This paper introduces a temporal logic based on precedence constraints among events which captures net semantics, i.e. a particular net can be mapped into a semantic-equivalent formula in the logic. Tempo, a declarative concurrent programming language, is based on such logic and has a procedural interpretation which allows speciications to be executed as concurrent programs. Thus, the execution...

Turkey has been experiencing significant fertility decline since the 1950s. Increasing mean ages at childbearing have accompanied this decline, thus studies regarding tempo effects are necessary for Turkey. The main aim of this study is to reveal the tempo distortions in recent period fertility in Turkey as a whole and for different sub-groups by using an adjustment procedure. A procedure by Bo...

Many applications demand the automatic induction of the tempo of a musical excerpt. The tempo estimation systems follow a general scheme that consists of two main steps: the creation of a feature list and the detection of periodicities on this list. In this study, we propose a new method for the implementation of the first step, along with the addition of a final step that will enhance the temp...

A model for describing the change of tempo in final ritardandi is presented. The model was based on the previous finding that runners’ average deceleration can be characterised by a constant brake power. This implies that velocity is as a squareroot function of time or alternatively, a cubic-root function of position. The translation of physical motion to musical tempo is realised by assuming t...

In the present study, we investigated a hypothesized quartic relationship (meaning three inflection points) between exercise heart rate (HR) and preferred music tempo. Initial theoretical predictions suggested a positive linear relationship (Iwanaga, 1995a, 1995b); however, recent experimental work has shown that as exercise HR increases, step changes and plateaus that punctuate the profile of ...

The extraction of local tempo and beat information from audio recordings constitutes a challenging task, particularly for music that reveals significant tempo variations. Furthermore, the existence of various pulse levels such as measure, tactus, and tatum often makes the determination of absolute tempo problematic. In this paper, we present a robust mid-level representation that encodes local ...

This paper presents an original computational approach to extraction of movie tempo for deriving story sections and events that convey high level semantics of stories portrayed in motion pictures, thus enabling better video annotation and interpretation systems. This approach, inspired by the existing cinematic conventions known as film grammar, uses the attributes of motion and shot length to ...

The present study examines how global tempo adjustment can reflect the allocation of emphasis, whether emphasis is a local prosodic phenomenon, whether the degree of perceived emphasis corresponds systematically to speech signal, and whether temporal features can be derived from production analysis. Results from acoustic analysis showed positive correlations between perceived emphasis to both l...

The problem of estimating the tempo of audio recordings (the number of beats per minute, or BPM) has received an increasing amount of attention in the past few years. Applications include the synchronization of multiple audio tracks for simultaneous playback, ”tempo-synchronous” audio effects, automatic looping of audio tracks... This article presents techniques for estimating the tempo and the...

Music tempo (speed) is one of the most important features of a song. With successful classification of the tempo of song, content-based music browsing may utilize this feature and search/recommend songs in the same category of tempo. With some paper survey we noticed that prior works were focused on the numerical tempo value instead of the human perceptual speed of song. We proposed Inter-Onset...