Timbre can affect our subjective experience of musical dissonance and harmonic progression. To this end, we have developed a set of algorithms to measure roughness (sensory dissonance), and pitch correlation between sonorities, taking into account the effects of timbre and microtonal inflection. We proceed from the work of Richard Parncutt and Ernst Terhardt, extending their algorithms for the ...

We describe a tool for real-time musical analysis based on a measure of roughness, the principal element of sensory dissonance. While most historical musical analysis is based on the notated score, our tool permits analysis of a recorded or live audio signal in its full complexity. We proceed from the work of Richard Parncutt and Ernst Terhardt, extending their algorithms for the psychoacoustic...

1Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; 2Genetik der Mikroorganismen, Interfakultäres Institut für Genetik und Funktionelle Genomforschung, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; 3Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemeine Chirurgie, Viszeral-, Thoraxund Gefässchirurgie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; ...

1Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; 2Genetik der Mikroorganismen, Interfakultäres Institut für Genetik und Funktionelle Genomforschung, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; 3Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemeine Chirurgie, Viszeral-, Thoraxund Gefässchirurgie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany; ...

Niklas Kirschnick Quality and Usability Lab Telekom Innovation Laboratories Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin, Germany [email protected] Benjamin Müller Quality and Usability Lab Telekom Innovation Laboratories Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin, Germany [email protected] Sebastian Möller Quality and Usability Lab...

During the late summer of 1979, Ernst Mayr and I (Figure 1) had finished editing The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology [1]. He knew that I was working on a long essay about Theodosius Dobzhansky and also planning a book about Sewall Wright. From his farm in Wilton, New Hampshire, Ernst handwrote me a letter (Figure 2) from which this excerpt is taken: ‘In your w...

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, who died on 3 February 2005 in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the age of 100+, was one of the major evolutionary scholars of our time. Mayr’s life was devoted to understanding the biodiversity of life and its dramatic adaptive evolution. His impact on evolutionary biology was profound and long lasting. He is wid...

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and reciprocity. Moreover, several ...

Ernst Wynder published nearly 800 papers during his lifetime. I used the ISI Web of Science to analyze his publications and the subsequent literature citing his work. More than half of his papers were published in just ten journals, including Cancer, Preventive Medicine (which he founded and edited), JNCI, and Cancer Research. The 87 papers in Cancer covered all of the major cancer sites includ...