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if blood can't describe the solution to the problem, is science qualified to comment?
Hello dear researchers
There is a data set with a blessing rate of 1 to 17 means that the number of negative classes is 17 times the number of positive classes
To address this problem, sampling methods and GAN networks are candidates.
Which one do you recommend?
Please explain your reason in full? refer your reference(s)?
Thank you so much for your comments
DISCOURSE HUMOR
Tough language (Aristotle's Ethos) is the language of the novel. It tends to be written in a first-person (I, me, mine, we, us, our) narrative; it is subjective and informal or intimate, and Aristotle would call it (Aristotle’s Ethos). It is the language of the novel. Frederic Henry in Ernest Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms uses tough language.
Sweet language (Aristotle’s Pathos) tends to be written in the second person (you, your); it tends to be subjective and intimate, and sometimes “pathetic.” It is the language of seduction; it is also the language of the advertisement. Aristotle would call it “Pathos.” Walker Gibson calls Sweet language AROMA (Advertising Rhetoric of Madison Avenue). Sweet language is listener-oriented in an attempt to deduce listeners into buying products they don’t want or need. Stuffy language (Aristotle’s Logos) is the language of academe.
Where tough language is I-oriented, and Sweet language is you-oriented, stuffy language is it-oriented. Stuffy language is highly grammatical and highly formal. Infinitives, gerunds, present and past participles, nominative absolutes, perfect, progressive, and passive constructions normally occur only in stuffy language. Because it is so objective and straight forward, it tends to be dull—stuffy.
Comment on the three styles of discourse: Tough (the novel), Sweet (the advertisement), and Stuffy (the language of academe).
I received major revisions on my research paper, followed by minor revisions in which I addressed all the reviewer's comments and suggestions.
The following link talks about AI (ChatGPT) and how to use in education, how to design assessment:
Some of the topics are : ChatGPT: To ban or not to ban?
ChatGPT: How do I use it as a force for good?
ChatGPT: What should assessment look like now?
Please, watch the videos and read the articles and share your opinions, viewpoints on these questions?
ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (qaa.ac.uk) https://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/membership/membership-areas-of-work/academic-integrity/chatgpt-and-artificial-intelligence
Several voices say there are several ways to identify risks.
Ex. First step to Break down the big picture
Second Be pessimistic - Why not Optimistic and just consider the risks? :)
Analyze, Use model or even a software. Will a software do this job?
Comment or add your thoughts. Thanks.
Br,
Vlad U.
Dear Scholars,
Which is the most important for human survival in the present era?
Your valuable comments will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
If anything is physically existent, it can well be considered (1) as matter and energy, because these two are inter-convertible, and (2) as either matter or energy, since these are the two most basic states of physical existents.
But the mass of matter-energy is considered as a quantity, and energy too is considered as a quantity. In these cases, the former manner of considering matter and energy as physical existents is kept away from consideration. Instead, the circumstantially possible measure of matter-energy together is taken as mass, and the circumstantially possible measure of energy alone is considered as energy. Thus, mass and energy may be considered as a pair of quantities too.
How to differentiate these two aspects of doing physical science? How to reconcile them? Note that existent matter and energy as such are not separately and respectively being treated to correspond to the quantitative concepts of mass and energy. We have, as a result, many confusions in physics and in the philosophy of physics. Famously, the difficulty to define mass and energy as quantities might issue from the above discrepancy.
I invite your well-considered viewpoints. Merely holding that physics is such and that we need not ask such questions at all -- such is not the attitude from which the above questions are asked here. Do we have fundamental solutions for these questions?
Raphael Neelamkavil
I want to share my published articles with academia and intelligentsia to peruse and comment.
This is the topic of Webinars of "The Future of Quality: What's Next? by QAA Annual Conference.
Could you share your viewpoint on this topic and why you think so?
Visions of higher education in the future: Looking forward to 2040
Presented by: Jim Dickinson - Associate Editor, Wonkhe ; Sebastian James - Vice President Education, Worcester Students' Union
In this session we invite a number of speakers from across the world of higher education to share their thoughts and vision for what higher education should, and could, be in 2040. Will provision have changed and the landscape be tertiary? How and where will students be studying? Will policy developments to support more flexible modes of study have made a difference? What do we need to start doing now to enable their vision of the future?
The Concise Version of IRAN Handicrafts and Traditional Arts was provided and the Comprehensive version will be released soon in collaboration with Dr. Senapathy Marisennayya. We also welcome any comment.
In the third equation in the 27th September 1905 addendum to Einstein's main paper,
Einstein adds the two halves of the transformed electromagnetic energy equation. But in effect, he subtracts the two v/c terms because he has changed one to a negative sign.
This doesn't look legitimate to me. Can anybody please comment. I would have expected the two v/c terms to have been added together and not cancelled out.
My viewpoint on this question is explained and demonstrated in the link below. The link is available until early December. The link can be shared.
Any feedback is welcome.
for example, the biosynthesis of goethite for the removal of As. Please provide your comments on this aspect.
Dans cet article , je suis co-auteur. Lorsque je tente de le poster sur Researchgate, mon nom s'affiche comme Pierre Mbang et un message renseigne que je n'ai pas de droit sur cet article. Comment pouvez-vous aider à resoudre cette difficulté?
Paradigm
Scientific results, at least those generated by individuals holding positions at universities or at publicly financed research institutes, should be openly accessible to all people worldwide.
Reality
In order to be able to access a publication, often a fee will be charged by the publisher. For open access publication the authors have to pay quite a lot of money, and many researchers are simply not able to achieve this. Certainly the main community of researchers is not at all happy with this situation.
