We investigate fully automatic recognition of singer traits, i. e., gender, age, height and ‘race’ of the main performing artist(s) in recorded popular music. Monaural source separation techniques are combined to simultaneously enhance harmonic parts and extract the leading voice. For evaluation the UltraStar database of 581 pop music songs with 516 distinct singers is chosen. Extensive test ru...

Digital audio processing applications are getting popularity with the time. Audio data compression, summarization, speech recognition, speaker identification, speech and music separation, music genre classifications, singer identification, gender detection and many more are there. Feature selection is the curial part of these applications. Various audio signal features are reviewed here especia...

Parental separation is linked to multiple negative outcomes for children in all spheres of life. A field study was designed to estimate the epidemiology and to quantify the outcomes on the wellbeing of children from separated parents. Thus, data on socio-economic status, psychological adjustment, behavioral disorders, social relations, self-concept, and academic achievement were gathered from 3...

BACKGROUND Millions of people move from rural areas to urban areas in China to pursue new opportunities while leaving their spouses and children at rural homes. Little is known about the impact of migration-related separation on mental health of these rural migrants in urban China. METHODS Survey data from a random sample of rural-to-urban migrants (n = 1113, aged 18-45) from Wuhan were analy...

This paper introduces a men’s studies approach to Vietnamese gender studies. It explains the value of incorporating studies of men’s lives and experiences into gender and women’s studies. It argues that the study of gendered conflict and power is necessary to understanding Vietnamese gender relations. This understanding must be contextualized within the social processes of negotiation, cooperat...

This paper examines the contextual nature of gendered livelihood strategies through a comparative study of rural women=s producer groups in former homelands of South Africa and Appalachia. This comparative approach situates gendered livelihood strategies in distinct local contexts that are constituted by specific historical dynamics and cultural relations. Producer groups are defined here as co...

This study examined the role of maternal cognitive sets regarding infant gender on maternal response; participants were 69 mothers, each with a 6-month-old infant. Signal detection methodology was used to assess maternal sensory sensitivity and response bias to subtle changes in positive and negative infant facial expressions as a function of maternal self-efficacy, operationalized by low, mode...

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