Melodia : A Comprehensive Course in Sight-Singing (Solfeggio)

Melodia is a 1904 book designed to teach sight-singing. The educational plan is by Samuel W. Cole; the exercises were written and selected by Leo R. Lewis. Melodia is presented here as a complete edition and has also been divided into its four separate books.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oer/1000/thumbnail.jp

Machine learning stochastic design models.

Due to the fluid nature of the early stages of the design process, it is difficult to obtain deterministic product design evaluations. This is primarily due to the flexibility of the design at this stage, namely that there can be multiple interpretations of a single design concept. However, it is important for designers to understand how these design concepts are likely to fulfil the original specification, thus enabling the designer to select or bias towards solutions with favourable outcomes. One approach is to create a stochastic model of the design domain. This paper tackles the issues of using a product database to induce a Bayesian model that represents the relationships between the design parameters and characteristics. A greedy learning algorithm is presented and illustrated using a simple case study

Experimental test of intra- and inter-specific competition between invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) and native plains topminnow (Fundulus Sciadicus), An

Includes bibliographical references.2022 Fall.1. Invasive species are a major threat to freshwater conservation. Species coexistence in invaded habitats depends on the relative strength of intra- versus inter-specific competition, where inter-specific competition from invasive species to native species is often stronger than intra-specific competition, jeopardizing their coexistence.2. In this study, I conducted a laboratory experiment to test for the relative competitive strength between native plains topminnow (Fundulus Sciadicus) and invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) at 16, 22, and 28 °C. Data were analyzed using the isodar theory, which assumes that animals are ideally distributed to maximize their fitness and thus their distributions measure the quality and quantity of habitat patches. This was supplemented by behavioral observations of intra- and inter-specific competition. 3. Contrary to my predictions, I did not find evidence that competition was asymmetrical from the invasive mosquitofish to the native plains topminnow. Instead, more individuals occupied their shared preferred habitat (a slow-moving pool) in sympatry compared to allopatry, and the isodar analysis demonstrated that intra-specific competition was significantly stronger than inter-specific competition at all temperature levels. This analysis of habitat selection was corroborated by behavioral observations that aggression was most frequent between plains topminnow in sympatry. 4. This study indicates that aggression might not always be the key mechanism of invasion, even for one of the most successful aquatic invasive species widely known for their aggressive behavior. In mosquitofish, other ecological traits such as fast reproductive cycle and tolerance to a wide range of environmental conditions might be responsible for their invasion success globally. This suggests that mosquitofish may not be a driver in native species declines, but rather an opportunistic invader in degrading ecosystems

Development of a simple information pump.

The Information Pump (IP) is a methodology that aims to counter the problems arising from traditional subjective product data collection. The IP is a game theory based process that aims to maximise information extracted from a panel of subjects, while maintaining their interest in the process through a continuous panelist scoring method. The challenge with implementing this arises from the difficulty in executing the 'game'. In its original format, there is an assumption that the game is played with each player using their own PC to interact with the process. While this in theory allows information and scores to flow in a controlled manner between the players, it actually provides a major barrier to the wider adoption of the IP method. This barrier is two-fold: it is costly and complex, and it is not a natural manner for exchanging information. The core objective is to develop a low cost version of the IP method. This will use the game theory approach to maintain interest among participants and maximise information extraction, but remove the need for each participant to have their own PC interface to the game. This will require replacing both the inter-player communication method and the score keeping/reporting

\u3ci\u3eThe Wilderness\u3c/i\u3e for String Quartet

The Wilderness is a single-movement work for string quartet with a performance time of approximately 14 minutes. This piece was completed in the spring of 2014. The purpose of this paper is to place the composition within the context of concert music by analyzing its form, melody, harmony, rhythm, and meter and comparing those elements with those in similar examples by 20th and 21st century composers, in particular the post-Romantic string quartet literature

Ethical image in the rhetoric of Gary Hart

To many voters, the words make the man. Many voters interpret the personality projected by a politician\u27s speech as the candidate\u27s real self. Since the age of Plato, speakers have manipulated this projected personality, called ethical image by rhetoricians, to favorably display good sense, good moral character, and good will towards the audience