Czech Music Semiology

Electro-acoustic Music in Czech Republic

The following study presents a shorted form of the selected chapters of a disserta-tion part dealing with the Czech electro-acoustic music (hereinafter referred to as EAM). 1 The study is in particular engaged in the information available or interpreta-ble to foreign researchers only with difficulties. Basic typology For our purposes, EAM may be specified as a music the sound material of which ...

Personality Correlates of Music Preferences in the Czech Republic

This study examines the structure of music preferences in the sample of participants from the Czech Republic (n=521), differences in structure of music preferences among various age groups and the associations between these preferences and certain personality characteristics. The exploratory factor analysis revealed five music preference dimensions. Further analysis addressed the question how m...

Semiology of food poisoning

Bacterial toxin poisoning Clostridium botulinum Human disease due to the Clostridium botulinum bacterium is called botulism and is classified as poisoning because it is due to botulinum neurotoxins produced outside the human body by this anaerobic bacterium. Contaminated food is mainly of animal origin, but it can also be of plant origin (processed meat, ham, cheese, canned meat, fish, canned b...

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Semiology

Epilepsy represents a multifaceted group of disorders divided into two broad categories, partial and generalized, based on the seizure onset zone. The identification of the neuroanatomic site of seizure onset depends on delineation of seizure semiology by a careful history together with video-EEG, and a variety of neuroimaging technologies such as MRI, fMRI, FDG-PET, MEG, or invasive intracrani...

Semiology and Rhetoric