This paper proposes that to understand various issues concerning tune-text alignment, three levels of timing relations need to be recognized, namely, underlying association, target synchronization, and surface alignment. While the link between underlying association and target synchronization may be stipulated by various phonological rules, the link between surface alignment and target synchron...

whose musical sense was not keen. He said: " It is odd, I can never tell 'God save the weasel' from 'Pop goes the Queen'! " T he old fellow of Sheen was in good company. Two presidents of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (Fig. 1) and Theodore Roosevelt 1 , were tone deaf, as was Che Guevara 2. Music educators often ascribe 3 lack of musical aptitude to lack of practice. But in a paper publis...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Exp. Med. Vol. 206 No. 5 968-969 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20090867 968 One mouse ≠ one experiment In the past several years, the editors of the JEM have noticed a troubling trend. Authors are increasingly submitting data for publication that derive from a single experiment. Whatever the driving force behind this trend, it is a worrying one. The ...

The article analyses a auto-tuning method for a fuzzy PID controller based on the relay experiment. The algorithm was implemented and tested on a real plant for redox agent stabilisation in a paper mill. Experiments have discovered some unsolved, practical problems which were discussed in the paper i.e. determination of the ON-OFF parameters, the non-shocked switching from the ON-OFF tuning alg...

We apply a simple statistical method (Derenzo & Hildebrand 1969) to estimating the completeness of quasar surveys. It requires that an area has been covered by two or more, preferably different, selection techniques. We use three suitable data sets with separate selections from: variability and UV-excess (170 quasars); objective prism and UV-excess (141 quasars); multicolour and X-ray (ROSAT, 1...