During the last decades, publishing -- fortunately ! -- changed from costly print versions to much cheaper electronic versions. Meanwhile it is quite easy to set up an electronic journal and ... to make money with such a business ! Not rarely a publisher tends to not taking peer review seriously, since rejecting a submission means less income. Quite a number of journals and publishers have meanwhile even been classified as "predatory" and an author should better check carefully, to which journal she/he should submit her/his work.
Let me briefly report a case, in which I have been -- and I am still -- involved. The original publisher of the Journal of Generalized Lie Theory and Applications (GLTA) was Astralgo Science in Estonia. In those days I was asked to join the Editorial Board. Later this journal moved to Ashdin Publishing, then OMICS and finally Hilaris, alleged "predatory" publishers according to quite a number of sources in the internet. Apart from a strange description under "About the Journal", on the GLTA website
we read
"Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process)
Authors who are willing to publish their articles under this mode can make a pre-payment of $99 towards express peer-review and editorial decision. First editorial decision in 3 days and final decision with review comments in 5 days from the date of submission."
It should be obvious to any serious scientist, that this is not compatible with any reasonable peer review process. I asked the publisher to remove my name from the Editorial Board and at least one of the Editors-in-chief followed me. No response at all and no action. Lately GLTA even published total nonsense articles under the name of respectable scientists who had nothing to do with it !
Long ago I had rejected several submissions to GLTA that landed on my desk. But since many years I have not received anything anymore from the editorial office. The editors-in-chief should know, which of the published papers actually went through a peer review process.
Authors in general have to transfer copyright to the publisher and lose their own right in this way.
Why we should not pay publication fees and also not fees for open access publishing
As the above example in my opinion clearly shows, this could drive the publisher to decrease the level of scientific quality.
It is also not understandable that an author has to pay for keeping the right to her/his own work.
What shall we do ?
A major revolution in scientific publishing has been the creation of the arXiv by Paul Ginsparg in 1991. Of course, we also have to thank Donald Knuth for his ingenious TeX and Leslie Lamport for the somewhat more user-friendly LaTeX.
We should only take submission to a journal into consideration, if the publisher allows us to store a corresponding preprint version in the arXiv. There are even journals (like Communications in Mathematical Physics) which require that authors send their work to the arXiv prior to submission.
Posting in the arXiv also allows other scientists to send private comments to the authors, which offers a chance to improve their work. I'm typically waiting at least a month from arXiving a paper to submission to a journal.
Some authors send their work from one publisher to the next until it gets published somewhere, without prior posting in the arXiv. This occupies editors and referees and should not be considered a decent scientific behavior in my opinion. Isn't it a bit sneaky ?
The availability of a preprint version (which can even be updated) in the arXiv makes payment for open access publishing redundant, in my opinion.
How to maintain scientific quality ?
Sure, the arXiv is a great thing, but we do need services to maintain and increase scientific quality.
There are "overlay journals" like SIGMA, strongly connected with the arXiv. Perhaps this is a substantial part of the future of publishing.
In my opinion, a good quality of scientific publishing can in fact only be achieved via a good editorial board, which has full rights to decide about publication or rejection. There are certainly also questions concerning the way of constituting an editorial board, election of members, choice and quality of referees, etc. But this is a more restricted problem.
If we are asked to join the editorial board of some journal, we should think twice and check the journal carefully. If it makes a good impression, this does not mean that this will be so forever. In particular not if there is a publishing business behind it.
But the publishers need financial support to maintain servers, infrastructure, editorial services
First, we should not forget that also the arXiv needs funding ! It seems that the system works well presently, but perhaps the scientific community should support it even more.
In my opinion, scientific publishing, as a business and at least in the realm of journals, has no future. More public funding will be necessary to establish and maintain an independent academic publishing structure.
Clearly a lot has already been written about scientific publishing and the problems connected with it. I did not read it all, sorry ! But I do hope that I did not miss some of the most important aspects.
Take care !
Folkert
En cliquant sur ma photo actuelle je ne vois pas quelle action engager pour faire ce changement: 1) enlever la photo actuelle et 2) injecter une nouvelle photo plus conforme à mon âge
Merci de votre aide
THE HISTORY OF HUMOR
Old Comedy of the 6th & 5thCenturies BC often made fun of a specific person and of current political issues. Middle Comedy of the 5th& 4th Centuries BC made fun of more general themes such as literature, professions, and society. New Comedy of the 4th & 3rd Centuries BC usually revolved around the bawdy adventures of a blustering soldier, a young man in love with an unsuitable woman, or a father figure who cannot follow his own advice.
During the Middle Ages, Kings’ Court Jesters were not to be in competition with the Kings. So most often they were deformed midgets with humped backs and bug eyes. They acted stupidly and wore strange clothing—cap and bells, motley clothes, and pointed shoes.
Their scepters were made from pig bladders as parodies of the King’s scepter of power.
In many plays, the fool is smarter than the King, but because of his appearance he could be critical of the King and the Kingdom. There are both foolish and wise fools in Shakespeare’s plays. Contrast the dead fool (Yorrick) in Hamletwith the wise/foolish women in The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing. Street jugglers and street musicians came out of these Renaissance traditions. So did England’s “Punch and Judy” shows, Italy’s “Commedia d’El Arte,” and France’s “Comedie Française,” as well as England’s “Comedy of Humours,” and “Comedy of Manners,” and America’s ventriloquists and political cartoonists.
