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Restricted Neighborhood search clustering revisited: an evolutionary computation perspective

2013

The role of loudness in detection of surprising events in music recordings

2009

The abrupt change of loudness is a salient event that is not always expected by a music listener. Therefore loudness is an important cue when seeking for events in a music stream that could violate human expectations. The concept of expectation and surprise in music has become recently the subject of extensive research, however mostly using symbolic data. The aim of this work is to investigate the circumstances when a change of sound intensity could be surprising for a listener. Then, using this knowledge, we aim to build a computational model that analyzes an audio stream and points to potential violations of human expectation. In order to check the quality of human prediction, an online (…

The socially distributed cognition of musical timbre : a convergence of semantic, perceptual, and acoustic aspects

2012

Networked Analysis of a Teaching Unit for Primary School Symmetries in the Form of an E-Book

2021

In mathematics education, technology offers many opportunities to enrich curricular contents. Plane symmetries is a topic often skipped by primary teachers. However, it is important and may be worked in attractive ways in dynamic geometry software environments. In any regular classroom there are students with different levels of mathematical attainment, some needing easy tasks while others, particularly mathematically-gifted students, need challenging problems. We present a teaching unit for plane symmetries, adequate for upper primary school grades, implemented in a fully interactive electronic book, with most activities solved in GeoGebra apps. The book allows student to choose which itin…

Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

2012

Working memory (WM) is at the core of any cognitive function as it is necessary for the integration of information over time. Despite WM’s critical role in high-level cognitive functions, its implementation in the neural tissue is poorly understood. Preliminary studies on auditory WM show differences between linguistic and musical memory, leading to the speculation of specific neural networks encoding memory for music. Moreover, in neuroscience WM has not been studied in naturalistic listening conditions but rather in artificial settings (e.g., n-back and Sternberg tasks). Western tonal music provides naturally occurring motivic repetition and variation, recognizable units serving as WM tri…

A Non-Local Mode-I Cohesive Model for Ascending Thoracic Aorta Dissections (ATAD)

2018

This paper presents a non-local interface mechanical model to describe aortic dissection. In this regard, the mode-I debonding problem based on a cohesive zone modeling is endowed with non-local terms to include long-range interactions that are present in multi-layered biological tissue. Such non-local effects are related to the collagen fibers that transmit forces between non-adjacent elements. Numerical simulations are provided with different values of the non-local parameters in order to show the effect of the non-locality during the debonding processes.

Can Physiological and Psychological Factors Predict Dropout from Intense 10-Day Winter Military Survival Training?

2020

Background: In the military context, high levels of physiological and psychological stress together can compromise individual&rsquo

Microorganisms and Biotic Interactions

2014

SPE IPM; Most ecosystems are populated by a large number of diversified microorganisms, which interact with one another and form complex interaction networks. In addition, some of these microorganisms may colonize the surface or internal parts of plants and animals, thereby providing an additional level of interaction complexity. These microbial relations range from intraspecific to interspecific interactions, and from simple short-term interactions to intricate long-term ones. They have played a key role in the formation of plant and animal kingdoms, often resulting in coevolution; they control the size, activity level, and diversity patterns of microbial communities. Therefore, they modul…

Individuals’ Use of E-Mail Communication Genres in Open Source Software Community Building

2011

The advent of the participative Internet (Web 2.0) sheds a new light on traditional knowledge about communication practices. The role of information and communication technologies seems to be very central in managerial literature, while the human side of the issue is less considered. This paper argues that individuals establish communication genres as semantic templates for accomplishing their communicative projects. Communication genres are codes of default behavioral expectations resulting from recurrent communication actions over the time. By using semantic network analytical techniques, our argument is explored in a particular empirical setting, that is, a virtual community of open sour…

Frontières des communautés polarisées : application à l'étude des théories complotistes autour des vaccins

2021

Les données des réseaux sociaux sont de plus en plus utilisées pour en extraire de la valeur, dans des domaines tels que le marketing, la politique ou la sociologie. Celles-ci peuvent être représentées sous forme de graphes, en modélisant précisément les interactions à travers des liens dirigés et pondérés. Dans l'analyse des données des réseaux sociaux, l'étude des communautés est une étape essentielle. Toutefois, pour une interprétation fine des phénomènes, il est également nécessaire d'étudier leurs interactions et de pouvoir détecter des traces de polarisation. Nous proposons une méthode qui permet d'évaluer l'antagonisme des communautés et d'identifier leurs frontières dans des réseaux…