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Extrapair paternity and the evolution of bird song
Bird song is usually considered to have evolved in the context of sexual selection. Because extrapair paternity is a major component of sexual selection, mating advantages at the social level for males that produce songs of high quality may be transformed into higher success in extrapair paternity. Therefore, males with longer and more complex songs should suffer less from extrapair paternity intraspecifically, whereas species with high rates of extrapair paternity, reflecting intense sperm competition, should produce more elaborate songs. Although some intraspecific studies demonstrated a negative link between features of songs and extrapair paternity in own nest, others failed to detect such a relationship. Contrary to expectation, a meta-analysis of all studies revealed no significant intraspecific evidence for songs being associated with extrapair paternity. In addition, in comparative analyses based on generalized least squares (GLS) models, we found that no measures of song complexity and temporal output were significantly related to extrapair paternity interspecifically, even when potentially confounding factors such as social mating system, life history, migration, habitat, or sexual dichromatism were held constant. Only plumage dichromatism was significantly related to extrapair paternity. The absence of both intra- and interspecific relationships between measures of song variability and extrapair paternity suggests that factors other than postmating sexual selection have been the important evolutionary forces shaping differences in song. Copyright 2004.bird song; evolution; extrapair paternity; generalized least squares; meta-analysis; repertoire size; sexual selection
Author Identification from Song Lyrics
Machine Learning (ML) tools have been used extensively in a wide variety of domains
recently. Due the enormous amount of data being produced, machine learning techniques
are being heavily used to make sense of data & derive meaningful results. Using machine
learning tools, we can turn the data into knowledge.
Music is one of the truest forms of art. Bangladesh has a great history of music with a
great tradition of song writing over centuries. Authorship attribution is the way of
identifying the author from a linguistic corpus.
This paper demonstrates a guideline to identify the author of a Bengali song from the
lyrics of that song using machine learning. This research work presents the first work on
machine learning approach for author attribution from the lyrics of a song. Here six
methods of machine learning are used for the author identification and high accuracies
have been achieved from these methods. It is observed that Naïve Bayes method provides
higher accuracy in comparison with the other methods
Song
Author attribution from Rudolph, 240. Printed on yellow paper with black ink. Set to the tune of "Happy land of Canaan". First line "You Rebels come along and listen to my song"
The Singer or the Song? Developments in Performers' Rights from the Perspective of a Cultural Economist
Over the last century, performers gradually acquired statutory protection of their economic and moral
rights. These rights are not copyright in the legal sense but neighboring rights and until recently, they
were mainly remuneration rights that are collectively administered. With the WPPT (WIPO
Performers and Phonograms Treaty), performers now have individual exclusive rights for digital
performances; this leads to the question: what has motivated this change – is it a change in the
perception of the value of performer or a change brought about by the changing technology of copying or,
indeed, a change that reflects different economic costs and benefits? The paper discusses the role of
copyright law as an incentive to performers and asks if the economic role of the performer is so different
from that of the author. The conclusion is that a complex interaction of the legal regulations, economic
conditions and institutional arrangements for administering these new rights will determine the outcome
Il giardino del letterato in epoca Bei Song (960-1127)
Saggio sull'estetica del giardino del letterato durante i Bei Song (960-1127), attraverso l'analisi delle fonti letterari
Freemasons\u27 Song
Song concerning pride in Freemasonryhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1560/thumbnail.jp
Northumberland Election Song
A song for a political candidate.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1899/thumbnail.jp
Mystical interpretation of Song of Songs in the light of ancient Jewish mysticism.
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN005783 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
Song of Haymakers
A song about working in the hayfields during summer.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1628/thumbnail.jp
Appendix to Esther's Song
Notes - 'Esther's Song' with descriptive entries on friends, associates, and family members (125 pages)Appendi
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