The eighteenth century saw the rise of a new kind of humorous author: the wit. A wit is usually a person who can make quick, wry comments in the course of conversation.
During the 19th Century, on the American western frontier, wise fools, con-men, and tricksters like Johnson J. Hooper’s Simon Suggs and George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood were employed to portray the rough and unsophisticated American as an ironic hero. Suggs was lazy and dishonest, and he knew it was “good to be shifty in a new country.”
The golden age of humor was often considered to be the 1920s but would be more accurately placed from the end of WWI to the early 1930s. During this golden age, we see the development of the “little man” in Casper Milquetoast, Andy Gump, Jiggs, Mutt (of “Mutt and Jeff”), and Dagwood (of “Blondie and Dagwood”). The humorous comic strips that were revived after the Second World War (1940s) included Walt Kelly’s “Pogo,” and Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner.” Kelly’s swamp fables were allegorical ‘swamps’ themselves, loaded with social and political commentary lurking behind the antics and interactions of the familiar cast of animal characters. Al Capp’s “hillbillies” gave access to Capp’s views on topical events, government, and American values. So, how important is humor in determining the zeitgeist of the various periods of human history?
Recently, I was contacted by a professor who wanted to utilize my PyCaret book in his research. Considering that I support scientific advancement in every way possible, I was happy to collaborate with that person. Furthermore, I have decided to freely provide my book to other researchers interested in utilizing it. Here are the topics covered in the book:
• Regression
• Classification
• Clustering
• Anomaly Detection
• Natural Language Processing
• Time Series Forecasting
• Developing Machine Learning Apps with Streamlit
If you want to acquire the book for research purposes, I encourage you to send some information about your project, so we can discuss this further. You can check the link below for more information, and leave a comment below if you have any questions!
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This question is her to put your problem or question and the RG colleagues will try to find a solution.
Do you have any questions? comments? Suggestions? Please, let me know.
Please put your question clearly. Please write comments if you find anything incorrect.
While Python does not have a specific syntax for multiline comments, developers use triple quotes (either single (”’ ”’) or double (“”” “””)) to create multiline strings, which the interpreter ignores during execution.
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They raise the problem of "weak link", but is it possible to improve inter-grain weak links by Ag nano-particles addition. In the referee's understanding, the direction of all the crystalline grains is not oriented in the samples, and no measurements have been made to assess them, so it is impossible to argue for weak link improved.
In mouse SI-lamina propria T lymphocytes stimulation with PMA (20ng/mL) /Iono(1ug/mL) is not strongly inducing IFN-g after 6hrs. The previous results in our lab had 4-5% and I could have just 2% max, though the protocol and antibodies to stain everything is followed in same way! any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Bref A (1ug/mL) after 2hrs of PMA7Iono.
My work focuses on sexual response and explaining how and when female orgasm occurs. I provide a comprehensive explanation of human sexuality via my books (all of the content is available for free on my websites). I invite discussion of the issues that I raise. Very few people ever comment. What is most noticeable is that no one contributes to my ideas for how women can enjoy sex play with a lover. Everyone seems to assume that women’s sexual pleasure is encapsulated in the word intercourse.
Dear All,
I hope everything is fine at your end. I would like to invite you to participate in my research entitled "Scale Development of a Tool to Measure Gender-Responsive Teacher Education Curriculum (G-RTEC).
This project aims to create a scale that can effectively assess teacher education curricula in terms of their gender responsiveness. By developing this scale, we aim to contribute to the improvement of teacher education programs and promote gender equality in the field of education. The scale consists of only 36 items, along with an optional comment section, which will provide valuable insights into your perceptions and experiences, and other preliminary personal questions.
I hope you will take time to respond to my scale.
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The library was QCed with average size around 772. The NaOH is prepared freshly from 1N stock to 0.2N. I could not recall any mistake in the process. However, my miseq run gives me cluster density 670K/mm2 of chemistry v2 300 and 0%PF. I spiked in 1%Phix. Does anyone have comment on this?
We are looking for the non-invasive equipment to measure the gastrocnemius and the soleus muscles. Could you please give me some comments?
I served as a reviewer for journal B. I noticed that I already reviewed the same manuscript for journal A. I provided my comments (a couple of pages long) for improvement for journal A. However, the author (s) completely ignored my comments and made no changes to submit to journal B. The manuscript has been rejected by journal A because it does not meet the journal's quality standards.
I reported it to the journal editor and stated that I already reviewed this manuscript for another journal. The author (s) made no changes by reflecting on my comments.
My question is this: Do you think it should be the author’s academic freedom to revise or not to revise before submitting to another journal? Or should it be considered unethical practice? Also, should the manuscript be rejected if it is considered unethical?
Interested in participating in a conference in Graph Theory honoring Professor S. Arumugam's 80th Birthday?
We are pleased to announce that we are organizing a three-day international conference in honour of Professor S. Arumugam who is turning eighty this year. Professor S. Arumugam is an internationally well-known eminent researcher in Graph Theory and its Applications.
The International Conference in Graph Theory and its Applications in honour of Professor
Arumugam’s 80th Birthday will be held at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore,
India, during November 30, December 01, and December 02, 2023. The conference will have in-person and online speakers and contributed papers.
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Dear Wojcieh Salabun and coauthors
I read your paper
How Do the Criteria Affect Sustainable Supplier Evaluation? - A Case Study Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methods in a Fuzzy Environment
And these are my comments:
1- Unfortunatelly, very scant information on the scenario is given. The paper only informs that it is related to batteries, give the number of suppliers and say that there are 15 criteria, but don’t say which are they, and give the labels of five sectors or clusters. It only informs that refers to batteries suppliers for swapping stations. And what are swapping stations? As you understand, the reader does not have the obligation to know about them.
