The subject of instrument design is quite broad. Much work has been done at Ircam, MIT, CNMAT, Stanford and elsewhere in the area. In this paper we will present our own developed approach to designing and using instruments in composition and performance for the authors’ “Convolution Brothers” pieces. The presentation of this paper is accompanied by a live Convolution Brothers demonstration.

Ultrasonography has become one of the most popular techniques for noninvasive body assessment. The advent of sophisticated Doppler imaging has added an "information about blood flow" dimension. However, searching for complex details, despite enhanced system design and capabilities, place an increased demand on the operator. Examination technique and equipment settings are potential sources of e...

This paper provides the first evidence of geographic concentration of foreign visitors in Japan, using a new data on nights spent by foreign visitors in each region. Using locational Gini coefficients, I show that foreign visitors are more geographically concentrated than Japanese visitors and the level of geographical concentration vary across source countries. In addition, I employ gravity eq...

Video display units have penetrated into modern control rooms, replacing conventional instrumentation as a means of information presentation to the operators. In four experiments simulating a small chemical plant process, several process variable and presentation characteristics were investigated. The experiments focused on the early detection of 'oncoming off-normals' (ocons) - deviations in t...

O modelo proposto visa incrementar ao conteúdo do requisito parâmetros para qualificação e validação das informações. O foco de observação é sobre dois elementos: fonte de informação e características do requisito. Quanto à fonte de informação, o modelo propõe, primeiro, identificar a pessoa responsável pela declaração do requisito sob o ponto de vista de produtor e/ou consumidor da informação;...

An optical instrument we refer to as the "biaxial orientation device" has been developed for finding the optical plane, acute bisectrix, and obtuse bisectrix in biaxial crystals by means of optically aligning conoscopically formed melatopes and measuring the angular coordinates of the melatopes, where the angular values allow for determination of the optical plane containing the optical axes us...

I would like to focus my attention on the fi rst part of this Conference, which covered issues associated with fi nancial innovation and the problems which led to and exacerbated the recent episode of fi nancial turmoil. These have prompted a lot of discussion about ways in which fi nancial markets allow risk to be shared and raised concerns about how these markets have operated. There has also...

The optical behavior of gradient biaxial dielectrics has not been widely explored in the literature due to their complicated nature, but the extra degrees of freedom in the index tensor have the potential of yielding useful optical instruments which are otherwise unachievable. In this work, a design method is described in detail which allows one to combine the behavior of up to four totally ind...

The dynamic environment of a van modified to accommodate a person driving from a wheelchair was measured to determine the effects of position within the van and the type of seat used. The project measured accelerations as a subject sat in three positions within the van and upon two different seats. Three separate van maneuvers at different speeds were used to change the dynamic environment. Van...