Making the link between human emotion and music is challenging. Our aim was to produce an efficient system that emotionally rates songs from multiple genres. To achieve this, we employed a series of online self-report studies, utilising Russell's circumplex model. The first study (n = 44) identified audio features map arousal valence for 20 songs. From constructed set linear regressors. second ...

A method is presented for the analysis and comparison of nucleic acid and protein sequences utilizing all identity blocks (the term “identity block” refers to a set of consecutive matches between two sequences) above a prescribed length. Moreover, such identity blocks are determined for various groupings of amino acids according to chemical, functional, charge, and hydrophobic classifications. ...

Biotic effects are often used to explain community structure and invasion resistance. We evaluated the contribution of functional richness and identity to invasion resistance and abiotic resource availability using a mesocosm experiment. We predicted that higher functional richness would confer greater invasion resistance through greater resource sequestration. We also predicted that niche pre-...

OBJECTIVE The following study was undertaken to investigate the effect of concussion and psychiatric illness on athletes and their caregivers. METHODS Semi-structured interviews with 20 ice hockey stakeholders (17 men and 3 women) including minor and professional players, coaches, parents, and physicians were conducted over two years (2012-2014). These interviews were analyzed using grounded ...

Many studies have investigated social networks. So far little work has been done to explore the virtual identity construction in social network communities. The virtual identity that an individual constructed in the social network community may not be exactly same as his/her identity in the physical world. Using self-discrepancy theory and social capital theory as theoretical foundations, this ...

The aim of this article is to analyse the impact Brexit on UK MEPs' parliamentary work in European Parliament. MEPs enjoyed full rights MEPs, yet made their terms short and fixed. Furthermore, process constituted a highly emotionally charged moment for politicians' work. based unique dataset 130 MEP political staff interviews ethnography conducted Brussels Strasbourg 2018–2020 at time Brexit. e...

Recent studies have shown that emotionally significant stimuli are often better identified than neutral stimuli. It is not clear, however, whether these results are due to enhanced perceptual processing or to a bias favoring the identification of emotionally significant stimuli over neutral stimuli. The present study used a two-alternative forced-choice perceptual identification task to disenta...

Generally speaking, in the postcolonial literary theory the other is represented as the object of colonization. The O/other is inev itable, essential and important to the defining of the subject identity in both cases if we deal with the subordinate, marginalized and exploited other, or on the other hand with the Other who is itself the representation of the imperial discourse of power and in w...

We propose a new efficient identity-based broadcast encryption scheme without random oracles and prove that it achieves selective identity, chosen plaintext security. Our scheme is constructed based on bilinear Diffie-Hellman inversion assumption and it is a good efficient hybrid encryption scheme, which achieves O(1)-size ciphertexts, public parameters and constant size private keys. In our sc...

This interpretive study provides original insights into the socioemotional experiences that contributed to referee attrition in English grassroots football. Data were generated using an online survey ( n = 251) and in-depth interviews 20) with former referees. Using complementary symbolic interactionist relational conceptualizations of identity, social interaction, emotional pain, analysis addr...