Ineffabilities of Making Music: An Exploratory Study

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Schmicking
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Embodied Perception ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Sensorimotor Knowledge ◽  
A Performance

Some facets of making music are explored by combining arguments of Raffman's cognitivist explanation of ineffability with Merleau-Ponty's view of embodied perception. Behnke's approach to a phenomenology of playing a musical instrument serves as a further source. Focusing on the skilled performer-listener, several types of ineffable knowledge of performing music are identified: gesture feeling ineffability—the performer's sensorimotor knowledge of the gestures necessary to produce instrumental sounds is not exhaustively communicable via language; gesture nuance ineffability—the performer is aware of nuances of instrumental gestures, e.g., micro-variations of intensity or duration of musical gestures, but cannot perceptually, and consequently conceptually, categorize those fine-grained variations; and ineffabilities of inter-subjectivity—the non-verbal interaction between performers that makes a performance a vibrant dialogue is similarly incommunicable. An attempt to identify some of the ineffable dimensions of this dialogue is proposed. Further ineffabilities relating the acoustical embedding of performing are identified.

scholarly journals Complexity and learnability in the explanation of semantic universals of quantifiers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris van de Pol ◽  
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld ◽  
Jakub Szymanik
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Kolmogorov Complexity ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Robust Result

Despite wide variation among natural languages, there are linguistic properties universal to all (or nearly all) languages. An important challenge is to explain why these linguistic universals hold. One explanation employs a learnability argument: semantic universals hold because expressions that satisfy them are easier to learn than those that do not. In an exploratory study we investigate the relation between learnability and complexity and whether the presence of semantic universals for quantifiers can also be explained by differences in complexity. We develop a novel application of (approximate) Kolmogorov complexity to measure fine-grained distinctions in complexity between different quantifiers. Our results indicate that the monotonicity universal can be explained by complexity while the conservativity universal cannot. For quantity we did not find a robust result. We also found that learnability and complexity pattern together in the monotonicity and conservativity cases that we consider, while that pattern is less robust in the quantity cases.

scholarly journals Spotting The Elusive Prospect Customer: Exploratory Study Of A Web-Powered Customer Relationship Management Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Ertz ◽  
Raoul Graf
Keyword(s):  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Managerial Implications

Research on how Web-Mining (WM) optimizes marketing, is sparse. Especially absent, is research on WM usefulness for Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The purpose of this research, is to propose a Web Mining-enabled knowledge acquisition framework for analytical CRM. An exploratory study consisting of eleven in-depth interviews with marketing scholars and practitioners revealed that, WM methods and techniques - currently available to practitioners - are well-suited for identifying the profile of web prospects according to their browsing behaviour and to classify them into homogeneous groups. Besides, the nascent technologies regarding opinion mining, sentiment analysis or natural language parsing, and which underlie WM, seem sufficient to acquire knowledge pertaining to attitudinal and other more psychometrically-based characteristics about web prospects. Such tools enable to better understand the so-often termed elusive prospects, by crafting fine-grained online marketing strategies to acquire those would-be customers. The authors discuss the managerial implications that derive from these findings.

Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Microprocessors through a Performance Perspective

Pertinence ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Chady Abou Jaoude ◽  
Kabalan Chaccour
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
A Performance

scholarly journals libInterMAC: Beyond Confidentiality and Integrity in Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-83
Author(s):  
Martin R. Albrecht ◽  
Torben Brandt Hansen ◽  
Kenneth G. Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Security Model ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
Arbitrary Length ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Encryption Schemes ◽  
Practical Performance ◽  
Security Guarantees ◽  
A Performance

Boldyreva et al. (Eurocrypt 2012) defined a fine-grained security model capturing ciphertext fragmentation attacks against symmetric encryption schemes. The model was extended by Albrecht et al. (CCS 2016) to include an integrity notion. The extended security model encompasses important security goals of SSH that go beyond confidentiality and integrity to include length hiding and denial-of-service resistance properties. Boldyreva et al. also defined and analysed the InterMAC scheme, while Albrecht et al. showed that InterMAC satisfies stronger security notions than all currently available SSH encryption schemes. In this work, we take the InterMAC scheme and make it fully ready for use in practice. This involves several steps. First, we modify the InterMAC scheme to support encryption of arbitrary length plaintexts and we replace the use of Encrypt-then-MAC in InterMAC with modern noncebased authenticated encryption. Second, we describe a reference implementation of the modified InterMAC scheme in the form of the library libInterMAC. We give a performance analysis of libInterMAC. Third, to test the practical performance of libInterMAC, we implement several InterMAC-based encryption schemes in OpenSSH and carry out a performance analysis for the use-case of file transfer using SCP. We measure the data throughput and the data overhead of using InterMAC-based schemes compared to existing schemes in OpenSSH. Our analysis shows that, for some network set-ups, using InterMAC-based schemes in OpenSSH only moderately affects performance whilst providing stronger security guarantees compared to existing schemes.

scholarly journals The effect of stress on memory for temporal context: an exploratory study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole D. Montijn ◽  
Lotte Gerritsen ◽  
Iris. M. Engelhard
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Temporal Context ◽  
Event Sequence ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Strategy Shift ◽  
Virtual Time ◽  
Sequence Memory ◽  
Extreme Performance

ABSTRACTTrauma memories can appear dissociated from their original temporal context, and are often relived as they occur in the here-and-now. Potentially these temporal distortions already occur during encoding of the aversive experience as a consequence of stress. Here, 86 participants were subjected to either a stress or control induction, after which they learned the temporal structure of four virtual days. In these virtual days, time was scaled and participants could use clock cues to construe the passage of time within a day. We examined whether stress causes a shift in the learning strategy from one based on virtual time to one based on event sequence. Our results do not show a discernible impact of stress on memory for temporal context, in terms of both sequence memory and more fine-grained representations of time. The stress groups showed more extreme performance trajectories, either good or poor, across all measures. However, as time estimations were overall quite poor it is unclear to what extent this reflected a true strategy shift. Future avenues of research that can build on these findings are discussed.

A Silent Theatrical Production Representing a Speaking Fictional World: Analysis of A Fleeting Shadow

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Eli Rozik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
Fictional Worlds ◽  
A Performance

The twentieth-century avant-garde sought to create a theatre dominated, not by language, but by stage images. Is a performance, based solely on speechless images and adopting the style of silent movies, capable of describing a complex fictional world? A superficial study of such movies reveals that even these do not represent silent fictional worlds. On the contrary, their silent frames are meant to evoke verbal interaction, too. This study suggests seven principles, which account for the fact that a speechless theatre production, A Fleeting Shadow (The Khan Theatre, Jerusalem, 1999), despite utter complexity, was fully understood and warmly received by critics and public.

scholarly journals DIRECTORS AT CHILEAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS SEEN FROM A PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (173) ◽  
pp. 130-153
Author(s):  
Nibaldo Benavides Moreno ◽  
Sebastián Donoso-Díaz ◽  
Daniel Reyes Araya
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Conventional Management ◽  
Performance Framework ◽  
Management Issues ◽  
A Performance

Abstract Chile has promoted the development of managerial/pedagogical leadership. Consequently, it has introduced support and guidance instruments such as the Marco para la Buena Dirección y el Liderazgo Escolar [Framework for Good Leadership and School Leadership] (MBDLE). Opinions of directors from public institutions in the Maule region (Chile) were analyzed within the context of personal resources in their daily practices are arranged in this guiding axis. This is a qualitative exploratory study. The results agree that most of the directors use practices that coincide with these resources, steering their attention from more conventional management issues to the dimensions proposed in the framework, observing the need to improve some components of it.

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