Speech tempo (articulation rate) varies both between and within speakers. The present study investigates several factors affecting tempo in a corpus of spoken Dutch, consisting of interviews with 160 high-school teachers. Speech tempo was observed for each phrase separately, and analyzed by means of multilevel modeling of the speaker's sex, age, country, and dialect region (between speakers) an...

We presented four types of music (two fast tempo and two slow tempo types) during illusory self-motion perception (vection). Vection was induced by expansional dots (optic flow), and participants estimated its strength via magnitude estimation and by pressing a button. Our purpose of this study is to examine whether music alter vection strength. Results showed that vection was facilitated by tw...

" Dicono che c'` e un tempo per seminare e unopì u lungo per aspettare Io dico che c'era un tempo sognato che bisognava sognare "

Surface partitioning and lateral mobility of TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidynyloxy free radical) in the aqueous liquid/gas interfacial region were investigated electrochemically with 100 nm wide, 1.0 cm long microband electrodes positioned at the air/water interface. For redox active amphiphiles such as TEMPO, the electrochemical current is the sum of the surface and solution components r...

Some studies have found that subjects give higher preference ratings and clearer emotional descriptions to pieces with the tempo/mode pairs fast/major and slow/minor. If these findings are true, one might expect to find a predominance of fast/major and slow/minor pairings in musical literature. This study looks for just such a trend in the canonical work of J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier. Bo...

Three experiments explored the relationships between surface rhythmic activity, tactus or beat rate, attentional focus, sensorimotor synchronization (tapping), and tempo perception. All involved a rhythmic standard followed by a comparison; the experimental task was a judgment of “slower, same, or faster.” In Experiment 1 participants simply judged relative speed; they focused on the beat level...

Observation probability • Probability to observe Yo(fk,tm) given tempo bi and RST mj 1) Compute the Yo(l,tm,bi) corresponding to the assumption bi 2) Select the mj which have a reference tempo Bj close to bi: (abs(log2(bi/Bj))<0.3785 3) Compute the one-minus cosine distance between Yo(l,tm,b) and mj=Yj(l) Template-Based Estimation of Tempo: Using Unsupervised or Supervised Learning to create be...

Background Performance gestures are often realized along different expressive dimensions (e.g., a change in the dynamics might be emphasized by a change of tempo) and they may also be affected by constraints imposed by a score. Elucidating how such interactions and score dependencies can be better modeled is a key element to further understanding the characterization of both individual and shar...

The spectroscopic properties of the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) radicalderivatives of the fullerene (C60) were theoretically investigated. The ground state optimizedstructures of the radical adducts of the fullerene were calculated by using DFT (B3LYP) with 6-31G(d) level. It was concluded that a 6-6 ring junction of C60 moiety generally covalently links to thepiperidine ring ...