324 research outputs found
“Once again text & parenthesis – sound synthesis with Foo”
No full textFoo is a sound synthesis tool based on the Scheme language, a clean and powerful Lisp dialect. Foo is used for high-quality non-realtime sound synthesis and-processing. By scripting Foo like a shell it is also a neat tool for implementing common tasks like soundfile conversion, resampling, multichannel extraction etc. Note: According to the talk at the Linux Audio Conference, this text will mainly cover the Foo kernel layer. This is because the main author of this text, Martin Rumori, is mostly involved with porting and developing the Foo kernel. Quotation from [5]: Whereas the Foo kernel layer implements the generic sound synthesis and processing modules as well as a patch description and execution language, the Foo control layer offers a symbolic interface to the kernel and implements musically salient control abstractions. Find out more about the Foo control layer in [4] and [5] and the Foo control layer’s source code at [1].
On semantic resolution with lemmaizing and contraction
No full textReducing redundancy in search has been a major concern for automated deduction. Subgoal-reduction strategies prevent redundant search by using lemmaizing and caching, whereas contraction-based strategies prevent redundant search by using contraction rules, such as subsumption. In this work we show that lemmaizing and contraction can coexist in the framework of semantic resolution. On the lemmaizing side, we define two meta-level inference rules for lemmaizing in semantic resolution, one for unit and one for non-unit lemmas, and we prove their soundness. Rules for lemmaizing are meta-rules because they use global knowledge about the derivation, e.g. ancestry relations, in order to derive lemmas. On the contraction side, we give contraction rules for semantic strategies, and we define a purity deletion rule for first-order clauses that preserves completeness. While lemmaizing generalizes success caching of model elimination, purity deletion echoes failure caching. Thus, our approach integrates features of backward and forward reasoning
Dance with Minutae : The Paintings of Dulcie Foo Fat
No full textThe poetic vision in Foo Fat's "groundscapes", still-lifes and figurative work is contrasted to the politicized approach, cynicism and aggression the author identifies in much of American New Realist Art. Biographical notes. 7 bibl. ref
Utilization of Occupational Therapy by Older Healthy Adults at Risk for Falls Is Low
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
A retrospective content analysis on physicians’ dictations for 50 healthy older adults visiting an ambulatory orthopedic spine clinic revealed that physicians may not be screening for executive functioning impairment or referring to occupational therapy for fall prevention.
Primary Author and Speaker: Stephanie Foo
Additional Authors and Speakers: M. J. Mulcahey, Catherine Piersol</jats:p
Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis
No full textThe aim of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of Information Retrieval (IR) during the period of 1987-1997. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the IR field by measuring the association strengths of terms representative of relevant publications or other texts produced in IR field. Data were collected from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period of 1987-1997. In addition to the keywords added by the SCI and SSCI databases, other important keywords were extracted from titles and abstracts manually. These keywords were further standardized using vocabulary control tools. In order to trace the dynamic changes of the IR field, the whole 11-year period was further separated into two consecutive periods: 1987-1991 and 1992-1997. The results show that the IR field has some established research themes and it also changes rapidly to embrace new themes
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Apartment Security: A Note on Gated Access and Rental Rates
No full textThis study empirically examines the dynamics of the private industrial market in Singapore using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), which is derived based on the theoretical framework of an extended accelerator investment model. The GDP in manufacturing sector (LMGDP) and the composite leading indicator (LCLI) were two unrestricted long-run forcing variables included in the VECM for the industrial space demand, together with a pre-determined error correction mechanism (ecm) and other determinants. The results of the VECM estimation showed negative effects of the changes in the manufacturing GDP (LMGDP) at different lags on the private industrial demand (LPRD). Three possible reasons are hypothesized for the negative manufacturing outputs and industrial space demand relationship. First, firms substitute space for other factors of production when the demand for their output increases. Second, firms take up more space than that required for the existing scale of production and the excess space can be converted to meet the production needs for the short-term surge in the outputs. A possible switch of demand from the private to the public industrial markets during a period of strong output growth may be the third contributory factor. In the generalized forecast error variance decomposition analysis, one-standard deviation shocks to the manufacturing GDP (LMGDP) was found to account for an average 67.10% of the variances of LPRD. However, in shorter terms of less than 15-period, the industrial demand own shocks appeared to be the most important determinant of the variation in industrial real estate demand. It was also found that the most volatile impulse responses from the industrial demand variance.
A new approach to institutional domain analysis: Multilevel research fronts structure
No full textThe intellectual structure and main research fronts of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Museum of the National University of La Plata, Argentina is studied, based on the cocitation analysis of subject categories, journals and authors of their scientific publications collected in the Science Citation Index, CD-ROM version, for the period 1991–2000. The objective of this study is to test the utility of those techniques to explore and to visualize the intellectual structure and research fronts of multidisciplinary institutional domains. Special emphasis is laid on the identification of multilevel structures, by means of arrangements of subject categories cocitation analysis and journal cocitation analysis
Identification of Actinobacillus suis genes essential for the colonization of the upper respiratory tract of swine
No full textActinobacillus suis has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen of high-health-status swine. A colonization challenge method was developed, and using PCR-based signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis, 13 genes belonging to 9 different functional classes were identified that were necessary for A. suis colonization of the upper respiratory tract of swine.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agriculture and Foo
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