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Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data [PDF]
Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the detection and characterization of power laws is complicated by the large
A. Clauset, C. Shalizi, M. Newman
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A Manual for Web Corpus Crawling of Low Resource Languages
Since the seminal publication of “Web as Corpus” [1], the potential of creating corpora from the web has been realized for good for the creation of both online and offline corpora: noisy vs. clean, balanced vs. convenient, annotated vs.
Armin Hoenen +2 more
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Empirical comparison of the performance of location estimates of fuzzy number-valued data [PDF]
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Several location measures have already been proposed in the literature in order to summarize the central tendency of a random fuzzy number in a robust way.
Sinova Fernández, Beatriz +1 more
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Religiosity and Spirituality of German-Speaking Pilgrims on the Way of St. James
The article examines the intensity and structure of religiosity and spirituality of German-speaking foot and bicycle pilgrims on the Way of St. James within the framework of a multidimensional model of religiosity.
Detlef Lienau +2 more
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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger +2 more
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A new method for analysing nonlinear and non-stationary data has been developed. The key part of the method is the ‘empirical mode decomposition’ method with which any complicated data set can be decomposed into a finite and often small number of ...
Norden E. Huang +8 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect
Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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The research field related to finance has made great progress in recent years due to the development of information processing technology and the availability of large-scale data. This special issue is a collection of 16 articles on empirical finance and one book review.
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The current study examined the musical taste of musicology students as compared to a control student group. Participants (n=1003) completed an online survey regarding the frequency with which they listened to 22 musical styles. A factor analysis revealed
Paul eElvers +3 more
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