Principal component analysis for authorship attribution

Background: To recognize the authors of the texts by the use of statistical tools, one first needs to decide about the features to be used as author characteristics, and then extract these features from texts.The features extracted from texts are mostly the counts of so called function words.Objectives: The data extracted are processed further to c

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Life histories and seasonal dynamics of common boreal pelagic copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) inhabiting an oligotrophic Fennoscandian lake

The annual seasonal abundance and spatial distribution of four widespread pelagic copepods, the Palaeartic calanoid Eudiaptomus gracilis, the cyclopoids Mesocyclops leuckarti and Thermocyclops oithonoides, and the Holartic Cyclops scutifer were investigated in Lake Gjerstadvann, an oligotrophic boreal lake.Important ecological traits such as life c

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Relevance and the translation of poetry

The analysis of poetry brings up questions that are normally not asked when analysing prose, at least not in the case of descriptive prose.This study was originated in the analysis of translated poetry and touches on controversial issues where many dogmas still stand unchallenged.Poetry and poetic prose are areas where the discourse is supposed to

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