Unison

Abstract: In the field of lithium-based batteries, there is often a substantial divide between academic research and industrial market needs. This is in part driven by a lack of peer-reviewed publications from industry. Here we present a non-academic view on applied research in lithium-based batteries to sharpen the focus and help bridge the gap between academic and industrial research. We focus our discussion on key metrics and challenges to be considered when developing new technologies in this industry. We also explore the need to consider various performance aspects in unison when developing a new material/technology. Moreover, we also investigate the suitability of supply chains, sustainability of materials and the impact on system-level cost as factors that need to be accounted for when working on new technologies. With these considerations in mind, we then assess the latest developments in the lithium-based battery industry, providing our views on the challenges and prospects of various technologies.

Abstract: Despite recent successes of deep learning in many fields of natural language processing, previous studies of emotion recognition on Twitter mainly focused on the use of lexicons and simple classifiers on bag-of-words models. The central question of our study is whether we can improve their performance using deep learning. To this end, we exploit hashtags to create three large emotion-labeled data sets corresponding to different classifications of emotions. We then compare the performance of several word- and character-based recurrent and convolutional neural networks with the performance on bag-of-words and latent semantic indexing models. We also investigate the transferability of the final hidden state representations between different classifications of emotions, and whether it is possible to build a unison model for predicting all of them using a shared representation. We show that recurrent neural networks, especially character-based ones, can improve over bag-of-words and latent semantic indexing models. Although the transfer capabilities of these models are poor, the newly proposed training heuristic produces a unison model with performance comparable to that of the three single models.

Abstract: Facing a world of ubiquitous networks and universal devices, a world in which users can access networks at any time from any place using a range of devices to invoke unique and personalized services, it is time for IS researchers to take a new look at past, current, and future information needs. This article elaborates and extends several concepts that lay the foundation for thinking about next-generation information requirements. Specifically, four information drivers are identified that form the underlying cornerstones of our ideas. These drivers, which we call the uconstructs, euphonically comprise ubiquity, uniqueness, universality, and unison.

Abstract: 1. THINKING ABOUT MUSIC People -Music Makers -Listeners Music -In Terms of Sound -Calling Something "Music" -Aesthetic Values in Music Meaning -Music and Textual Meaning -Music as Text Use Transmission of Musical Knowledge -Oral and Aural Transmission -Visual Transmission in the form of notation 2. THINKING ABOUT INSTRUMENTS Instruments as Objects -Ideas about Instrument Types -Ideas about Particular Instruments --Associations of Sexuality and Gender --Spiritual Associations --Cultural Status --Aesthetic Value --Item of Technology --Item of Commodity --Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound Instruments in Musical Practice -Instrumental Capacity -Ideas about Ensemble --Heterogeneous and Homogeneous -- Sound Ideals --Musical Roles --Aesthetics of Ensembles 3. THINKING ABOUT TIME Rhythm -Free Rhythm -Rhythm for the Text Alone --From free rhythm to relatively more organized time -Pulse/Beat Organizing Time into Units --At the lever of a Single Beat --Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation --Duple and Triple Meters --Some Other Meters --South Indian T?la --Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation --Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter --North Indian T?la --Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes --Rhythmic Groupings --Korean Changdan --Polyrhythm Speed 4. THINKING ABOUT PITCH Pitch -Pitch Names --Syllables --Numbers --Letters Setting the Pitch -Who Sets the Pitch -Pitch Placement Pitches in Succession -Intervals --Naming Intervals --Microtones -Scale --The Chromatic Scale --Diatonic Scales --The "Oriental" Scale -Number of Pitches in an Octave -Pitch Functions -Melodic Mode Simultaneous Pitches -Naming "Vertical" Intervals -Dissonance and Consonance -Western Functional Harmony -Tone Clusters Interplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts -Performing One Melody --Solo and in Unison --Interlocking Parts --Rounds --Heterophony -Performing One Melody with Another Part --Melody and Drone --Melody and Chords -Performing Multiple Melodies --Polyphony --Melody and Ostinato 5. THINKING ABOUT STRUCTURING Improvising and Composing -Persons Who Compose Putting Something Significant First -Sonata Form -North Indian Instrumental Form Coming to an End Telling the Story -Music for the Moment -Through-composed Music -Contrasting Instrumentation -Strophic Form Responding to the Context -Audience-Performer Interaction -Intra-ensemble Interaction -Music and Movement Social Values 6. THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT ISSUES Encounters and Identities -A Focus on Influences -A Focus on Boundaries --The National Community --Regional Identity --Gender --Multiple Identities Authenticity Transcending Boundaries -The Mass Media -Globalization -The Local 7. THINKING ABOUT FIELDWORK Picking a Project Planning the Project Doing the Project Finishing the Project