Background: Positive effects of music on the state of mood as well as on anxiety, pain and physiological measures were described for the postoperative setting on the ICU. Objectives: To examine the influence of a music intervention in the early postoperative period on patients undergoing open heart surgery. Methods: We examined 126 patients undergoing open cardiac surgery, randomly assigned to ...

previously studies have shown that music can be used to increase the time to engage in physical activity but music's role in controlling the intensity of pa has been studied less. the sensorimotor synchronization (sms), the coordination of rhythmic movement with rhythmic sensory stimuli method, seems to have enough potential and can be applied instead of the previous method for ordinary pe...

Abstract In this paper, we exploit a unique weekly longitudinal survey of adults in the UK purposefully collected to study consumption choices with respect cultural content types during first Covid-19 national lockdown (the “Great Lockdown”). We look for changes probability consuming different and creative (Music, Movies, TV, Games, Books, Magazines Audiobooks), as well overall variety consumpt...

The consumption history of online media content such as music and video offers a rich source of data from which to mine information. Trends in this data are of particular interest because they reflect user preferences as well as associated temporal contexts that can be exploited in systems such as recommendation or search. This paper classifies songs associated with a holiday temporal context u...

The joke, of course, refers to Spam, the canned food substance that originated in the 1930s in the United States, but was famously imported into Britain during World War II.1 Spam (spiced ham) became a cheap supplement for pure meat products, which were in severe shortage during the conflict. Perhaps the cheapness and mass consumption of Spam during the period are among the reasons why it becam...

In this paper I investigate the manner in which Apple iPod users re-inscribe their experiences of commuting through the use of music. I argue that the new technology of MP3 players gives users unprecedented power of control over their experience of time and space. They do so by managing their mood and orientation to space through the micro-management of personalised music. The paper analyses iP...