2- On page 10 you say: “The resulting ranking was considered as a reference point in the study, with the ranking order of the options presented in Table 1”. I understand that there is a mistake here, since it should be `Table 3’.
3. In section 4,1. You say “A sensitivity analysis also provides more comprehensive knowledge and a greater view of the overall problem, showing the decision-makers what might change in the results under changing external conditions”
This is in my opinion, an excellent contribution to sensitivity analysis (SA) definition and properties. Its merit is that in most cases it is the reason by which a DM can reverse the best alternative and select the second one. Unfortunatelly, this is very rarely mentioned in SA analysis, which relies only on the existent criteria.
However. I disagree with your sentence “Therefore, the researchers adopted an approach in which the weight of each criterion was modified at +/- 20% from the initial value”
I disagree, because you can’t assume that all intervening criteria may change +/- 20%. This is not realistic, since each intervening or binding criterion, that is, that conforms a certain alternative, has its own allowed range of variation and even can have none. In addition, it appears that all criteria are binding, which is very seldom the case, and thus, it could be that only six or seven criteria, out of the 15, are relevant.
4- The paper considers excluding criteria to compute the ranking. I think that this procedure may be incorrect. One thing is to consider irrelevant criteria, determined after a solution is reached, and another, not considering them from the beginning, and solving a problem that ignores criteria, which although irrelevant according to entropy, are needed. Entropy, or better, its complement, information from entropy, tell us which are the most important criteria to evaluate alternatives, but they don’t indicate that some of the others can be eliminated because have a high entropy. They contain information, perhaps very little, but information that it is not advisable to ignore.
Strangely enough, you determine that the most important criterion is C2 or Transportation cost, and you decide to eliminate it?
5- I am curious on something. I guess that batteries are for car factories or for retail. You consider transportation distances, that oscillate between 1055 km between Beijing and Wuhan, to 167 km between Beijing and Baoding, and 926 km between Wuhan and Baoding, but in my opinion, this means nothing if you don’t specify the destination of the batteries that can be manufactured in each of the three places. Obviously, if they are to be used in the same city where they are manufactured, the transportation cost is not very important, but it could extremely important if the distance between origin and destination is high.
You say: “𝐶2 (0.750, 0.857, 1.000) (0.167, 0.200, 0.250) (0.500, 0.600, 0.750) (0.750, 0.857, 1.000)”
This illustrates that from transportation you have three values for each option. But what do they mean?
Of course, it is understood that they indicate in TFN the smallest likable value, the largest possible value and the most probable. But of what? In the case of transportation cost what the refer to? Cost of unit/km?, and in case of distance? As far as I know distances are fixed, unless there are several routes between two places. If they are, why do you need to use TFN?
If there is a manufacturing site, it can be understood in the sense that there a minimum cost of transportation for say train, an upper for say truck, and middle say considering another route, but 0.075 may be a percentage of what? The values between options are quite similar, suggesting that distance is not an issue, what is it then?
6- You assume that only 8 criteria are to be considered, out of 15, i.e., those are the criteria that participate in the selection of the ranking, which for me is a very correct, and unfortunately very seldom done in papers published, where it is assumed that all criteria participate. Now, how did you select the 8 criteria? On what basis?
However, in my opinion, the quantity of criteria that are relevant, in your case, 8, can’t be considered that apply to all alternatives. My research in many cases, constantly shows that the number and the type of criteria is particular for each alternative, and thus, it does not apply to them all in the same set of criteria, although, in general, there are always some criteria that repeat in each alternative, naturally, on the same problem. That is, for A1 they may be C9, C2 and C7. For A2, C2, C5, C7 C10, C15 and C4. For A3, there could be C7, C9, C1, etc., therefore, I don’t think that you van speak of the same set of criteria for all alternatives.
You say “The other criteria did not affect the ranking order of the options”
I agree, provided that in SA you refer to evaluating ONE alternative of the ranking, not all of them jointly.
7- In reality you don’t need to use fuzzy. If you use triangular numbers, which of course is correct, you can use for each type of criterion, two criteria, one for minimizing the lower value (no less than), and another for maximizing the upper value (no more than). In this way, the final value will be computed by the software, and most important, considering their interaction with all other criteria that are using the same resource, for instance money. As un example, if you have a minimum and maximum value for storage, the software will find the INTERMEDIATE value that also satisfies another criterion, for instance, funds to fabricate a product according to demand. Naturally, I am referring to Mathematical Programming.
I hope that these comments are considered useful.
Best regards.
Nolberto Munier
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Researchers and materials practitioners often come across the stress-strain diagram, which is a popular tool used to select materials based on their mechanical properties.
While the diagram is a useful resource for many applications, it is an issue that it is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 to use the stress – strain diagram for fracture analysis - a fatal beginner's mistake.
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Social change, developments in high technology has affected higher education due to the increasing numbers of students completing grade 12 leading to new demands of teachers. Developments required include creation of new eLearning universities sourced out as outgrowers from a home portal as distance education modes.
Please comment on the above statement
This question is one which will be of interest to many people, and it is to do with the role of Comments papers either on ResearchGate or in journals. As we know, the former are not reviewed while the latter usually are.
