Search for dissertations about: "sound nature"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 82 swedish dissertations containing the words sound nature.
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11. Found speech and humans in the loop : Ways to gain insight into large quantities of speech
Abstract : Found data - data used for something other than the purpose for which it was originally collected - holds great value in many regards. It typically reflects high ecological validity, a strong cultural worth, and there are significant quantities at hand. However, it is noisy, hard to search through, and its contents are often largely unknown. READ MORE
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12. Sounding Expanded Affinities : A Polytemporal Approach to Reconceptualizing Egalitarian Social Relations
Abstract : My doctoral submission, Sounding Expanded Affinities, examines how strides toward gender equality might be made, but it postulates that this is too difficult while marriage remains at the core of our patriarchal value system. This patriarchal system is one which oppresses women by manipulating subjects into its preferred roles often in subtle, chronic ways, using repetition and pairing as its tools. READ MORE
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13. Blind Adaptive Extraction of Impulsive Signatures from Sound and Vibration Signals
Abstract : The two questions in science ``why" and ``how" are hereby answered in the context of statistical signal processing applied to vibration analysis and ultrasonic testing for fault detection and characterization in critical materials such as rolling bearings and thin layered media. Both materials are of interest in industrial processes. READ MORE
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14. Binaural technology and issues related to sound quality analysis and spatial hearing
Abstract : Binaural technology makes it possible to record, store and reproduce sound field in a perceptually authentic way, i.e. recorded sounds are correctly reproduced so that it is as if the listener was present in the recorded environment. This method involves recording and correctly reproducing sound pressures at each of the eardrums of the listener. READ MORE
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15. On Free Will as Categorical and Conditional Freedom
Abstract : This dissertation is about a complex of problems, related to the question: ‘Can we ever act differently from how we in fact act?’In Part I, the meaning of ‘can’ and ‘could’ is discussed. It is argued that when we say that an agent could do something he didn’t do (in a sense of ‘could’ involving control), this means, in what is called ‘Decision-Contexts’, that he was conditionally free to do it, and, in what is called ‘Strong-Autonomy-Contexts’, that he was categorically free to do it. READ MORE
