Novelty is an important psychological construct that affects both perceptual and behavioral processes. Here, we propose a lexical novelty score (LNS) for a song’s lyric, based on the statistical properties of a corpus of 275,905 lyrics (available at www.smcnus.org/lyrics/). A lyric-level LNS was derived as a function of the inverse document frequencies of its unique words. An artist-level LNS w...

th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Monash University Melbourne Australia December A new laser interferometry skin friction meter was built and was used to measure skin friction in a series of turbulent boundary layer ows This method has the advantage of providing a direct measure of skin friction through thin lm lubrication theory It does not rely on the existence of a law of the wall o...

background: taking visual acuity is an important part of an eye routine examination. this study was conducted to compare visual acuity measured using an iranian digital tumbling e chart with visual acuity measured using an italian digital tumbling e chart as a familiar foreign chart. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 200 participants (400 eyes; healthy n=40, glaucoma n=40, re...

multivariate control charts such as hotelling`s t^ 2 and x^ 2 are commonly used for monitoring several related quality characteristics. these control charts use correlation structure that exists between quality characteristics in an attempt to improve monitoring. the purpose of this article is to discuss some issues related to the g chart proposed by levinson et al. [9] for detecting shifts in ...

You work with a circuit’s transfer function all the time in this course and make extensive use of the logarithmic scale: you are asked to Bode-plot a system’s frequency response in your homework assignments, lab reports, or maybe exams using Matlab, Agilent VEE, or even with bare hands, where the horizontal axis reads Frequency (log-scale). Good or bad, you will continue to see such plots here ...

AIM To introduce a new near-vision chart for children aged 3-5 years old and its clinical applications. METHODS The new near-vision chart which combined the Bailey-Lovie layout with a newly devised set of symmetry symbols was designed based on Weber-Fechner law. It consists of 15 rows of symmetry symbols, corresponding to a visual acuity range from 1.3 to 0.1 logMAR. The optotypes were red ag...

The Multi-Dimensional Logarithmic Number System (MDLNS), with similar properties to the Logarithmic Number System (LNS), provides more degrees of freedom than the LNS by virtue of having two orthogonal bases and the ability to use multiple digits. Unlike the LNS, there is no direct functional relationship between binary/floating point representation and the MDLNS representation. Traditionally l...

In order to meet the users’ demand, bike sharing systems must be regularly rebalanced. The problem of balancing bike sharing systems (BBSS) is concerned with designing optimal tours and operating instructions for relocating bikes among stations to maximally comply with the expected future bike demands. In this paper, we tackle the BBSS by means of Constraint Programming: first, we introduce two...

The early cytokines production in response to live logarithmic and stationary phase promastigotes of Leishmania major was examined on the peripheral blood cells of the healthy individuals. Whole blood cultures were stimulated by either logarithmic or stationary phase promastigotes. IFN- and IL-10 productions were assessed by specific sandwich ELISA. The results showed that the logarithmic prom...

AIM To introduce a new specialized visual acuity chart for amblyopic children aged 3-5 years old and its clinical applications. METHODS The new visual acuity chart and notations were designed based on Weber-Fechner law. The optotypes were red against a white background and were specially shaped four basic geometric symbols: circle, square, triangle, and cross. A regular geometric progression ...