In recent years Prof Pantokratoras has had a long track record of posting such Comments on RG and they frequently call into question the scaling analyses used in many papers. I agree with many of the ones that I have seen so far. Sometimes he points out correctly that the computational domains are insufficiently large. These are useful to note and hopefully future authors will, as a result, not fall into the same traps.
More recently there has been a focus on submitting such Comments papers to journals, the end aim being to have the offending paper retracted eventually from the journal in which it is published, or this is the impression that I have acquired. Being the fairly recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Fluids (MDPI) this process of submission of Comments papers has come to the fore in my thinking and it is very important to work out how to deal fairly with them. This is especially so since there remains a sizeable chunk of researchers who have a blanket distrust of Open Access journals.
My belief now, having not really thought about it before, is that the posting of such Comments on RG (or as a submission to a journal) really ought to be preceded by the commenter contacting the authors first with their comments. This will allow the authors to consider what should be done. They then have the choice of publishing a corrigendum if the error can be fixed easily, or to retract the paper should the comments be fatal. I regard this as a kind and humane way of proceeding.
My first question is: Is this a reasonable way to proceed for an Editor-in-Chief for any journal? Or are there circumstances where it is unreasonable?
In the last week I have had reason to recommend Reject to such a Comment, urging the author to contact the authors in the way described above. In the attached document (RG-note-30-6-2023.pdf) I have included the last three emails between him and me to see how that went. So my second question is: Have I acted correctly in what I have said?
Finally, if anyone is concerned that I may be over-stepping the mark by posting this on RG, i.e. in a public forum, then please also consider that the background to the second question is that colleagues and senior members of my university received an email two days ago which was entitled: “Ethical issue for Dr. Andrew Rees” about my actions. I do not know how far the content might spread or if anyone was blind-c.c.-ed into that email. So I am doing this so that the research community, particularly other Editors-in-Chief and prospective commenters on published papers, may benefit. One might call this an Open Discussion.
I invite comments.
Hi folks
My paper has received a comment from an anonymous reviewer regarding the potential reverse causality of the hypothesized relationship (e.g., X-->M or M-->X). Since our research did not employ a longitudinal design, the reviewer has rightly suggested that we provide additional evidence to address this concern. I would appreciate your assistance in addressing this issue or providing suggestions for methods to effectively address the reviewer's comment. Thank you!
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On December 31, 2022, the famous pianist Andrey Gavrilov made a presentation on Youtube called
"The Resurrection of J.S. Bach. "The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1" performed by Andrey Gavrilov. Premiere."
The first 23 minutes are about the meaning of this presentation, and the actual music begins to sound from the moment 23m.07s. Gavrilov deeply rethought the traditional performance of Bach's music and came to the conclusion that Bach's music has been performed incorrectly for three hundred years since the release of the First Volume of the WTC. According to Gavrilov, Bach's music should be performed much faster (almost twice) than the traditional performance, which we hear at the tempo indicated in Bruno Mugellini's edition in the published collection. Why faster? According to Gavrilov, Bach's music sounds much more understandable for the listener at a faster pace and the more convenient it is for pianists to perform Bach's music at a pace convenient for them, the more incomprehensible and boring it is for listeners to perceive Bach's music. Here are Andrey Gavrilov's principal quotes from his annotation to the presentation:
1. "What is needed is not interpretation, but exact knowledge. You can interpret emotionally, and we all know perfectly well that knowledge is better than any interpretation, which is in some way ignorance and guessing.
2. "WTC is a scientific cycle, I would say a scientific and entertaining cycle, and this already follows from Bach's parting words to the first volume of the WTC."
3. "What is the most important and main thing: The first is the algorithms that, we set all the meanings to set the pace and give a complete character to themes and melodies, because only at certain tempos do we begin to see a face, to read his consciousness, they become very characteristic, all the melodies become easy to perceive and very original and you will see a living Bach in them as the themes become alive and begin to speak."
4. "The second important point is the development of physiological and cognitive abilities. The fact is that such a clear polyphony which is developed with transcendent skill in the execution of this cycle, it tunes not only man and his brain and the whole human being, both the listener and the performer. That is, what Bach called divine harmony, contact with God, striving for God - all this philosophy, his attitude to music, she is expressed here. ... Because overcoming enormous physiological difficulties, spiritual difficulties, mental difficulties, we find ourselves in a completely different musical cosmos, which begins to work with us as a kind of divine power. It sets us up, it entertains us, and it makes us balanced and deeper, smarter people.
5. "We shouldn't expect emotional impact from this music, this music is strictly mathematical and within the framework of this Bach geometry, his mathematicians have already laid down all the characters of the mood that he would like to put there. Using the language of divine mathematics in which God lives, you only need to reach such a level of performance that God smiles and God would be pleased ... Smooth, effortless presentation of material - this is very difficult to achieve at the speeds that Bach dictates with his algorithms.
6. "Well, the last thing I want to say: we must understand that in this gigantic work we are faced not so much even with Bach,
how much with Bach as a scientist. We must not forget that Bach was a contemporary of many other great scientists, discoverers, founders of contemporary like Newton and Leibniz, and like all serious scientists, he gave us with his musical mathematical formulas from the WTC roadmap for the development of all mankind and, as you can see, it took 300 years when its algorithms were deciphered and materialized. Of course, I still do not feel completely comfortable in this new space, it probably takes more time and I'm sure that I will be more comfortable with time, as well as you, dear listeners, will be more and more comfortable and pleasant to listen to this completely new constructive music of a learned mathematician who, with the help of his musical mathematics, creates a new virtuoso, creates a new cosmos."
