Systems for the archival of musical documents digitally and development of digital music libraries are currently being researched and developed extensively. However, adapting these systems for the archival and retrieval of Malaysian music materials might not be as straightforward due to the distinct differences in musical structure and modes of non-Western music. This paper covers the motivatio...

BACKGROUND Low-back pain is one of the most common human morbidities worldwide, which is damaging individually, socially and economically. Recent studies have shown that its prevalence is rising. Most of the low-back pains are non-specific though specific ones need more complicated and more expensive treatments. Sciatica or lumbar radiculopathy is one of these specific low-back pains and is exp...

This article focuses on the creation of an audio engine for Urban Musical Game, a multipartner project led by Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. Product design, informatics, engineering and musical composition work in close interaction to harmonize several issues: wireless technology embedded in everyday objects, real-time gesture analysis and recognition, content-based a...

His paper argues that the evolution of Hifi systems is undertaking major changes, due to the possibility of creating and manipulating metadata for large music collections. We describe here an ongoing project about the Hifi of the future, and present several innovative applications dealing with musical metadata in an integrated way. Three hitherto separated musical activities: accessing, perform...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a high prevalence in recent years. Dramatic growth in AD prevalence has increased the importance of more researches on AD treatment. History has shown that traditional medicine can be a source of inspiration to find new therapies. OBJECTIVES This study tried to codify the recommendations of Iranian traditional...

“Music can be used as a communicable language”. Musical symbols and musical notes have been used as codes and ciphers from early days. The art of encrypting messages using music is termed as Musical cryptography and it uses predefined set of notes and set of rules for composing musical pieces which in turn are musical cryptograms. Traditional algorithms applied to musical cryptography used simp...