Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches by Masayo Soma, Misaki Nakatani, Nao Ota

“…Estrildid finches (family Estrildidae) are characterized by mutual courtship, during which either a male or female will hold nesting material (usually grass stems or straw) in the beak while singing and dancing toward the opposite sex. We predicted that this display of potential nesting material advertises the ability of an individual to collect and transport such materials. …”
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Sociétés chorales et Renaissance de la musique anglaise, 1840-1910 by Gilles Couderc

“…Paradoxically, the Renaissance of English music in the late 19th century benefited from the craze for choral singing but also somehow triggered its demise when native composers, who had assimilated the lessons of their foreign competitors and raised their standards of composition, required more from their amateur choristers, gradually forced to give up in favour of professionals, increasing the gap between popular and high brow culture.…”
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Social context affects sequence modification learning in birdsong by Lioba Fortkord, Lena Veit

“…This effect could not be explained by the order of social contexts, nor by different singing rates across contexts. Our results demonstrate that social context can influence degree of learning in adult birds even in experimenter-controlled reinforcement learning tasks, and therefore suggest that social interactions might facilitate song plasticity beyond their known role for imitation and social feedback.…”
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Les lois linguistiques de la brièveté : conformité chez le lémurien chanteur Indri indri by Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Livio Favaro, Olivier Friard, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Teresa Raimondi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Valeria Torti, Anna Zanoli, Cristina Giacoma, Marco Gamba

“…We investigated the vocal behavior of the only singing lemur (Indri indri) to test whether the song of this species shows indication for compression. …”
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Zum aktuellen Stand der professionellen Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lucker

“…The article also identifies the place of academic and non-academic specialties (folk instruments, ethnomusicology, folklore singing) in Russian professional education, the distribution of educational material and its role in ’academic’ Western European and ’non academic’ folk and pop music. …”
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Paving the Way for Speech: Voice-Training-Induced Plasticity in Chronic Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech—Three Single Cases by Monika Jungblut, Walter Huber, Christiane Mais, Ralph Schnitker

“…In this context, a training that focuses on rhythmic singing with differently demanding complexity levels as concerns motor and cognitive capabilities seems to support paving the way for speech.…”
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Document-Level Neural TTS Using Curriculum Learning and Attention Masking by Sung-Woong Hwang, Joon-Hyuk Chang

“…This model can be used for tasks that need to synthesize document-level speech at a time, such as a singing voice synthesis (SVS) system or a book reading system. …”
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THE MONASTERY OF “NEW NEAMŢ” – THE SACRED RIVER THAT FLEW IN THE OCEAN OF ROMANIAN HISTORY by Stela GUŢANU

“…Moreover, they have led to a better understanding of the religious musical life from the old Moldavian monastery, of the beginnings of choral singing. The importance of this fund of manuscripts lies in not only its musical and historic worth, but it also testifies the unity in musical culture of Romanians everywhere. …”
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Movements Toward Living Relationally Ethical Assessment Making: Bringing Indigenous Ways of Being, Knowing, and Doing Alongside Narrative Inquiry as Pedagogy by Trudy CARDINAL, M. Shaun MURPHY, Janice HUBER

“…En 2015, tras el repentino fallecimiento de Mary Isabelle Young, Singing Turtle Woman, Anishinabe kwe Elder, erudita, amiga y coinvestigadora, a menudo contamos y volvemos a narrar historias de cómo sus enseñanzas siguen guiándonos. …”
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“Liikumisega” vene laulude kultuurilisi tähendusi Udmurdimaa Debjossõ rajooni Varni külas by Svetlana Tolkachova

“…For the performance of these songs, singers demonstrate a more personal approach to the reproduced sonic fabric, expressing their individuality and uniqueness at the sound level. The singing of some slow Russian round dance songs by the Northern Udmurts turns out to be consonant with the performances of krezes in terms of musical-rhythmic parameters. …”
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Le Peire Rogier de Peire d’Alvernhe revisité par l’auteur de Flamenca : Guillem de Nevers, le troubadour au psautier by Katy Bernard

“…In this song, part of Peire d’Alvernhe’s advice to Peire Rogier – namely, that instead of singing about love in front of everyone, he should hold a psalter in church ̶ further tightens the ties between the troubadour and the character in the novel. …”
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“We are Performance Philosophy Problems” by Janet Gibson, Kate Maguire-Rosier, Tony McCaffrey

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PENANAMAN NILAI-NILAI MODERASI BERAGAMA PADA KARAKTER PESERTA DIDIK DI SDN 4 SILIRAGUNG BANYUWANGI by Ali Makrus, Hepni Hepni, Mustajab Mustajab, Lailatul Usriyah

“…The results of this study are as follows: First, an emphasis on nationalistic values through flag-raising ceremonies and singing national anthems is a crucial element in shaping students' characters. …”
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Einen Anfang finden. György Ligetis Skizzen und Entwürfe zu den Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin für 16-stimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella by Vera Funk

“…Verbal comments – e.g. for choric breathing – reveal how Ligeti employs the choir singing experiences of his early years in Hungary as recommendations for an adequate compositional design.…”
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Analisis Strategi Pemasaran Politik Kampanye Kukuh Haryanto Sebagai Calon Legislatif DPRD Kabupaten Wonogiri Dalam Kontestasi Pemilihan Umum Tahun 2024 by Shildamullah Danendra Mukti Ardana, Titin Purwaningsih

“…In the 2024 election, he ran as a legislative candidate using a campaign strategy centered on singing his own songs, which successfully captured public attention. …”
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Models of community hospitals and state of research in high-income countries: a scoping review by Min Hui Tan, Sharna Si Ying Seah, Xin Yi Seah, Simone Teo, Jeremy Leow, Lian Leng Low, Lian Leng Low, Lian Leng Low

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Extracellular viral microRNAs as biomarkers of virus infection in human cells by Cheryl Chan, Joanne Xin Yi Loh, Wei-Xiang Sin, Denise Bei Lin Teo, Nicholas Kwan Zen Tan, Chandramouli Nagarajan, Yunxin Chen, Francesca Lorraine Wei Inng Lim, Michael E. Birnbaum, Rohan B.H. Williams, Stacy L. Springs

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Лексико-грамматическая омография существительных в русском языке by Jerzy Kaliszan

“…The article is an attempt to describe one of the types of Russian homography, i.e. lexical-grammatical homography, which involves words having a different lexical and grammatical meaning, for example, бéлку (acc. sing. of бéлка ‘squirrel’) – белкý (dat. sing. of белóк ‘protein’), бóров (nom. sing. of бóров ‘boar’) – борóв (gen. pl. of бор ‘pine forest’). …”
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Correction: Evaluating a multicomponent intervention for managing kidney outcomes among patients with moderate or advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): protocol for the Strategies... by Tazeen Hasan Jafar, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Mihir Gandhi, Sungwon Yoon, Eric Finkelstein, Peter Moey Kirm Seng, Ruiheng Ong, Anandan Gerard Thiagarajah, Bing Long Lee, Ka Chi To, Aminath Shiwaza Moosa

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National Thalassemia Registry: a 30 year journey of implementing carrier screening in Singapore by Stella Zhang, Guek Peng Tan, Soh Lan Peh, Swee Lim Ang, Sylvia Kam, Weng Khong Lim, Teck Wah Ting, Angeline Lai, Ee Shien Tan, Saumya Shekhar Jamuar, Hai Yang Law, Ivy Ng

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