From these spectrographic measurements, phrase duration, syllable duration and syllable bandwidth were calculated (calculations described in Figure 1c).
Every behavior is "styled" for the ever-present camera, every phrase calculated for soundbite-ability.
As he said to Truman Capote, in a phrase calculated to strike panic into all those who believe that a new Nikon, like a new set of golf clubs, will magically improve their game, "I hate cameras".
Goldman Sachs, too, forked over $550m to settle related charges, neither admitting nor denying any wrongdoing in the matter, a phrase calculated to drive Warren and all of Wall Street's other critics around the bend.
He would prefer the phrase calculated risk-taker, but he admits that "to start a career in an industry where I had no clue what I was doing, that's probably on the risk-taking side.
We transformed the text into a database containing questions, answers and metadata about the answers, then extracted four- and five-word phrases and calculated a PMI (pointwise mutual information) score for each.
For each male, we analysed ten song phrases and calculated mean values for each parameter.
Preference scores for the two possible interpretations of the ambiguous phrases were calculated as the proportion of the continuations consistent with that interpretation given by the pre-test participants; for the ambiguous items, the dominant interpretation was the one that received the highest preference score.
All three-phrase combinations were calculated for songs with at least three phrases.
Then, the temporal patterns of the words and phrases evaluation indices, calculated using the usage frequencies of feature words and phrases contained in the followers' past tweets, are obtained.