7. "Well, and most importantly: now the musicians and listeners will stop interpreting, will stop being in the dark, to wander, which is very bad in any science, especially in such an exact science as "Bach's Musical Mathematical Structure", and the next generation, I am sure, will learn to feel comfortable in these new conditions.
Now about the reaction of listeners from the comments to this video: the vast majority of these comments are negative and the public literally threw Gavrilov with rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes. True, Gavrilov solemnly promised to release a disc with his "better performance" (since in his presentation on December 31, 2022 in his home office in Zurich there were many errors and even the Grand Piano keys creaked) by the end of February 2023 and by Easter it should be available. But unfortunately I have not heard anything about it now. However, the intrigue sown by Gavrilov survived. At first, I just wanted to perform the first three Preludes and Fugues from WTC I at the same tempo as Gavrilov's as creating music files from Steinway & Sons piano samples. However, there was a desire not to change "an awl for soap", but to create new speeds, even faster than those of Gavrilov for comparison. And now I propose to hear these new speeds in the form of a music file, which was created from Steinway & Sons piano samples with the help of their mathematical processing. It was painstaking manual work using "Audacity" software.
We present the first three of the WTC Volume One:
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C major: Duration 1/16 = 100 msec for both Prelude and Fugue.
Prelude & Fugue No. 2 in C minor: Duration 1/16 = 75 msec for Prelude and 1/16 = 100 msec for Fugue.
Prelude No. 3 in C sharp major Version 1: Duration 1/16 = 75 msec.
Prelude No. 3 in C sharp major Version 2: Duration 1/16 = 50 msec.
Here 1/16 is one sixteenth of a musical note in terms of sound duration.
Since Andrei Gavrilov positioned Bach's music as strictly Mathematical Music, there was a great desire to check "Is it really so?" However, it is up to us to judge and I hope that Andrei Gavrilov was not mistaken. I think that the first three preludes and two fugues are enough to form a primary opinion. However, I remained of the opinion that the limiting speeds should be limited by the physical capabilities of the listeners for the perception of music. In this regard, "Prelude No. 3 in C sharp major" in the First Version (Duration 1/16 = 75 msec) sounds more preferable than in the Second Version (Duration 1/16 = 50 msec).
So here is the link to listen:
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There is a refinement error when I am doing background calculations.
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If had not been read & noticed the importance of Williard Gibbs' (Gibbs' Free Energy which started the science of "Physical Chemistry") article by James Clerk Maxwell, therefore most probably that utmost important scientific article would have been fully forgotten forever in Yale Unv archives !?
Snobbery in the academics is alive and well it's doing harm.
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You might imagine that universities would be free of snobbery, because everyone is involved in a quest for knowledge and scholars are supposed to make judgements about ideas, not about people. Anyone who has been around people in universities will soon hear plenty of stories to the contrary.
However, this type of snobbery has consequences beyond the immediate effects on people’s emotions. When teachers make belittling comments about students, it can cause some students to quit. Some junior scholars may even reject an academic career because of the patronising attitudes of senior figures.
I am working with iPSCs and at a certain point when dividing them, they differentiate into neurons for no apparent reason since they are treated following the same division protocol. Could someone know why this is happening? They are seeded in matrigel, I use Gentle to dissociate them and raise them.
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Hello everyone. The p value of the path estime regression weight (B=0.198) from A to C, is 0.014 in my model in the figure. After boostraping, the coefficient from A to C (B=0.198) becomes p value 0.043 as a direct effect. What causes this difference in P value? Many thanks for your comments
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Dear: Jean Dezert , Albena Tchamovag, Deqiang Han, Jean-Marc Tacne
Reference is made to your paper :
The SPOTIS Rank Reversal Free Method for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Support
My comments as follows:
It is a very good news to have a method without Rank Reversal (RR)
1- In my opinion you use the phrased ‘score matrix’ to indicate what in reality is the initial matrix, composed by performance values. This induces to confusion to readers for who score matrix is a matrix with different scores or results derived from applying a MCDM method.
2- You say in page 3 “The score matrix S = [Sij ] is sometimes also called benefit or payoff matrix in the literature.”
What happens if the matrix, as is most usual, also calls for minimization, using ‘cost’ values?
3- I don’t think that an initial decision matrix (IDM) can be considered incomplete because it does not have bounds for criteria. A matrix is incomplete when there is no indications of the quantity of resources for each criterion, procedure unfortunately followed by most MCDM methods, except PROMETHEE and those working with Linear Programming.
4- I agree with what you say about validations.
5 – You say “Classical MCDM problem becomes a well-defined MCDM one, where all scores values for each criterion are between its bounds”
6- “SPOTIS method will provide the best multi-criteria decision-making solution with preference ordering of all alternatives.”
Are you sure it is the best? On what grounds do you assert that?
7- In page 3: You consider criteria independent from each other. This s is a serious drawback, since in most projects criteria are interrelated. According to this, if you have two criteria like ‘Sped’ and ‘Fuel consumption’, that are interrelated, you can’ use SPOTIS? Why not?
8- How do you determine an ideal solution a priori? Based on what? Of course, if this solution is say very high, is does not matter what alternative you add, because it will be always above the maximum.
I grant you that it is a very elegant procedure.
9- I don’t think is correct to work with difference types of distances in the same problem?
10 - Where does weights come from? Are they subjective or objective?
