A novel technique of unmasking to repair the degradation in sources separated by spectrogram masking is proposed. Our approach is based on explicit knowledge of the musical audio at note level from a score-audio alignment, which we termed Informed Source Separation (ISS). Such knowledge allows the spectrogram energy to be decomposed into note-based models. We assume that a spectrogram mask for ...

It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example with collaboratively written articles tending to attract more citations than solo articles, and strong arguments that interdisciplinary collaboration can be particularly powerful. Nevertheless, it is not known whether the same is true for research that produces books. This article tests whether co-authored scholarl...

This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that solo entrepreneurs and new venture teams do not differ in their degree of use of social capital. Howev...

Even though much of the prior sex offender literature focuses on males, recent research has included females as offenders. Such research, however, has been limited by small sample sizes. Several researchers have proposed typologies of female sex offenders that include both females who act alone (i.e., solo offenders) and females who act with another person (i.e., co-offenders), often a male. Th...

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Commensality, eating together with others, is a major representation of human sociality. In recent time, environments around commensality have changed significantly due to rapid social changes, and the decline of commensality is perceived as a serious concern in many modern societies. This study employs a cross-cultural analysis of university students in two East Asian cou...

Automatically identifying sections of solo voices or instruments within a large corpus of music recordings would be useful e.g. to construct a library of isolated instruments to train signal models. We consider several ways to identify these sections, including a baseline classifier trained on conventional speech features. Our best results, achieving frame level precision and recall of around 7...

Previous research has shown that performing joint actions can lead to the representation of both one's own and others' actions. In the present study we explored the influence of co-representation on response stopping. Are joint actions more difficult to stop than solo actions? Using a variation of the stop-signal task, we found that participants needed more time to stop a planned joint action c...

Bel canto vocal principles have been defining and creating beautiful singing for centuries. Although their use has generally been reserved for the solo singing voice, it cannot be denied that we all possess the same vocal equipment whether singing in a solo or choral setting. Since beautiful sound and expressive singing are, or should be, as important in choral as in solo singing, these time-pr...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) outcomes as a solo therapy in patients with upper ureteral calculi and varying degrees of hydronephrosis. Materials and Methods: Eighty patients with upper ureteral calculi and a body mass index between 19.5 kg/m2 and 22.5 kg/m2 were included. They were categorized into 4 groups according to the seve...