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domenica 10 gennaio 2016

# s-gst-music: basic structural patterns

<< Lévy motion model captures basic structural patterns in classical as well as in folk music >>

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-01-musical-melodies-laws-foraging-animals.html

Gunnar A. Niklasson and Maria H. Niklasson. Non-Gaussian distributions of melodic intervals in music: The Lévy-stable approximation. EPLA, 2015, EPL (Europhysics Letters), Volume 112, Number 4. dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/40003

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/112/40003

# s-acad: about reproducibility

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/685469795085598721

Matt Landry & Aldrin V. Gomes. Antibodies: Half of samples fail protein-blot tests. Nature 529, 25 (07 January 2016) doi:10.1038/529025c

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7584/full/529025c.html

# s-brain: whether for good or nefarious ...

<< A team of researchers working at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and led by Yamazaki Toshimasa, has according to Japanese newspaper Nishinippon, found a way to read certain brain waves and to match them to a database, allowing for recognition of the words before a person speaks them >>

<< Over the past half-century, scientists have tried many approaches to read the mind, whether for good or nefarious purposes—thus far, none has led to success, though some have claimed some progress has been made >>

http://m.techxplore.com/news/2016-01-decipher-words-mind-spoken.html

http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/article/216215

# s-acad: must combat ...

<< Researchers, and humorists, must combat obscurantism everywhere >>

Nature. Editorial. Science and satire. 2015, January 13, Volume 517, Issue 7534

http://www.nature.com/news/science-and-satire-1.16703

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/685451016670703616

sabato 9 gennaio 2016

# p-trade: waiting for new colored beads ...

<< It was much easier to launch back in the 1990s, when there were more market inefficiencies,” says Troy Gayeski of SkyBridge Capital, a fund of hedge funds. “Now there isn’t nearly as much low-hanging fruit in the majority of strategies as there was then.” >>

Miles Johnson. Goldman stars fall back down to earth. June 9, 2014

https://next.ft.com/content/08374420-ed8e-11e3-8a1e-00144feabdc0

# p-trade: Moto(rola)

<< Motorola gave wireless its start. But its name will soon disappear from products as a new brand label comes to life called "Moto by Lenovo.">>

Roger Cheng. Goodbye, Moto(rola). Iconic brand name to be phased out. January 7, 201612:47 PM PST

http://www.cnet.com/news/goodbye-moto-rola-iconic-brand-name-to-be-phased-out/

# rmx-s-gene-behav: flexibility through methylation

<< Stanford researchers have demonstrated how flexible gene expression can enable male cichlid fish to achieve higher social status >>

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/january/fish-fernald-genes-010516.html

Kapa Lenkov, Mi H. Lee, et al. Epigenetic DNA Methylation Linked to Social Dominance

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144750