Background: Marital maladjustment can cause undeniable consequences for their health and relationship. The present study aimed to determination the effect of emotionally-focused couple therapy on sexual assertiveness, marital forgiveness, and marital harmony in maladjusted couples. Methods: This was an experimental study based on a pretest-posttest design with control and experimental groups. ...

We have studied the prosody of emotional speech using a psychoacoustical model of musical harmony (designed to explain the basic facts of the perception of pitch combinations: interval consonance/dissonance and chordal harmony/tension). For any voiced utterance, the model provides 4 quasi-musical measures: dissonance, tension, total harmonic “instability”, and “modality” of the pitches used. Mo...

The present study explores learning phonological alternations that contain exceptions. Participants were exposed to a back/round vowel harmony pattern in which a regular suffix followed harmony, varying between /e/ and /o/ depending on the back/round phonetic features of the stem, and an exceptional suffix that was always /o/ regardless of the features of the stem vowel. Participants in Experim...

The purpose of this study was to establish floating cephalometric norms for the description of the individual skeletal pattern in Czech adults. Floating norms provide a method of analysis that uses the variability of the associations among suitable cephalometric measures, on the basis of the regression model combining both sagittal and vertical skeletal p...

Recent developments are presented in the evolution of Harmony Space , an interface that exploits cognitive theories of harmony. Harmony Space is an interface that exploits both Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction methodologies to help beginners learn about and make use of aspects of tonal harmony rapidly. Use is made of LonguetHiggins' and Balzano's cognitive theories of tona...

This paper describes Harmony, a practical grid infrastructure built using personal computer resources. Harmony addresses the key concerns of end users for responsiveness, privacy and protection by isolating the grid computation in a virtual machine on the PC and by implementing a layered resource management architecture to divert workload to unutilized computers from those currently experiencin...