Neuropsychological findings suggest that music is a special faculty (e.g., with respect to language) by being carried out by dedicated processes that are subserved by distinct anatomical brain structures. In the present paper, we review the evidence provided by brain-damaged patients who suffer from music agnosia, a selective impairment in music recognition. Three cases of music agnosia (C.N., ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with acute CTO generally have a poor prognosis, despite IV or IA thrombolytic treatment. The goal of this study was to analyze the results of patients with CTO who had IA urokinase treatment with or without initial IV rtPA based on a bridging protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke due to CTO who had combined IV a...

IFN-gamma is known to induce expression of Ia antigens on a variety of cell types. In the present study, this activity of IFN-gamma has been analyzed with a panel of 36 melanoma cell lines, normal melanocytes, and 97 cell lines representing a range of other differentiation lineages. 55% of the melanoma cell lines express Ia antigens in a constitutive manner without IFN-gamma induction. Of the 1...

An association has been established between human Ia-like (Ia) antigenic determinants, expression during DNA synthesis on granulocyte-macrophage colony forming cells (CFU-GM) and the regulatory action of acidic isoferritins in vitro. Treatment of human bone marrow cells with monoclonal-anti-Ia-like (Ia) plus complement inhibited colony and cluster formation by approximately 50% but did not affe...

Background: Asthma is recognized as a common cause of disability, of great economic cost, and of preventable deaths. In this study we aimed to test our hypothesis to evaluate the relationship between the Human Platelet Antigen-1(HPA-1) polymorphism and bronchial asthma and its severity, which would suggest genetic variances that may be responsible for expression or activation of these receptors...

IA-2 and phogrin are tyrosine phosphatase-like proteins that may mediate interactions between secretory granules and cytoskeleton in islets and neuroendocrine tissues. We investigated factors that regulate IA-2 and phogrin expression and their relationship to maturation of insulin secretory responses that occur after birth. Islet content of IA-2, but not phogrin, increased during the first 10 d...

Humans can discriminate speech from music easily in their mind without any influence of the mixed music. Due to the new techniques of analysis and synthesis of speech signals, the musical signal processing has gained particular weight, and therefore, the classical sound analysis techniques are used in processing music signals. Music art has a long and distinguished history. It goes back to the ...

There have been efforts in the recent years to make home videos look more interesting and pleasing to viewers by mixing it with music. Most of the existing software enables the user to add music of his preference. It assumes that the user has enough knowledge about the aesthetic mixing principles. In our research, we propose a way of adding audio to video by synthesizing appropriate music based...