Software Piracy Forensics: A Proposal for Incorporating Dead Codes and Other Programming Blunders as Important Evidence in AFC Test

Abstract Using a meta-analytic approach, we evaluate the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and children's experiences measured with the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system. Our final analysis included 22 independent samples, representing data from 1583 children. A model controlling for LENATM measures, age and publication type revealed an effect size of r z = .186, indicating a small effect of SES on children's language experiences. The type of LENA metric measured emerged as a significant moderator, indicating stronger effects for adult word counts than child vocalization counts. These results provide important evidence for the strength of association between SES and children's everyday language experiences as measured with an unobtrusive recording analyzed automatically in a standardized fashion.

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Software Piracy: Factors and Profiling

2019 2nd International Conference on Applied Information Technology and Innovation (ICAITI) ◽

10.1109/icaiti48442.2019.8982130 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Afsana Hossain ◽

Amit Kumar Das ◽

Nishat Tasnim Mim ◽

Jahidul Hoque ◽

Rashedul Amin Tuhin

Keyword(s):

Software Piracy

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The Royal Society Specimens from the Chelsea Physic Garden, 1722-1799

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1993.0028 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 213-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Royal Society ◽

Natural History Museum ◽

History Museum ◽

Important Link ◽

Starting Point ◽

Herbarium Collections ◽

Important Evidence

The deed of conveyance of 1722, by which Sir Hans Sloane gave the Society of Apothecaries control of their ‘Physick Garden at Chelsey’ in perpetuity, forged an important link between the Apothecaries and the Royal Society, one that has lasted to the present day. For the next 75 years the Apothecaries paid an annual tribute of dried plant specimens to the Royal Society as proof that they were continuing to use the garden for its proper purpose. These specimens, which have survived the centuries with remarkably little damage, now provide important evidence of what was being grown in the garden at the time and may also be nomenclaturally important as representing plants given botanical names by Philip Miller in 1768. A careful search in the herbarium collections of the Department of Botany in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, where the Royal Society specimens are now held, has resulted in the location of all but a small number of the 3750 specimens that were sent. Tracing them has not been easy for a number of reasons, not least because they are now dispersed among the several million specimens in the Museum’s collections. The names of the plants used by the Apothecaries in the lists that were the starting point for the search were those current at the time, hence of pre-Linnaean character, and had first to be linked to present-day names before the work could begin. Some lists of names were found to be inaccurate and some were entirely misleading.

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SPEECH INTONATION PERCEPTION DEFICITS IN MUSICAL TONE DEAFNESS (CONGENITAL AMUSIA)

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.1525/mp.2008.25.4.357 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 357-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 70

Author(s):

ANIRUDDH D. PATEL ◽

MEREDITH WONG ◽

JESSICA FOXTON ◽

ALIETTE LOCHY ◽

ISABELLE PERETZ

Keyword(s):

Rate Of Change ◽

Neural Mechanisms ◽

French Canadian ◽

Congenital Amusia ◽

Music And Language ◽

Pitch Direction ◽

Melody Perception ◽

Language And Music ◽

Musical Tone ◽

Important Evidence

TO WHAT EXTENT DO MUSIC and language share neural mechanisms for processing pitch patterns? Musical tone-deafness (amusia) provides important evidence on this question. Amusics have problems with musical melody perception, yet early work suggested that they had no problems with the perception of speech intonation (Ayotte, Peretz, & Hyde, 2002). However, here we show that about 30% of amusics from independent studies (British and French-Canadian) have difficulty discriminating a statement from a question on the basis of a final pitch fall or rise. This suggests that pitch direction perception deficits in amusia (known from previous psychophysical work) can extend to speech. For British amusics, the direction deficit is related to the rate of change of the final pitch glide in statements/ questions, with increased discrimination difficulty when rates are relatively slow. These findings suggest that amusia provides a useful window on the neural relations between melodic processing in language and music.

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