How ‘catchy’ music is driven by rhythmic patterns

Catchy rhythms like the tresillo are examples of how our musical perception and preference negotiate between simplicity and ...
BMJ

Derivation and validation of the SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS): a new SLE continuous measure with high sensitivity for changes in disease activity

Objectives To derive and validate a new disease activity measure for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS), with improved sensitivity to change as compared with ...
Scientific American

Prime Numbers Show Unexpected Patterns of Fractal Chaos

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...
Investopedia

Fibonacci Sequence: Definition, How It Works, and How to Use It

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

Derivation and Validation of Sensor Brightness Temperatures for Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A Instruments

Abstract: In this article, we first present a generalized methodology for deriving sensor brightness temperature sensor data records (SDR) from antenna temperature data records (TDR) applicable for ...
Investopedia

How Are Options Priced? A Guide to Models and Market Influences

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...
IEEE

Simple Derivation of the Nonuniform Beam Filling (NUBF) Bias Formula in Spaceborne Doppler Radar Measurements

Abstract: The nonuniform beam filling (NUBF) bias in Doppler velocity measurements from a spaceborne precipitation radar is investigated. A simple derivation of the already-known formula that relates ...
Nature

How to make macroscale non-crystalline diamonds

Atomic-scale order can be a problem for materials scientists, as illustrated by the mineral quartz. Quartz is a bad choice of material for a car windscreen, because it is difficult to shape and easily ...
PNAS

A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19

Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. By assuming that the ...
Scientific Research Publishing

The Pattern of Prime Numbers ()

Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas, Escuela Naval de Cadetes “Almirante Padilla”, Isla Manzanillo, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Since ancient times when humans discovered the counting system and ...
Forbes

The Science Of Patterns

Humans are natural pattern recognizers. Whether, as in prehistoric times, we were recognizing danger in a telltale rustle of the bushes or skimming a page of letters and numbers today, we use patterns ...