11 – In page 5 “Once the MCDM is well-defined thanks to the specification of the bounds values of each criteria, the SPOTIS method does not suffer from rank reversal because the evaluation of each alternative is done independently of the others”
I agree 100% with this statement, because I also believe that the only way to avoid RR is evaluate each alternative independently. There is another method that applies this same principle and does not produce RR, but is not based on distances to a fixed point.
12- In page 7 “It could be argued that the SPOTIS method is more difficult (or risky) to use because of the freedom left in the choice of min and max bounds of the criteria”:
More difficult, risky? I don’t think so. It looks as a transparent method and very easy to understand. In my opinion its only drawback is using subjective weights.
Do you have a software for SPOTIS?
I hope my comments may be useful to your paper.
Nolberto Munier
Dear researchers, I have been working on exact solution methods of partial differential equations for more than 10 years. I noticed that the researchers working in this field are always people from a certain geography, such as Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, etc. Why a German, English, or Japanese researchers do not study these topics? Do you think that our work really contributes to science and humanity? I am looking forward to your valuable comments.
Is it logical for a reviewer to send different comments after R1? We recieved comments and after submitting the revised MS, all the changes were satisfactory to reviewers as they did not raise any query regarding previous comments. But, in R2 totally different comments were made on the manuscript.
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Field: VLSI/Microelectronics/Solid State Electronics
I am from the VLSI field, and many times, a comment comes regarding the fabrication process flow of surrounding gate MOSFET structures. I wonder how to draw the 3D MOSFET (concentric cylinders) or the fabrication process flowchart with block diagrams. Which software do you use to draw similar things? I am attaching a picture for reference.
Any response is appreciated.
Thanks and regards
May anyone please share material on use of implementation strategy in public health?
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Kindly please share viewpoints and journal articles on these topic
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I create a system of thought that yields Universal Causality in all sciences and also in AI and BI.
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Your question is being addressed in my latest research (the last and forthcoming papers) and is studied mathematically using GoL-N24 Python open-source software. There are plenty of animations available that are describing such behavior.
Basically, emergent information processing is a means of computation in all biological system. To demonstrate the emergence in-the-action, which is the best way to communicate them, two animations follow. The first one shows error-resilient resilient emergents that are self-assembling, and the other one shows a spontaneously generated emergent that is breeding emergents of the second-order: an exciting case of more general emergence.
Life is employing similar approaches in carrying out computations and information processing.
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Je cherche une technique fiable pour calculer la fréquence cardiaque sur le tracé d’électrocardiogramme ?
I sent a comment about a scientific publication to the editor. My comment was sent to 2 reviewers which both agreed with me. The editor rejected my comment and invited the original article‘s authors to produce an “errata corrige“. I think this cannot be done without considering my comment.
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Comment corriger une référence ? / How do I correct a reference ???
As identification of object or segment the object from video is one the complex problem in computer vision. Now a day's deep learning based methods providing a good result in these type of task. As video is very diverse in nature is fundamental approach (without any type of learning) compete with the DL based recent model and provide better segmentation accuracy
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Reports are coming up that Conocarpus tree is harmful. It has both beneficial as well as harmful effects. Plant it cautiously.
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We gathered some interesting results related to nudging and monetary discounting of financial rewards in a virtual web simulation , needing an expert to write theory section and help with interpreting the outcomes. Please comment here or send PM, thanks
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Bonjour, je voudrais avoir vos avis : j’ai quantifié l’ADN extrait par le Nanodrop 2000 à l’Absorbance 260/280 le ratio est de 1,95 mais pour le ratio 260/230 est égal à 0,23. certains auteurs disent que le ratio a cette valeur quand il est contaminé par les solutions organiques. Que dites vous?
I am understanding what it means a scoping review. But unfortunately, I brook my head in guessing what does a SCOPING LITERATURE REVIEW mean? Am I wrong if I say that the word literature is not quite correct here,and it can be dropped out there? Thank you very much for any comments or possible replies. Sincerely yours, E. A. Ovchenkova
Let's say I've a host-guest complex. I've two sets of Uv-Vis data, one where the host concentration is constant and the guest is varied and in the other the guest's concentration is constant and the host's concentration is varied. Is it possible to comment about the interaction between the two species from the perspective of d-d transitions?
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While people focused on mdpi but surprisingly the de-indexing is from other reputable publishers.
Clarivate announced the exclusion of 82 journals from the Web of Science core collection. This also means that these de-listed journals lost their Impact Factor.
The announcement was made in the midst of a series of complaints that have been made against major scientific publishers suspected of not carrying out the due process of peer review, publishing articles without scientific rigor in exchange for high publication fees, mostly paid with public money.
The released note says:
"At the start of the year, more than 500 journals were flagged. Our investigations are ongoing and thus far, more than 50 of the flagged journals have failed our quality criteria and have subsequently been de-listed.
The geographical spread of the de-listed journals is wide, affecting both major commercial publishing houses and smaller or society publishers. All editorial decisions have been communicated to the publishers, who are responsible for communicating outcomes to their editorial boards, authors and readers.
Once we determine that a journal no longer meets our quality criteria, we have a responsibility to act. We will continue to identify journals of concern and de-list any journals which fail to meet our quality criteria."
Among the publishers most affected by the measure, we have:
- Hindawi LTD (15 journals de-listed);
- Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD (4 journals de-listed);
- Wiley-Hindawi (4 journals de-listed);
- AME Publishing Company (2 journals de-listed);
- BMJ Publishing Group (2 journals de-listed);
- MDPI (2 journals de-listed);
- Sage Publications LTD (2 journals de-listed);
- Springer (2 journals de-listed);
- Springer Heidelberg (2 journals de-listed);
- Wiley (2 journals de-listed).
