Musical instruments are often thought of as linear harmonic systems, and a first-order description of their operation can indeed be given on this basis, once we recognise a few inharmonic exceptions such as drums and bells. A closer examination, however, shows that the reality is very different from this. Sustained-tone instruments, such as violins, flutes and trumpets, have resonators that are...

In this paper, we prove some coupled fixed point theorems satisfying a Meir-Keeler type contractive condition for mappings enjoying the mixed monotone property in ordered partial metric spaces.

Because patients are the best source of information for quality of life data, they may provide a unique perspective on how quality of life is currently assessed and defined. A sample of 65 lung cancer patients evaluated three currently available quality of life self-report questionnaires: the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung Version Scale (FACT-L), the Functional Living IndexCancer ...

In knowledge discovery and data mining many measures of interestingness have been proposed in order to measure the relevance and utility of the discovered patterns. Among these measures, an important role is played by Bayesian confirmation measures, which express in what degree a premise confirms a conclusion. In this paper, we are considering knowledge patterns in a form of “if..., then...” ru...

The dairy industry is considered one of the main industries not only in Iraq particular but throughout world. Different treatment methods have been used over time and different countries. Here, membrane distillation has to treat wastewater generated by this reduce burden on environment. In paper, direct was remove nitrates from discharged plants. This method easy operate, manage, many economic ...

We report performance verification observations of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster with the MOS, pn, and optical monitor instruments on board of XMM-Newton. With the energy sensitive imaging instruments MOS and pn we obtain the first spatially constrained X-ray spectra of the nucleus and the jet of the galaxy. The good photon statistics of the pn and MOS allow a detailed an...

surgical instruments, on bandaging and on many other aspects of surgery in general and surgery of the head and neck area in particular. It is hoped however that the present paper will stimulate interest and further examination of the empiric maturity of Hindu surgery more than fifteen centuries ago.

The study of two biological indicators in monitoring "flash" sterilization demonstrated that indicator construction often leads to a false interpretation of spore survival.

BACKGROUND Transferring non-trivial human manipulation skills to robot systems is a challenging task. There have been a number of attempts to design research systems for skill transfer, but the level of the complexity of the actual skills transferable to the robot was rather limited, and delicate operations requiring a high dexterity and long action sequences with many sub-operations were impos...