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Heterogeneity, leveling the playing field, and affirmative action in contests

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 924-974, January 2023., 2023
Abstract The heterogeneous abilities of players in various competitive contexts often lead to undesirable outcomes such as low effort provision, a lack of diversity, and inequality. A range of policies is implemented to mitigate such issues by enforcing competitive balance, that is, by leveling the playing field.
Subhasish M. Chowdhury   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating an improvising computer-implementation as a partial creativity in a music performance system

open access: yesJournal of Creative Music Systems, 2017
analyse two specific cases of “improvising” music systems with the aim of developing some insights into what might constitute the “computational creativity” in each of these two implementations.
René Mogensen
doaj   +1 more source

The Spell of Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This text is a complement to the musical composition The Spell of Speech, a piece for actress, electro-acoustic sounds and live-electronics composed in 2004 as part of the requirements to conclude the Master’s degree in Electro-Acoustic Music at ...
Ruviaro, Bruno Tucunduva
core   +1 more source

The Associations Between Computational Thinking and Learning to Play Musical Instruments

open access: yesEducation Sciences
This paper explores the association between computational thinking (CT) skills and learning to play musical instruments. While CT has often been linked to programming and STEM fields, its application to non-digital contexts remains underexplored. The two
Tami Regev Cohen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gouverner la ville avec des milieux « communautaires ». Construction et légitimation des « communautés » gagnantes dans l’espace public marseillais

open access: yesMétropoles, 2016
The celebration of the melting pot and cosmopolitanism of Marseilles and "communities" coexisting peacefully became in the 1990s and 2000s a powerful vehicle of social representations through the local, national and foreign media, literature, music and ...
Cesare Mattina
doaj   +1 more source

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Declining interest in science in lower secondary school classes: Quasi‐experimental and longitudinal evidence on the role of teaching and teaching quality

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 164-195, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Although promoting student interest is a pivotal educational goal, student interest in science, and particularly in physics, declines substantially during secondary school. This study focused on the long‐term development of interest in physics at the lower secondary level (grades 5–7) and examined the role of teaching and teaching quality on ...
Lena Steidtmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joint Estimation of DOA and Frequency of Multiple Sources with Orthogonal Coprime Arrays

open access: yesSensors, 2019
A two-stage method is proposed to jointly estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and carrier frequency (CF) of multiple sources, by using two orthogonal coprime arrays (CPAs).
Kai-Chieh Hsu, Jean-Fu Kiang
doaj   +1 more source

Optical Music Recognition in Manuscripts from the Ricordi Archive [PDF]

open access: yes
The Ricordi archive, a prestigious collection of significant musical manuscripts from renowned opera composers such as Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, has been digitized. This process has allowed us to automatically extract samples that represent various musical elements depicted on the manuscripts, including notes, staves, clefs, erasures, and composer ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Fast sequential source localization using the projected companion matrix approach

open access: yes, 2009
International audienceThe sequential forms of the spectral MUSIC algorithm, such as the Sequential MUSIC (S-MUSIC) and the Recursively Applied and Projected MUSIC (RAP-MUSIC) algorithms, use the previously estimated DOA (Direction Of Arrival) to form an ...
Boyer, Remy   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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