational performers will be able to grasp the interactions visually as well as by listening. As a concrete exa...