I soon learned that this was not an easy task. Scientific output is a precious commodity and appropriate "placement" of a manuscript is a carefully considered endeavour. To publish good work in a new journal with no impact index is regarded by many as waste of effort with a negligible effect on one's CV. This was more or less the tenor of some of the responses which I received to my solicitatio...

This is a polyphonic music dataset which can be used for versatile research problems, such as Multi-pitch Estimation and Tracking, Audio-score Alignment, Source Separation, etc. This dataset consists of the audio recordings of each part and the ensemble of ten pieces of four-part J.S. Bach chorales, as well as their MIDI scores, the ground-truth alignment between the audio and the score, the gr...

In this study, we argue that media-provided information affects investors’ impressions of newly public firms. In 225 initial public offerings (IPOs), the volume of mediaprovided information had a negative, diminishing relationship with underpricing and a positive, diminishing relationship with stock turnover on the first day of trading. The relationship between the tenor of media-provided infor...

To make a discovery is to achieve one of the closest approximations to a property right that the scientific career affords. Professional prestige is often closely associated with these acquisitions. Small wonder, then, that acrimonious disputes about priority and independence in discovery have often marred the normally placid tenor of scientific communication. Even less wonder that many histori...

We introduce a web-based database that gives details of the acoustics of soprano and tenor saxophones for all standard fingerings and some others. It has impedance spectra measured at the mouthpiece and sound files for each standard fingering. We use these experimental impedance spectra to explain some features of saxophone acoustics, including the linear effects of the bell, mouthpiece, reed, ...

The goal of this paper is to specify dynamic term structure models with discrete tenor structure for credit portfolios in a top-down setting driven by time-inhomogeneous Lévy processes. We provide a new framework, conditions for absence of arbitrage, explicit examples, an affine setup which includes contagion and pricing formulas for STCDOs and options on STCDOs. A calibration to iTraxx data wi...

In this paper, the production process management system of minerals processing is established to realize the optimization of the production indices which are inventory of finished ore and capacity of equipment processing. The structure and function of the proposed system are discussed. A multiobjective optimization model is also proposed, and it aims to reduce finished ores inventory and utiliz...

Proponemos que al tenor de la lectura del corpus literario “Ciudad Cero” (2020) Elvira Hernández, Décimas Estallido Nano Stern y “Cambio Cambio Cambio2020) Ivania Espejo podemos identificar algunas claves nos permiten desarrollar una producción poética surgida alero estallido social desde ciertos marcos neovanguardistas, entendiéndolo como irrupción un lenguaje capaz enfrentar los soportes las ...

We know that formants typically differ between voice categories. It is reasonable to assume that differences exist also regarding the glottal voice source. The purpose of the present investigation was to map such voice source differences in representatives of three different male voice categories. Data are presented on subglottic pressure (as estimated from oral pressure during /p/-ccclusion) o...