Factors intrinsic or extrinsic to individuals, such as their quality or the quality of competition in their social environment, can influence their communication signaling effort. We hypothesized that telencephalic monoamine secretion mediates the effects of a male's own quality and quality of his social environment on his sexual signaling effort. The duration of a male European starling's (Stu...

To examine the effects of contact with a eonspecific in the absence of species-typical song models, the authors raised starlings in male-male pairs in acoustic isolation. The songs of these birds differed significantly from those of either individual isolates or wild adults and resembled in some respects the songs of starlings tutored by live conspecifics. Operant conditioning techniques were u...

The medieval troubadours were no wandering musicians, casually improvising their songs as they strolled from town to town, but trained artists who lovingly crafted their songs to please and woo their listeners. The art of rhetoric deeply affected the art of the troubadour. First, the art of rhetoric divided composition of a speech into five well-defined parts. The troubadours consciously molded...

Most existing studies on music mood classification have been focusing on Western music while little research has investigated whether mood categories, audio features, and classification models developed from Western music are applicable to non-Western music. This paper attempts to answer this question through a comparative study on English and Chinese songs. Specifically, a set of Chinese pop s...

Computer simulation plays an increasingly important role in engineering education as a tool for enhancing classroom learning. This research investigates the efficacy of using simulation in teaching the topic of transportation network growth through an experiment conducted at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota. In the experiment, a network growth simulator program SO...

This study aims to describe the lexical diction contained in lyrics of songs Springs and Tears, Doom, Drought, Disaster, Son an ape, Dog Garbage, On Beach by Rhoma Irama. The research data is form song from seven songs. methods used this include three strategic stages, namely collection stage, analysis, presentation analysis results. results showed that as object synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, h...

Jun Kong, Cheng-Ji Shen, Pei Xin, Zhiyao Song, Ling Li, D.A. Barry, D.-S. Jeng, F. Stagnitti, D.A. Lockington and J.-Y. Parlange 1 State Key Laboratory for Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China 2 National Center for Groundwater Research and Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 3 Key Laboratory ...

There is emerging evidence to demonstrate the efficacy of music-based interventions for improving social functioning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). While this evidence lends some support in favor of using song over spoken directives in facilitating engagement and receptive intervention in ASD, there has been little research that has investigated the efficacy of such stimuli o...

The way a song sounds depends on, among other things, what instruments are audible to the listener. We document the systematic relationship between instrumentation, or the particular combination of instruments audible in a hit song, and its relative market appeal vis-à-vis its place on the charts. This is accomplished using mixed analytical methods under ecologically valid conditions. The data ...

In this paper, a method is proposed to detect the emotion of a song based on its lyrical and audio features. Lyrical features are generated by segmentation of lyrics during the process of data extraction. ANEW and WordNet knowledge is then incorporated to compute Valence and Arousal values. In addition to this, linguistic association rules are applied to ensure that the issue of ambiguity is pr...