As the most common sustained arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF) afflicts 2 million patients in the United States alone, and this number is predicted to double by the year 2050.1 Although AF is not life-threatening, it is linked to a 2-fold increase in mortality when present as a comorbidity in heart disease patients.2,3 AF can have devastating consequences, such as stroke, impaired cardiac pe...

The availability of large music collections calls for ways to efficiently access and explore them. We present a new approach which combines descriptors derived from audio analysis with meta-information to create different views of a collection. Such views can have a focus on timbre, rhythm, artist, style or other aspects of music. For each view the pieces of music are organized on a map in such...

As the most common sustained arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF) afflicts 2 million patients in the United States alone, and this number is predicted to double by the year 2050.1 Although AF is not life-threatening, it is linked to a 2-fold increase in mortality when present as a comorbidity in heart disease patients.2,3 AF can have devastating consequences, such as stroke, impaired cardiac pe...

the changes in the electromyogram patterns of two antagonist muscles were studied when female subjects performed a motor task with and without an auditory rhythm. During the performance of the motor task without the rhythm, the subjects demonstrated a common and consistent personal tempo and a common electromyogram pattern. With the imposed timing of an even or uneven rhythm, the initiation and...

Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) are prevalent in 40-75% of patients on ambulatory monitoring. However, a significant patient minority, PVC-induced cardiomyopathy develops. Therapeutic decisions such as medical therapy or ablation based largely PVC burden (which correlates with reductions left ejection fraction (LVEF), symptoms, and whether not has already developed. To create assess deep...

Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on generating end-to-end manner, which leads to difficulties mining the clear rhythm and semantics due complex subtle harmony between speech gestures. We present a novel gesture method that achieves convincing results both sem...

introduction: in modern societies, shift work is an essential component of daily life. since the beginning of research in shift work, researchers have been engaged in the identification of factors predicting adjustment and adaptation to shift work. the concept of adaptation and tolerance refers mainly to the biological response in terms of circadian rhythms and performance efficiency as well as...

objective: the aim of this study was to assess and compare the effect of two neurofeedback protocols (smr/theta and beta/theta) on adhd symptoms, selective attention and eeg (electroencephalogram) parameters in children with adhd. method: the sample consisted of 16 children (9-15 year old: 13 boys; 3 girls) with adhd-combined type (adhd-c). all of children used methylphenidate (mph) during the ...