In recent years, agriculture has become the prime polluter of natural resources. It is therefore essential to make assessments based on reliable indicators to ensure that an agricultural system remains not only productive, but also ecologically sound. A large area of arable land in Guilan province is devoted to rice cultivation so the transition to environmentally sound agricultural practice in...

Music audio classification has most often been addressed bymodeling the statistics of broad spectral features, which, by design, exclude pitch information and reflect mainly instrumentation. We investigate using instead beat-synchronous chroma features, designed to reflect melodic and harmonic content and be invariant to instrumentation. Chroma features are less informative for classes such as ...

Most of the research in music information retrieval (MIR) is concentrating only on monophonic source signals. The stereo information has been ignored largely in the research many years. However, commercially available music recordings typically consist of a two-track stereo mix. The type of mixing process used in the recordings can be roughly categorizes into live recordings and studio recordings.

h ] in Nepali. Below are some minimal pairs. Assume there are minimal or near-minimal pairs for all combinations. Explain why the pair illustrating the [p/p h ] distinction is more informative in a way than the pair illustrating the [p/b h ] distinction. What phonetic dimensions must be associated with the contrast? What about the English and Spanish sounds discussed earlier?

background : studies have shown that noise pollution has harmful effects on human health. the sound of traffic is the main source of noise pollution in cities. the purpose of this study was to determine noise pollution using a geographical information system (gis) in the main streets of kashan, iran. methods: in this study, 180 noise samples were collected from 20 regions of the main streets in...