BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a high prevalence in recent years. Dramatic growth in AD prevalence has increased the importance of more researches on AD treatment. History has shown that traditional medicine can be a source of inspiration to find new therapies. OBJECTIVES This study tried to codify the recommendations of Iranian traditional...

In this paper an automatic system for the detection of similar phrases in music of the Eastern Mediterranean is proposed. This music follows a specific structure, which is referred to as parataxis. The proposed system can be applied to audio signals of complex mixtures that contain the lead melody together with instrumental accompaniment. It is shown that including a lead melody estimation into...

Copyright is an intellectual property right, meaning that it can be bought or sold like any other form of property. The first owner of a copyright is the creator of a literary or artistic work. The owner of copyright in a work has the exclusive right to do, or to authorise anyone else to do certain things with the whole or any substantial part of the work. These things are called the acts restr...

With the continuous development of music education, educational concept has been innovated, from simple teaching methods to using traditional for reference implement education children, so as cultivate children's skills and understanding music. When carrying out pre-school in secondary vocational schools, we need focus on students with innovative ideas, require integrate This paper analyzes sig...

Ethnomedicine Knowledge of Iranian Traditional Healers and the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

ABSTRACT The study assessed the use of rural radio as agricultural information dissemination tool among farmers in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. The specific objectives were to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, identify rural and agricultural programmes normally aired on radio, find out the level of patronage of the programmes, identify the convenien...

Music is a universal human trait. The healing power of music has been acknowledged in almost all traditions of music. Music therapy is moving from a social-science model focusing on overall health and well-being towards a neuroscience model focusing on specific elements of music and its effect on sensorimotor, language and cognitive functions. The handful of evidence-based music therapy studies...

In this paper we present two new query-by-playing (QBP) music information retrieval (MIR) systems aimed at musicians playing traditional Irish dance music. Firstly, a browser hosted system tunepal.org is presented. Secondly, we present Tunepal for iPhone/iPod touch devices a QBP system that can be used in situ in traditional music sessions. Both of these systems use a backend corpus of 13,290 t...