ERAS: History and philosopy

the place of oud and its various types in the islamic eras of persian music history

one of the chapters in the history of iranian music is the place and significance of the musical instrument called oud. this instrument, initially named “barbat”, emerged during the sassanid dynasty. generally known under the name “oud” in islamic era, it became grepopular in islamic countries. in iran, this instrument enjoyed great importance until the fall of the safavid dynasty. from the ear...

Three eras of micellization.

Micellization is the precipitation of lipids from aqueous solution into aggregates with a broad distribution of aggregation number. Three eras of micellization are characterized in a simple kinetic model of Becker-Döring type. The model assigns the same constant energy to the (k-1) monomer-monomer bonds in a linear chain of k particles. The number of monomers decreases sharply and many clusters...

Predicting Musical Eras of Songs

The goal of the project is to predict the year in which a certain piece of music was created. We used a subset of Million Song Dataset written for standardized tests to train different models including Naive Bayes Classifier, Generalized Linear Model, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting Machine. Comparisons are made based on the results(mean square error and feature importance) from various tr...

Evolving networks: Eras and turning points

Within the large body of research in complex network analysis, an important topic is the temporal evolution of networks. Existing approaches aim at analyzing the evolution on the global and the local scale, extracting properties of either the entire network or local patterns. In this paper, we focus on detecting clusters of temporal snapshots of a network, to be interpreted as eras of evolution...

The Art of Renaissance and Baroque Eras