The standpoint is the station where the instrument is situated, and the forepoint is the point to which observations are being made (backsight or foresights). Figure 1, attached to this paper, shows the various distances discussed. They are described as follows: d1 is the wave path length (EDM distance corrected for atmospheric delay) d2 is the wave path chord d4 is the ellipsoidal arc length d...

The study of clustering processes is fundamentally significant in hydraulic engineering to comprehend the interactions between turbulence and particles. Previous studies on bubble clustering were carried out in plunging jets, hydraulic jumps and dropshafts. The present paper focuses on the bubble clustering process in a large-size dropshaft, and three criteria for cluster identification were ap...

In this paper, we present CHORD (Constraint Handling Object-oriented Rules with Disjunction) an Object-Oriented (OO) extension of CHRD. Syntactically, CHORD integrates two versatile dual programming and knowledge representation languages: Flora, a hybrid OO rule-based language and CHRD. A CHORD program extends CHRD by allowing Flora-style object constraints (o-constraints) in the head, guard or...

On the basis of small axial fan with five blades, 6 types of small axial flow fans with different chord lengths splitter blades were designed. Numerical simulation of 6 fan models with splitter blades and prototype fan were done by using Fluent. Based on the obtained simulation results, internal flow characteristics and aerodynamic noise were analyzed and compared. It indicates that: splitter b...

This study investigated the strength of sensory and cognitive components involved in musical priming. In Experiment 1, the harmonic function of the target chord and the number of pitch classes shared by the prime sequence and the target chord were manipulated. In Experiment 2, the temporal course of sensory and cognitive priming was investigated. For both musician and nonmusician listeners, cog...

Harmonic priming studies have shown that a musical context, with its established tonal center, influences target chord processing. This study investigated costs and benefits of priming tonal centers for target processing by adding a baseline condition (sequences without a specific tonal center). Results confirmed harmonic priming, with faster processing for related than for unrelated and less r...

Three experiments examined children's knowledge of harmony in Western music. The children heard a series of chords followed by a final, target chord. In Experiment 1, French 6- and 11-year-olds judged whether the target was sung with the vowel /i/ or /u/. In Experiment 2, Australian 8- and 11-year-olds judged whether the target was played on a piano or a trumpet. In Experiment 3, Canadian 8- an...

We present a computational framework for chord invention based on a cognitive-theoretic perspective on conceptual blending. The framework builds on algebraic specifications, and solves two musicological problems. It automatically finds transitions between chord progressions of different keys or idioms, and it substitutes chords in a chord progression by other chords of a similar function, as a ...

In structured Peer-to-Peer(P2P) systems such as Chord or Pastry, each node plays an equal role and has the same responsibility. The most important advantage of such approach is scalability: since there are no centralized resources in the system, the system can easily scale to millions of nodes. However, we need to pay a high price for such scalability, as the maintenance cost of such protocols ...