It is important to analyze the number of de-listed journals and the total number of journals that each publisher has in the core collection. Wiley-Hindawi (15,4% of journals de-listed), AME Publishing Company (11,1% of journals de-listed) and Hindawi LTD (9,2% of journals de-listed) were the hardest hit. The Wiley and Hindawi partnership has been the target of criticism by researchers around the world, mainly due to the dubious reputation of the publisher Hindawi
In the coming months, further removals may occur, as stated in the note released by Clarivate.
The full list of all de-listed journals (March, 2023):
Advances and Applications in Mathematical Sciences (Mili Publ)
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (Hindawi LTD)
Allergy & Rhinology (Sage Publications Inc)
Ambient Science (Natl Cave Research & Protection Organization, India)
Annals of Palliative Medicine (AME Publishing Company)
Annals of Translational Medicine (AME Publishing Company)
Applied Nanoscience (Springer Heidelberg)
Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications (Egyptian Soc Nuclear Sciences & Applications)
Australian Economic History Review (Wiley)
Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry (AMG Transcend Assoc)
Biomed Research International (Hindawi LTD)
BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning (BMJ Publishing Group)
Cardiometry (Russian New Univ)
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Hindawi LTD)
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi LTD)
Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications (Sage Publications LTD)
Contemporary Chinese Thought (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD)
Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging (Wiley-Hindawi)
Current Colorectal Cancer Reports (Springer)
Disease Markers (Hindawi LTD)
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD)
Education Research International (Hindawi LTD)
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Hindawi LTD)
Evidence-Based Mental Health (BMJ Publishing Group)
Film Comment (Film Soc Lincoln Center)
Food Science and Technology (Soc Brasileira Ciencia Tecnologia Alimentos)
Fresenius Environmental Bulletin (Parlar Scientific Publications (P S P))
Hirundo-Mcgill Journal of Classical Studies (McGill Univ, Dept History)
Informatica-An International Journal of Computing and Informatics (Slovensko Drustvo Informatika)
International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (Int Journal Computer Science & Network Security-IJCSNS)
International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education (Anadolu Univ)
International Journal of Ecosystems and Ecology Science-IJEES (Health & Environment Assoc)
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (Int Assoc Online Engineering)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications (Semnan Univ)
Journal Japanese Society of Computational Statistics (Univ Tsukuba)
Journal of Asian Finance Economics and Business (Korea Distribution Science Assoc)
Journal of Coastal Research (Coastal Education & Research Foundation)
Journal of Educational Enquiry (Univ South Australia, Centre Research Education Equity & Work)
Journal of Environmental and Public Health (Hindawi LTD)
Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology (Scibulcom LTD)
Journal of Healthcare Engineering (Hindawi LTD)
Journal of Historical Sociology (Wiley)
Journal of Nanomaterials (Hindawi LTD)
Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (Elsevier Sci LTD)
Journal of Oncology (Hindawi LTD)
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (Elsevier)
Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results (Researchtrentz Acad Publ Education Services)
Journal of Renewable Materials (Tech Science Press)
Journal of Research for Consumers (Journal Research Consumers)
Journal of Research in Medical and Dental Science (Amber Publication)
Journal of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI)
Journal of The American Society of Agronomy (Amer Soc Agronomy)
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics (Springer Heidelberg)
Justice System Journal (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD)
Korean Journal of Parasitology (Korean Soc Parasitology, Seoul Natl Univ Coll Medi)
Library Collections Acquisitions & Technical Services (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD)
Materialy Po Arkheologii Istorii I Etnografii Tavrii-Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria (V I Vernadsky Crimean Fed Univ)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Hindawi LTD)
Mobile Information Systems (Hindawi LTD)
Nanoscale Research Letters (Springer)
Netherlands Journal of Medicine (Van Zuiden Communications)
Ochrona Srodowiska (Polish Sanitary Engineers Assoc)
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (Hindawi LTD)
Pakistan Journal of Medical & Health Sciences (Lahore Medical & Dental Coll)
Physical Sciences Reviews (Walter de Gruyter Gmbh)
Postmodern Openings (Lumen Publishing House)
Progress in Nutrition (Mattioli 1885)
Propositos Y Representaciones (Univ San Ignacio Loyola)
Psychiatria Danubina (Medicinska Naklada)
Rehabilitation Process and Outcome (Sage Publications LTD)
Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte (Soc Brasileira Med Esporte)
Revista Electronica de Investigacion Docencia Y Creatividad-Docrea (Asoc Docencia & Creatividad)
Revista Entrelinguas (Unesp-Faculdade Ciencias & Letras)
Scanning (Wiley-Hindawi)
Scientific Programming (Hindawi LTD)
Security and Communication Networks (Wiley-Hindawi)
Technology (World Scientific Publ Co Pte LTD)
Tumorboard (Krause & Pachernegg Gmbh)
Waves in Random and Complex Media (Taylor & Francis LTD)
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (Wiley-Hindawi)
World Family Medicine (Medi+World Int)
Dear Colleagues!
I run a program to support the publication activity of scientists at my university. I would be grateful if you send some comments on how your universities support the development of the publication activity of scientists.
Sincerely, Sergey Konovalov
After the CFA, my three factors had 3, 3, and 8 items, respectively. It resulted to a good model fit with an acceptable Goodness of Fit Index. One of the comments I received from the panel members during my defense was I needed to justify the imbalanced numbers of items per factor. What do I say? Any reference, please? Thank you very much.