Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing

Processing musical meter – the organization of time into regular cycles of strong and weak beats – requires abstraction from the varying rhythmic surface. Several studies investigated whether meter processing requires attention, or if it can be both pre-attentive and attentive. While findings on temporal expectation (processing meter per se) indicated benefits of attention, studies on meter processing in a more complex, dual-task context (meter used for temporal orientation) consistently reported pre-attentive processing. Also, while surface-based approaches to meter (meter aided by pattern repetition) showed some benefits of attention, structural approaches (meter not aided by pattern repetition, increased complexity) found pre-attentive-only processing. Therefore, in the present study we hypothesized that pre-attentive processing increases with cognitive load, and we compared surface with structural meter processing. Supporting our hypothesis, we saw improved behavioral performance for surface meter, as well as EEG evidence that structural meter elicits pre-attentive processing (pre-attentive P1) while surface meter does not (attentive-only P1). Our findings highlight the need for increased awareness in approaches to meter processing and support the idea that increased cognitive demand may recruit pre-attentive processing of temporal structure.

VxG Pattern-Based Analysis and Battery Deterioration Diagnosis

This paper presents the results of an analysis using the direct current internal resistance (DCIR) method on a nickel-cobalt-manganese oxide (NCM)-based battery with a nominal capacity of 55.6 Ah. The accelerated degradation test was performed on V0G, V1G, and V2G patterns, representing existing simple power supply, smart charging control, and bi-directional charge/discharge control, respectively. We assumed V0G, V1G, and V2G patterns and conducted charging and discharging experiments according to the set conditions. According to the pattern repetition, changes in the internal resistance of DCIR and AC-impedance were analyzed and battery deterioration was diagnosed. By comparing DCIR and AC-impedance, we confirmed that the changes in internal resistance has a similar trend. In particular, we propose a new DCIR analysis method in the “stop-operation” part rather than the traditional DCIR method. In the case of traditional DCIR method, time is required for the battery to stabilize. However, the newly proposed DCIR analysis method has the advantage of diagnosing the deterioration of the battery during system operation by analyzing the internal resistance without the stabilization time of the battery.

Pola Pendidikan Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam Sebagai Pendidik Ideal

This article discusses the pattern of education of the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam which is the foundation of education, especially Islamic education. The success of education applied by the Prophet Muhammad SAW, both in Makkah Al-Mukarramah approximately 13 (thirteen) years, and in Madinah Al-Munawwarah approximately 10 (ten) years, because of what he conveyed, he has applied first in all aspects of his life and his life. The education or teaching of the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam uses educational patterns, such as: Dialogue Pattern, Repetition Pattern, Praga Giving Pattern, Experiment Pattern, Problem Solving Pattern, Discussion Pattern, Joy Giving Pattern, and Sanction Giving Pattern.

Review of Kernelization

On the surface, the concept of preprocessing may not seem particularly novel nor insightful. Indeed, the simple idea that putting in computational effort upfront may pay off in dividends of time saved later is not only advice that we have received countless times but it is also advice that we ourselves have given to countless others. It may well seem a clich´e, but it turns out to be more powerful than it first appears to be, and in fact plays a rich role in numerous areas of algorithmic research and is a powerful tool for myriad applications. This turns out to be particularly true in Computer Science where pattern repetition within and between algorithms is ubiquitous. The idea of storing results once to avoid repeating them innumerable times can pay huge dividends in computational problems of many kinds. So, while possibly overdone, the advice is still sound and often revelatory.

Experiences in translation: the text as a pattern, the pattern as a text

In this article, we discuss the methodological prospects of using the term ‘pattern’ in the analysis of a literary text. We identify the semantic and categorial field of the term, propose a definition of ‘pattern’ as projected on language material, and correlate the terms ‘pattern’, ‘repetition’, ‘recurrence’, and others. The linguistic ontology of the pattern as a text-generating mechanism is determined by the fact that the pattern problematizes the relation­ship between repetition and variation, singular and plural, a norm and a deviation. A text has a pattern nature if its basic pattern does not coincide with its textual realizations, provided the latter are very similar at the prototype or model level. Therefore, the relationship between the pattern and a resultant text is isomorphic to the relationship between language and speech. Our analysis of poetic texts by Andrey Monastyrsky and Dmitri Prigov demonstrates the possibilities of studying a text as the realization of a pattern from the perspective of vari­ous literary strategies adopted by authors.

Dithering method for reproducing smoothly changing tones and fine details of natural images on woven fabric

This paper introduces novel methods to improve the aesthetic appearance of rendered grayscale digital images on woven fabric by smoothly changing tones and improving the reproducibility of fine details. The methods are based on stepping dithering, a recently developed dithering method for automatically generating jacquard weave patterns for arbitrary given images. The existing stepping dithering method suffers from two problems. The first problem is the visually unappealing repetition of patterns for input images containing low frequency, smooth gradation regions. The second problem is the low reproducibility of small structures with high frequency relative to mask size. This paper proposes new methods for faithfully rendering arbitrary natural images on jacquard fabric by solving the pattern repetition and low reproducibility problems. The new methods combine two approaches. The first problem is addressed by optimizing the distribution of thresholds in dither masks, while the second problem is addressed by adopting a dynamic binarizing process for an appropriate area of the stepping dither mask. The experiments described herein show that the proposed method successfully improves the appearance of the resulting woven fabric.