Accessible online at: www.karger.com/ene Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It is characterised pathologically by neuronal loss, spongy changes in the grey matter and an astrocytosis, and clinically by rapidly progressing dementia, pyramidal and extrapyramidal disease with myoclonus and triphasic discharges in the electroencephalogram. This dreaded fat...

This thesis describes the design and implementation process of two applications (PerMORFer and MoodifierLive) for the interactive manipulation of music performance. Such applications aim at closing the gap between the musicians, who play the music, and the listeners, who passively listen to it. The goal was to create computer programs that allow the user to actively control how the music is per...

he purpose of the article is to exhibit this fact that embellishments, despite of their lexical meaning, do not play just an ornamental role in iranian classical music, but they have an extremely important function to form the structural facets of dastgahi music; in fact, the embellishments are irremovable elements in the mentioned musical system. first of all, some brief explanations about con...

The pair-wise variability index has become a useful and widely used tool for comparing syllable timing of speech. In this paper we present an improved pair-wise variability index based on median instead of means that can more strongly amplify and reveal the differences in the timing characteristics of two datasets. Further, it places less stringent requirements on the pre-processing of the meas...

The task of inferring score level musical information from low-level musical data can be accomplished by human listeners – depending on their training – almost intuitively, but an algorithmic model for computer aided transcription is very hard to achieve. In between there exist a large number of approaches addressing different issues related to the process of musical transcription. Especially f...

in this article, according to the 5 transcriptions of iranian vocal masters, we try to observe some of various functions of tahrir in iranian classical music with comparative - analytic method and schenkerian analysis. the goal of usage schenkerian analysis is to interpret the underlying structure of tahrirs by showing hierarchical relationships among tones, and also drawing the graphs  of redu...

1. In the abstract it is written that after randomization 11 patients were retrospectively excluded, but it is not clear why. Later on it is explained, but I find it rather confusing in the abstract. It is than more informative to describe if a per-protocol or intention-to-treat analysis has been conducted in the abstract. Ø Thank you very much for this comment! We have deleted the phrase regar...

Most people communicate emotion through their voice, facial expressions, and gestures. However, it is assumed that only “experts” can communicate emotions in music. The authors have developed a computer-based system that enables musically untrained users to select relevant acoustic attributes to compose emotional melodies. Nonmusicians (Experiment 1) and musicians (Experiment 3) were progressiv...

In this commentary, the formation of “pre-iconic” visual-prime persistence is described in the context of prime-specific, independentcomponent activation at prefrontal and posterior EEG-recording sites. Although this activity subserves neural systems that are near identical to those described by Ruchkin and colleagues, we consider priming to be a dynamic process, identified with patterns of coh...

In the near future, pediatric and child health nursing organizations will be drafting new research priorities that serve to guide direction of not only future studies but quality improvement projects, scholarship efforts conducted in field. Future are likely shaped by a myriad developments changes have transpired since publications previous (Brenner et al., 2014Brenner M. Hilliard C. Regan G. C...