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Analysis of Vowels in Sung Queries for a Music Information Retrieval System
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-07)
A method for analyzing and categorizing the vowels of a sung query is described and analyzed. This query system uses a combination of spectral analysis and parametric clustering techniques to divide a single query into ...
Congregation Formation in Multiagent Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-07)
We present congregating both as a metaphor for describing and modeling multiagent systems (MAS) and as a means for reducing coordination costs in large-scale MAS. When agents must search for other agents to interact with, ...
Specific inhibition of mouse oocyte nuclear protein phosphatase-1 stimulates germinal vesicle breakdown
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-05)
Okadaic acid (OA)-induced germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and localization of protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) in oocyte nuclei are suggestive of PP1's role in regulating oocyte GVBD. To explore this possibility, we microinjected ...
Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This paper focuses on the discoveries of the last decade in Maya archaeology, and assesses their impact on previous models and synthetic frameworks. Although the bibliography includes 700 items published during the last ...
Constructions, chunking, and connectionism: The emergence of second language structure.
(Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
Sinful professions: Illegal occupations of women in Ottoman Aleppo, Syria
(Brill Academic Publishers; Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
What was the economic role of women in the Islamic world? Archival sources such as court records reveal that women were employed in a number of legal occupations as moneylenders, buyers and sellers of property, midwives, ...