We propose a method to count and estimate the mixing directions and the sources in an underdetermined multichannel mixture. Like DUET-type methods, the approach is based on the hypothesis that the sources have timefrequency representations with limited overlap. However, instead of assuming essentially disjoint representations, we only assume that, in the neighbourhood of some time-frequency poi...

Gain of 8q24, harboring the avian myelocytomatosis viral oncogene homolog (MYC), is a frequent mutation in cancers. Although MYC is the usual suspect in these cancers, the role of other co-gained loci remains mostly unknown. We have recently found that MYC partners with the adjacent long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1), which stabilizes MYC protein and potent...

Most efforts to understand and reduce human aggressive behavior—toward other persons or toward property—focus upon the perpetrator. Regardless of whether the persons making these efforts are specialists or members of the general public; teachers, psychologists, sociologists, or criminologists; theoreticians, researchers, or practitioners; or individuals concerned with prediction, prevention, re...

Most moral psychologists have come to accept two types of moral reasoning: Kohlberg’s justice and Gilligan’s care, but there still seem to be some unresolved issues. By analysing and comparing Kohlberg’s statement on some theoretical issues with some of Gilligan’s statements in an interview in April 2003, I will look at some key issues in the so-called ‘Kohlberg–Gilligan conflict’. Some of the ...

We present a sensor-doll interface as a musical outlet for personal expression. A doll serves the dual role of being both an expressive agent and a playmate by allowing solo and accompanied performance. An internal computer and sensor system allow the doll to receive input from the user and its surroundings, and then respond accordingly with musical feedback. Sets of musical timbres and melodie...

This chapter presents a tutorial on the DUET Blind Source Separation method which can separate any number of sources using only two mixtures. The method is valid when sources are W-disjoint orthogonal, that is, when the supports of the windowed Fourier transform of the signals in the mixture are disjoint. For anechoic mixtures of attenuated and delayed sources, the method allows one to estimate...

Abstract The intelligibility of a performance improvised dance does not reside in the rehearsed execution pre-existing script, nor it result from sustained verbal interaction between dancers. Many aspects speechless obviously play an important role achieved dance: dancer is seen moving on and ground, stage, space delimited by walls, illuminated spotlights, sounded music, front audience. And cou...

We consider the problem of convolutive blind source separation of audio mixtures. We propose an Adaptive Stereo Basis (ASB) method based on learning a set of basis vectors pairs from the time-domain stereo mixtures. The basis vector pairs are clustered using estimated directions of arrival (DOAs) such that each basis vector pair is associated with one source. The ASB method is compared with the...