Measuring the dissimilarity between musical rhythms is a fundamental problem with many applications ranging from music information retrieval and copyright infringement resolution to computational music theory and evolutionary studies of music. A common way to represent a rhythm is as a binary sequence where a zero denotes a rest (silence) and a one represents a beat or note onset. This paper fi...

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Skamarock et al. 2005) is a powerful tool for model parameterization development. The ability to easily vary grid resolution and alter the domain size makes WRF particularly attractive because one is not limited to parameterizations solely suited for mesoscale grid sizes; one can also work with coarser, global climate model-like spacing. With re...

c classes are characterized by unknown probability distributions. A data sample containing labelled vectors from each of the c classes is available. The data sample is divided into test and training samples. A classifier is designed based on the training sample and evaluated with the test sample. The classifier is also evaluated based on its asymptotic properties as sample size increases. A mul...

I t was pointed out by Osterhout I that substances which increase the electrical conductivity of tissues are antagonized by those which decrease it. An illustration of this is seen in antagonism between NaC1 (which increases conductivity) and Na taurocholate ~ (which decreases it). This case has additional interest as an example of antagonism between anions as well as of antagonism between orga...

Enhancing the functioning of parents, teachers, juvenile justice authorities, and other health and mental heal professionals who direct children and adolescents to services is a major mental health services concern. The Gateway Provider Model is an elaborated testable subset of the Network-Episode Model (NEM; B. A. Pescosolido & C. A. Boyer, 1999) that synthesizes it with Decision (D. H. Gustaf...

As globalization accelerates, firms across countries increasingly adopt so-called “advanced practices” created by global market leaders (e.g., Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), and process reengineering). Such practices tend to create value for firms both from the superior techniques they deliver and from the legitimacy their adoption confers in the global market. However, it is also t...

Studies over the last two decades have shown that mammalian nonmacrophagic liver endothelial cells clear the blood from numerous physiological and foreign waste macromolecules, such as polysaccharides and proteins released during extracellular matrix turnover, intracellular macromolecules, modified serum proteins, and bacterial and fungal proteins [Smedsrød, B., Pertoft, H., Gustafson, S. & Lau...

Many attempts have been made to effectively improve a prosthetic system controlled by the classification of surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals. Recently, the development of methodologies to extract the effective features still remains a primary challenge. Previous studies have demonstrated that the SEMG signals have nonlinear characteristics. In this study, by combining the nonlinear time...

C R E AT I V I T Y A N D I N N O VAT I O N are often collective endeavors. Creativity typically entails the generation of novel yet useful ideas, whereas innovation reflects a combination of both idea generation and idea implementation (Amabile, 1996; Hülsheger, Anderson, & Salgado, 2009; Mumford & Gustafson, 1988; West & Anderson, 1996). Most process models of creative problem solving and inno...