The primary reasons for conducting fundamental research are satisfying curiosity, acquiring knowledge, and achieving understanding. Here we develop why we believe it is essential to promote basic ecological research, despite increased impetus for ecologists to conduct and present their research in the light of potential applications. This includes the understanding of our environment, for intel...

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

Abstract Quantitative data are generated differently. To justify inferences about real-world phenomena and establish secured knowledge bases, however, quantitative generation must follow transparent principles applied consistently across sciences. Metrological frameworks of physical measurement build on two methodological that transparent, traceable—thus reproducible processes for assigning num...

In this article, a novel pitch determination algorithm based on harmonic differences method (HDM) is proposed. Most of the algorithms today rely autocorrelation, cepstrum, and lastly convolutional neural networks, they have some limitations (small datasets, wideband or narrowband, musical sounds, temporal smoothing, etc.), accuracy, speed problems. There are very rare works exploiting spacing b...