Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive chronic illness that leads to cognitive decline and dementia. Neuroimaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), deep learning approaches offer promising avenues for AD classification. In this study, we investigate the use of fMRI-based connectivity (FC) measures, including Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), maximal inf...

This article describes emic and etic approaches to measurement in terms of a process of associating indicators and constructs. In this process, it is important to establish evidence of an adequate range of indicators and a relevant association of indicators and constructs and to recognize that such evidence places bounds on the interpretation of measurement outcomes. A passage from one of P. L....

Gesture in performance is widely acknowledged in the literature as an important element in making a performance expressive and meaningful. The body has been shown to play an important role in the production and perception of vocal performance in particular. This paper is interested in the role of gesture in creative works that seek to extend vocal performance via technology. A creative work for...

This paper discusses the development of a gestural controller interface for contemporary vocal performance and electronic processing called the eMic (extended Mic-stand interface controller). This instrument is a modified microphone stand, custom fitted with an array of sensors and gesture capturing devices aimed at capturing commonly used gestures and movements of vocal performers who use micr...

'Implementation research in nutrition' is an emerging area of study aimed at building evidence-based knowledge and sound theory to design and implement programs that will effectively deliver nutrition interventions. This paper describes some of the basic features of ethnography and illustrates its applications in components of the implementation process. We review the central purpose of ethnogr...

This paper demonstrates the use ofmixedmethods discovery techniques to explore public perceptions of community safety and risk, using computational techniques that combine and integrate layers of information to reveal connections between community and place. Perceived vulnerability to crime is conceptualised using an etic/emic framework. The etic “outsider” viewpoint imposes its categorisation ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the integration of indigenous values developed in Turkey to Schwartz's universal values. Students (N = 593) from six universities in Istanbul responded the value scale, which consists of 10 etic PVQ items (each item representing one of 10 main Schwartz values) and 23 emic WAG items (representing work-achievement goals). PROXSCAL, a multidimensional scali...

In recent years, there has been a growing body of direct experimental evidence demonstrating electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves driving energetic electron precipitation (EEP) at unexpectedly low, sub-MeV energies—as low as only few hundred keV. EMIC-wave driven scattering these energies important ramifications for our understanding not radiation belt dynamics, but also the importance EM...

Relativistic electron losses in Earth's radiation belts are usually attributed to resonant scattering by electromagnetic waves. One of the most important wave mode for such is ion cyclotron (EMIC) mode. Within quasi-linear diffusion framework, resonance relativistic electrons with EMIC waves results very fast precipitation atmosphere. However, intensities often exceed threshold nonlinear intera...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...