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Benno Hansen

World Poultry - News: Chicken sounds indicate stress - 0 views

  • vocalisation patterns have been found to be different for stress due to handling and stress due to overcrowding. The analysis was carried out by digitally recording laying chickens' vocalisations under different types of stressful conditions, and then, after removing background noise, analysing the recordings using a modified version of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) with voice recognition algorithms.
  • HMM has achieved an overall condition classification accuracy of 74%.
Benno Hansen

Most important person on English-language wikipedia? Frank Sinatra | Technology | thegu... - 0 views

  • "Our analysis shows that most important historical figures across Wikipedia language editions are born in western countries after the 17th century, and are male,"
  • PageRank says that a page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.
  • The most important person in the world comes out as Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist
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  • Since Linnaeus' life work was coming up with a system to classify organisms, and applying that system as widely as possible, he is linked to from a lot of pages, and important ones at that.
Benno Hansen

Heat, Drought Linked to Violence Worldwide - weather.com - 1 views

  • Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.
  • A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.
  • studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures
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  • In agricultural areas, where climate affects the economy, violence may increase because of weather-caused poor economic conditions.
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