While Professor of Solfège...and Harmony at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, he was both interested and troubled by his students’ rhythmic problems. He noticed that one of his students, despite his musical problems, was capable of walking rhythmically. His observation caused him to conclude that people possessed musical rhythm instinctively, but did not transfer these instincts to fulfill thei...

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, New York 12180, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas...

Radar offers advantages as a robotic perception modality because it is not as vulnerable to the vacuum, dust, fog, rain, snow and light conditions found in construction, mining, agricultural and planetary-exploration environments. However radar has shortcomings such as a large footprint, sidelobes, specularity effects and limited range resolution—all of which result in poor environment maps. Th...

We compute the iterated monodromy group for a postcritically finite endomorphism F of P. The postcritical set is the union of six lines, and the wreath recursion for the group closely reflects the dynamics of F on these lines.

Animation is an important method of communicating information that lends itself to cartographic display. Exploration of this medium resides at the forefront of cartographic research. The purpose of this project has been to develop a viable cartographic animation process employing hardware and software currently available in the Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory (GIAL) at the Depart...

BACKGROUND Prediction of a protein's structure from its amino acid sequence is a key issue in molecular biology. While dynamics, performed in the space of two-dimensional contact maps, eases the necessary conformational search, it may also lead to maps that do not correspond to any real three-dimensional structure. To remedy this, an efficient procedure is needed to reconstruct three-dimensiona...