Knowledge of the genetic basis of sexual ornaments is essential to understand their evolution through sexual selection. Although carotenoid-based ornaments have been instrumental in the study of sexual selection, given the inability of animals to synthesize carotenoids de novo, they are generally assumed to be influenced solely by environmental variation. However, very few studies have directly...

With the popularity of song search applications on Internet and mobile phone, large scale similar song search has been attracting more and more attention in recent years. Similar songs are created by altering the volume levels, timing, amplification, or layering other songs on top of an original song. Given the large scale of songs uploaded on the Internet, it is demanding but challenging to id...

Materials Unless otherwise stated, all chemicals and solvents were purchased from commercial suppliers and used as received. PEGylated SMCC (succinimidyl 4-(N-maleimidomethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylate) cross-linker (SM(PEG) 2), trans-4-Cycloocten-1-yl 2,5-dioxo-1-pyrrolidinyl carbonate (TCO-NHS) and benzylamino tetrazine N-hydroxysuccinimidyl ester (Tz-NHS) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Co...

effect of different ratios of sucrose to fruit concentrate (orange and sour cherry), level of cacl2 (0-2%) and storage time (0-90 days) on physicochemical properties of candied apples were investigated using of a combined design. different quality indices such as total sugars content, ascorbic acid, color attribute (chroma) and overall acceptance were modeled and then multiobjective optimizatio...

We present our submission MD1 to the Chord Estimation Task of the 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2010). The front-end chroma generation is based on a new implementation of NNLS Chroma 1 as a Vamp plugin. The higher level model is implemented in Matlab as a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) with extensive context modelling (metric position, key, chord and bass), leading...

An algorithm for audio key finding that participated in the 2005 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX 2005) is presented. This algorithm takes a sound file that contains polyphonic audio as input and outputs a key estimate for this file. It is designed to operate on short fragments of audio taken from the beginnings of musical works. The algorithm consists of three stages: chr...

A cylindrical coordinate colour space (lightness, saturation/chroma, hue) is derived from an opponent colour space in the RGB space. It is shown how cylindrical coordinate colour models widely used in the literature are related to or can be reduced to the derived model, thereby contributing to creating a unified cylindrical coordinate colour model. In particular, the widely used saturation expr...