Although abortion services in India were liberalized more than three decades ago, access to safe services remains limited for the vast majority of women. This paper synthesises recent evidence on the induced abortion scen ario in India, and explores some of the factors why women continue to seek and receive abortion services from unqualified providers. The review highlights that a host of facto...

Nowadays, music fans are beginning to massively use mobile digital music players and dedicated software to organize and play large collections of music. In this context, users deal with huge music libraries containing thousands of tracks. Such a huge volume of music easily overwhelms users when selecting the music to listen or when organizing their collections. Music player software with visual...

During a regular day while on the move, most people interact with multiple portable devices: a personal music player, mobile phone, and digital camera. People driving cars in addition may also use navigation systems. Whereas each of these devices are getting more and more sophisticated, and packed with numerous functionalities, they are each optimized for specific usages. Modern mobile phones f...

This study explores immersive presence as well as emotional valence and arousal in the context of dynamic and non-dynamic music scores in the 3 person action-adventure video game genre while also considering relevant personality traits of the player. 60 subjects answered self-report questionnaires of experiential states each time after playing the game 'Batman: Arkham City' in one of three rand...

Nowadays, many people use portable players to enrich their daily life with enjoyable music. However, in noisy environments, the player volume is often set to extremely high levels in order to drown out the intense ambient noise and satisfy the appetite for music. Extensive and inappropriate usage of portable music players might cause subtle damages in the auditory system, which are not behavior...

This paper describes a jam session system that enables a human player to interplay with virtual players which can imitate the player personality models of various human players. Previous systems have parameters that allow some alteration in the way virtual players react, but these systems cannot imitate human personalities. Our system can obtain three kinds of player personality models from a M...

Increasingly, digital media is becoming more accessible with online music stores such as iTunes gaining popularity at an ever-increasing rate. People with large digital collections are often faced with the tedious task of music organisation. Traditionally people have used manual playlists, filters that act on the meta data stored in compressed files such as artist/album and genre classification...

OBJECTIVES To determine the output levels of a commercially available MPEG layer-3 (MP3) player and to evaluate changes in hearing after 1 hour of listening to the MP3 player. DESIGN First, A-weighted sound pressure levels (measured in decibels [dBA]) for 1 hour of pop-rock music on an MP3 player were measured on a head and torso simulator. Second, after participants listened to 1 hour of pop...

Many scientists play music. I'm one. I'm the rhythm guitar player, song writer, and singer in The Amygdaloids. We play original music about mind and brain and mental disorders. The songs are inspired by research that I do, as well as general ideas in the brain and cognitive sciences, and the philosophy of mind. For me, playing music is not a distraction to other life obligations. It makes me be...