3D environments provide new possibilities for musical interaction. They allow musicians to manipulate and visualize large sets of sound processes associated to 3D objects by connecting graphical parameters to sound parameters. Several of these audiovisual mappings can be combined on a single 3D object. However, this brings up the issues of the choice of these mappings and of their combinations....

Music is one of the strongest triggers of emotions. Recent studies have shown strong emotional predispositions for musical instrument timbres. They have also shown significant correlations between spectral centroid and many emotions. Our recent study on spectral centroid-equalized tones further suggested that the even/odd harmonic ratio is a salient timbral feature after attack time and brightn...

Environmental pollution is a worldwide problem, and metals are the largest group of contaminants in soil. Microarray toxicogenomic studies with ecologically relevant organisms, such as springtails, supplement traditional ecotoxicological research but are presently rather descriptive. Classifier analysis, a more analytical application of the microarray technique, is able to predict biological cl...

Analysts’ earnings forecasts are not perfectly correlated with actual earnings. One statistical consequence is that the most optimistic and most pessimistic forecasts are usually too optimistic and too pessimistic. The forecasts’ accuracy can be improved by shrinking them toward the mean. Insufficient appreciation of this statistical principle may partly explain the success of contrarian invest...

ranking fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in decision making and some other fuzzy application systems. many different methods have been proposed to deal with ranking fuzzy numbers. constructing ranking indexes based on the centroid of fuzzy numbers is an important case. but some weaknesses are found in these indexes. the purpose of this paper is to give a new ranking index to rank vario...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Because of the extremely low neoplastic progression rate in Barrett's esophagus, it is difficult to diagnose patients with concomitant adenocarcinoma early in their disease course. If biomarkers existed in normal squamous esophageal epithelium to identify patients with concomitant esophageal adenocarcinoma, potential applications would be far-reaching. The aim of the curren...

We demonstrate a binary classification problem in which standard supervised learning algorithms such as linear and kernel SVM, naive Bayes, ridge regression, k-nearest neighbors, shrunken centroid, multilayer perceptron and decision trees perform in an unusual way. On certain data sets they classify a randomly sampled training subset nearly perfectly, but systematically perform worse than rando...

Different respiratory viruses induce virus-specific gene expression in the host. Recent evidence, including those presented here, suggests that genetically related isolates of influenza virus induce strain-specific host gene regulation in several animal models. Here, we identified systemic strain-specific gene expression signatures in ferrets infected with pandemic influenza A/California/07/200...