The creative activity of the outstanding Ukrainian composer M. Berezovsky as an opera singer, which continued at Small Imperial Court in Oranienbaum, was studied. It has been established that singer he participated performance not two,as generally known, but least three performances. All these operas were staged court Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovych, during years 1759-1761. Main objective study – ...

This paper presents the spectra of several orchestral instruments measured in the concert hall of the Liceo Statale “Alfano I” in Salerno, Italy. For each musical instrument used the variations of frequency of average signal unweighted (LZeq average) relative to the C diatonic major scale are shown in ascending and descending order. In this study the notes played by eight instruments (flute, tr...

There has been a recent upsurge of research on moral judgment and decision making. One important issue with this body of work concerns the relative advantages of calculating costs and benefits versus adherence to moral rules. The general tenor of recent research suggests that adherence to moral rules is associated with systematic biases and that systematic cost-benefit analysis is a normatively...

This paper examines the critical role of the global expansion of IP rights in the construction and maintenance of digital inequalities and suggests that the irresolution of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) as well as the struggles for a Development Agenda mark a crucial dimension in the global politics of digital inequalities. It suggests that a pathway to understanding these poli...

We seek to explicate the precise role that one specific emotion, disgust, plays in generating political acrimony. We do so by identifying the link between the different dimensions along which moral judgments are made by those espousing different political ideologies and the different emotions which undergird these evaluations. These assessments reliably track along liberal and conservative dime...

Cap and swaption prices contain information on interest rate volatilities and correlations. In this paper, we examine whether this information in cap and swaption prices is consistent with realized movements of the interest rate term structure. To extract an option-implied interest rate covariance matrix from cap and swaption prices, we use Libor market models or discrete-tenor string models as...

This paper presents a multi-pitch detection and voice assignment method applied to audio recordings containing a cappella performances with multiple singers. A novel approach combining an acoustic model for multi-pitch detection and a music language model for voice separation and assignment is proposed. The acoustic model is a spectrogram factorization process based on Probabilistic Latent Comp...

DURING THE PAST DECADE, A RIGHTS-BASED approach (RBA) to development has proliferated and blurred the distinction between human rights advocacy and development work. As Ellen Dorsey wrote in her October 2008 Monday Developments article, RBA is attractive because it shifts “the tenor of the discourse from charity to entitlement” and elevates development goals to “recognized standards and princip...

En los últimos años, la tendencia migratoria subcontinental hacia Chile —en razón de su dinamismo económico— ha alcanzado cifras nunca antes registradas y modificado el contexto demográfico del país. este tenor, trabajo analiza las representaciones psicosociales hablantes esta nueva ecología discursiva relación con flujo información discursivo argumentativa que generan. Los resultados muestran ...

In the era of globalization, seller-buyer transactions happened a lot on Instagram's social media platform. A register is language variation that usually used in transaction. This study aimed to analyze Instagram beauty product by examining linguistic form viewed from variable situation and understanding meaning product. research uses qualitative collecting data, analyzing context, identifying ...