Music is one of the strongest inducers of emotion in humans. Melody, rhythm, and harmony provide the primary triggers, but what about timbre? Do the musical instruments have underlying emotional characters? For example, is the well-known melancholy sound of the English horn due to its timbre or to how composers use it? Though music emotion recognition has received a lot of attention, researcher...

This paper describes a graph clustering algorithm that aims to minimize the normalized cut criterion and has a model order selection procedure. The performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable to spectral approaches in terms of minimizing normalized cut. However, unlike spectral approaches, the proposed algorithm scales to graphs with millions of nodes and edges. The algorithm consists o...

The vibrational spectra of H(2)SO(4)/H(2)O vapors trapped in solid Xe are reported and the spectral shifts are compared to the analogous spectra in argon matrices. In the same matrix layer the nu(OH) stretches of highly acidic species (H(2)SO(4) and H(2)SO(4)*H(2)O) show distinctly larger red shifts as opposed to species of lower acidity or to modes which do not involve directly the O-H bond. A...

The scaling of nanometer technology has had a major impact on the power dissipation of CMOS circuits. As transistor size decreases it has become apparent that leakage power is becoming a dominant fighting force against future technology. In this paper the importance of static power consumption on the design of new and advanced CMOS technology is explored with the investigation of leakage power ...

Context. A second large programme (LP) for the physical studies of TNOs and Centaurs, started at ESO Cerro Paranal on October 2006 to obtain high-quality data, has recently been concluded. In this paper we present the spectra of these pristine bodies obtained in the visible range during the last two semesters (November 2007–November 2008) of the LP. Aims. We investigate the spectral behaviour o...

In the present study, a spectral finite element method is developed for free and forced transverse vibration of Levy-type moderately thick rectangular orthotropic plates based on first-order shear deformation theory. Levy solution assumption was used to convert the two-dimensional problem into a one-dimensional problem. In the first step, the governing out-of-plane differential equations are tr...

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