In spite of advanced modelling capabilities, hydrologic and water quality data remain vital for scientific assessment, management, decision-making, and modelling. Although uncertainty in measured data affects all of these applications, measurement uncertainty is typically ignored in monitoring projects. To change this, we published an uncertainty estimation framework for measured discharge and ...

Sexual communication in animals often involves duetting characterized by a coordinated reciprocal exchange of acoustic signals. We used playback experiments to study the role of timing of a female reply in the species-specific duet structure in the leafhopper Aphrodes makarovi (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). In leafhoppers, mate recognition and location is mediated exclusively by species- and sex-sp...

Computer music systems can interact with humans at different levels, including scores, phrases, notes, beats, and gestures. However, most current systems lack basic musical skills. As a consequence, the results of human-computer interaction are often far less musical than the interaction between human musicians. In this paper, we explore the possibility of learning some basic music performance ...

For separating multiple speech signals given a convolutive mixture, time-frequency sparseness of the speech sources can be exploited. In this paper we present a multi-channel source separation method based on the concept of approximate disjoint orthogonality of speech signals. Unlike binary masking of singlechannel signals as e.g. applied in the DUET algorithm we use a likelihood mask to contro...

This paper proposes a new method for the pitch detection of a duet song for transcription. The previous pitch detection methods that are considered most for musical instrument sounds but few for sung songs are based on the extraction of the pitch frequencies. But the extraction of the pitches is difficult since the musical sound has many harmonic components. The principle of our method is the e...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to compare various genotypic scoring systems commonly used to predict virological outcome to etravirine, and examine their concordance with etravirine phenotypic susceptibility. METHODS Six etravirine genotypic scoring systems were assessed: Tibotec 2010 (based on 20 mutations; TBT 20), Monogram, Stanford HIVdb, ANRS, Rega (based on 37, 30, 27 and 49 mut...

The ability to identify and locate conspecifics depends on reliable transfer of information between emitter and receiver. For a majority of plant-dwelling insects communicating with substrate-borne vibrations, localization of a potential partner may be a difficult task due to their small body size and complex transmission properties of plants. In the present study, we used the leafhopper Scapho...