Essays about: "Deep Listening"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words Deep Listening.

  1. 6. How do we get everybody at the table? Enhancing diversity in multi-stakeholder processes for landscape restoration.

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling

    Author : Ilse Hoekstra; Valentina Abalzati; Amanda Lanham; Paula Carramashi-Gabriel; [2022]
    Keywords : Diversity; Resilience; Landscape Restoration; Historically Absent Groups; Multi-Stakeholder Process;

    Abstract : Global ecosystem degradation challenging ecological and social thresholds demands urgent responses that address systemically the complex interrelationships between humans and nature. To improve the adaptive capacity of the social systems and strengthen its resilience to respond to external challenges affecting landscapes, multi-stakeholder approaches for landscape restoration involving diverse actors expressing different perspectives are important. READ MORE

  2. 7. Listening in on Productivity : Applying the Four Key Metrics to measure productivity in a software development company

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för datalogi

    Author : Johanna Dagfalk; Ellen Kyhle; [2021]
    Keywords : productivity; productivity metrics; software delivery performance; software development; influencing factors; factor analysis; four key metrics; performance classification; bottlenecks; delivery lead time; deployment frequency; mean time to restore; change fail rate;

    Abstract : Software development is an area in which companies not only need to keep up with the latest technology, but they additionally need to continuously increase their productivity to stay competitive in the industry. One company currently facing these challenges is Storytel - one of the strongest players on the Swedish audiobook market - with about a fourth of all employees involved with software development, and a rapidly growing workforce. READ MORE

  3. 8. Sounds Within Sounds : Multiphonic possibilities of the saxophone in composition and improvisation

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för jazz

    Author : David Bennet; [2021]
    Keywords : Multiphonics Improvisation Composition Saxophone;

    Abstract : This thesis is part of the result from an explorative venture into understanding how saxophone multiphonics can be used as tools for improvisation and composition. The focus lies partly on how I found these sounds, personalized them and incorporated them into my artistic language, but more importantly, this is an attempt of thinking through art by letting the experience gained from making creative use of accidental occurrences affect future experience in an open-ended artistic process. READ MORE

  4. 9. Deep Neural Networks for Context Aware Personalized Music Recommendation : A Vector of Curation

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)

    Author : Oktay Bahceci; [2017]
    Keywords : Information Filtering; Information Retrieval; Search Engine; Search Engines; Recommendation; Music Recommendation; Personalized Recommendation; Personalised Recommendation; Context Aware Recommendation; Recommender Systems; Statistical Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Neural Networks; Artificial Neural Networks; Feed Forward Neural Networks; Convolutional Neural Networks; Recurrent Neural Networks; Deep Neural Networks; Embedding;

    Abstract : Information Filtering and Recommender Systems have been used and has been implemented in various ways from various entities since the dawn of the Internet, and state-of-the-art approaches rely on Machine Learning and Deep Learning in order to create accurate and personalized recommendations for users in a given context. These models require big amounts of data with a variety of features such as time, location and user data in order to find correlations and patterns that other classical models such as matrix factorization and collaborative filtering cannot. READ MORE

  5. 10. Does Listening to English Songs Motivate Students to Expand Their Extramural English? : A Case Study of Swedish Upper-Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Possible Impact of Listening to Vocal Music on Their Extramural English

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV)

    Author : Liilia Batluk; [2015]
    Keywords : second language learning acquisition; listening to music; lyrics and language; extramural English; motivation; improving motivation;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate whether listening to music as an out-of-school activity, and English songs in particular, motivated a group of Swedish upper-secondary students to learn extramural English. One aspect that comes into focus is whether the students perceived that there were particular aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) that improved as a result of listening to music. READ MORE