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Showing 1 to 20 of 5628 for “"Instruments"”.
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Exertion instruments
… and reasoning behind a family of musical instruments called Exertion Instruments. They use inline electrical generators to run a synthesizer and an amplifier while eliminating the need for batteries. Efficient acoustic design minimizes the power requirements while optimized generator and …
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Instruments of service
Instruments of Service are defined by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as "representations, in any medium of expression now known or later developed, of the tangible and intangible creative work performed by the Architect." This thesis argues that the current instruments of service do not …
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Tiny Trainable Instruments
Can we build flexible and reusable multimedia instruments that are trained instead of programmed? How can we build and publish our own personal databases for artistic purposes? What are the new choreographies and techniques that machine learning running on microcontrollers offer for artists and …
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Score instruments : a new paradigm of musical instruments to guide musical wonderers
Advancements in technology have made musical instruments, especially electronic instruments, accessible to the masses. As a result, music-making has become more widespread and convenient. However, the blackboxing practices of commercial Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) have conditioned many users …
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New expressive percussion instruments
This thesis presents several new percussion instruments that explore the ideas of musical networks; playing, recording, and developing musical material; continuous control over rhythm and timbre; pressure sensing; and electronic / acoustic hybrids. These instruments use the tools of electronics and …
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Designing wave-measuring instruments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994.
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Museum of Skin Instruments
… a concept for my project - a museum of skin instruments - in Alexandria, Virginia where I implied the mechanism of different skin instruments in each building. Exploration and experiments were the key to develop my design process.
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Different Motions of Rotary Instruments
The introduction of rotary instruments has been a major breakthrough in endodontics. This is in part, due to the NiTi composition of these instruments; which allows for successful cleaning and shaping of the root canal. The success of these instruments is primarily achieved through the different …
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Safety Evaluation of Surgical Instruments
… this thesis focuses on the quality of surgical instruments. The current situation is reviewed by considering the regulatory framework and by investigating the quality of newly purchased instruments. A range of test protocols based on British Standards and best practices from industry were …
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The coherence of optical instruments
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 1964
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Ensemble Within and Across Musical Instruments
… across different sound sources (different instruments) and whether it depends on the musical experience of the listeners. Participants were undergraduate students with or without formal musical training. They were presented with a series of four notes (spanning 349.23-554.37 Hz) in random …
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Utility Indifference Pricing of Credit Instruments
While the market for credit instruments grew continuously in the decade before 2008, its liquidity has dried up significantly in the current crisis, and investors have become aware of the possible consequences of being exposed to credit risk. In this thesis we address these issues by pricing credit …
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Budgetary Redistributive Instruments and Electoral Support
… theoretical model, which divided the budgetary instruments into two categories: monetary and political transfers. Using statistical tools, the dissertation examines the budgetary bias itself, the timing of its usage across the electoral cycle, and the substitutability of the instruments. The …
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Climate finance instruments and Kenyan agriculture
… and the possible use of climate finance instruments for risk weather management. First, the global climate finance landscape was reviewed. This provided an overview of the available financing mechanisms, the sources of climate finance and the overall distribution of the finances across …
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Interaction Design for Digital Musical Instruments
… in accordance with the model. Digital musical instruments are composed of a separate control interface and a sound generation system that exchange information. When designing the way in which a digital musical instrument responds to the actions of a performer, we are creating a layer of …
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Flow Instabilities in Flute-like Instruments
Flute-like instruments have a common working mechanism that consists of blowing across one end of a resonating tube to produce a jet of air that is directed at a sharp edge producing sound. Analysis of operation of flutes involves numerous research fields including fluid dynamics, physics, and …
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Composing With Parameters for Synthetic Instruments
… presents a theory for designing musical instruments which produce sound by means of computer software, and suggests fruitful ways of composing for such instruments. Unlike other research in new instruments, it focuses on the interfaces between performer, instrument-controller and sound …
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On the playability of stringed instruments
As first noticed by Helmholtz, strings vibrate in a “V-shape” when they are bowed correctly and a full tone is produced, where the vertex of the “V” shuttles back and forth along the visible envelope of the string’s motion. If the instrument is bowed incorrectly, i.e. the instrument does not …
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