We propose a new IEC for musical works based on an adaptive walk on a fitness landscape of sounds. In this system, there is a virtual plane that represents the genetic space of possible musical works called fitness soundscape. The user stands on the soundscape, and hears the multiple sounds that correspond to one’s neighboring genotypes at the same time. These sounds come from different directi...

Every few years, a new “hot trend” will burst upon the scene in the world of consumer electronics. This emergence will drive a wave of popular new products throughout the market, and push them into the home theater integrator’s world. Generally speaking this will start at the cutting edge with high end enthusiasts, and be swept downward into the rest of the market, as costs decline, and accepta...

Research suggests that exposure to psychologic trauma is associated with mortality from external causes, including homicide, suicide, drug overdoses, and unintended injury. However, the etiology of this association is unclear. We examined the survival time and cause of death among a national sample of 15288 US Army veterans by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) status 30 years after military ...

Organizations of the private and public sector have already been compared with the theater (Mangham, Overington, 1987; Vail, 1990; Schreyögg, 2001) and many authors focusing on organizational culture have consciously or unaware borrowed from the repertory of theater and dramaturgy, especially when using terms like heroes, scripts, plots, internal audiences, myths, legends etc. While such cross-...