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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Development of ambisonic microphone design tools – Part 1. [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years an increase in the capture and production of ambisonic material has occurred as a result of companies such as YouTube and Facebook utilising ambisonics for spatial audio playback.
Middlicott, Charlie, Wiggins, Bruce
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Using Microphone Arrays to Detect Moving Vehicle Velocity
Archives of Acoustics, 2013 The noise of motor vehicles is one of the most important problems as regards to pollution on main roads. However, this unpleasant characteristic could be used to determine vehicle speed by external observers.
Ramón PERAL-ORTS +3 more
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Ad-Hoc Microphone Array Calibration from Partial Distance Measurements [PDF]
, 2014 We address the problem of ad~hoc microphone array calibration where some of the distances between the microphones can not be measured. The conventional techniques require information about all the distances for accurate reconstruction of the array ...
Taghizadeh, Mohammad J. +7 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Accounting standards require firms to distinguish recurring revenues and expenses from nonrecurring gains and losses, which are often referred to as special items. However, not all special items are genuinely nonrecurring. Exploiting the setting of earnings conference calls, we explore whether analysts can identify opportunistic special items,
Jiajia Fu, Yuan Ji, James Potepa
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Subjective Evaluations of Perspective Control Microphone Array (PCMA)
, 2012 Perspective Control Microphone Array (PCMA) is a technique that allows one to flexibly render spatial audio images depending on the desired virtual listening position in a reproduced soundfield. Two subjective listening experiments have been conducted to
Lee, Hyunkook
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Predição de decorrelação turbulenta em array de microfones em meio turbulento [PDF]
, 2013 Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Mecânica, Florianópolis ...
Pires, Léo Santana
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Inadequate monitoring of biodiversity is a characteristic of conservation the world over. The potential of acoustic monitoring is compelling, although the challenges remain substantial. Effective solutions require transdisciplinary collaboration among stakeholders, a focus on open‐source development, and flexible, multipronged technical ...
Andrea S. Griffin +7 more
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Mountable miniature microphones to identify and assign mouse ultrasonic vocalizations
Cell Reports: MethodsSummary: Mouse ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are a promising model for studying vocal production. Although, in courtship interactions, males emit the majority of the USVs, female mice also produce USVs.
Elena N. Waidmann +4 more
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