If the mental objects of philosophy, art, and science ... have a place it will be in the deepest synaptic fissures, in the hiatuses, intervals, and mean-times of the non-objectifiable brain, in a place where to go in search of them will be to create.1 It would be fair to assume that developing the sonification of neurological data would add to our knowledge of the mind. Taking the above quote s...

RATIONALE Nasopharyngeal amyloidosis is a benign, slowly progressive disease that is characterized by extracellular eosinophilic deposition. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a rare case of localized nasopharyngeal amyloidosis. DIAGNOSES The initial chief complaint of this patient was frequent epistaxis and right aural fullness. The initial diagnosis was nasopharyngeal tumor. INTERVENTIONS There...

BACKGROUND Postirradiation otitis media with effusion (OME) due to transient edema and dysfunction of the eustachian tube is the most common radiotherapy-associated otologic complication in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) patients. However, it can be seen in other head and neck cancers whose field of radiation includes the nasopharynx. Whether to insert ventilation tubes in these patients remains c...

A fairly quite rare case of osseous tumor arising from the Eustachian tube (ET) is described. A 56-year-old man presented with a smooth bulky mass in the nasopharynx and secretory otitis media in the right ear. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging indicated a solid tumor-like region occupying the nasopharynx with apparent extension to the right ET. Transnasal endoscopic surgery de...

This paper focuses on the ethnic minority indie music band, Shanren, which presents a representative example of such musicians and their association with authenticity and culture in modern China. Ethnic minority indie bands are interested in shaping their own identity in contrast to the officially promoted minority music scene found in mainstream media. Shanren, as an example, seeks to represen...

The following paper introduces a new Layer Based Amplitude Panning algorithm and supporting D library of rapid prototyping tools for the 3D time-based data representation using sound. The algorithm is designed to scale and support a broad array of configurations, with particular focus on High Density Loudspeaker Arrays (HDLAs). The supporting rapid prototyping tools are designed to leverage ocu...

This thesis will discuss the technical and artistic design of the Emonator', a novel interactive musical interface which responds to gestural input with realtime aural and visual feedback. A user interacts with the Emonator by manipulating the surface formed by a bed of rods at the top of the Emonator. The user's movements are analyzed and used to control several music and sound generation engi...