High Frequency Siren

The siren song of vocal fundamental frequency for romantic relationships

A multitude of factors contribute to why and how romantic relationships are formed as well as whether they ultimately succeed or fail. Drawing on evolutionary models of attraction and speech production as well as integrative models of relationship functioning, this review argues that paralinguistic cues (more specifically the fundamental frequency of the voice) that are initially a strong sourc...

Siren Song of Segmentation

The Siren Organ

Sirens evoke images of alarm, public service, war, and forthcoming air raid. Outside of the music of Edgard Varése ([8], [9]), sirens have rarely been framed as musical instruments. By connecting air hoses to spinning disks with evenly-spaced perforations, the siren timbre is translated musically. Polyphony gives our instrument an organ-like personality: keys are mapped to different frequencies...

SIREN - A Network Infrastructure for Emergencies

In emergencies or disasters a key support factor for situation awareness, decision making and response is to provide a secure and dependable network infrastructure that aggregates connectivity over all available heterogeneous wireless broadband access technologies, including those employed for commercial network access. The infrastructure must be able to adapt to mission critical application re...

A Mining Redescriptions with Siren

In many areas of science, scientists need to find distinct common characterizations of the same objects and, vice versa, to identify sets of objects that admit multiple shared descriptions. For example, in biology, an important task is to identify the bioclimatic constraints that allow some species to survive, that is, to describe geographical regions both in terms of the fauna that inhabits th...