Previous research conducted on the cross-cultural perception of music and its emotional content has established that emotions can be communicated across cultures at least a rudimentary level. Here, we report study with participants originating from two tribes in northwest Pakistan (Khow Kalash) United Kingdom, both groups being naïve to other respective culture. We explored how assessed connotations various Western non-Western harmonisation styles, whether cultural familiarity harmonic idiom...

Dissonant stimuli or with high auditory roughness are often related to jagged shapes, while consonant those low associated curvy and smooth shapes. This empirical study explores auditory-tactile associations for in diverse musical excerpts. We investigate whether harmonic dissonance is perceptually tactile sandpapers varying grit values, emotional dimensions mediate this cross-modal relationship. Participants were asked listen excerpts from several styles, accounting possible effects of...

Abstract The majority of research in the field music perception has been conducted with Western participants, and it remained unclear which aspects are culture dependent, universal. current study compared how participants unfamiliar (people from Khowar Kalash tribes native to Northwest Pakistan minimal exposure music) perceive affect (positive versus negative) musical chords United Kingdom (UK) listeners, as well overall preference for these chords. stimuli consisted four distinct chord...

In cross-cultural research involving performers from distinct cultural backgrounds (U.K., Japan, Papua New Guinea), we examined 75 musicians’ associations between musical sound and shape, saw pronounced differences groups. Participants heard short stimuli varying in pitch contour were asked to represent these visually on paper, with the instruction that if another community member marks they should be able connect them sounds. U.K. group produced consistent symbolic representations, which...

Visual associations with auditory stimuli have been the subject of numerous studies. Colour, shape, size, and several other parameters linked to musical elements like timbre pitch. In this article, we aim examine relationship between harmonisations varying degrees dissonance visual roughness. Based on past research in which high sensory was associated angular shapes, argued that nontonal highly dissonant will be rough images, while more consonant images low A fixed melody harmonised 7...

Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is used for risk stratification of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the prognostic value DSE among entire strata renal function has yet to be determined. We assessed relative findings.We studied 2292 patients, divided into 729 (32%) normal [creatinine clearance (CrCl) >90 ml/min] and 1563 (68%) dysfunction, classified as mild (CrCl: 60-90 ml/min) in 933, moderate 30-60 502 severe (CrCl < 30 128 patients. All underwent...

Based on Conceptual Blending Theory and Metaphor Theory, drawing a rich body of empirical material from music psychology ongoing fieldwork research data collected in three countries, we review visual representations as blended domain between 2d images, giving rise to the concept musical shape. As describe mechanisms that seem influence this blend, based physiological parameters (primary sensory motor skills) variable cultural denominators with particular emphasis representation time, put...

Previous research has shown that literacy influences some dimensions of the visual (or graphic) representation temporal events, and concepts time vary across cultures. The present exploratory study extends scope this by examining representations brief rhythmic sequences individuals living in literate nonliterate societies. A total 122 participants were recruited at five sites: British musicians UK; Japanese familiar unfamiliar with English Western Standard Notation (WSN) Tokyo Kyoto Japan;...

The regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is considered a desirable goal antihypertensive treatment. Isradipine was used as first-line treatment in 15 patients who had mild-to-moderate hypertension and LVH, were studied before after 6 months Left mass function assessed by Doppler echocardiography. Systolic diastolic blood pressure reduced from 161 +/- 14 mm Hg 103 3 to 136 8 87 Hg, respectively (P < .001). interventricular septal thickness 11.9% .001), posterior wall 11.1%...

Neurohormonal factors may account for the fact that patients with similar severity and duration of hypertension develop different degrees left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The purpose this work was to compare pressor hormone profiles hypertensive sub] ects off medic:ation during exercise testing. Nineteen patients, stratified according echocardiographically diagnosed absence (Group I n = 6) or presence I1 13) LVH, underwent testing on treadmill Bruce protocol. Both groups were comparab'le...

Studies related to the prophylactic efficacy of fluoroquinolones against infective endocarditis are scarce. The aim this study was evaluate moxifloxacin, a quinolone active in vitro Gram-positive cocci, preventing streptococcal aortic valve endocarditis.Non-bacterial thrombotic induced by insertion polyethylene catheter. Twenty-four hours later, rabbits were randomly assigned control group, and groups receiving either two doses ampicillin (40 mg/kg, intravenously), 2 h apart, or single dose...

In the recent years research on dynamic social network has increased, which is also due to availability of data sets from streaming media. Modeling a network's behaviour can be performed at level communities, represent their mesoscale structure. Communities arise as result user interaction. current work we aim predict evolution i.e. future form. While this problem been studied in past supervised learning with variety classifiers, that knowledge classifier opaque and consequently...

We report the case of a patient who was admitted to hospital with acute pulmonary embolism 2 weeks after complicated pelvis fracture. Echocardiography revealed large, long, and mobile thrombus in right atrium. The scheduled undergo urgent surgical thrombectomy. Preoperative echocardiography did not detect any thrombi heart artery. obvious this large circulation silent as remained asymptomatic hemodynamically stable. discuss contribution appropriate therapeutic management atrial particularly...

Although the last decade there is a remarkable trend towards green energy, thermal power plants still cover most of energy production and will continue to do so in near future. Consequently, it important apply methods reducing gas emissions. Towards this goal, an innovative software application that improves regulation combustion parameters presented paper. Data mining techniques are used process historical data extract models on which rules based, rather thermodynamic theory. Multi Agent...